Occupy Wall Street barrages banks with letters

A website that encourages the so-called 99% to write personal letters to 200 top executives and board members from Bank of America Corp., Citigroup, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo & Co. is taking its action from cyberspace to the banks' doors on Friday.

Thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters, foreclosured homeowners and labor and community activists are planning to deliver the 6,500 letters to city-based bank executives that occupytheboardroom.org has received since its launch less than two weeks ago.

The protesters will split into two groups and visit the city headquarters of Bank of America, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo before converging on J.P. Morgan Chase headquarters. They plan to fold the letters into paper airplanes and throw them at Bank of America headquarters near Bryant Park and to turn one into a singing telegram at Citigroup's Park Avenue digs. The anti-corporate pranksters, the Yes Men, are involved in the action.

Then, the groups will meet at Chase, where a foreclosed-upon southeast Queens homeowner will read a letter to bank CEO Jamie Dimon, inviting him to tour her neighborhood, one of the hardest hit in the city by foreclosures. Protesters will then spend several minutes hand-writing letters to Mr. Dimon. A separate action is to target Goldman Sachs at a later date.