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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 01:24 PM
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What can we do to help OWS protesters?

(time for this again)
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 01:25 PM
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1. Hoard wheat!!!
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 01:26 PM
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2. Donate to the national lawyers guild.
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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 01:33 PM
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6. Good suggestion! nt
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rrneck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 01:26 PM
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3. Get out there with 'em. nt
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tosh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 01:27 PM
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4. I'm so glad you asked...
Fifteen Ways to Help Occupy Wall Street

http://www.thenation.com/blog/164172/fifteen-ways-help-occupy-wall-street
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thecrow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 01:28 PM
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5. Buy a bumper sticker and I donate to OWS
Click on my link below.

I am donating half the profits to OWS for legal aid, medical aid, food, shelter.... whatever they want to use it for.
So far I have donated $75 from the profits to the Occupy movement
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Ineeda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 01:37 PM
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8. No offense, but
this means you have PROFITED $75 from the OWS movement (so far)? No badge of honor for you, I'm afraid.:thumbsdown:
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thecrow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 02:00 PM
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10. Actually, you are wrong
Edited on Wed Oct-26-11 02:01 PM by thecrow
The $75 was much more than 1/2 my profits. It cost me $200 to get them printed
and cost me to mail them and of course Paypal took their cuts.

I made $95 and sent OWS $75.... because I want to support them
So while Im in the financial hole for this, I still sent them $75
I'm in the hole for roughly $175 but I will keep selling them to get it out on the street everywhere.
And I'm not even breaking even.
Tell me how that is profitting.
And then tell me what you have done for OWS.
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Ineeda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 02:37 PM
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11. Then you used the word 'profits' incorrectly.
Edited on Wed Oct-26-11 02:37 PM by Ineeda
'Profits' are the amount you have actually made after all expenses are are deducted from the proceeds. I'm not denigrating your giving, but I understood from your post that you were actually making a 'profit' from the movement. And yes, I have not only given actual money that I can't afford, but bought a bunch of stuff -- toiletries mostly -- and participated.
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thecrow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 06:31 PM
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12. Well I'm too old and arthritic to participate
so this was my idea of how to help. I am a 61 year old unemployed woman with a back condition.
Perhaps I didn't explain the "profits" correctly but I don't know how to fix my marketplace post at this late date. Props to you for your contributions.
I am still hoping people will buy the bumper stickers so I can donate more to OWS.
Click on the link below if you want to.

Take it to the Streets, because I can't.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-11 01:25 AM
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17. Back off.
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workinclasszero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 01:35 PM
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7. Go here and find the nearest occupy camp
http://www.occupytogether.org/

Go down and meet your fellow citizens and actually participate in REAL democracy!

Throw your TV out the window, set your couch on fire and join the movement that can change the world!

These are exciting times we live in, Be a part of it!:patriot:
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Arctic Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 01:38 PM
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9. Join them.
Nothing says support better then standing shoulder to shoulder.
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H2O Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 06:35 PM
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13. Best answer possible.
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Poll_Blind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-11 01:02 AM
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15. +1
PB
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-11 01:26 AM
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18. Ding ding ding Weeeeener!
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calimary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-11 12:57 AM
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14. These are certainly worth repeating...
1. Go to Liberty Plaza to join those that Occupy Wall Street if you can. This is the epicenter of the movement and the inspiration for what's happening across the country. Carpools are being arranged va this Facebook group.

2. Send non-perishable food, books, magazines, coffee, tea bags, aspirin, blankets and socks to the UPS Store, c/o Occupy Wall Street, 118A Fulton St, #205, NY, NY 10038.

3. Have pizza delivered to the protestors at Liberty Plaza. Call Majestic Pizza Corp at 212-349-4046 and have your credit card ready.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/164172/fifteen-ways-help-occupy-wall-street

Like the pizza part! Good-guys' pizza instead of the one we're hearing about rather nauseatingly...
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-11 01:23 AM
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16. occupywallst.org list several options for donations
link:

http://occupywallst.org/donate/


.

The New York City General Assembly list some more options - including info on how to order to food for the people at Zuccotti Park(at the bottom of the web page):

link:

http://www.nycga.net/how-to-help/


.
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