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DisruptDirtyPower.org is an environmental justice campaign launched by Occupy Wall Street, allied organizations and others who are concerned with the financial and political corruption that is funding the destruction of our planet.
Connecting the dots between the big banks on Wall Street, big polluters, and the politicians who profit from both, we seek to expose the ways that our money – the money of the 99% — is directly contributing to the massive fossil fuel investments, and carbon emissions, which now threaten our very existence.
And then, through nonviolent direct actions, to evict those 1% corporate polluters: the real occupiers of the planet.
And then, through nonviolent direct actions, to evict those 1% corporate polluters: the real occupiers of the planet.
The facts are in. Humanity and life as we know it will not survive if we continue to burn coal, oil, gas and other emissions-causing fuels at the rate we’re going. In a matter of decades – let’s not bother speaking about centuries – we will bake ourselves off the face of the Earth. We need to produce clean sources of non-polluting renewable energy now.
But the politicians we elect to write and enforce energy legislation, and thereby slow the onset of climate change, are bought and paid for by a handful of billionaire polluters. On top of that, we the taxpayers pay the same corporations billions more each year in dirty subsidies to increase their dirty investments and obscene profits.
Occupy Wall Street and the 99% say: It is now the time to disrupt dirty power.
Occupy Wall Street and the 99% say: It is now the time to disrupt dirty power.
Bank of America, Chase, Citigroup, HSBC, Wells Fargo: these are some of the investors. ExxonMobil, BP, Chevron, Peabody Energy, Koch Industries: these are some of the polluters they invest in. And when we say they, we mean you—because it’s your money in their banks.
On March 24 at the United Nations, Disrupt Dirty Power kicked off Earth Month with an eviction of 1% corporate polluters at the United Nations. Now, we’re asking others across the country, and the world, to come up with similar creative, nonviolent direct actions. Erecting your own corporate “mockupation” is fun and easy – everyone can do it!
1. Find out what public or governmental body is supposed to be regulating emissions and other unwanted destruction of the environment in your area.
2. Research which big banks or corporations are obstructing that governmental body from doing its job – by buying off legislators, funding campaigns, etc – or are directly committing pollution and destroying the public’s water, air, lands, woods, rivers or other public bounty.
3. Choose the place to best carry out your action – it might be at a courthouse, in front of a school, in a park, outside your mayor’s office, an administrative building, or City Hall – then carefully plan it out.
4. Go out and buy materials for the action – small tents if you want to erect a physical occupation, and paint if you want to design the tents with logos of the banks and corporations you claim to be representing. Note: Since you are occupying and getting evicted like the 1%, it’s important to look like the 1%. If you can, buy a cheap suit at your local thrift shop. Dressed in slacks, a collared shirt and a tie, you’ll look every bit the 1% part – and will draw a lot more attention to what you’re doing.
5. Get friends to join in as the 99% calling for your eviction. Then go out, erect your 1% occupation on the public grounds you claim to own, and see if they evict you!
Then the next step is to Move Your Money! Take your money out of the big banks that are funding big pollution and go around asking others in your community to do so too. Churches. Schools. Community centers. Local businesses. Government agencies. Tell them none of us can invest in dirty power any longer and that it’s time to move their money to a co-op or community bank.
Because the same banks that foreclosed on millions of Americans’ homes are now busy foreclosing on Earth. And because the climate can’t wait, so neither will we.
Two helpful sites:
http://coalswarm.org/
http://coalswarm.org/
What is Occupy Wall Street?
“Occupy Wall Street is a “leaderful” resistance movement guided by people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. OWS is fighting for economic justice in the face of neoliberal economic practices, the crimes of Wall Street, and a government controlled by monied interests. #OWS is the 99% organizing to end the tyranny of the 1%. OWS uses the revolutionary Arab Spring tactics to achieve our ends and encourages the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants. The #occupy movement empowers real people to create real change from the bottom up.”
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