- George Pfromm II
Forget the government, Weschler writes in The Stranger this week. The Occupy movement needs to go around the government (after all, the government answers to Wall Street) and take the fight directly to banks: Let them stay up all night worrying. The idea is simple: Everyone who has an underwater mortgage or an unfair student loan agrees to stop paying their bills on the same day.
The plan should be to spend the next several months developing, articulating, and organizing toward a major national mortgage and student-loan strike. Such a loan strike would begin—provided enough people sign on in advance (and I'm talking hundreds of thousands), and unless a concrete set of intervening demands is squarely met in the meantime—on, say, October 1, 2012, right in the middle of the next presidential campaign.
