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Thursday, July 5, 2012

Money What Do You Think About Mic Check Wall Street Throwing $5,000 Out a Window?

Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:28 PM

Christopher told you about Mic Check Wall Street's action yesterday, in which they threw $5,000 in marked bills out a hotel window into downtown Seattle. In the comments to that post, Slog commenter Sam Levine linked to this video of the action:

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You should have included "since when can you open hotel room windows?!??" to that poll.

Posted by Callie

on July 5, 2012 at 12:36 PM

It's not a splinter group, it's a subsidiary. If Occupy Seattle is Slog, Mic Check is Line Out.

Posted by gloomy gus on July 5, 2012 at 1:00 PM

I think about the scene in Batman (1989 version) where the Joker tosses out millions to the grasping masses.

That is all.

Posted by ArtBasketSara on July 5, 2012 at 1:03 PM

Somebody had some Trust Fund cash to spare or........Black Budget?

Posted by neo-realist on July 5, 2012 at 1:06 PM

Option 3.

To a corporate lawyer this is one hour's pay for looting the public.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on July 5, 2012 at 1:32 PM

Where's the option for "how'd they raise this much money?" The Occupy movements I've worked with can't even afford a banner made out of an old bedsheet.

Posted by well_now on July 5, 2012 at 2:00 PM

Gasp, we fundraised all the money.

Almost 40 donors.

https://www.wepay.com/donations/miccheck…

Posted by TravisConquest on July 5, 2012 at 2:02 PM

Did anyone watch the video? THOSE BILLS WERE MARKED. I thought it was a head-scratcher and a waste of money until I saw what was written on the bills. Let's hope they stay out of the hands of banks, because they will be shredded. I want to do this with all my one dollar bills now.

Posted by bareboards on July 5, 2012 at 2:21 PM

@7 That's actually very impressive. I wasn't kidding when I said that Occupy Ann Arbor had trouble affording banner making materials.

Posted by well_now on July 5, 2012 at 2:21 PM

They still think that the money in politics is used to buy beer and pizza for the campaign staff, and not to buy ad time so that they may talk with YOU the citizen, which the Occupy folk probably watch and eat up like candy. The fast and easy way to stop money in politics is ONE: Don't contribute, TWO: Tell the person running for office you will not listen to their ads, and that you will tell one other person to also not pay attention, THREE: Tell some one else to do the same.

Posted by Sargon Bighorn on July 5, 2012 at 2:34 PM

for those of you who missed it there will be a repeat from the same building 5pm today.
Occupy is out of cash but will obligingly piss off the building.

Posted by ....@5pm SHARP! don't be late on July 5, 2012 at 3:27 PM

Not sure how effective they were at introducing us to MicCheckWallStreet when all you media types insist upon calling them Occupy.

Posted by suddenlyorcas on July 5, 2012 at 4:20 PM

And everybody who claims that they would have put that money to better use probably would have used it for something boring and trite, like drinking. *yawn* You types are so boring.

Posted by suddenlyorcas on July 5, 2012 at 4:21 PM

Let me expand on my original post....

A large percentage of Americans didn't even know that the Affordable Care Act was upheld by the Supreme Court. These folks fer sure don't know what Citizen's United is.

By stamping what they did on the bills, and having the bills circulate through the population, awareness may be raised. Maybe someone will google it. Be curious about a headline.

Much better than "where's George?"....

Posted by bareboards on July 5, 2012 at 5:45 PM

If you want to mark your own bills with the same message MicCheckWallSt has a handy-dandy template on their website. http://miccheckwallst.org/wp-content/upl… As a lifelong activist and organizer, when I consider the vast amounts of money that I've spent on flyers that just get thrown away, the value that each of these dollars gave back is huge. And about raising this kind of money, when you put the effort into community and media outreach and do something more interesting than rallies and petitions, people want to get involved.

Posted by AngelaV on July 5, 2012 at 11:36 PM

If someone can name me a more effective, positive piece of PR that costs $5,000 or less to pull off, I'd pay $50,000 for it, at least.

This was brilliant, but I love that Occupy is "just so last year" that people are dissing it now.

Posted by malcolmxy on July 6, 2012 at 7:29 AM