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- Feb 19, 2011
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I’ve emailed this to a number of labor unions in New York and plan to mail it to many more as time permits; I post it here so as to invite feedback.
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Please support yourselves.
It has been said that “the enemy of my enemy is my ally”, truer words were perhaps never
spoken. After all, supporting ones enemies only invites betrayal, and turning ones back
on a friend in need only encourages them to turn their backs on you in your desperate
hour.
While the occupy wall street protesters may, on the surface, appear to be “going in all
directions” and supporting a number of issues that you may not be inclined to support,
there is no denying that their overriding focus and the primary reason for their protest
is to oppose the corporate corruption of Washington.
These are the same corporations who lobby endlessly and with ferocious venom to strip
away your right to negotiate for fair wages, protect your jobs from needless downsizing
(downsizing that only benefits Wall Street), and bribing politicians to oppose you, even
when such opposition is not in the best interests of the United States of America. The
fact is that while you may not agree with everything they say, the occupy Wall Street
protesters are the enemy of your enemy.
While I know that you have already lent tremendous support to the occupy Wall Street
movement and that such support is far from free, I am humbly writing to ask you, or
rather to plead with you, to support them one more time.
As you may know, the occupy Wall Street protesters have had their propane heaters and
camp stoves taken by the conservative mayor Bloomberg (citing minor fire code)just as a
major cold spell has moved in, in an attempt to end the protest. And it could work.
That kind of deep cold can have a tremendous psychological impact when one is exposed to
it twenty four hours a day with no means to escape it for even a moment, or even cook hot
food to provide some relief. This could, and most likely will wear down the protesters
resolve until they simply cave in and walk away from the protest; however there are a few
inexpensive items that may help them.
If the protesters had DC to AC power converters such as these Sears: Online department store featuring appliances, tools, fitness equipment and more
Car batteries and chargers such as these
Sears: Online department store featuring appliances, tools, fitness equipment and more and these Sears: Online department store featuring appliances, tools, fitness equipment and more
and electric heaters and camp stoves like these
Google
and these fire safe ceramic heaters
Das/roadpro - 12V Direct Hookup Ceramic Heater/Fan - Portable Heaters - Camping World
they would have the sources of heat and energy to weather the cold without violating any
new York city fire codes.
With the batteries and chargers, the protesters could charge the batteries in their
apartments or where ever there’s A/C power, and swap out charged batteries for dead to
have heat and hot food 24/7.
Of course brand names aren’t important; all that’s important is that the inverters have
the amperage capacity to run the stoves.
As a concerned citizen who recognizes that the wall street corruption of Washington harm
the country and therefore all its citizen’s, I implore you to help the protest as I
myself would do if I had the monetary recourses to fly to new York and by them the
necessary items myself.
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Please support yourselves.
It has been said that “the enemy of my enemy is my ally”, truer words were perhaps never
spoken. After all, supporting ones enemies only invites betrayal, and turning ones back
on a friend in need only encourages them to turn their backs on you in your desperate
hour.
While the occupy wall street protesters may, on the surface, appear to be “going in all
directions” and supporting a number of issues that you may not be inclined to support,
there is no denying that their overriding focus and the primary reason for their protest
is to oppose the corporate corruption of Washington.
These are the same corporations who lobby endlessly and with ferocious venom to strip
away your right to negotiate for fair wages, protect your jobs from needless downsizing
(downsizing that only benefits Wall Street), and bribing politicians to oppose you, even
when such opposition is not in the best interests of the United States of America. The
fact is that while you may not agree with everything they say, the occupy Wall Street
protesters are the enemy of your enemy.
While I know that you have already lent tremendous support to the occupy Wall Street
movement and that such support is far from free, I am humbly writing to ask you, or
rather to plead with you, to support them one more time.
As you may know, the occupy Wall Street protesters have had their propane heaters and
camp stoves taken by the conservative mayor Bloomberg (citing minor fire code)just as a
major cold spell has moved in, in an attempt to end the protest. And it could work.
That kind of deep cold can have a tremendous psychological impact when one is exposed to
it twenty four hours a day with no means to escape it for even a moment, or even cook hot
food to provide some relief. This could, and most likely will wear down the protesters
resolve until they simply cave in and walk away from the protest; however there are a few
inexpensive items that may help them.
If the protesters had DC to AC power converters such as these Sears: Online department store featuring appliances, tools, fitness equipment and more
Car batteries and chargers such as these
Sears: Online department store featuring appliances, tools, fitness equipment and more and these Sears: Online department store featuring appliances, tools, fitness equipment and more
and electric heaters and camp stoves like these
and these fire safe ceramic heaters
Das/roadpro - 12V Direct Hookup Ceramic Heater/Fan - Portable Heaters - Camping World
they would have the sources of heat and energy to weather the cold without violating any
new York city fire codes.
With the batteries and chargers, the protesters could charge the batteries in their
apartments or where ever there’s A/C power, and swap out charged batteries for dead to
have heat and hot food 24/7.
Of course brand names aren’t important; all that’s important is that the inverters have
the amperage capacity to run the stoves.
As a concerned citizen who recognizes that the wall street corruption of Washington harm
the country and therefore all its citizen’s, I implore you to help the protest as I
myself would do if I had the monetary recourses to fly to new York and by them the
necessary items myself.
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