Time to make yourself heard.
Now that you've organized your revolutionary cell around a strategy and are now working that strategy as a small, tight knit group of Occupy activists it's time to first plan and then execute your first "prank". A prank is a small and brief protest, oftentimes of a light-hearted and mischievous nature, held in a place where a maximum number of people will see it. The idea is to have those who witness the prank carry the message home with them where they'll talk about what they saw with friends and family. If your message is creative and connects with an issue they already support they'll talk about it. You can "bank" on it.
Above is a prank I call, "Operation: Box Lunch". It makes people laugh and it gives them something to talk about later over dinner or lunch with friends or coworkers. It hearkens back to the Great Depression when the 1% laughed at the 99% of their day by portraying the poor as lazy bums who wore rain barrels and nothing else. The purpose is to show how the 1% today are even more greedy than their predecessors because all they want to leave us with are cardboard boxes. (Another disposal commodity like the 1% of our day see we the 99% as being.)
Be creative. Remember, laughter spreads the Occupy message much better than negative actions that only anger viewers and drives them away from the cause. If we're having fun, people will want to join us and participate too. Give folks a good reason to join, make em' laugh...
If you thought attending your first Occupy event was exciting just wait until you plan and then execute your first prank. There isn't any more uplifting feeling than being out there on the front lines doing it for yourselves.
And don't forget your camera. Remember, a picture is worth a thousand words. Show your friends what you're doing, don't just tell them.
(When you have completed step five by first planning and then executing your first prank, proceed to step six.)
Above is a prank I call, "Operation: Box Lunch". It makes people laugh and it gives them something to talk about later over dinner or lunch with friends or coworkers. It hearkens back to the Great Depression when the 1% laughed at the 99% of their day by portraying the poor as lazy bums who wore rain barrels and nothing else. The purpose is to show how the 1% today are even more greedy than their predecessors because all they want to leave us with are cardboard boxes. (Another disposal commodity like the 1% of our day see we the 99% as being.)
Be creative. Remember, laughter spreads the Occupy message much better than negative actions that only anger viewers and drives them away from the cause. If we're having fun, people will want to join us and participate too. Give folks a good reason to join, make em' laugh...
If you thought attending your first Occupy event was exciting just wait until you plan and then execute your first prank. There isn't any more uplifting feeling than being out there on the front lines doing it for yourselves.
And don't forget your camera. Remember, a picture is worth a thousand words. Show your friends what you're doing, don't just tell them.
(When you have completed step five by first planning and then executing your first prank, proceed to step six.)
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