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Stretch Your Paycheck at the We are the 99 Percent Event

Stretch Your Paycheck at the We are the 99 Percent Event

Posted on by Kbaumlier

On November 17th Stretch Your Paycheck was at the We are the 99% Event – Day of Action event in downtown Cleveland.

Across the country – over 20,000 people turned out in towns and cities across the country.  In Cleveland – we started out in Public Square, and then marched together to the Court House.

The new Stretching My Paycheck umbrellas turned out pretty well – they are portable and packable – but make a message when open!

If you got your picture taken stretching your paycheck – you can download your picture at the Stretch Your Paycheck website.

 

Links:

http://stretchpaycheck.tumblr.com/

Stretch Your Paycheck – at Occupy Cleveland

Stretch Your Paycheck – at Occupy Cleveland

Posted on by Kbaumlier

The Stretch Your paycheck Performance came to the 1 pm Rally in Public Square to support Occupy Cleveland, a movement which supports protesting against corporate greed and the Occupy Wall Street.

There were members of labor groups, nurses, artists, and other citizens and activists at the event. At the rally Deb Klein gave a great speech and and said that, “Cleveland is the third poorest city in the U.S.”

Hip hop artist Loki performed some songs. His songs roused the crowd. Some of his songs were about the recession, money, and other social issues.

People had signs and flags that said We are the 99%! My friend Tony and had umbrellas that said “Stretching my paycheck. 99%” – that we would hold up when we were not doing the paycheck performance.

I met some interesting people including a man involved with Occupy Pittsburgh who came to Cleveland to see how the Occupy event was going, a man who recently moved to Cleveland and does performance art, and some activists from the Cleveland area.

Pictures from the Stretch Your Paycheck interactive performance can be seen and downloaded at http://stretchpaycheck.tumblr.com/

About Occupy Cleveland: http://occupycleveland.com/

Check out Loki’s music: Loki – Chilling in the Moment album