Funded! Help put 99% proposal to create jobs & control spending in full page ad in the SF Chronicle
Campaign Impact: Proposal for the 99% reaches 300K+ Bay Area Residents
Responding to cynicism about the Occupy movement's objectives, Marti Roach organized a full page ad in the Chronicle to promote the 99% Solution policy proposal, which reached an estimated 235K readers. This ad also generated massive local media including a story on the local TV news, watched by estimated 100K viewers.
The story also received great coverage in Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and TurnStyle News .
About This Campaign
The Super Committee failed, Occupy Washington DC created a solution for the 99%.
When the US Super Commission on the Deficit reported back to Congress and the American people that they were deadlocked and had NO proposal to resolve our economic crisis, Occupy Washington DC Freedom Plaza held "people's" hearings outside the Commission's hearing and published a report that presents comprehensive, evidence-based solutions to the economic crisis. They then reached millions more by successfully used LoudSauce to bring this message to mainstream media by publishing a full page ad in the San Francisco Chronicle.
You can read the full report and see the petition at http://www.october2011.org.
The leaders of this campaign are all members of the 99%, mostly the East Bay and the greater Walnut Creek area of Contra Costa County. Key participants are Marti Roach, Carol Cohn, Janet Thomas, Tony Suh and Joanne Genet.
The Message
Here's what the ad looked like:
