I hope Jamie gets surrounded in Portland too!
Maybe he will just get on his Gulfstream and go back to NYC and give Portlandia aka Little Beruit a miss...?
That man should be in jail!

You know, history has shown that answering force with force is never going to work - you're playing right into the establishment's hands, they're going to answer with more force, it will eventually turn ugly, and Jamie in the end gets to claim he's the victim. Occupy Portland could learn something from this guy if they really want to make an impression on Jamie - it really put us on the map when it was done to welcome Dan Quayle.

Seattle

Ah, the reverse peristalsis crew. Classic, John.

Occupy is nowhere near that creative. But any kind of acting up against that piece of work Dimon is better than none.

On Broadway,today there were "OCCUPY" types with signs saying take your money out of Chase and BofA banks before Nov.5th, that appears the focus of the rough stuff in Seattle today.

Reese better not go deer hunting this weekend and leave THE MAYOR,in charge, it might be rough on the rest of us.

I did not mean to imply that violent action is the answer.
Quite the contrary.
I was envisioning something on the order of the "billionaires for wealth care" demonstrations, where folks dressed up in tuxedos and evening wear and just stood or walked about to show the absurdity and emphasize the division of the 1% from the rest of us.
If 1000 people went to the Hilton today and just stood on the sidewalk around the hotel where Jamie Dimon is speaking, this would send a real message. And the cops couldn't possibly arrest even a fraction of those present.
40 years ago the republicans coined the term "the silent majority". Perhaps now the majority will not be so silent.

It's called Bank Transfer Day: http://www.facebook.com/Nov.Fifth

Check me on this: I think 'silent majority' came after 'moral majority' which came after cable TV started, with only 8 channels and 2 of those were the advent of 'televangilists' (Falwell, Robertson, Bakkers, et al.), with 5 million subscribers (c. 1975) pumping 5 million dollars cash per month to each channel whether or not anyone watched the channel ... and the overnight filthy rich Falwellian (Baptist revivalist) preachers harping on their single-issue anti-abortion (1974 was Roe v. Wade), claimed their 'milk' of the cableTV cash cow 'showed' they (leading) had a 'moral majority' behind them (whether or not anyone indeed watched their channel), and when that didn't pan out they rebranded their (non-existent) TV audience (sending them all that monthly cash) as the 'silent majority.'

So -- check me on this -- it was not 40 years ago, but only 35 years ago (post-Nixon, resigned Aug.1974) ... that then 'silent majority' was coined. And only then (1976,'77 -- was NOT part of Ford's '76 campaign against Carter) that Republicans claimed a 'Big Tent' Party holding two distinct and divergent (disagreeing) types, traditional 'fiscal' conservatives and newly-joined freshly-grafted single-issue 'social' conservatives.

Both sides under the big circus 'Tent' have 'frictioned' ever since, (c. 1977).
Today the schism (and psycho-schizoids) in the GOP is locked in an internecine death match represented by traditional conservative (Wall Streeter) Mitt Romney versus T.Party-type single-issue god-goof 'moralizer' Rick Parry.

I recognize I'm splitting hairs to say it was 35 years ago, not 40 years, Portland Native, (though it feels like an eternity in this wilderness), but the difference is key to seeing the causal influence of (the post-Nixon 1975 advent of) cable TV subscribers' flood of cash, unprecedented, unimagined -- cash: the mother's milk of politics, unrecorded and unaudited poured into marketing the (unprincipled) 'GOP' brand.

Jamie Dimon claims the other guys did it, not him:

"Jamie Dimon isn't losing sleep over the Occupy Wall Street protests, although the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase says he understands the frustration with the poor economic recovery among Americans."
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2016674404_dimon3.html

"'They're right. In general, these big institutions of America let them down,' he said. 'That's not the same thing as to say that every bank was bad, every politician was bad. That's where I would disagree.'

The chief executive, who considers himself a fiscally conservative Democrat, said that contrary to what some think, big corporations contribute to the economy because they 'pay their people more, are more diverse, with health benefits. It isn't like they're the bad actors here.'"

200 protesters surrounded Goldman Sachs HQ in NYC today calling for the arrest of GW Bush as he was welcomed there for a tribute. Getting pretty uncomfortable out there for some of the 1%.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/02/1032656/-CONFIRMED:-OWS-Surrounded-Goldman-Sachs-HQ-Chanting-Arrest-George-Bush-w-GW-Inside?via=siderec

"getting awfully uncomfortable out there for the 1%"

yes truly, and amen. Some high humor entertainment can be had listening to LarsLarson gripe and grouse and grumble and beef and bitch and spit and spite sane society. He gives himself high blood pressure, an Occupied victim, and he is about fixin' to explode ... stand by, PPD bomb squad. Get one of those 'encasement' devices ready, about 5 ft. 8 in.-size.