NEW YORK (AP) – Dressed as protesters, complete with toy megaphone, Mitch Robinson and his wife unrolled a sleeping bag and “occupied” their friends’ Halloween party. Unlike the real-life Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, they had a detailed, numbered list of demands for their hosts.
Among them: Equal time on the karaoke machine, more meat on the grill and extra alcohol in the drinks.
So went the party in Tacoma, Washington, last Saturday night–Robinson in jeans, flannel shirt and a “Live Free or Die” cap and wife Mary Boone in beret, baggy sweater and a “Peace, Love Bieber” button.
“We were a big hit,” said Robinson, 48, a marketing executive. “We tried to incite the other partygoers. Plus I loved that basically what I wore was perfect for raking leaves the next day.”
Among the self-proclaimed 99 percent, the anti-Wall Street protests that began in New York and spread across the U.S. are inspiring lots of costume ideas this Halloween.
“We’re ready to go,” said Kris Ruby in Greenwich, Connecticut. She is dressing her 7-year-old golden retriever, Morgan Stanley, as a 1 percenter in business suit, red tie and tweed hat. “My dad works for Morgan Stanley.”
Ricky’s NYC, with an online shop and 56 stores throughout the city, stocked up on extra “V for Vendetta” masks, those plastic faces popping up on protesters around the world. The company iParty reports an uptick in requests for dollar-sign jewelry, play money, suspenders and glasses among young people looking to go as bankers and CEOs.
Actual protesters have been invited to take part in the huge Greenwich Village Halloween parade, not far from their home base in Zuccotti Park. Occupy Wall Streeters have set up a website with some costume ideas for the parade, calling on supporters to dress as Wall Street zombies, corporate vampires, “laissez fairies,” unemployed superheroes, or the top-hatted plutocrat from Monopoly, Rich Uncle Pennybags.
“Occupy Halloween,” the site urges. “Because the top 1 percent shouldn’t get all the candy.”
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