**Media Advisory**
Tax Day: The Tax Dodgers go to bat for the 1%
The best team corporate money can buy, knocks social services outta the park!

WHO: The Tax Dodgers will be celebrating yet another record-breaking season at the headquarters of their sponsors, GE, Verizon, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America. The team will be joined by their hula-hooping cheerleading squad, The Loopholes, and together, they will be personally thanking everyday New Yorkers for paying their taxes for them. The team will even pay a special visit to Trump Tower with their official mascot, ‘Mitt’ in order to help Donald Trump throw a birthday party for Anne Romney, where Mitt himself is expected to show. The team’s house band, the Occuponics, will help them sing joyous renditions of ‘Take Me Out To The Tax Game.’

Team owner Alec Dickman, explains the team’s victorious mood: “On Tax Day, most Americans feel like they are making a making a difficult sacrifice for the greater good. Not us. For the richest corporations in America, Tax Day is Pay Day.”

SCHEDULE: Tuesday, April 17 beginning at 12 noon and appearing around the city throughout the day.
12:30 pm – Tax Dodgers, Loopholes, Occuponics and Mitt will be outside 725 5th Ave.
1:15 pm – Bain Capital (57th and Madison).
2:00 pm – General Electric (50th and 5th).
2:45 pm – Paulson Group (50th and 6th)
3:30 pm – Wells Fargo (43rd and 6th)
4:00 pm – March from Bryant Park to Wells Fargo, 39th & 7th; Chase at 37th &7th; US Post Office 33d & 8th.
8:00 pm – GE Headquarers, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, joined by the mobile projection vehicle, The Illuminator.

Media Contacts:
Gan Golan gangolan@gmail.com (510 )290-3334
Ben Master (917) 657-2610 bmaster@unitedny.org

(PAST EVENTS)

From 12 noon to 2 p.m., on Thursday March 15, Friday March 16, Saturday March 17, and Sunday March 18, The Occuponics will be playing for the Cultural Occupation of Liberty Square (COOLS) at Liberty Plaza (Zuccotti Park, Broadway & Liberty Street, Manhattan) along with other musicians. Please join us.

On Saturday, March 10th at noon, The Occuponics are happy to be sharing the Cultural Occupation of Liberty Square stage at Liberty Plaza (Zuccotti Park) with multi-talented song and dance man Lawrence Rush, who goes on at 1:30 pm.

On Wednesday March 7 at noon, The Occuponics are excited to be on the bill at Liberty Plaza (Zuccotti Park) with veteran folk and protest singer Steve Suffet. Steve was heard at the original OWS encampment singing traditional and original material.

On Wednesday, February 22nd at 6 pm, in a show of support for immigration justice, The Occuponics will join members of the Filthy Rotten System (the Catholic Worker band) at an Ash Wednesday vigil at the Elizabeth Detention Center (corner of Dowd Ave. & Evans Street, Elizabeth, NJ) sponsored by IRATE & First Friends & Pax Christi NJ. This large profit-making jail run by Corrections Corporation of America houses victims of inhumane immigration enforcement actions.

This Saturday, February 11th at 2 PM, The Occuponics will be at
West Park Presbyterian Church, 263 W 86th St, New York, NY 10024-3103, to participate in Occupy Town Square with The People Staged. Join us at 2 PM.

This Saturday, February 4th at 12 noon, The Occuponics will be at Liberty Square (Zuccotti Park), along with other musicians and artists. So bring your voices and musical instruments. Subject to postponement if our instruments can’t take the weather.

Monday, January 16, 2012 at 3 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church on 4th Avenue and 46th Street (R Train stop at 45th Street) in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, The Occuponics will take part in a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Occupy Sunset Park event starting at 3 p.m. – Unity Day, A Community Speak-Out and Celebration of the 99%. This is a bilingual English/Spanish program. Details can be found on the OWS web site:

http://occupywallst.org/

The Occuponics will be at Liberty Square (Zuccotti Park) on Saturday, January 14th, from 12 Noon to 3 PM.

Yoko Ono’s Wish Trees project will be holding an event at 1 PM, so this will not be an event to miss. More information can be found at:
http://imaginepeacetower.com/yoko-onos-wish-trees