Frustration with the lingering recession has created what is becoming the American Fall, a domestic reflection of the Arab Spring, with Occupy Wall Street protests held in 70 major cities and over 600 communities in the U.S.

But now, for smaller communities such as here in northeastern Pennsylvania, there is a way of participating, at least a proposed method, which is circulating in a viral YouTube video, Keeping Wall Street Occupied.In the five-minute clip, Artie Moffa, a San Francisco poet proposes, "A fast, easy, free, and non-violent way to drive the big banks out of their greedy little minds is sitting in your mailbox right now. You just don't know it yet."The video can be found online by searching for "Keeping Wall Street Occupied."It begins, "Do you get a lot of junk mail? I do. Most of the junk mail I get is unsolicited credit card offers. Up until Occupy Wall Street, I used to just toss them in the bin, unopened. But Occupy Wall Street got me thinking. These offers are from the same financial institutions that ruined our economy by speculating on the housing market. This isn't junk mail. This is an opportunity for a dialogue."Moffa proposes that you return the enclosed business reply envelope to serve to open a dialogue. He suggests either send it back empty, enclose a note, and or fill the envelope with the junk mail that came with it.If you feel strongly, he adds that enclosing a wooden shingle would stiffen the envelope making it unsuitable for the automated equipment.If enough people responded this way, he say that it would increase jobs in both the post office and the mailing rooms of the companies, let the bankers know that people are angry with their financial policies, take the bankers time away from lobbying Congress, cost them money while making it more expensive to send junk mail.According to Nesquehoning postmaster Neil Bogin, reply mail is popular for these advertising campaigns because the company only pays for the reply envelopes that are actually returned."You could send out 10 million letters and if you only get 10,000 back," he noted, "you only pay for the 10,000."He explained that each returned reply envelope is charged a first class rate (typically a lower rate based on a bar code) plus a handling charge plus any additional charges such as for extra weight or for materials that cannot go through the automatic sorting equipment.In addition, users of reply mail must pay initial and annual fees for the permit plus keep an account with the Post Office to covered expected costs for processing the reply mail."Years ago, we used to send things using the prepaid envelopes included in the solicitations by banks, insurance companies, and publishing houses," said Nic East, a Jim Thorpe glass artist who first noticed the video. "This guy brought it up again.""I thought, this could generate jobs if hundreds of thousands of people were sending perhaps millions of pieces of mail and someone would have to open them. He showed putting a piece of shim would make it stiffer and would tend to jam the machines and give a repairman work.""As to the messages, I suppose there's someone on the other end that reads them," East continued. "I was an office boy. I used to open the stuff. I can image how it could throw a monkey wrench into a company's mail receiving department.""Occupy Wall Street is an expression of our frustration. They want to be noticed by the bankers and the bankers seem to be closed-minded about this.""Mailing credit card applications back is a good idea," said Mike Guy, treasurer of the Jim Thorpe Chamber of Commerce. "I used to do that, although not recently. Now, I just rip them up and throw them away.""I have mixed feelings about Occupy Wall Street. If what the Wall Streeters are doing is illegal, we should go after them. If not, they have a right to make money.""They really tick you off with all this junk mail," said Bart Spring, president of the Jim Thorpe Chamber of Commerce. "Does Wall Street need to be more closely supervised?""Yes. But if the U.S. government cracks down, the traders go international where there is no law. Even the mortgage foreclosure paper was sold internationally.""If you can't occupy Wall Street," Moffa concluded in the video, "you can at least keep Wall Street Occupied."