Adbusters Culture Jammers did indeed conceive and promote the event: *Alright you 90,000 redeemers, rebels and radicals out there,* > > A worldwide shift in revolutionary tactics is underway right now that bodes > well for the future. The spirit of this fresh tactic, a fusion of Tahrir > with the acampadas of Spain, is captured in this quote: > > "The antiglobalization movement was the first step on the road. Back then > our model was to attack the system like a pack of wolves. There was an alpha > male, a wolf who led the pack, and those who followed behind. Now the model > has evolved. Today we are one big swarm of people." > > — Raimundo Viejo, Pompeu Fabra University > Barcelona, Spain > > The beauty of this new formula, and what makes this novel tactic exciting, > is its pragmatic simplicity: we talk to each other in various physical > gatherings and virtual people's assemblies … we zero in on what our one > demand will be, a demand that awakens the imagination and, if achieved, > would propel us toward the radical democracy of the future … and then we go > out and seize a square of singular symbolic significance and put our asses > on the line to make it happen. > > The time has come to deploy this emerging stratagem against the greatest > corrupter of our democracy: *Wall Street, the financial Gomorrah of > America*. > > On September 17, we want to see 20,000 people flood into lower Manhattan, > set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street for a few > months. Once there, we shall incessantly repeat one simple demand in a > plurality of voices. > > Tahrir succeeded in large part because the people of Egypt made a > straightforward ultimatum – that Mubarak must go – over and over again until > they won. Following this model, what is our equally uncomplicated demand? > > The most exciting candidate that we've heard so far is one that gets at the > core of why the American political establishment is currently unworthy of > being called a democracy: we demand that Barack Obama ordain a Presidential > Commission tasked with ending the influence money has over our > representatives in Washington. It's time for *DEMOCRACY NOT CORPORATOCRACY > *. We're doomed without it. > > This demand seems to capture the current national mood because cleaning up > corruption in Washington is something all Americans, right and left, yearn > for and can stand behind. If we hang in there, 20,000-strong, week after > week against every police and National Guard effort to expel us from Wall > Street, it would be impossible for Obama to ignore us. Our government would > be forced to choose publicly between the will of the people and the lucre of > the corporations. > > This could be the beginning of a whole new social dynamic in America, a > step beyond the Tea Party movement, where, instead of being caught helpless > by the current power structure, we the people start getting what we want > whether it be the dismantling of half the 1,000 military bases America has > around the world to the reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall Act or a three > strikes and you're out law for corporate criminals. Beginning from one > simple demand – a presidential commission to separate money from politics – > we start setting the agenda for a new America. > > Go to adbusters.org <http://www.adbusters.org/> and tell us what you > think. Post a comment and help each other zero in on what our one demand > will be. > > And then let's screw up our courage, pack our tents and head to Wall Street > with a vengeance September 17. > > *for the wild, > Culture Jammers HQ* > ------------------------------ > > *Adbusters* #97: The Politics of Post Anarchism – How To Live Without Dead > Time (with a 12"x 18" #OCCUPYWALLSTREET poster inside), hits newsstands > worldwide in ten days. Go to > adbusters.org<http://www.adbusters.org/support_subscribe>and subscribe! > ------------------------------ > > > <http://www.adbusters.org/> > > Adbusters.org <http://www.adbusters.org/> | Updates: > Twitter<http://twitter.com/adbusters>and > Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Adbusters/131857616962> > > To unsubscribe, click here. <http://www.adbusters.org/network/joinus> > > Get this from a friend? Want to join the Culture Jammers Network? Visit: > www.adbusters.org. > > IMPORTANT: To ensure our messages reach your inbox, > please add *[email protected]* to your address book. >
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:05 AM, michael gurstein <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > FWIW the largest circulation local newspaper (the Vancouver Sun) this > morning had as its lead headline "Wall Steet Protests Spread in US and > Canada" (taking as its lead into the story the fact that the protests werre > "sparked" by an invitation from the locally based magazine-Adbusters. > > M > > -----Original Message----- > *Sent:* Monday, October 03, 2011 1:27 AM > *Subject:* Occupy Wall Street...on BBC Radio...It appears to beserious > movement....! > > > Dear All, > > I was amazed to hear as a serious item on BBC Radio Four New > yesterday on Sunday morning that there was something about Occupy Wall > Street. This was in connection with the "blocking" by protestors of the > Brooklyn Bridge. The journalist who was covering this story also wondered > whether this movement would grow apace. > > I have also found some written material on the net from BBC sources much to > my interest.. > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15134806 > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15140671 > > Rather than just give the two references I have decided to cut , and paste > the BBC ref page. I am impressed about how this "movement" is being taken > seriously.....great! Let us hope far more protests will occur around the > world in connection with the financial sector. > > > http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=bbc+occupy+wall+street&btnG=Google+Search&oq=bbc+occupy+wall+street&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=1531l10360l0l12157l26l25l1l15l4l1l203l1360l2.5.2l9l0 > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > -- Sandwichman
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