TACTICAL BRIEFING #26
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Hey you wild cats, dreamers, redeemers, horizontals,
The stage is set for a climactic showdown in Chicago.
The crisis of capitalism is deepening. Youth unemployment has reached 50% in Spain and Greece… 30% in Portugal and Italy… 22% in the UK… almost 20% in the US. Hundreds of millions of people around the world are waking up to the fact that their future does not compute… that their lives will be a never ending series of ecological, financial, political and personal crises… and that if we don’t rise up and start fighting for a different kind of future, we won’t have a future.
That struggle ignites again May 1.
#OCCUPYCHICAGO will be the focal point of this global spiritual insurrection… 50,000 of us will converge on the windy city and confront the G8 and NATO leaders with an ultimatum. We will set up impromptu encampments throughout the city and wage a full-spectrum memewar backed up by new tactics of anarchic swarming. Our militant in-your-face nonviolence will inspire thousands of towns, cities and campuses around the world to rise up in solidarity just like they did last October.
This is a worldwide, multi-front mutiny against the way our economic and military leaders are running the world.
On the CULTURAL FRONT we confront the corpo-commercial lie machine – we shift the way information flows and meaning is produced. We train a new breed of livestreamers, citizen journos and p2p visionaries and unleash them in the streets to be the eyes of the world during the month of May.
On the ENVIRONMENTAL FRONT we demand the G8 reach consensus on drastically reducing their carbon footprints and immediately ratifying a binding international accord on climate change.
On the ECONOMIC FRONT we throw our movement’s weight behind one simple demand: the implementation of a 1% Robin Hood Tax on all financial transactions and currency trades.
On the GEOPOLITICAL FRONT we tell Obama, Cameron, Sarkozy, Putin, Merkel, Noda, Monti, Harper and the NATO military leaders to stop the warmongering and start fighting for peace. We block the looming Iran war with a preemptive global initiative that just about everyone in the world can get behind: a nuclear-free world starting with a nuclear-free Middle East that includes both Israel and Iran.
On the PERSONAL FRONT, hundreds of millions of us vow to live the month of May without dead time… to experience joyous camaraderie… to open ourselves to an imminent life changing epiphany. We follow Miles Davis’ advice on how to play jazz: be spontaneously alive and “play what’s not there.”
Occupy has taught us all. It innovates, fractures, grows resilient and more diverse. In this spirit we celebrate the Gandhian ferocity of the Zuccottis who launched this movement with their magical assemblies and nonviolent ways … we extol the growing crop of working groups with their desire for a positive program of social and political change. And on the wild side we honor those in Oakland who have lost their fear against all odds. With this rainbow coalition, we hold our heads high and embrace the heady days of Spring.
Jammers pack your tents, phone your friends, get your affinity groups together and prepare to put your ass on the line for a worldwide people’s uprising starting May 1.
for the wild,
Culture Jammers HQ
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Anonymous
godspeed
Anonymous
"A nuclear-free world starting with a nuclear-free Middle East that includes both Israel and Iran" You choose to oppress those in the Middle East just like the ruling Elite. Why not begin with the biggest nuclear criminal in all of history, the United States of America!
Anonymous
I agree. Why not start with the countries that are already have such things?
Palestinian
Israel does have nuclear weapons. That is why we need a nuclear-free Middle East.
Anonymous
when has isreal conducted any nuclear tests? did i miss something?
Palestinian
Yes, Israel has conducted nuclear tests. Read Seymour Hersh's "Samson Option"
Anonymous
Agreed. This a ridiculous statement without demanding the same from the United States.
Anonymous
Agreed completely! It'll only stir discontent.
NotThatAnonymous
Stopping by again to say hello, i love you. After a decade of knowing you I can only love you more. You are the magazine of my dreams thank you for #100, emotional breakthroughs for everyone forever.
Anonymous
there's an interesting critical reply to this call which can be found here:
"One simple demand" - Critical Reply to Adbusters "Tactical Briefing #26"
http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2012/02/118028.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/02/493002.html
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