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TACTICAL BRIEFING #26

Anarchic Swarms – The Emerging Model.

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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

You must be joking....

When have the politicians ever supported us, "under cover of votes" or not?

Remember "GOT HOPE" and "CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN"?

Instead we got another four years of Bush.

The time for politicians is over.

Grow up, dude...

qrs1900xc

I like the idea of the demands. Not perfect but a step in the right direction. The movement needs to demand things. I know some disagree with this but I believe that more people will get involved if they know what they are supporting and have a goal (especially one that is more concrete then just the overthrow of capitalism). Keep up the good work Adbusters! Keep Occupy moving and it will keep going!

Anonymous

Walkupy is marching towards Chicago to Occupy for the month of May. A group of 6 departed Atlanta three weeks ago and is making our way north towards the Windy City. Please join us or start your own marches! Our organizers have over a thousand miles of marching already under their belts and would like to offer any assistance possible to new marches. Just shoot an email to [email protected]

Anonymous

Ok...I'm gonna say it and let the hate roll in..While I don't disagree with the notion of a nuclear free anywhere...I have to express my concern that in the light of history....with the exception of Iran....the only country singled out by name...is Israel.

Let the hate fest commence...

Anonymous

DICK!

Just kidding. Honestly, Israel is very aggressive and the United States isn't free of criticism. Here, in the US maybe, but not abroad. The Mighty Unighty is seen as the biggest threat to peace in the world last time I looked. You're right about Iran, though, they do get called out. The difference? No one is going to bomb Israel for not having done anything as they would Iran. All three are dangerous to world peace.

Anonymous

Mental health is so important too.
We need to take a cost assessment of how the collapse of economy, ecology, etc...will affect us as people with emotions and feelings.
My family was broken up in 2008 during the financial crisis.

anonymous

On the personal front, many of us cannot be on the streets during the month of May, but we still vow to live the month without dead time. We will be staffing our keyboards, growing our own food, and tending the children, thereby helping to turn the wheels of resistance and rebuilding in many such ways. We will follow the public actions, and lend support and insight where we can. Love the demands!

Anonymous

Now you too are "censuring the internet" clearly to put out information about a "secret society" is what is needed to bring down the "EVIL WICKED CONSPIRACY" that rules our globe, by suppressing this information you are "shooting yourself in the foot" as you well know, but perhaps now you are also bribed by "PHILANTHROPISTS"?

Ben and JERRY ICECREAM comes to mind!

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