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Hey jammers,
#OCCUPYWALLSTREET is happening right now at Liberty Plaza!
It started last Saturday, when 5,000 Americans descended on to the financial district of Lower Manhattan, waved signs, unfurled banners, beat drums, chanted slogans and proceeded to walk towards the "financial Gomorrah" of the nation. They vowed to "occupy Wall Street" and to "bring justice to the bankers", but the New York police thwarted their efforts, locking down the symbolic street with barricades and checkpoints. Undeterred, protesters walked laps around the area before holding a people's assembly and setting up a semi-permanent protest encampment in a park on Liberty Street, a stone's throw from Wall Street and a block from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Three hundred spent the night, several hundred reinforcements arrived the next day and as we write this, the encampment is digging in for a long-term stay. #OCCUPYWALLSTREET has been established in Zuccotti Park, which has now been renamed Liberty Plaza. With Liberty Plaza liberated, and acting as a base in the financial district, the indignados have been sending out raiding parties to nearby Wall Street and beyond.
Bravo to those courageous souls in the encampment on New York's Liberty Street. Every night that #OCCUPYWALLSTREET continues will escalate the possibility of a full-fledged global uprising against business as usual.
Now, it is crucial for everyone from all over the world to flock to the encampment. Call in to work sick, invite your friends and hop on a bus or plane to New York City.
We need you at Liberty Plaza!
for the wild,
Culture Jammers HQ
occupywallstreet.org / occupywallst.org / nycga.net / Reddit
PS. The media is finally buzzing about #OCCUPYWALLSTREET. There have been reports at Democracy Now!, MSNBC, CNN, WSJ, NYT, El Pais and elsewhere.
Haven't you idiots learned
Haven't you idiots learned that socialism DOES NOT WORK??? You poor, misguided, naive fools.
So, we need a 'cause'? Well,
So, we need a 'cause'? Well, allow this longtime Adbusters fan and reader to weigh in: There is only one choice, and I will preface this with the the following...allof the things we call Problems, are merely symptoms, and Those who are The only Problem love watching us chase that tail...eating away at our own selves when we actually catch our own tails! Ok? Now, I repeat: the things we all call problems with our government, and society for that matter...are symptoms.
This means we allow them to continue forever, because we do not fix the One Problem from which all of these symptoms are spawned. The richest people in the world, the most powerful organizations with good intentions, are trying to solve "problems" these days...like bill gates trying to eradicate diseases. Yet, they will still die, be raped, be murdered...and will just catch the next epidemic.
Ok, ready for that nugget which will give the Occupy Wall Street ground upon which to build a real revolution, whih will solve ever single thing we call problems. YOU, have begun to garner the attention of both the mainstream media, and the world for that matter, but it will be one big fizzle...unless you listen: The ONLY problem, is simply Political Corruption. And that means we have to Fix Congress first...then the states and other government agencies will fall in line. The easiest way? New political parties, and take The Senate. 100 seats, and we save the world eventually.
This duopoly is evil, and by that I mean corrupt. so, get the folks at Wall Street to chant about getting rid of Political Corruption, and that means new elected representatives not betrothed to either party. If you look up fascism, wherein the business and political entities works solely for their own benefits and to maintain their grip on power, that is where we have arrived. The mainstream media will follow your lead my Adbusters family.
PLEASE, write about my thoughts and conclusions...and get the wall street a cause - else it will flounder, and be attacked. If they join to end political corruption, two things will be created: first...no one can criticize the cause, and people will get involved. In thoreau's words: Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity.
SURFS UP!!!!! I AGREE THAT
SURFS UP!!!!! I AGREE THAT INCOME SHOULD BE CAPPED. A TRUE COMMONWEALTH.
THE ENVIRONMENT IS BEING DESTROYED BY THE GUTTING OF LAWS BT THE REPUBLICANS. THE LEVELS OF THE THE SEAS ARE RISING , DON' T FUCK WITH MOTHER OCEAN.
SHUT DOWN ALL FISSON NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS.
MAKE IT SO EVERY CITIZEN IS ENTITLED TO THE INELIABLE RIGHT OF THE REDISIBUTION OF WEALH BY GIVING THE A SHARE OF THE WEALTH AT BIRTH.. STUDENT LOAN COMPANIES ARE KILLING THE POTENTIAL OF OUR YOUTH.
CIVAL DISOBEDIENCE IS THE PATH TO TRUE WEALTH.
The only candidate worth
The only candidate worth listening to: Buddy Roemer www.letbuddydebate.org
THE ONE DEMAND: 1. CAP ALL
THE ONE DEMAND:
1. CAP ALL INCOME AT 500 MILLION A YEAR. INCOME ABOVE THAT IS DISTRIBUTED TO THE 99%! UNLIMITED HOARDING OF NATIONAL WEALTH MUST BE ILLEGAL!
So when everyone who is
So when everyone who is currently making over $500 Million/year decides that they ARE NOT going to make any more than that, then what? There won't BE any money to redistribute among the 99%, will there?
Because that is exactly what will happen.
What will be the NEXT income cap?
And what happens when THOSE people decide that THEY are not going to make any more than that?
Pretty soon nobody is making anything because there is no incentive to make anything.
And then NOBODY has ANY money. No more iPads, no more iPhones, no more cars, no more bicycles, no more fast food, no more Starbucks, no more cloth to make kefiyyahs with, no more sneakers, no more of any of the things that you take for granted these days.
And then what?
Greyhound ticket purchased.
Greyhound ticket purchased. ETA Oct 15th @ 9am.
#OccupyOneVoice The goal of a
#OccupyOneVoice
The goal of a peaceful demonstration is to convey a message to the masses that change is comming. Currently, the media for the masses is portraying the sit-in as a hodgepodge of messages and people with no clear leader or direction. They seek to discredit the lasting impact of the protest.
As one voice- I say,
Make the message about Revolution
Craft it as Democracy, Of the People and For the People and
Know that this is the Time for Outrage.
-Miss Coco
There are 1.5 million New
There are 1.5 million New Yorkers living in poverty, 1 in 5 people in NYC.
That's 20% of the population of the 5 Boroughs.
Unemployment in NYC is over 10%, roughly 350,000 people without jobs.
Why aren't even as little as 1% of either these 2 groups at the Liberty Square Protests?
The Organization and Messaging SUCKS and this is a FAIL.
Lose the stupid Guy Fawkes masks, NOBODY likes those, and you are driving people away with them.
first you don't understand
first you don't understand the meaning of the masks they represent the gunpowder plot which was a failed attempt to overthrow king james and the Parliament in the 1600s, the meaning behind the masks are symbolic in every way if you know the history of the United States FOR America then you would realize the mask represents much more than what you were taught, guy fawkes should be the number one true icon for america, his original ideas essentially lead to the birth of most powerful and amazing country on planet earth, the united states for america, any patriot would know that fawkes actions paved the way for the most beautiful nation in this world and it all started with the american revolution which resulted in the declaration of independence that made our wonderful country a sovereign nation abolishing all ties and associations from the british crown and king james" dictatorship, guy fawkes is truly a noble world icon that was silenced by the largest terrorist attack ever accomplished on February, 21st 1871 and that same terrorist organization is now occupying the seat of the most powerful nation in the world and it was carried out in stealth darkness one sad night, and today this terrorist group still operates from the foreign territory on our own soil, this organization is responsible for the most misery and destruction ever performed against humankind and we the citizens fund their whole agenda, this organization of terror and death designated itself ruler of the sovereign states of america and its called washington dc, we the people have been conditioned to believe this entity is looking out for the best interest for our rights but in all reality it takes our own money and uses it fund mass crimes against humanity and denies our rights, and all these events are performed under a false motive of security but in all reality it jeopardizes our freedom and liberty every time a dollar bill is used, that same dollar bill once belonged to us was hijacked and stolen by one of the terrorist organizations affiliates the federal reserve and on top of that they take the same dollar bill and loan it back to us with profit bearing interest attached in the form of taxes, and that's why the fawkes masks are worn proudly to send a message to the terrorist organizations C.I.A which really stands for COUNTRIES INTENTIONALLY ABOLISHED, the f.b.i stands for FORCED.BREACH of INFRASTRUCTURE. and the a.t.f stands for ABSOULTE.TREASON. of FREEDOM and we the people the true rulers of OUR land are taking all our property back and will not contribute to the alienation of our fellow human beings, we will not endorse the killing of innocent people, we will not endorse treason of other countries resources, we are not equipment owned by the terrorist corporation, The Corrupt fear us, The Honest support us, The Heroic Join us.
amazing.... OMFG... i didn't
amazing....
OMFG... i didn't know what you were talking about at first, started with this link, then spent the last 3 hours reading up on it, un-be-fuc%-leiveable....
http://www.byronwine.com/files/1871.pdf
wtf is with this country, when a country owes more than its GDP to foreign debt////
yeah
See you soon fellow 99%!
See you soon fellow 99%! Minnesota is on her way! :) I Plan to bring a group by the 29th. Hope you are all still there being amaizing!!
-Love, MN
COMMUNICATE BETTER AND YOU
COMMUNICATE BETTER AND YOU WILL GET BETTER MEDIA COVERAGE
I have been taking pictures of the protest on Wall Street and I can confidently say that lack of media coverage is partly due the scrawled, unreadable signs. The elite corporate media blackout is in place but hey - many of the signs some just don't make any sense. Get it together with the signs!
Make EASY TO READ SIGNS saying things like "Citizens United will end our Democracy"
"Student Loan Companies are Bankrupting the Future of our Children"
"Stimulate the Economy by Forgiving All Student Loans"
"How Can Check Cashing Companies be Allowed to Charge 650% on Pay Day Loans?"
"Loan Sharks is What they Used to Call Them"
"If You Want to Drug test Welfare Recipients and Unemployment Recipients Why Not Drug Test Congress?"
"Not Paying Corporate Taxes is UnAmerican"
"THE POOR DO PAY TAXES - sales taxes, state taxes, bank fees, utility fees, transportation fees, school fees, etc, etc, etc"
stuff like that.
Then media coverage will increase. Talk about current events on Wall Street. Have the group get a message and repeat the message. Be careful not to define yourselves too completely. Seriously. I have been to a lot of marches and protests and success is largely about communicating a point and not being seen as inarticulate stoner gutter punks, which is what many people will think until you protesters start COMMUNICATING.
I love you adbusters.I really
I love you adbusters.I really do but besides 2000 when you told people to put there own message on bill boards and street barricades on streets.I think all you've been doing for the last 10 years is bitching.But I still love you.Anyway someone I know made a good point why did you start on the weekend?wallstreet is only open during the week.
and it should not be set with
and it should not be set with demands! first because we all have different ideas! evey one of us. but they all revolve around one common problem. we have to remove the problem. 100% of us are cancer to this planet and the 1% is cancer to us. lets remove the 1% before we can change/help the world/economy even though im not a huge fan of the economy. if it was up to me i would just let it go! but its not that easy.
because, that way people can
because, that way people can be in place for the arrivel of the "super rich" and their pawns
but first it takes a stand
but first it takes a stand
we can yell as long as we
we can yell as long as we want, they know the hold they have on us all, they dont care if we yell until we die. lets get some real action going on. direct action gets the goods
We need to draw up a
We need to draw up a manifesto later today! I will be out in full force protesting Wall Street's attack on America and American values.
The secular Wall Street machine been pushing a pro-gay agenda on our youth. They have snuck millions of illegal mexicans across our southern border. They have been trying to end the war on drugs, they know if we are all high we are more likely to submit. I propose we do the following:
-End flash trading
-A complete ban on all gays in American society
-Nationalization of Goldman Sachs
-Provide a new national minimum income for Americans willing to work at least 40hrs a week
-Militarize the borders and use lethal force against all undocumented immigrants.
-Mandatory 30year sentencing for anyone caught with possession of marijuana, cocaine, or heroin.
-A 40% tariff on all imports that move jobs overseas
This is a plan we can all unite around and I know many Americans already support. Lets get ready to rock Wall Street. Are you ready!?
Wink!!
Wink!!
New Video from Occupy Wall
New Video from Occupy Wall Street.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu9axZUczkQ
go away
go away
lol, nice personal agenda you
lol, nice personal agenda you got there!
i've been at the occupation
i've been at the occupation camp day and night since the 17th, and no one has pronouced these kinds of ridiculous views, either in person or in the general assemblies. You are an agent troll.
Sorry dude but thats
Sorry dude but thats nationalism you are describing, additionally very close to what Hitler proposed in 1933...
* What gives you reason or right to decide who should channel his love to what or whom?
* A bank controlled by the state, which still is under the influence of giant corporations, would change what exactly?
* You would want to encourage ppl to do repetitive jobs for 40 h/week that could be done more efficiently by robots, i.e. working in a factory, at a dump, in a mine?
* Shooting people because they fled political persecution or poverty is your solution, I'd guess you're missing some neurons meant for mirroring emotions...
* Placing people into private jail because they were alleviating pain with one medicine, as opposed to 35 different pills, just so pharma-companies and owners of prison get richer from the tax payer, you sure about that?
The change towards unity, understanding and disinterested love needs to happen within every individual, not through dogmas or indoctrination of plans, agendas or acts, but through seeing the fact without the created (actually non-) self and as long as there are education, infrastructural or humanitarian deficits.
It won't happen within those, struggling to keep their basic needs (food, shelter, clothes) covered...
Please try to rethink Your approach, for we are all partaking in the life of one big living organism...
Whoaaaa there super
Whoaaaa there super poster....it's called ironic detachment. Look it up o.k. You might actually find that the post you are reacting to is really funny, like next level comedic genius funny.
Lads I think ye may have
Lads I think ye may have missed the ironic tone in OP. Don't take it so seriously. Jus sayin....
global revolution:) yesterday
global revolution:)
yesterday it was 24,000 Facebook likes, earlier today 34K, almost 40,000 NOW> 38, 488 Facebook Likes and counting
I love you kids.. but
I love you kids.. but Facebook "likes" do not get you a revolution.
Facebook "likes" become a
Facebook "likes" become a talking point for some of the media... a springboard into a large conversation, perhaps.