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A Call for Reinforcements

Come to Liberty Plaza now!

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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

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PS. The media is finally buzzing about #OCCUPYWALLSTREET. There have been reports at Democracy Now!, MSNBC, CNN, WSJ, NYT, El Pais and elsewhere.

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boydcster

19 September 2011 at 06:30 pm

The goal of the protest cannot be to take power. The security apparatus will ensure that no one can affect the levers of power even slightly. Instead we should focus on changing consciousness, blur the lines between victims and bystanders, moving as many as possible who class themselves in the latter category into the former.

Therefore, I propose that the Occupy Wall Street carry out the following action: Become indistinguishable from the ordinary passersby in the financial districts, blend in with the crowd, shave beards, cut hair, and dress business casual, adopt the look of those who are also victims but don’t realize it yet – ordinary New Yorkers, including the speculators. When the police try to kettle the demonstrators, they will also collect large numbers of bystanders, who will begin to feel the other side of the boundary line they have been standing on. In this way, we can spread the consciousness of victimhood wider and create potential recruits.

Remember - the banksters are committing suicide quite handily all by themselves. No need for us to interfere with their self-destruction.

For the wild.

boydcster

19 September 2011 at 06:30 pm

The goal of the protest cannot be to take power. The security apparatus will ensure that no one can affect the levers of power even slightly. Instead we should focus on changing consciousness, blur the lines between victims and bystanders, moving as many as possible who class themselves in the latter category into the former.

Therefore, I propose that the Occupy Wall Street carry out the following action: Become indistinguishable from the ordinary passersby in the financial districts, blend in with the crowd, shave beards, cut hair, and dress business casual, adopt the look of those who are also victims but don’t realize it yet – ordinary New Yorkers, including the speculators. When the police try to kettle the demonstrators, they will also collect large numbers of bystanders, who will begin to feel the other side of the boundary line they have been standing on. In this way, we can spread the consciousness of victimhood wider and create potential recruits.

Remember - the banksters are committing suicide quite handily all by themselves. No need for us to interfere with their self-destruction.

For the wild.

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