A Call for Reinforcements
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.
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Anonymous
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.
Anonymous
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.
Anonymous
because, that way people can be in place for the arrivel of the "super rich" and their pawns
Anonymous
because, that way people can be in place for the arrivel of the "super rich" and their pawns
Anonymous
but first it takes a stand
Anonymous
but first it takes a stand
Anonymous
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.
Anonymous
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.
petroniusf
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.
petroniusf
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.
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