The Future of #OCCUPY
ADBUSTERS TACTICAL BRIEFING
The initial phase of the #OCCUPY movement was marked by several weeks of viral growth that peaked on October 15 with a global day of action. In the next phase, there will be a turn towards addressing the deep philosophical and strategic questions of how to escalate this democracy moment into a revolutionary people's movement. Across the nation there are clear signs that the #OCCUPY movement is simultaneously maturing and growing more militant.
Of the many questions swirling around #OCCUPY, the most challenging is how to gel into a global movement without sacrificing the decentralized, leaderless model. There is a widespread acknowledgment that there are challenges that can only be dealt with on a global scale, such as a climate change accord and overturning international casino capitalism, and that we must therefore forge a globally united people's movement. However, there is also a growing recognition that the general assembly model that has worked beautifully thus far may be fundamentally limited on a structural level.
A breakthrough came on Friday from the New York City General Assembly where the structure working group has proposed, and the general assembly has accepted, the adoption of a modified spokes council model that will work in conjunction with the general assembly. This lays the foundation for a regional, national and potentially international spokes council, something that both #OCCUPYPHILLY and The 99 Percent Declaration have been pushing for. We are beginning to see how the #OCCUPY movement will elevate itself into an international force.
Meanwhile, the power center of the movement is shifting away from the East Coast towards the West. On Wednesday, #OCCUPYOAKLAND is organizing a General Strike that is already finding support within the local community. Solidarity actions are planned in occupations nationwide. Within the movement, there is a sense that this may be a turning point as militant tactics come to the fore and direct confrontation with the structures of the corporate-state becomes the norm.
Other sparks on the horizon include the November 5 Transition Day/Bank Transfer Day, the November 25 Buy Nothing Day kick off to #OCCUPYXMAS and the December 10 Global Day of Action which was proposed this week by the international network behind the blast on October 15.
Hang in there!
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We understood today we are in fact dominated by global finance capitalism which created also "global" problems to the whole planet and to many who had no voice (as Africans) were added problems to Americans and Europeans, who have more voice. Hence arose the protests around the world, in different forms, from the Arab revolutions to "Occupy Wall Street". "We are 99%" is the shout of the Zuccotti Park occupants. A protest as "Occupy Wall Street" had never happened before in US the coutry where modern capitalism was has been created. Protesters at the bottom has more questions and indignation than answers to offer. National democracies today are slow and ineffective, inadequate to address the problems that today's global financial crisis arises because: 1) Every democracy has a smaller legislative sovereignty than any problems that arise in global markets. The market has a dynamic and supranational rules that make it non-adjustable from democracies that have not a slim supra-national governance slim. As seen in every International economic Summit done,as the G20, everything always ends in a stalemate. For example, the implementation of a common law as the Tobin Tax on financial transactions (on the effectiveness of which I will not go into) are unable to implement and the time of burocracy is always longer than those that the evolution of market crisis requires. From this we easly understand that while there is already a mature global capitalism there is no global laws nor a democratic organization responsible for its implementation. 2) The national democracies were born as issued by the birth of the capitalist model of the bourgeois class' 800 and derive livelihood from it,and this submissive position (lobbying) forbids the system of governance: to really fight the problems that global capitalism today places you should put a discussion on democracies themselves. I'm not against capitalism itself. Capitalism in itself is neither good nor bad, but no one ever treated it for what it really is, a means and not an end of the human social system, and this is the fundamental difference. Is democracy the real enemy? I firmly say no, it still remains "the best of the worst kind of government possible," and some rights (as free elections, free press, independent judiciary, respect for human rights) are not insignificant and has been guaranteed better than past or contemporary totalitarisms. Easy to say, hard to do, but I think the only solution that remains is not to destroy the good of Democracy, but change it back to its role not just for a nation but for the whole world. This is not "export democracy" and bring all to one model. "Global Democracy" means instead that every nation give up a portion of its sovereignty in order to place it in the hands of a world federal democratic system to respond easly to the global problems that crisis poses to all of us. I would say to "Occupy WallStreet" movement, when it asks the right to forgive of debts by 99% of the people against the salvation of 1%, it must not forgive that the danger of not be able to pay the debt is not in the failure of some banks, but in the risk that doing so will entice to be all even more irresponsibile, thinking that then everyone (banks , countries , people) could start to make debts again and again because they will be saved in the end , without asking anything back.. Every abuse could be always condoned. Without a new accountability it would be an irresponsible encouragement to do new acts that created the crisis itself: the irresponsible spenders would be rewarded and those who responsible and careful took care of the territory,environment, energies and or paid taxes would be screwed. I do not say anything so utopian: after the Second World War, the UN was created precisely to try to make a world government in which at the highest level the differences among people will be subjected to a realistic and achievable common good in which we all recognize it, men equal and part of the same planet with no winners and losers, rulers and subjects, etc. but everyone in equal respect for its uniqueness. The UN unfortunatly lacks a real executive power. This is the unique way to adjust the finance system in wich somenone could not only gain , but gain onlyin respect of the territory and dignity of all. Utopia guides reality in the creation of systems of governance. Listening to "Image" by J. Lennon or watching "The Green Planet" movie will help us to make to find a new model real and correctable under construction for the development of the world mafter crisis. The UN was an utopia: it took a war and the Holocaust to became reality. It's up to us to decide how much suffering: it is certain that sufference is not necessary to do this change, it could be done without pain. see it on wwww.commentsnewspapers.blogspot.com
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We understood today we are in fact dominated by global finance capitalism which created also "global" problems to the whole planet and to many who had no voice (as Africans) were added problems to Americans and Europeans, who have more voice. Hence arose the protests around the world, in different forms, from the Arab revolutions to "Occupy Wall Street". "We are 99%" is the shout of the Zuccotti Park occupants. A protest as "Occupy Wall Street" had never happened before in US the coutry where modern capitalism was has been created. Protesters at the bottom has more questions and indignation than answers to offer. National democracies today are slow and ineffective, inadequate to address the problems that today's global financial crisis arises because: 1) Every democracy has a smaller legislative sovereignty than any problems that arise in global markets. The market has a dynamic and supranational rules that make it non-adjustable from democracies that have not a slim supra-national governance slim. As seen in every International economic Summit done,as the G20, everything always ends in a stalemate. For example, the implementation of a common law as the Tobin Tax on financial transactions (on the effectiveness of which I will not go into) are unable to implement and the time of burocracy is always longer than those that the evolution of market crisis requires. From this we easly understand that while there is already a mature global capitalism there is no global laws nor a democratic organization responsible for its implementation. 2) The national democracies were born as issued by the birth of the capitalist model of the bourgeois class' 800 and derive livelihood from it,and this submissive position (lobbying) forbids the system of governance: to really fight the problems that global capitalism today places you should put a discussion on democracies themselves. I'm not against capitalism itself. Capitalism in itself is neither good nor bad, but no one ever treated it for what it really is, a means and not an end of the human social system, and this is the fundamental difference. Is democracy the real enemy? I firmly say no, it still remains "the best of the worst kind of government possible," and some rights (as free elections, free press, independent judiciary, respect for human rights) are not insignificant and has been guaranteed better than past or contemporary totalitarisms. Easy to say, hard to do, but I think the only solution that remains is not to destroy the good of Democracy, but change it back to its role not just for a nation but for the whole world. This is not "export democracy" and bring all to one model. "Global Democracy" means instead that every nation give up a portion of its sovereignty in order to place it in the hands of a world federal democratic system to respond easly to the global problems that crisis poses to all of us. I would say to "Occupy WallStreet" movement, when it asks the right to forgive of debts by 99% of the people against the salvation of 1%, it must not forgive that the danger of not be able to pay the debt is not in the failure of some banks, but in the risk that doing so will entice to be all even more irresponsibile, thinking that then everyone (banks , countries , people) could start to make debts again and again because they will be saved in the end , without asking anything back.. Every abuse could be always condoned. Without a new accountability it would be an irresponsible encouragement to do new acts that created the crisis itself: the irresponsible spenders would be rewarded and those who responsible and careful took care of the territory,environment, energies and or paid taxes would be screwed. I do not say anything so utopian: after the Second World War, the UN was created precisely to try to make a world government in which at the highest level the differences among people will be subjected to a realistic and achievable common good in which we all recognize it, men equal and part of the same planet with no winners and losers, rulers and subjects, etc. but everyone in equal respect for its uniqueness. The UN unfortunatly lacks a real executive power. This is the unique way to adjust the finance system in wich somenone could not only gain , but gain onlyin respect of the territory and dignity of all. Utopia guides reality in the creation of systems of governance. Listening to "Image" by J. Lennon or watching "The Green Planet" movie will help us to make to find a new model real and correctable under construction for the development of the world mafter crisis. The UN was an utopia: it took a war and the Holocaust to became reality. It's up to us to decide how much suffering: it is certain that sufference is not necessary to do this change, it could be done without pain. see it on wwww.commentsnewspapers.blogspot.com
Anonymous
WTF are you trying to say? What you have written here is a bunch of nonsense! How in the world do these protesters expect to resolve anything when most that post here can not make any sense about what they are protesting for!
Does anybody in the OWS group know how to write coherently. Please try and get some one to post a comment that can be read and understood! You guys most be to stoned or are just plain stupid!
You people can not be thinking to tear a country down and expect it to be in a state of limbo until you watch a movie about the "GREEN PLANET" or listen to "Imagine" by John Lennon and then get the the idea of what kind of government that you want! That is more than stupid, it is INSANE to think that a country with 350,0000,000 people can just wait for a bunch of morons to get their plan together after they destroy the economy and default the government! WTF are you going to do when thousands of people start to starve, or die from the lack of medicine and necessities! How moronic is that!, Is their anyone of you that can think rationally?
Here's an Idea, why don't you all go back home to Mommy, and Daddy, and OCCUPY A SHOWER, AND THEN THINK LONG, AND HARD, ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING, because by the comments posted here, and the interviews of people in the streets, in any city where occupiers are, no one of you guys seem to have a clue about what is going to take place after you bring the "system down"!
Then if you feel like you still want to protest some more later, 1st go to a country that has destroyed its government say like Egypt you know the place where you guys got this occupy idea from and see how they are doing after their great protest. I believe they are not getting what they thought they were going to get, after they deposed their president, and destroyed their government!!
Please use critical thinking, when ever possible because you really have to have a clear plan to do what you are trying to do!! This is not something that you can do willie nillie or get a do over when you make mistakes and get people killed!!! You are playing with fire and this is the real world it is not a DAMN VIDEO GAME!!!!!
Anonymous
WTF are you trying to say? What you have written here is a bunch of nonsense! How in the world do these protesters expect to resolve anything when most that post here can not make any sense about what they are protesting for!
Does anybody in the OWS group know how to write coherently. Please try and get some one to post a comment that can be read and understood! You guys most be to stoned or are just plain stupid!
You people can not be thinking to tear a country down and expect it to be in a state of limbo until you watch a movie about the "GREEN PLANET" or listen to "Imagine" by John Lennon and then get the the idea of what kind of government that you want! That is more than stupid, it is INSANE to think that a country with 350,0000,000 people can just wait for a bunch of morons to get their plan together after they destroy the economy and default the government! WTF are you going to do when thousands of people start to starve, or die from the lack of medicine and necessities! How moronic is that!, Is their anyone of you that can think rationally?
Here's an Idea, why don't you all go back home to Mommy, and Daddy, and OCCUPY A SHOWER, AND THEN THINK LONG, AND HARD, ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING, because by the comments posted here, and the interviews of people in the streets, in any city where occupiers are, no one of you guys seem to have a clue about what is going to take place after you bring the "system down"!
Then if you feel like you still want to protest some more later, 1st go to a country that has destroyed its government say like Egypt you know the place where you guys got this occupy idea from and see how they are doing after their great protest. I believe they are not getting what they thought they were going to get, after they deposed their president, and destroyed their government!!
Please use critical thinking, when ever possible because you really have to have a clear plan to do what you are trying to do!! This is not something that you can do willie nillie or get a do over when you make mistakes and get people killed!!! You are playing with fire and this is the real world it is not a DAMN VIDEO GAME!!!!!
Marty Downs
maybe we need to desrtoy this government before it destroy's us this whole thing is about corruption
Marty Downs
maybe we need to desrtoy this government before it destroy's us this whole thing is about corruption
Anonymous
Once again if you destroy the government, and have nothing to put in its place, you then open the door to death, and destruction of the people of this country! Do you understand that if that happens, then you will have complete anarchy, and with that their will be untold destruction, of infrastructure, and death to those who had nothing to do with this situation!!
Is that what this movement is about?
If this is so then you, and the ones who started it will surely be some of the first to be killed! If you have any brain left to think, with read what has happened in history to those that are the pawns of the socialist revolutions, other than the revolution that started this country. The reason that the American revolution was so effective, is because the founders were men who respected God, and knew what they wanted to accomplish, and what to do after they achieved their goal.
You guys are just the pawns that are being used be the rich one world socialist, who have already started to destroy this government, with socialist propaganda, and programs that have lead to what we have today!
YOU ARE BEING USED!
Now they need to start the violence, that is where they will use you protesters, to get martial law enacted, so that they can get absolute control of the government, under the law, and then stop all elections, and use force to control the people, who will raise up against them! It is very obvious to those who know history, and how socialist/ Marxist revolutions work! The outcome of these revolutions, is never what was promised, to the people who help to start them. If you are not killed in the fights for the revolution you will be killed when they no longer need you! It is a fact that has been seen through out the history of these events!
If you want to understand how you are being used, then read this document at this link ( http://www.devvy.com/pdf/masters.pdf ) . THINK long, and hard, about what you are doing!
If you have no plan for what you want then TOTAL FAILURE IS WHAT YOU WILL ACHIEVE!!! Those who are standing in the shadows are ready for this failure, so they can be there to pick up the pieces of what is left and then take over!
Anonymous
Once again if you destroy the government, and have nothing to put in its place, you then open the door to death, and destruction of the people of this country! Do you understand that if that happens, then you will have complete anarchy, and with that their will be untold destruction, of infrastructure, and death to those who had nothing to do with this situation!!
Is that what this movement is about?
If this is so then you, and the ones who started it will surely be some of the first to be killed! If you have any brain left to think, with read what has happened in history to those that are the pawns of the socialist revolutions, other than the revolution that started this country. The reason that the American revolution was so effective, is because the founders were men who respected God, and knew what they wanted to accomplish, and what to do after they achieved their goal.
You guys are just the pawns that are being used be the rich one world socialist, who have already started to destroy this government, with socialist propaganda, and programs that have lead to what we have today!
YOU ARE BEING USED!
Now they need to start the violence, that is where they will use you protesters, to get martial law enacted, so that they can get absolute control of the government, under the law, and then stop all elections, and use force to control the people, who will raise up against them! It is very obvious to those who know history, and how socialist/ Marxist revolutions work! The outcome of these revolutions, is never what was promised, to the people who help to start them. If you are not killed in the fights for the revolution you will be killed when they no longer need you! It is a fact that has been seen through out the history of these events!
If you want to understand how you are being used, then read this document at this link ( http://www.devvy.com/pdf/masters.pdf ) . THINK long, and hard, about what you are doing!
If you have no plan for what you want then TOTAL FAILURE IS WHAT YOU WILL ACHIEVE!!! Those who are standing in the shadows are ready for this failure, so they can be there to pick up the pieces of what is left and then take over!
Bryce, SLC
I was going to point out how ridiculous you sound, but then realized that it would be redundant.
Bryce, SLC
I was going to point out how ridiculous you sound, but then realized that it would be redundant.
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