The Globalization Of Laughter
Hey all you believers in a new world out there,
May Day wasn’t so great was it… the numbers were low, the maxims weren’t sublime, the excitement didn’t catch on. May 12 was hefty in Europe, reigniting the snuffed Indignados, but the energy did not seem to flow over to here.
Now we’re looking at May 18 ~ 21 when protesters, possibly in Arab Spring numbers, swarm Chicago… Security experts say it will be a challenge the likes of which no American city has had to face – a leaderless, all-consuming non-violent swarm. If we can pull it off in the fierce tradition of Gandhi and MLK, the next few days could become the spark, the eruption, the new spiritual home of our Spring offensive.
On a softer, more aesthetic note, the likelihood of a global #LAUGHRIOT starting May 18 feels especially fresh and new … imagine … the globalization of laughter … millions of people around the world decide to take a few minutes off from their usual routines, get together with friends and pull off a global cascade of riotously laughing flash mobs, transforming the flow of power from the heads of the elite to the bellies of the people.
At a time when our human experiment is buckling under austerity, financial madness and eco-angst, there is something so ludicrous, bizarre, even insane about the eight most powerful people in the world trying to conduct the people’s business – to set things right – from behind closed doors and razor wire fences.
A global #LAUGHRIOT could break through the G8’s veneer of legitimacy and expose the Camp David Summit and our current capitalist model for the farce that it really is.
A global laugh-in could be the relief we’ve all been waiting for: the moment when — in a communal burst of laughter — we the people suddenly wake up to the fact that the only power our leaders have is the power we give them.
Here goes … let’s laugh like we’ve never laughed before,
for the wild,
Culture Jammers HQ
OccupyWallStreet.org / Tactical Briefing #30, #31 and #32 / Be present on May 18. Spark the #LAUGHRIOT then swarm Chicago.
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Anonymous
TEARS OF A CLOWN
"Now if there's a smile on my face It's only there trying to fool the public
But when it comes down to fooling you Now honey that's quite a different subject
But don't let my glad expression Give you the wrong impression
Really I'm sad, oh I'm sadder than sad You're gone and I'm hurtin' so bad
Like a clown I pretend to be glad
Now there's some sad things known to man But ain't too much sadder than
The tears of a clown, when there's no one around Uh hum, oh yeah baby
Now if I appear to be carefree It's only to camouflage my sadness
And honey to shield my pride I try To cover this hurt with a show of gladness
But don't let my show convince you That I've been happy since you
Decided to go, oh I need you so I'm hurt and I want you to know
But for others I put on a show, ooh yeah
{repeat CHORUS}
Just like Pagliacci did I try to keep my surface hid
Smiling in the public eye But in my lonely room I cry
The tears of a clown When there's no one around, oh yeah, baby baby
Now if there's a smile on my face Don't let my glad expression
Give you the wrong impression Don't let this smile I wear
Make you think that I don't care When really I'm sad…I’m hurting so bad…"
Along with, Behind A Painted Smile, this song seems fitting. Then again, are clowns funny?
Anonymous
Clowns are ironic tragic figures; without them who could blow up balloons at kids parties then slouch by the stucco wall to smoke unfiltered cigarettes rolled from the ashed butts strewn about the sidewalk, collected while waiting for the bus to get your $6.50 an hour clown pay.
Kid: 'I want a giraffe'
Clown: 'Sorry I only make bananas, sea cucumbers, and...orbs' *coughs tobacco smoke on kid
kid 2: 'You can't make anything! Im telling my mom!'
Clown: 'Look kid its just a fucking peace of rubber filled with air and my saliva, you either want this peace of shit or you don't'
*kid punches clown in the nuts, falls over whining in pain.
Mother: 'Gather your things and get the hell out of here'
Clown: 'I can keep the vodka right?'
Mother: 'Thats from our liquor cabinet, leave before I call the police'
Clown: 'Score!' * pants fall down on exit.
And the academy award for best independent picture goes to: Clown
NotThatAnonymous
Shakes the Clown?
Anonymous
"Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, here I am, Stuck in the middle"...
(Stealers Wheel)
Anonymous
Some cogerage about Occupy Chicago protests , on huffingtonpost. nytimes, washingtonpost doesn't seem to be covering it. certainly, in as far as we depend on corporate media to reach out, we have a structural weak point http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/18/occupy-chicago-nato_n_1528901.html
Anonymous
But it is being covered, its just that there aren't that many numbers.
CHICAGO, May 19 (Reuters) - Hundreds of demonstrators
protested peacefully on Saturday on the eve of the NATO summit
in Chicago, gathering outside Mayor Rahm Emanuel's home to
criticize cuts in mental health services before moving downtown
under the close eye of police.An estimated 500 demonstrators participated in the march to
Emanuel's home, police said. There were also several smallerrallies.The gatherings were much smaller than one attracting some 2,500 people on Friday at Daley Plaza, named for longtime MayorRichard J. Daley, who headed the city during bloody clashes between police and anti-Vietnam War protesters at the 1968 Democratic convention.
And of course there were the two or three that were arrested on terrorism charges but the protests are described as "Raucous and Peaceful".
Anonymous
Go on liar cite Reuters' bullshit numbers. There were as many as 1,000 or more at Rahm's making both you and Reuters crappy sources and lying pigs.
Anonymous
There has been coverage. Reuters says there were only a few hundred people at most events the biggest drawing 2,500 on Friday. They covered the two or three who were arrested on terrorism charges, sit in's at Rahm's home etc. Its just that the numbers weren't significant enough to cover more than they have so far.
Anonymous
There is also the small matter of the unprecedented level of State repression, by way of various means, scaring everybody to death and resulting in low turnout.
surely that little tidbit is newsworthy?
Anonymous
If you're talking about the U.S. Military's domestic and international security forces' routine use of public murder and attacks as their primary means to keep human beings in line that isn't a little tidbit, ha ha. It's true, and Occupy and anti-NATO forces are in Chicago, Montreal, et al, marching and confronting these old enemies of all of ours with bravery and cunning, and collective will. Those are successes in and unto themselves. So, yes, it's been a very good week - so far - for Occupy.
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