A Movement is Born
Jammers, dreamers, rabble-rousers, revolutionaries,
#OCCUPYWALLSTREET is thundering across America, threatening to morph into a full fledged national movement. Channeling the nonviolence of the Egyptian Tahrir Square uprising and the bottom-up collective decision making of the Spanish acampadas, we vow to end the monied corruption of our democracy.
This Saturday #OCCUPYWALLSTREET enters its third week … be there at Noon and stay for the weekend … or be at one of the 50+ fledgling occupations now being organized across the land.
Our people's democracy movement is about to get three mighty boosts:
- On October 6, a few thousand of us will swarm the capital and #OCCUPYDC. Find out the plan at october2011.org
- On October 15th, the movement goes global … check it out at 15october.net
- Then, on November 3 and 4, we have something special in mind for when the G20 leaders meet in France.
Time to live!
for the wild,
Culture Jammers HQ
occupywallstreet.org / occupywallst.org / occupytogether.org
PS.
Our movement needs more edgy theatrics … maybe we should tar and feather the Charging Bull … or burn an effigy of Lloyd Blankfein? Send your wild ideas to [email protected].
To get a sense of the visceral mood at #OCCUPYWALLSTREET, check out the daily dispatches from OccupyTVNY along with the mini-documentaries "We Are The 99%" and "Nobody Can Predict The Moment Of Revolution." Also, David Graeber's op-ed in the Guardian and Nathan Schneider's article in the Nation are worth reading.
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ArtX
Disorderly conduct for the most part -- easy catch-all for plutocratic police state action against people seeking to enact democracy.
ArtX
Disorderly conduct for the most part -- easy catch-all for plutocratic police state action against people seeking to enact democracy.
Murat Cem Menguc
You have to take over this one. Bloomberg himself will be there!!!!!!
http://www.clubmadrid.org/app/webroot/2011conference/
Murat Cem Menguc
You have to take over this one. Bloomberg himself will be there!!!!!!
http://www.clubmadrid.org/app/webroot/2011conference/
Herschel
There is an easy way. What if the people by millions donate through a web platform to buy enough shares to control corporates boards and dicuss and vote through that platform the decisions to be made. What if the people seating around the world wide web table could discuss and vote the lines of democratie point2, where we wouldn't elect people anymore, but where we could build an intelligent and fair system to rule our world. With all our expertises we can run the ultimate human heart machine, save the world and our souls. It's not gonna be that easy, but you can make it here and there. It's up to you. Thank you.
Herschel
There is an easy way. What if the people by millions donate through a web platform to buy enough shares to control corporates boards and dicuss and vote through that platform the decisions to be made. What if the people seating around the world wide web table could discuss and vote the lines of democratie point2, where we wouldn't elect people anymore, but where we could build an intelligent and fair system to rule our world. With all our expertises we can run the ultimate human heart machine, save the world and our souls. It's not gonna be that easy, but you can make it here and there. It's up to you. Thank you.
Herschel
Let's do this. Who can get on it Experts! Create the platform and the back structure. Make it transparent so that it can work, and flexible so that it can evoluate and escape the counter offensives that the Greedies are gonna throw back at us.
Herschel
Let's do this. Who can get on it Experts! Create the platform and the back structure. Make it transparent so that it can work, and flexible so that it can evoluate and escape the counter offensives that the Greedies are gonna throw back at us.
ArtX
Top 10% own 82% of stock wealth; top 1% owns 38%.
Wresting control of corporations from the plutocracts is not feasible and in any event is not the answer -- a democratic society is the answer.
Limiting the power of money -- ending the money makes money ponzi scheme that defines capitalism -- ending corporate personhood -- expiring corporate charters -- but most of all decentralizing, post peak oil local democracy are steps on the benevolent path thru the wreckage of capitalist modernity.
ArtX
Top 10% own 82% of stock wealth; top 1% owns 38%.
Wresting control of corporations from the plutocracts is not feasible and in any event is not the answer -- a democratic society is the answer.
Limiting the power of money -- ending the money makes money ponzi scheme that defines capitalism -- ending corporate personhood -- expiring corporate charters -- but most of all decentralizing, post peak oil local democracy are steps on the benevolent path thru the wreckage of capitalist modernity.
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