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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Anonymous
what about canada
Anonymous
what about canada
Paul Shrivastava
In Montreal we are organizing the "Montreal Degrowth" conference www.montreal.degrowth.org. The conference will be a forum for discussing and living economic degrowth in the Americas. Many of the articles in an earlier issue of AdBusters (Philosophy Issue) have raised these questions. The social and solidarity economy and degrowth movement are already vibrant in Canada (no make that Quebec).
Paul Shrivastava
In Montreal we are organizing the "Montreal Degrowth" conference www.montreal.degrowth.org. The conference will be a forum for discussing and living economic degrowth in the Americas. Many of the articles in an earlier issue of AdBusters (Philosophy Issue) have raised these questions. The social and solidarity economy and degrowth movement are already vibrant in Canada (no make that Quebec).
anonymous
Wow. You are all in Canada right? I'm not, I live here, near Wall St. I see the "protesters" every day. Do you know what they are protesting for? Nothing. Absolutely not one single coherent thing. Some think they're "against the banks", but all they know is that banks make money and they don't. They don't know why, and they don't have any ideas on how to improve the situation. Some people was the "stop racism". Others want someone to pay their college debt (Sorry but, who held your hand and made you go to a $40,000 a year college? Was it the same person who bought the new macbook pro you're clearly not using to wikipedia the way the US banking system works so you could actually speak intelligently and propose a real solution to what you see as the problem?). Others just want to be handed a lucrative job they didn't have to earn, and that will require little effort once achieved. Some are anarchists.
To say that the situation of these people is anything like Tahrir square is an insult to what they accomplished there. Our situation in this country (while I agree it DEFINTELY needs improvement) is nothing like Egypt, and the children "occupying wall st" have no idea of the hardship and despair experienced by people there. Instead they sit here with their shiny new computers and iphones and wasting valuable tax dollars of my city on a police detail to keep them safe and keep them from doing anything stupid. Too late for the latter.
Oh yeah and the fact that a Canadian magazine thinks it has the right to organize a protest in another country makes me livid. I have always admired ad busters. Not anymore.
anonymous
Wow. You are all in Canada right? I'm not, I live here, near Wall St. I see the "protesters" every day. Do you know what they are protesting for? Nothing. Absolutely not one single coherent thing. Some think they're "against the banks", but all they know is that banks make money and they don't. They don't know why, and they don't have any ideas on how to improve the situation. Some people was the "stop racism". Others want someone to pay their college debt (Sorry but, who held your hand and made you go to a $40,000 a year college? Was it the same person who bought the new macbook pro you're clearly not using to wikipedia the way the US banking system works so you could actually speak intelligently and propose a real solution to what you see as the problem?). Others just want to be handed a lucrative job they didn't have to earn, and that will require little effort once achieved. Some are anarchists.
To say that the situation of these people is anything like Tahrir square is an insult to what they accomplished there. Our situation in this country (while I agree it DEFINTELY needs improvement) is nothing like Egypt, and the children "occupying wall st" have no idea of the hardship and despair experienced by people there. Instead they sit here with their shiny new computers and iphones and wasting valuable tax dollars of my city on a police detail to keep them safe and keep them from doing anything stupid. Too late for the latter.
Oh yeah and the fact that a Canadian magazine thinks it has the right to organize a protest in another country makes me livid. I have always admired ad busters. Not anymore.
anonymous
Yah you failed, we stepped in saved your asses... Just like its gonna be when your union fragments. Douche bag.
anonymous
Yah you failed, we stepped in saved your asses... Just like its gonna be when your union fragments. Douche bag.
Novhab
I know how the banks works and how wall Street works. The whole thing is a scam and the 1% are getting richer. When you can make millions and billion betting on a company going down n value thats a scam. They control the media and pick companies and drive down their value knowing they bought short. Not until some of the big boys go away for the rest of their lifes will there be fair value back on the street. Also selling short should be oulawed. The market is about investing in companies you beieve in not taking bets on companies failing.
Novhab
I know how the banks works and how wall Street works. The whole thing is a scam and the 1% are getting richer. When you can make millions and billion betting on a company going down n value thats a scam. They control the media and pick companies and drive down their value knowing they bought short. Not until some of the big boys go away for the rest of their lifes will there be fair value back on the street. Also selling short should be oulawed. The market is about investing in companies you beieve in not taking bets on companies failing.
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