#OCCUPYWALLSTREET This Weekend!
Hey you jammers, dreamers, patriots and revolutionaries out there,
What will happen this Saturday when thousands of us descend on Lower Manhattan and start walking towards Wall Street?
If the police try to stop us, how will we respond?
This is what happened in Madrid last month when the Spanish government tried to stop people from gathering in the Puerta del Sol, site of the people's encampment:
"All day long, 300 police officers kept the square hermetically sealed off, even closing the Sol metro station – one of the largest and most important in the city … When the protesters realized they couldn't take the square, they quickly dissolved into a dozen side-streets and regrouped on a number of key locations … For hours now, protesters have been blocking all the main traffic arteries in the city center … Tens of thousands of indignados have brought Madrid to a complete standstill in a spontaneous and defiant bid to reclaim Puerta del Sol … The mass protest is now reported to be headed back towards Sol for a second time, in another attempt to take back the square."
– Jérôme E. Roos
If the police block us temporarily from occupying Wall Street, then let's turn all of lower Manhattan into our Tahrir Square. Let's sing our songs in the lobby of Goldman Sachs and in Chase Manhattan Plaza; let's wave our signs outside the SEC and the Federal Reserve; let's convene our people's assemblies around the Charging Bull statue at Bowling Green … and if need be, let's set up our encampments in nearby Battery Park and other places until we're ready to walk into Wall Street again …
Anything can and will happen this Saturday. That's the beauty of it! Ultimately, the only thing that matters in how many of us turn up eager to be a part of a spontaneous creative swarm and determined to bring the financial fraudsters to justice.
Bring signs, flowers, food and a revolutionary mood … and a commitment to absolute nonviolence in the Gandhian tradition.
for the wild,
Culture Jammers HQ
PS.
The S17 meme is rumbling all over the world now … Milan, Madrid, Valencia, London, Lisbon, Athens, San Francisco, Santander, Madison, Amsterdam, Los Angeles and now Algeria and Israel are all on board! Could this be the beginning of a new global economic order?
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Anonymous
Wouldn't an occupation of the Lincoln Tunnel or the various bridges in and out of manhattan be more noticeable, crippling, and easy to achieve?
Think of it this way - You simply need one car for each lane of the tunnel, and each lane of each bridge. You drive along, slow to a stop, and hold up traffic until someone can come and stop you. At which point, you all can do your best to resist arrest.
Point is, you could effectively stop all traffic in and out of manhattan with less than 30 people. Even better - get out and slash a few tires on the cars behind you, and you've created a roadblock of 15 cars. No, it wouldn't solidify an occupation, but if done even in tandem with the occupation, you would receive extreme media attention, and cause quite the pleasant distraction while you Occupy Wallstreet.
Hope someone communicates this to the men on the ground... While I won't be there (for no reason which anyone here would fine permissible) I am extremely excited to see if something comes of this.
-A Guy.
Anonymous
Wouldn't an occupation of the Lincoln Tunnel or the various bridges in and out of manhattan be more noticeable, crippling, and easy to achieve?
Think of it this way - You simply need one car for each lane of the tunnel, and each lane of each bridge. You drive along, slow to a stop, and hold up traffic until someone can come and stop you. At which point, you all can do your best to resist arrest.
Point is, you could effectively stop all traffic in and out of manhattan with less than 30 people. Even better - get out and slash a few tires on the cars behind you, and you've created a roadblock of 15 cars. No, it wouldn't solidify an occupation, but if done even in tandem with the occupation, you would receive extreme media attention, and cause quite the pleasant distraction while you Occupy Wallstreet.
Hope someone communicates this to the men on the ground... While I won't be there (for no reason which anyone here would fine permissible) I am extremely excited to see if something comes of this.
-A Guy.
Anonymous
I don't even know where to begin. I'm saddened and disgusted that it's come to this, but not surprised.
It would be noticeable, to say the least. You know what else would be noticeable, everyone involved being taken to Guantanamo Bay and a kiss of goodbye to end to our remaining civil liberties for good. And nobody, and rightfully so, would defend you because this is complete lunacy. Are you insane or an paid instigator for suggesting this? Which one? This is absolutely the last thing this movement needs. You're talking about shutting down a tunnel, and you go even further to suggest slashing the tires of the people stuck there? Are you fucking stupid? This IS terrorism. This is not peaceful protest, what you're saying does not belong here. It should be spoken out against instantly! If you don't know why, it's because this is what's going to be pointed to - calls to violence - to prove that everyone had to be arrested and detained. Are you trying to get everyone so afraid of this that they won't bother showing up?
I defend the freedom of speech, and know that it comes with a huge responsibility. Violence, and hoping to equate this movement with a huge terror scare in Manhattan makes me extremely suspicious of your true nature to say the least. I can't imagine the alternative - that you are actually that naive. Even if I'm wrong and you're just some rebel anarchist behind proxies, do you realize what consequences your speech has? Don't take this shit at face value people. Speak out against it when you see it, otherwise the burden will be on you to prove that you're NOT his type. I'm appalled not only to see this message, but to see this garbage remain unchallenged for so long. Start speaking out against this people, start speaking! This is exactly what happens before the G20s, these instigators advocate violence, and serve as the justification for the police showing up ready for war. Start speaking! Nobody is going to defend the credibility of this event but you.
Anonymous
I don't even know where to begin. I'm saddened and disgusted that it's come to this, but not surprised.
It would be noticeable, to say the least. You know what else would be noticeable, everyone involved being taken to Guantanamo Bay and a kiss of goodbye to end to our remaining civil liberties for good. And nobody, and rightfully so, would defend you because this is complete lunacy. Are you insane or an paid instigator for suggesting this? Which one? This is absolutely the last thing this movement needs. You're talking about shutting down a tunnel, and you go even further to suggest slashing the tires of the people stuck there? Are you fucking stupid? This IS terrorism. This is not peaceful protest, what you're saying does not belong here. It should be spoken out against instantly! If you don't know why, it's because this is what's going to be pointed to - calls to violence - to prove that everyone had to be arrested and detained. Are you trying to get everyone so afraid of this that they won't bother showing up?
I defend the freedom of speech, and know that it comes with a huge responsibility. Violence, and hoping to equate this movement with a huge terror scare in Manhattan makes me extremely suspicious of your true nature to say the least. I can't imagine the alternative - that you are actually that naive. Even if I'm wrong and you're just some rebel anarchist behind proxies, do you realize what consequences your speech has? Don't take this shit at face value people. Speak out against it when you see it, otherwise the burden will be on you to prove that you're NOT his type. I'm appalled not only to see this message, but to see this garbage remain unchallenged for so long. Start speaking out against this people, start speaking! This is exactly what happens before the G20s, these instigators advocate violence, and serve as the justification for the police showing up ready for war. Start speaking! Nobody is going to defend the credibility of this event but you.
Anonymous
Exactly! There's enough babies going to sleep in fear, already, to the sound of screaming and anarchy.
Anonymous
Exactly! There's enough babies going to sleep in fear, already, to the sound of screaming and anarchy.
anonymous
What about parking your car and slashing some tires is violent? Calling creating a traffic jam terrorism? That, my pacifist friend, is insane. Who would be harmed in this scenario, aside the daily drivers of Wall st being late for dinner? Where are the victims in this scenario?
If you can see beyond the whole violent/nonviolent divide, you'll realize this guy was thinking of ways to use limited resources to cripple the largest financial center in the world without harming anyone. Still not the greatest idea, in my opinion, b/c of the lost cars and limited time frame of effectiveness.
My point is that causing a disruption isn't inherently violent: arguing, yelling, taking a walk naked, and taxing millions of lower class citizens at a higher rate than the corporations who enslave them are all disruptive, yet nonviolent behaviors.
You know, you nonviolence advocates sound like a bunch of religious zealots encouraging abstinence only sex education. Soon enough you'll be banning arguments like they're HPV vaccines.
anonymous
What about parking your car and slashing some tires is violent? Calling creating a traffic jam terrorism? That, my pacifist friend, is insane. Who would be harmed in this scenario, aside the daily drivers of Wall st being late for dinner? Where are the victims in this scenario?
If you can see beyond the whole violent/nonviolent divide, you'll realize this guy was thinking of ways to use limited resources to cripple the largest financial center in the world without harming anyone. Still not the greatest idea, in my opinion, b/c of the lost cars and limited time frame of effectiveness.
My point is that causing a disruption isn't inherently violent: arguing, yelling, taking a walk naked, and taxing millions of lower class citizens at a higher rate than the corporations who enslave them are all disruptive, yet nonviolent behaviors.
You know, you nonviolence advocates sound like a bunch of religious zealots encouraging abstinence only sex education. Soon enough you'll be banning arguments like they're HPV vaccines.
That Guy
Exactly! You understand - all forms of protest disrupt, and I was simply trying to create the largest level of disruption with the smallest possible level of damage to the men and women of NYC.
The sad thing about "peaceful protest" (a ridiculous oxymoron, if you ask me) is that it is only effective when the # of participants ranges in the hundreds of thousands. When you're limited to some 10,000 participants, you need to figure out more creative ways of being more disruptive. - it's a simple matter of pragmatism.
And hell - if the government does try and arrest you, it's only telling you that you are doing something right. The reason "peaceful" protest is (semi) legal is because it doesn't work. If it were actually a threat to their power, those goons in washington would quickly move to limit its power...
That Guy
Exactly! You understand - all forms of protest disrupt, and I was simply trying to create the largest level of disruption with the smallest possible level of damage to the men and women of NYC.
The sad thing about "peaceful protest" (a ridiculous oxymoron, if you ask me) is that it is only effective when the # of participants ranges in the hundreds of thousands. When you're limited to some 10,000 participants, you need to figure out more creative ways of being more disruptive. - it's a simple matter of pragmatism.
And hell - if the government does try and arrest you, it's only telling you that you are doing something right. The reason "peaceful" protest is (semi) legal is because it doesn't work. If it were actually a threat to their power, those goons in washington would quickly move to limit its power...
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