#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?
occupywallstreet.org // occupywallst.org // Reddit // Facebook
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Dan From Spain
You should change the name of your main camp square. What about "September 17th Square"? :D
Dan From Spain
You should change the name of your main camp square. What about "September 17th Square"? :D
mathieupepin.artiste
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
Paul Cezanne
mathieupepin.artiste
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
Paul Cezanne
Anonymous
adjusters we need your help.
We need to be able to message all those on the Facebook page about the location and time details.
Posting in the news feed doesn't do this. You have to change the time and or location.
If you simply change the time and picture of the event, I believe all those who said yes, 7,500+ will get a message/reminder. Additionally, the 5,000+ who have said maybe will get an alert.
This is essential to helping make this event work.
As you know, we are starting at 12 pm at Bowling Green Park!
Anonymous
adjusters we need your help.
We need to be able to message all those on the Facebook page about the location and time details.
Posting in the news feed doesn't do this. You have to change the time and or location.
If you simply change the time and picture of the event, I believe all those who said yes, 7,500+ will get a message/reminder. Additionally, the 5,000+ who have said maybe will get an alert.
This is essential to helping make this event work.
As you know, we are starting at 12 pm at Bowling Green Park!
Micah White
email micah adbusters.org to discuss
Micah White
email micah adbusters.org to discuss
Anonymous
An absolute commitment to nonviolence? Here's a great account about how nonviolence destroyed any real potentials of the Spanish Plazas Occupation movement: http://crimethinc.com/texts/recentfeatures/barc.php
Notice that in Greece, where the concept really took off, demonstrators routinely firebomb cops. Not saying that tactic could be copied into this completely different context, but pacifism is a dead end.
Anonymous
An absolute commitment to nonviolence? Here's a great account about how nonviolence destroyed any real potentials of the Spanish Plazas Occupation movement: http://crimethinc.com/texts/recentfeatures/barc.php
Notice that in Greece, where the concept really took off, demonstrators routinely firebomb cops. Not saying that tactic could be copied into this completely different context, but pacifism is a dead end.
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