#OCCUPYXMAS begins

Here comes the new Normal.

112 comments Adbusters, 29 November 2011

This years’ Black Friday was a resounding success. Fifty-five billion dollars chimed through cash registers across the USA. Two hundred and fifty-thousand people went into the malls and spent on average 400 hundred dollars each, the biggest shopping day ever. Some notable purchases included ten limited edition Ferraris with matching luggage from Neiman Marcus’s exclusive holiday catalogue, $395,000 each, gobbled up in under an hour.

We in the 99%, alongside our sympathetic friends in the 1%, need to challenge this “normal” way of doing Xmas and come up with a new normal. The holidays need another paradigm.

So what are we occupiers going to do different this season? For starters, we’re going to take the personal plunge and move our money. We’re going to take it away from the big banks and put it into our local credit unions. And that will be the one great first step in breaking beyond the encampments and into the new Xmas imagination.

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Anonymous

30 November 2011 at 05:01 pm

Bibi's right wing religious adorers - the Republicans and Tea Party morons - should realize that he [Bibi] caved in to "socialist" demands of Israeli protesters this past summer when he welcomed proposals to reduce defense spending and spend more on affordable housing. This makes his right-wing adorers either complicit socialists or chumps.

Anonymous

30 November 2011 at 05:01 pm

Anonymous

30 November 2011 at 06:00 pm

Israeli Joshua Mitnick, wrote in New York’s Jewish Week: “Drawing inspiration from Egypt’s revolution in February, demonstrators hung a spray-painted sign declaring the tent city “Tahrir Square/Habima.’’ Amid a double row of camping tents lining either side of the leafy boulevard, there were signs declaring, “I want a house, too’’ and “The economy is free. And you?’’

http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/israels-jewish-spring-comes-to-washington/

Anonymous

30 November 2011 at 06:00 pm

http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/israels-jewish-spring-comes-to-washington/

firstoccupier1981

30 November 2011 at 08:25 am

Occupiers, It sounds like to me we are ready to improve the middle, and working class financial condition and the Main St. economy. As the first occupier I have been working on decreasing the wealth gap since 1981. I am an economic scholar, author and retired small businessman. I am Chairman of a special Committee For Economic Reform and A Better Economic Future. A better future; Isn't this what we're all working towards? You say you have the brightest minds of several generations standing by. Well lets put them to work getting out the word that there is a better way to prosperity than what either of the Republicans or the Democrats are proposing. Cuts in vital programs is not the answer. Neither is massive deficit spending Keynesian Economic Policies. Then what is the solution? Have your brightest minds look over the information posted at www.foreclosurecrisissolved.wordpress.com/ www.recoverygovforthepeople.wordpress.com/ and economysflaw.wordpress.com/ Read: "People's Economic Recovery Plan, A Private Sector Solution To Job Creation and Economic Recovery," and "Eliminate The Fed Income Tax and Six Other Fixes For our Economy" to start with. Then get back to me. [email protected] We will let President Obama, Congress, and the 1% know where the real power is!!