#PLAYJAZZ
Hey you nimble dreamers, wild cats and horizontals out there,
Our Spring offensive is building toward a climactic May uprising… time to come out of winter hibernation and play jazz like we’ve never played it before.
May 1 we leap into the new world with a mighty multinational General Strike. Wherever you are, No Work; No School; No Shopping. No illusions. No apologies. No business as usual. Into The Streets!
May 12, we intensify with three days of global action. Jammers in London, Lisbon, Paris, Marseilles, Helsinki, Cuzco, Barcelona, Quebec are already on board with more on the way. We’ll hold our assemblies, hash out our demands and start building a parallel society that can sustain autonomous, horizontal, revolutionary communities outside of corpo-consumerism … we stop begging and we start creating … we begin the change we want to see.
We scared the G8 away from Chicago and now some occupiers are planning #OCCUPYCAMPDAVID – a cacophonous carnival of tree-sits, lockdowns and nomadic encampments in the woods and nearby Thurmont. Bon Voyage! Others are upping the ante with #OCCUPYCHICAGO – a mobilization of anarchic swarms to shutdown the NATO summit.

And then one of the softer aesthetic moments of our Spring offensive could well be the #LAUGHRIOT on May 18, the day the G8 leaders meet in Camp David. There is something totally ludicrous, absurd, even insane about the eight most powerful people in the world deciding to do the people’s business people behind closed doors and razor wire fences. This veneer of legitimacy is our tragedy turned to farce.
As Aristotle observed, to laugh is uniquely human… Imagine the scene: first a few hundred of us, then a few thousand, then millions of people across the world — each in their own way, some individually, some collectively in flash mobs, offices, parks, encampments — all breaking out in uproarious laughter on May 18. This could be a delicious defining moment - the day when the people of the world have a good laugh together and, from that point on, start thinking differently about how the world should be governed.
Then we get ready for our next big challenge: How to Occupy the U.S. Presidential Election on November 6.
Time to play wild, spontaneous jazz as Miles Davis intended,
for the wild,
Culture Jammers HQ
OccupyWallStreet.org / Tactical Briefing #25, #26 and #27 / OccupyWallst.org / G8Protest.org / OccupyChi.org / CANG8.org / Takethesquare.net / OccupyMay1st.org / MayDayNYC.org / May12.net / Facebook / Twitter / Reddit
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Anonymous
History repeats itself- first as tragedy, then as farce.
Oh Marx, even a blind squirrel finds a nut.
Anonymous
Not as much as you repeat yourself. So that's quite an accomplishment.
Anonymous
What does that mean ?
Anonymous
You guys are like those first few lemmings trying to convince the rest to jump off the cliff. Fortunately, most of the time the rest of the lemmings just ignore you. Camp David is a military base and it's already occupied. You want to make a frontal assault? Count me out. I hope people stay away from you stupid idiots in droves. Don't just make silly noises. Make a difference.
Anonymous
People with your narrow minded view point truly upset me. It is fine if you don't believe in our causes but why take the time and effort to hate on them. We are trying to spread laughter and love. We are trying to for once be a world free from oppression. Where people encourage one another to live free and happily. Why is the world so unhappy. Why would you take precious seconds out of your day to hate on our goals, dreams and aspirations. Why Why Why. Is your life so trivial and miserable you feel the need to try to bring others down as well. This is the exact kind of absent mindedness we are trying to free the world of. Laugh a little buddy it will do you some good.
Deletethislater
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXpaYa7zxgY
Suck and suck. Suckin up all you can suckin up all you can suck.
Workin up under my patience like a little tick.
Fat little parasite. Suck me dry.
My fruit is bruised and borrowed. You thieving bastards.
You have turned my blood cold and bitter,
beat my compassion black and blue.
Hope this is what you wanted.
Hope this is what you had in mind.
Cuz this is what you're getting.
I hope you're choking. I hope you choke on this.
I hope you're choking. I hope you choke on this.
Taken all I can taken all I can, we can take. Taken all you can taken you can,
we can take.
Got nothing left to give to you.
Blood suckin parasitic little blood suckin parasitic little
blood suckin parasitic little tick
Take what you wanted and go.
Suck me dry.
Is this what you wanted?
Is this what you had in mind?
Is this what you wanted?
Cuz this is what you're getting.
I hope, I hope, I hope you choke.
Anonymous
Keep on dreaming about your precious laugh riot idea, because it's never going to go down like that here in the real world.
Anonymous
It sure won't with that sour attitude.Face it dude, you gonna die in the Fourth Reich. Why not just laugh about absurd it all is now while you still can ?
Anonymous
Well, it should happen... It would be cool! It's nothing short of a good idea. Sometimes the most outrageous ideas are the best ones. Change is about reformulating one's mindset, and the more that experience can be shared - so as to be a collective one - the better. Unfortunately, many among us continue to sleep like nothing is their own business. It's our business to try and wake them up, or create the context in which their world view - which is a cultural software run obsolete - becomes a joke we can laugh at. There's power in the numbers, always. So it's not like someone's asking people to join the army, just laugh like you mean it, like you're about to spread a change virus. Why not? In this and in everything else, we need to realize there's really nothing for us to loose... And yes, we need to start making the world we want to live in. That's where our power resides! So let it be... Global Spring for a Summer of Love and tones of laughter going on. Count me in!
Anonymous
can't wait! I just might to walk alone, but never mind...where can I get the laughing mask
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