Oct. 29 #RobinHood Global March
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ADBUSTERS TACTICAL BRIEFING #15
Alright you redeemers, rebels and radicals out there,
We're living through a magical moment … #OCCUPYWALLSTREET has catalyzed into an international insurgency for democracy … the mood at our assemblies is electric … people who go there are drawn into a Gandhian spirit of camaraderie and hope for a new kind of future. Across the globe the 99% are marching! You have inspired more than you know. People are digging into Act One of the long Spring.
Its now time to amp up the edgy theatrics … deviant pranks, subversive performances and playful détournements of all kinds. Open your insurrectionary imagination. Anything, from a bottom-up transformation of the global economy to changing the way we eat, the way we get around, the way we live, love and communicate … be the spark that sustains a global revolution of everyday life!
As the movement matures, lets consider a response to our critics. Lets occupy the core of our global system. Lets dethrone the greed that defines this new century. Lets work to define our first great demand.
OCTOBER 29 – #ROBINHOOD GLOBAL MARCH
This is a proposal for the general assemblies of the Occupy movement.
Eight years ago, on February 15, 2003, upwards of 15 million people in sixty countries marched together to stop President Bush from invading Iraq … a huge chunk of humanity lived for one day without dead time and glimpsed the power of a united people's movement. Now we have an opportunity to repeat that performance on an even larger scale.
On October 29, on the eve of the G20 Leaders Summit in France, let's the people of the world rise up and demand that our G20 leaders immediately impose a 1% #ROBINHOOD tax on all financial transactions and currency trades. Let's send them a clear message: We want you to slow down some of that $1.3-trillion easy money that's sloshing around the global casino each day – enough cash to fund every social program and environmental initiative in the world.
Take this idea to your local general assembly and join your comrades in the streets on October 29.
for the wild,
Culture Jammers HQ
occupywallstreet.org / 29october.net / occupytogether.org / Facebook / Twitter
PS. Check what's being said about the Occupy movement
- Democracy Now!: Hundreds of Thousands March Against Inequity, Big Banks
- Chris Hedges: A Movement Too Big to Fail
- Elliot Spitzer: "Occupy Wall Street Has Already Won"
- Matt Taibbi: Hit Bankers Where it Hurts
- Rose Ann DeMoro: Nurses to Obama: Push for a Global Financial Transaction Tax, Now!
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Anonymous
How dare you bring logic to this place?
Anonymous
How dare you bring logic to this place?
Anonymous
I don't entirely agree with this objection because economics are rather complex. Vast numbers of specialists have already produced more white papers containing great solutions for a very very long time. Those solutions collect dust on Capitol Hill not because there is not support, but because it has been political suicide to admit their time has come.
What has been missing is a popular uprising to untie the hands of power, to make it possible to start proposing more sweeping solutions, solutions that have long been in the hands of our leaders.
A growing OWS movement supplies that. Testimony on Congressional hearings about OWS is increasing every day. It is starting to become part of common parlance. It is allowing leaders to start opening up the questions and answers to broader, more fundamental issues. They need us to keep going!
Anonymous
I don't entirely agree with this objection because economics are rather complex. Vast numbers of specialists have already produced more white papers containing great solutions for a very very long time. Those solutions collect dust on Capitol Hill not because there is not support, but because it has been political suicide to admit their time has come.
What has been missing is a popular uprising to untie the hands of power, to make it possible to start proposing more sweeping solutions, solutions that have long been in the hands of our leaders.
A growing OWS movement supplies that. Testimony on Congressional hearings about OWS is increasing every day. It is starting to become part of common parlance. It is allowing leaders to start opening up the questions and answers to broader, more fundamental issues. They need us to keep going!
Anonymous
99% of the solutions coming out of this movement come from the left. If it ever wants to attempt to speak for even close to 99% of the people, I'd think it should begin with solutions that a vast majority can get behind.
Ending corporate occupation of government, strengthening democracy, and economic equity - all political ideologies can get behind these.
By the way, new taxes are easily repealed by the next set of corporate bought politicians the next 2 years or 4 years or 6 or 8. So strategy needs to be long term. And don't be afraid to think long term, and at the Constitutional (or equivalent) level.
Anonymous
99% of the solutions coming out of this movement come from the left. If it ever wants to attempt to speak for even close to 99% of the people, I'd think it should begin with solutions that a vast majority can get behind.
Ending corporate occupation of government, strengthening democracy, and economic equity - all political ideologies can get behind these.
By the way, new taxes are easily repealed by the next set of corporate bought politicians the next 2 years or 4 years or 6 or 8. So strategy needs to be long term. And don't be afraid to think long term, and at the Constitutional (or equivalent) level.
Anonymous
I sort of disagree with this because the movement is not so much proposing solutions as airing grievances. And those grievances cross party lines. Even in Congress the republicans are sharing the same grievances with democrats from their respective constituencies. I know they are because I listen to committee hearings.
they disagree on what to do about it, but actually even there they are not totally in disagreement either. So, I do not entirely agree with you on this.
Anonymous
I sort of disagree with this because the movement is not so much proposing solutions as airing grievances. And those grievances cross party lines. Even in Congress the republicans are sharing the same grievances with democrats from their respective constituencies. I know they are because I listen to committee hearings.
they disagree on what to do about it, but actually even there they are not totally in disagreement either. So, I do not entirely agree with you on this.
Anonymous
Well this is a bit in response to some recent developments where some occupations have begun drafting preliminary demands templates, including Occupy Wall Street proper, with the Demands Working Group, in part (also the Declaration of the Occupation of New York City itself has some leftist elements). There is also a nascent collaborative effort coming out of IRC for brainstorming potential demands. This Adbusters callout on this page itself is a proposal for one such potential demand.
So some have begun a process to head in that direction at the minimum. Because of the volatile nature of the local consensus processes in each occupation and overall infant nature of the entire movement itself, some of these attempts may materialize, or may serve as simply a starting point of dialogue and debate on the merits of pursuing demands at all. I think the issue of demands is a good debate to have (I see both positives and negatives in each side - being 'grievance-based' vs 'demands-based', and the evolution of such moving forward).
So my concern as it stands now is that since the ball has begun rolling among some to push demands and have a demands debate, in the event that demands does indeed become the consensus (whether locally or among all occupations), my question is how inclusive will it actually end up becoming? That the traditionally left leaning unions and politicians and causes come out in support of OWS can be forgiven somewhat because that can be attributed to interests coinciding. But if and when demands do materialize from within the movement itself, those demands will be in a strong position to define the movement, and if they're too ideologically partisan (or otherwise don't respect alternative partisan solutions), then growth of the movement across a wider range of the political spectrum will inevitably be dampened. It's perfectly fine if that's the direction the consensus chooses to go obviously but it also necessarily means having a potentially much longer and more difficult path to both growing in size and in realizing enacted demands, simply by the numbers (especially in the US).
Again I recognize many see airing grievances as more important but it also can't be denied that elements are alternatively openly debating explicit demands as a potential part of the process.
Anonymous
Well this is a bit in response to some recent developments where some occupations have begun drafting preliminary demands templates, including Occupy Wall Street proper, with the Demands Working Group, in part (also the Declaration of the Occupation of New York City itself has some leftist elements). There is also a nascent collaborative effort coming out of IRC for brainstorming potential demands. This Adbusters callout on this page itself is a proposal for one such potential demand.
So some have begun a process to head in that direction at the minimum. Because of the volatile nature of the local consensus processes in each occupation and overall infant nature of the entire movement itself, some of these attempts may materialize, or may serve as simply a starting point of dialogue and debate on the merits of pursuing demands at all. I think the issue of demands is a good debate to have (I see both positives and negatives in each side - being 'grievance-based' vs 'demands-based', and the evolution of such moving forward).
So my concern as it stands now is that since the ball has begun rolling among some to push demands and have a demands debate, in the event that demands does indeed become the consensus (whether locally or among all occupations), my question is how inclusive will it actually end up becoming? That the traditionally left leaning unions and politicians and causes come out in support of OWS can be forgiven somewhat because that can be attributed to interests coinciding. But if and when demands do materialize from within the movement itself, those demands will be in a strong position to define the movement, and if they're too ideologically partisan (or otherwise don't respect alternative partisan solutions), then growth of the movement across a wider range of the political spectrum will inevitably be dampened. It's perfectly fine if that's the direction the consensus chooses to go obviously but it also necessarily means having a potentially much longer and more difficult path to both growing in size and in realizing enacted demands, simply by the numbers (especially in the US).
Again I recognize many see airing grievances as more important but it also can't be denied that elements are alternatively openly debating explicit demands as a potential part of the process.
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