Oct. 29 #RobinHood Global March
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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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Duke Mabank
Protests against corporate greed by occupying various parks around the country is small time stuff. You need to think global like a corporation.
Stop the Consumerism. (a social and economic order that is based on the systematic creation and fostering of a desire to purchase goods and services in ever greater amounts).
Stop buying all that crap you don't need to live. Buy only what you need not what you want. After a week of ANTI-CONSUMERISM, you could take down a corporation, maybe a country. You will need to get all of your 99% to participate.
Are you ready for that kind of sacrifice or would you rather just sit in a park and hold a sign that no one will ever see.
Duke Mabank
Protests against corporate greed by occupying various parks around the country is small time stuff. You need to think global like a corporation.
Stop the Consumerism. (a social and economic order that is based on the systematic creation and fostering of a desire to purchase goods and services in ever greater amounts).
Stop buying all that crap you don't need to live. Buy only what you need not what you want. After a week of ANTI-CONSUMERISM, you could take down a corporation, maybe a country. You will need to get all of your 99% to participate.
Are you ready for that kind of sacrifice or would you rather just sit in a park and hold a sign that no one will ever see.
Anonymous
Hi, I think it is safe to say Americans are just about cured of consumerism. Thank God.
(Great documentary on the creation and history of the consumer is BBC, "Century of the Self" Part one is the best! Eye opening. Watch it at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_0g1RUQMVQ )
I love Matt Taibbi's five proposed demands in the Rolling Stone article linked on the Adbuster's site.
But I have been trying to think of some more empowering acts individuals can engage in directly every day.
1. Our BANK Accounts: The first and best one is already being promoted by OWS and people are doing it everywhere now: Removing our money from giant banks and opening accounts at small community banks and credit unions. (Credit unions, by the way, are not allowed to charge more than 15 percent interest on credit cards. B of A is charging people up to 30 percent) If we removed our money en masse it will have a significant impact on these banks! I love this one.
2. For Business Owners, Institutions, Nonprofits, including private schools: establish networks in your towns of businesses and other entities that agree to move their business accounts from large commercial and investment banks to alternatives that are local and committed to local investment.
3. ? I am trying to think of simple acts that are as potentially powerful as pulling our money out of these banks. Please help by adding some.
Anonymous
Hi, I think it is safe to say Americans are just about cured of consumerism. Thank God.
(Great documentary on the creation and history of the consumer is BBC, "Century of the Self" Part one is the best! Eye opening. Watch it at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_0g1RUQMVQ )
I love Matt Taibbi's five proposed demands in the Rolling Stone article linked on the Adbuster's site.
But I have been trying to think of some more empowering acts individuals can engage in directly every day.
1. Our BANK Accounts: The first and best one is already being promoted by OWS and people are doing it everywhere now: Removing our money from giant banks and opening accounts at small community banks and credit unions. (Credit unions, by the way, are not allowed to charge more than 15 percent interest on credit cards. B of A is charging people up to 30 percent) If we removed our money en masse it will have a significant impact on these banks! I love this one.
2. For Business Owners, Institutions, Nonprofits, including private schools: establish networks in your towns of businesses and other entities that agree to move their business accounts from large commercial and investment banks to alternatives that are local and committed to local investment.
3. ? I am trying to think of simple acts that are as potentially powerful as pulling our money out of these banks. Please help by adding some.
Anonymous
I wish more anti-capitalists could spend some time in other parts of the world. We've lived overseas as missionaries since 2004. Portugal, Angola, and South Africa. Socialist, Dictatorship, and Socialist/Communist. It sounds like a few of my fellow Americans are worked up into a pointless and misguided frenzy because protesting is the chic thing to do. I wish you could see the utter destruction to society that socialism and marxism breeds. The work ethic in South Africa has been replaced by egocentric selfishness and, dare I say, personal greed by those who fully rely on the government to provide for their needs. Many people here have no motivation to even attempt putting forth the effort to provide for themselves and their families. I'm not going to get all "preachy", but the Bible has some pretty harsh words for those who refuse to work and provide for themselves and their families. If some of the folks protesting capitalism and America in general could see how people in the rest of the world live, I think they would thank God that they were born in America with freedom and liberty to pursue their dreams and make a meaningful contribution to the greater good of society. People who protested in Angola several months back have been arrested or literally disappeared....permanently. Cherish the liberty and freedom you enjoy living back in America.
Anonymous
I wish more anti-capitalists could spend some time in other parts of the world. We've lived overseas as missionaries since 2004. Portugal, Angola, and South Africa. Socialist, Dictatorship, and Socialist/Communist. It sounds like a few of my fellow Americans are worked up into a pointless and misguided frenzy because protesting is the chic thing to do. I wish you could see the utter destruction to society that socialism and marxism breeds. The work ethic in South Africa has been replaced by egocentric selfishness and, dare I say, personal greed by those who fully rely on the government to provide for their needs. Many people here have no motivation to even attempt putting forth the effort to provide for themselves and their families. I'm not going to get all "preachy", but the Bible has some pretty harsh words for those who refuse to work and provide for themselves and their families. If some of the folks protesting capitalism and America in general could see how people in the rest of the world live, I think they would thank God that they were born in America with freedom and liberty to pursue their dreams and make a meaningful contribution to the greater good of society. People who protested in Angola several months back have been arrested or literally disappeared....permanently. Cherish the liberty and freedom you enjoy living back in America.
OWS was a corpo...
amen.
OWS was a corpo...
amen.
Anonymous
I don't see any difference between a person who is starving due to circumstance while living in a prosperous country with "freedom and liberty" and a person who is starving in any other country. consider that perhaps not everyone in such a situation can be bulked into the harshly judgemental category of people "refusing to work and provide for themselves and their families".
Anonymous
I don't see any difference between a person who is starving due to circumstance while living in a prosperous country with "freedom and liberty" and a person who is starving in any other country. consider that perhaps not everyone in such a situation can be bulked into the harshly judgemental category of people "refusing to work and provide for themselves and their families".
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