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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jack stephenson
WHERE IS EVERYONE MEETING FOR THE MARCH?
jack stephenson
WHERE IS EVERYONE MEETING FOR THE MARCH?
Anonymous
Is it still on? I 'm having some doubts about joining this march. Should I go?
Anonymous
Is it still on? I 'm having some doubts about joining this march. Should I go?
Anonymous
Except Robin Hood didn't take from the 1% to give to the 99%. He didn't even steal from the rich to give to the poor. He "reappropriated" money that had been collected by the government and returned it to the poor from whom it had been confiscated. You see, in the Tales of Robin Hood, government was the culprit and oppressive taxation was the vehicle government used to steal from its citizens.
You really need to find a myth that involves stealing from the rich "to fund every social program and environmental initiative in the world" and name your tax after that myth's hero. Good luck. And, by the way, not even the richest 1% have that kind of money. As usual, you will require a fair share of mine as well. So, you know, get lost.
Anonymous
Except Robin Hood didn't take from the 1% to give to the 99%. He didn't even steal from the rich to give to the poor. He "reappropriated" money that had been collected by the government and returned it to the poor from whom it had been confiscated. You see, in the Tales of Robin Hood, government was the culprit and oppressive taxation was the vehicle government used to steal from its citizens.
You really need to find a myth that involves stealing from the rich "to fund every social program and environmental initiative in the world" and name your tax after that myth's hero. Good luck. And, by the way, not even the richest 1% have that kind of money. As usual, you will require a fair share of mine as well. So, you know, get lost.
Anonymous
We do not live in a capitalist economy - nor do we live in democracies.
Capitalism means you can fail - but our banks (with the help of bought and paid for politicians - tories get half their funds from the City , Bliar / Brown was shit-scared of the right-wing attack dog Murdoch) are now too big to fail.
90% of trades on the forex are not for trade or long term investment - they are purely speculative. Shares are bought and sold by computer programmes with even less empathy for the 99% of us who want job security and living wages than the twats in red braces they took over from.
And - having brought the real global economy to its knees with their avarice - the banksters and their fellow travellers have the cheek to argue against a tax which will both bring in funds to keep home-helps, special needs assistants, et al in work ( cut thanks to the bankster slump induced deficit ) AND reduces the volatility that only they benefit from.
After the tax we should go further and ban the parasites in keynes 'rich men's gambling clubs' from short selling and make deliberate destabilisation of economies a criminal offence.
Robin Hood Robin Hood ...riding past Big Ben...feared by the spivs....etc
Anonymous
We do not live in a capitalist economy - nor do we live in democracies.
Capitalism means you can fail - but our banks (with the help of bought and paid for politicians - tories get half their funds from the City , Bliar / Brown was shit-scared of the right-wing attack dog Murdoch) are now too big to fail.
90% of trades on the forex are not for trade or long term investment - they are purely speculative. Shares are bought and sold by computer programmes with even less empathy for the 99% of us who want job security and living wages than the twats in red braces they took over from.
And - having brought the real global economy to its knees with their avarice - the banksters and their fellow travellers have the cheek to argue against a tax which will both bring in funds to keep home-helps, special needs assistants, et al in work ( cut thanks to the bankster slump induced deficit ) AND reduces the volatility that only they benefit from.
After the tax we should go further and ban the parasites in keynes 'rich men's gambling clubs' from short selling and make deliberate destabilisation of economies a criminal offence.
Robin Hood Robin Hood ...riding past Big Ben...feared by the spivs....etc
Anonymous
BTW Keynes supported a Robin Hood Tax, as do Keynesian economists such as Paul Krugman and the financier George Soros.
I support OWS but this Robin Hood Tax sounds quite unfair to be honest. We should be looking at other way to bring down the men in red braces without causing collateral damage to pensioners and ordinary people with savings.
I heard from one banker at a bank owned by Warren Buffett that he would like to see a Robin Hood Tax because the smaller trading firms would be wiped out and there would be less competition for the banks so they could raise their prices. They would keep the tax revenue in a big slush fund to pay for future losses from their casino operations. And they could restructure offshore so they wouldn't end up paying the tax. But smaller financial companies couldn't do this he said because you had to hire expensive lawyers to do everything above board.
Basically it would just allow the bank to continue their business model but with even less competition, all subsidized by the taxpayer again.
Anonymous
BTW Keynes supported a Robin Hood Tax, as do Keynesian economists such as Paul Krugman and the financier George Soros.
I support OWS but this Robin Hood Tax sounds quite unfair to be honest. We should be looking at other way to bring down the men in red braces without causing collateral damage to pensioners and ordinary people with savings.
I heard from one banker at a bank owned by Warren Buffett that he would like to see a Robin Hood Tax because the smaller trading firms would be wiped out and there would be less competition for the banks so they could raise their prices. They would keep the tax revenue in a big slush fund to pay for future losses from their casino operations. And they could restructure offshore so they wouldn't end up paying the tax. But smaller financial companies couldn't do this he said because you had to hire expensive lawyers to do everything above board.
Basically it would just allow the bank to continue their business model but with even less competition, all subsidized by the taxpayer again.
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