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
Please backup such radical claims with fact. If you do this, somebody might take you seriously. I am looking forward hearing your points.
Anonymous
Please backup such radical claims with fact. If you do this, somebody might take you seriously. I am looking forward hearing your points.
Anonymous
I agree, it is a risky strategy for OWS. If we gave more power to the 1% and took away money from pensioners it would be bad PR.
Did you read about this pensioner in England complaining about Oxfam's support for a Robin Hood Tax:-
http://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/9288537.Oxfam_seeks_injunction_to_ban_pensioner/
It looks quite bad if this is linked to OWS.
Anonymous
I agree, it is a risky strategy for OWS. If we gave more power to the 1% and took away money from pensioners it would be bad PR.
Did you read about this pensioner in England complaining about Oxfam's support for a Robin Hood Tax:-
http://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/9288537.Oxfam_seeks_injunction_to_ban_pensioner/
It looks quite bad if this is linked to OWS.
Anonymous
Here is more information about that pensioner in England:-
http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/Oxfam-ban-Robin-Hood-row-banker/story-13503963-detail/story.html
He was really upset about the Robin Hood Tax in particular,
That is why it is so dangerous for OWS to support this. It it later turns out that we helped to line bankers profits with pensioners savings I think it could be quite destructive.
Anonymous
Here is more information about that pensioner in England:-
http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/Oxfam-ban-Robin-Hood-row-banker/story-13503963-detail/story.html
He was really upset about the Robin Hood Tax in particular,
That is why it is so dangerous for OWS to support this. It it later turns out that we helped to line bankers profits with pensioners savings I think it could be quite destructive.
Micah White
This is misinformation and not true. The #ROBINHOOD Tax is an idea that the anti-globalization movement endorsed. It was once called the Tobin Tax. It is a tax on international financial speculation and currency trades and would not affect the 99%.
http://robinhoodtax.org/how-it-works
Micah White
This is misinformation and not true. The #ROBINHOOD Tax is an idea that the anti-globalization movement endorsed. It was once called the Tobin Tax. It is a tax on international financial speculation and currency trades and would not affect the 99%.
http://robinhoodtax.org/how-it-works
Anonymous
>>>"anti-globalization movement endorsed."
Sure it APPEARS that way, but if you dig deeper you will see the Robin Tax is being endorsed by the Tides Foundation, which receives millions of dollars from Drummond Pike, tax-dodger Warren Buffett*, globalist George Soros, and other anonymous donors (the IRS has not asked for some strange reason).
Don't allow yourself to be duped the way the Libertarian Tea Party was duped by republicans. The Robin tax appears to be anti-globalist but is actually being pushed BY globalists for their own person gain (more control of the money).
*
* His company owes billions in backtaxes,
* which he refuses to pay.
Anonymous
>>>"anti-globalization movement endorsed."
Sure it APPEARS that way, but if you dig deeper you will see the Robin Tax is being endorsed by the Tides Foundation, which receives millions of dollars from Drummond Pike, tax-dodger Warren Buffett*, globalist George Soros, and other anonymous donors (the IRS has not asked for some strange reason).
Don't allow yourself to be duped the way the Libertarian Tea Party was duped by republicans. The Robin tax appears to be anti-globalist but is actually being pushed BY globalists for their own person gain (more control of the money).
*
* His company owes billions in backtaxes,
* which he refuses to pay.
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