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
This seems like a pile of misinformation.
Anonymous
This seems like a pile of misinformation.
Anonymous
I wish it was a "pile" of misinformation, but the Robin Hood Tax is being supported *by* the big bankers. Why? The same reason the insurance companies supported passage of Obama/Pelosi care.
Because they benefited from it. They gained more power (elimination of smaller companies) and more money (everyone has to buy insurance). That's what the Robin Tax will do as well... benefit the bankers and globalists. That's why the support the idea.
Anonymous
I wish it was a "pile" of misinformation, but the Robin Hood Tax is being supported *by* the big bankers. Why? The same reason the insurance companies supported passage of Obama/Pelosi care.
Because they benefited from it. They gained more power (elimination of smaller companies) and more money (everyone has to buy insurance). That's what the Robin Tax will do as well... benefit the bankers and globalists. That's why the support the idea.
Anonymous
F*** me? Is this true?
It makes sense. It would start at a low rate on bankers but given the debt situation in Europe I think they will need all the money they can get. I don't think Sarkozy and Merkel will mind if there is a 1% charge for regular banking transactions such as withdrawing money because it sounds a small amount.
But I think like most stealth taxes it just hits the poorest most.
Darn it.
Anonymous
F*** me? Is this true?
It makes sense. It would start at a low rate on bankers but given the debt situation in Europe I think they will need all the money they can get. I don't think Sarkozy and Merkel will mind if there is a 1% charge for regular banking transactions such as withdrawing money because it sounds a small amount.
But I think like most stealth taxes it just hits the poorest most.
Darn it.
Anonymous
shit. could facialtwit just let me know if nyc is marching this saturday? for the robin hood tax or we're all scott olsen or fuck all. please tell us where and when.
Anonymous
shit. could facialtwit just let me know if nyc is marching this saturday? for the robin hood tax or we're all scott olsen or fuck all. please tell us where and when.
Anonymous
I think it might be called off because there are some who think it will make the bankers more powerful, not less.
Anonymous
I think it might be called off because there are some who think it will make the bankers more powerful, not less.
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