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
I don't think the guy who responded to you knows much about history. Your point was lost on him,
Anonymous
I don't think the guy who responded to you knows much about history. Your point was lost on him,
Anonymous
GREAT post Fregat.... I am shocked at how many just want things given to them..... What ever happened to work hard. If you don't like your pay or who you are working for then vote by moving on. I am self employed and my business is booming. It is booming via my hard work....nothing to do with the Government or Economy. Just hard work and things will get better.
People - quit looking for a handout! This Robin Hood Tax - come on think out how this impacts people. Not a very bright group if you ask me.
Anonymous
GREAT post Fregat.... I am shocked at how many just want things given to them..... What ever happened to work hard. If you don't like your pay or who you are working for then vote by moving on. I am self employed and my business is booming. It is booming via my hard work....nothing to do with the Government or Economy. Just hard work and things will get better.
People - quit looking for a handout! This Robin Hood Tax - come on think out how this impacts people. Not a very bright group if you ask me.
timgreen
Look, I'm just sitting here on the 16th floor with a coke in my hand looking down at the mass of tents occupying St Pauls. Yes I am a banker! But so what-- if you want to know the truth then here it is:
http://bankersdiary.wordpress.com/
I'll be waiting for you as I sip my coke in one hand, phone in the other....@ihatebanker
timgreen
Look, I'm just sitting here on the 16th floor with a coke in my hand looking down at the mass of tents occupying St Pauls. Yes I am a banker! But so what-- if you want to know the truth then here it is:
http://bankersdiary.wordpress.com/
I'll be waiting for you as I sip my coke in one hand, phone in the other....@ihatebanker
bilalmkhan
Couldn't agree with you more with 1.lower taxation for us 2. sign the enviromental treaties and 3. bring back our troops.
Humanity stood by us this weekend the least we can do in return is improve our image by not being seen as war mongers worldwide.
bilalmkhan
Couldn't agree with you more with 1.lower taxation for us 2. sign the enviromental treaties and 3. bring back our troops.
Humanity stood by us this weekend the least we can do in return is improve our image by not being seen as war mongers worldwide.
Gavin Clark
You guys have thousands of activists in the streets right now and millions more supporting you and watching this movement develop. People are ready for a real change. They are finally beginning to see equality as a necessity. They are fed up with global capitalization and its evils and yet the best message, the best demand you can muster is to tax 1% on financial trades? This is a ridiculous embrace of our current, broken capitalist system and the demand is nothing more than a "give me more of your scraps, please!" attitude.
Too bad, when you are set up to provide the people with so much more.
Gavin Clark
You guys have thousands of activists in the streets right now and millions more supporting you and watching this movement develop. People are ready for a real change. They are finally beginning to see equality as a necessity. They are fed up with global capitalization and its evils and yet the best message, the best demand you can muster is to tax 1% on financial trades? This is a ridiculous embrace of our current, broken capitalist system and the demand is nothing more than a "give me more of your scraps, please!" attitude.
Too bad, when you are set up to provide the people with so much more.
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