TACTICAL BRIEFING #19
Hey jammers, dreamers, believers,
Here is a testimony from the streets of New York:
Lost my stuff, including power cord for my laptop, in the raid, something or someone cleared out my bank account, and it's raining. I could just write a country song. I'll tell you this: the resolve is still here. People I talk to are a healthy mixture of rage, comedy, resolve, and excitement. Also exhaustion. Maybe the raid was the best thing that could happen? I worry about the inevitable suffering that will occur in the cold now, and how it will be used to clear any encampment again. But there must be something like a people's library and kitchen. A physical heart. More soon. Must find money and charge my phone. Winning at last, winning at last, thank God Almighty, we are winning at last…
Our movement is living through an existential, make-or-break moment.
This is a tactical way of looking at it:
When Tunisia rose up, Ben Ali scoffed … when young people occupied Tahrir Square, Mubarak resorted to paternalism and then mob violence … in Syria, Assad's troops fire daily into the crowds. And on Tuesday, a military style assault on Zuccotti Park – news blackouts, tear gas, closed airspace, an LRAD "sound cannon" – was carried out in the dead of night to take out our movement's spiritual home.
For many weeks we had a kind of magic going for us … we held the high ground … we stuck doggedly to our Gandhian ways and blindsided the cynical world with our optimism, our camaraderie, our nonviolence, our determination to forge a different kind of future. With nothing more than twinkling fingers, mic checks, mutual respect, and hope for the future, we sparked a global democracy moment the likes of which the world had not seen since 1968.
But New York's billionaire Mayor decided to snuff us out. We wanted a Tahrir Moment, an American Spring, and he attacked us in the middle of the night while we slept. These kinds of attacks on peaceful protestors did not work in Tunisia, not in Egypt, they are not working in Syria right now, and – wake up Bloomberg & Co! – they are not going to work in America either.
This assault has stiffened our resolve. Now begins the second, visceral, canny, militant phase of our nonviolent march to real democracy. We regroup, lick our wounds and begin our counterattack as early as tomorrow.
We will turn this winter into a training ground for precision disruptions – flashmobs, stink bombs, edgy theatrics – against the megacorps and the unrepentant 1%, a festival of resistance in the snow with, or without, an encampment that'll lay the tactical foundation for our Spring Offensive.
The bottom line is this … you cannot attack your young and get away with it!
for the wild,
Culture Jammers HQ
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Dostoevsky
Then - this is all what you say - new economic relations will be established, all ready-made and worked out with mathematical exactitude, so that every possible question will vanish in the twinkling of an eye, simply because every possible answer to it will be provided. Then the "Palace of Crystal" will be built. Then... In fact, those will be halcyon days. of course there is no guaranteeing (this is my comment) that it will not be, for instance, frightfully dull then (for what will one have to do when everything will be calculated and tabulated), but on the other hand everything will be extraordinarily rational. Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then. Man is stupid, you know, phenomenally stupid; or rather he is not at all stupid, but he is so ungrateful that you could not find another like him in all creation. I, for instance, would not be in the least surprised if all of a sudden, a propos of nothing, in the midst of general prosperity a gentlemen with an ignoble, or rather with a reactionary and ironical, countenance were to arise and, putting his arms akimbo, say to us all, "I say, gentlemen, hand't we better kick over the whole show and scatter rationalism to devil, and to enable us to live once more at our own sweet foolish will!" That again would not matter, but what is annoying is what he would be sure to find followers - such is the nature of man. And all that for the most foolish reason, which, one would think, was hardly worth mentioning: that is, that man everywhere and at all times, whoever he may be, has preferred to act as he chose and not in the least as his reason and advantage dictated. And one may choose what is contrary to one's own interests, and sometimes one POSITIVELY OUGHT (that is my idea). One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice, however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy - is that very "most advantageous advantage" which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms. And how do these wiseacres know that man wants a normal, a virtuous choice? What has made them conceive that man must want a rationally advantageous choice? What man wants is simply INDEPENDENT CHOICE, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead. And of course, the devil only knows what choice.
Dostoevsky
Then - this is all what you say - new economic relations will be established, all ready-made and worked out with mathematical exactitude, so that every possible question will vanish in the twinkling of an eye, simply because every possible answer to it will be provided. Then the "Palace of Crystal" will be built. Then... In fact, those will be halcyon days. of course there is no guaranteeing (this is my comment) that it will not be, for instance, frightfully dull then (for what will one have to do when everything will be calculated and tabulated), but on the other hand everything will be extraordinarily rational. Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then. Man is stupid, you know, phenomenally stupid; or rather he is not at all stupid, but he is so ungrateful that you could not find another like him in all creation. I, for instance, would not be in the least surprised if all of a sudden, a propos of nothing, in the midst of general prosperity a gentlemen with an ignoble, or rather with a reactionary and ironical, countenance were to arise and, putting his arms akimbo, say to us all, "I say, gentlemen, hand't we better kick over the whole show and scatter rationalism to devil, and to enable us to live once more at our own sweet foolish will!" That again would not matter, but what is annoying is what he would be sure to find followers - such is the nature of man. And all that for the most foolish reason, which, one would think, was hardly worth mentioning: that is, that man everywhere and at all times, whoever he may be, has preferred to act as he chose and not in the least as his reason and advantage dictated. And one may choose what is contrary to one's own interests, and sometimes one POSITIVELY OUGHT (that is my idea). One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice, however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy - is that very "most advantageous advantage" which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms. And how do these wiseacres know that man wants a normal, a virtuous choice? What has made them conceive that man must want a rationally advantageous choice? What man wants is simply INDEPENDENT CHOICE, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead. And of course, the devil only knows what choice.
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If you want to communicate online, you have to learn what a paragraph is.
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If you want to communicate online, you have to learn what a paragraph is.
Fox News
Last night, on Hannity 11/17/11
OWS are committing "Atrocious activities... the mission on the left is disruption... distraction... they are ill informed... they want free men and free markets, ... they should be at the White house... [they are] misguided... out of control... the shenanigans must stop... the [protesters] violence must stop... they don't clean up after themselves... anti-American... they need to be quashed... there is antisemitism... they are hypocrites... pampered brats... anti-capitalist... fascists... anarchists... malcontents... they want the destruction of the American system... rapists, drug dealers, masturbating in public, having sex in public... Obama is the father of the movement... extreme... out of touch with reality... filth... assaults... defecating on the American flag... misdirected... hating "the player" and not "the game"... screaming at people working on the floor of the stock exchange..."
Thought everyone would want to know about it. That was in one hour on Hannity. They covered it 4 times and interviewed exactly ZERO OWS protesters. They played a video of a man having his head punched by a cop, over and over again, and said - while the clip was on - that the PROTESTERS are violent (the police beating wasn't noticed by anyone as violence). They played a video of a man shouting, "LET'S BURN DOWN WALL STREET AND MOLOTOV MACY'S," and you see protesters stop "People's Mic-ing" him and start laughing at him for being crazy - Hannity says the movement is violent based on his assessment of the video. This is the propaganda being unleashed on Fox viewers. They want conservatives to stay home and shut up and think nothing is wrong with corruption - worry about the poop in public.
Fox News
Last night, on Hannity 11/17/11
OWS are committing "Atrocious activities... the mission on the left is disruption... distraction... they are ill informed... they want free men and free markets, ... they should be at the White house... [they are] misguided... out of control... the shenanigans must stop... the [protesters] violence must stop... they don't clean up after themselves... anti-American... they need to be quashed... there is antisemitism... they are hypocrites... pampered brats... anti-capitalist... fascists... anarchists... malcontents... they want the destruction of the American system... rapists, drug dealers, masturbating in public, having sex in public... Obama is the father of the movement... extreme... out of touch with reality... filth... assaults... defecating on the American flag... misdirected... hating "the player" and not "the game"... screaming at people working on the floor of the stock exchange..."
Thought everyone would want to know about it. That was in one hour on Hannity. They covered it 4 times and interviewed exactly ZERO OWS protesters. They played a video of a man having his head punched by a cop, over and over again, and said - while the clip was on - that the PROTESTERS are violent (the police beating wasn't noticed by anyone as violence). They played a video of a man shouting, "LET'S BURN DOWN WALL STREET AND MOLOTOV MACY'S," and you see protesters stop "People's Mic-ing" him and start laughing at him for being crazy - Hannity says the movement is violent based on his assessment of the video. This is the propaganda being unleashed on Fox viewers. They want conservatives to stay home and shut up and think nothing is wrong with corruption - worry about the poop in public.
Anonymous
This is the danger. Its late in the day for defending democracy and the powers that me are drunk with power and gold. They are not going to give up. The more we challenge them (peacefully and respectfully) the more dangerous it will become. We need everyone to wake up now!
I think about how the world will be if the 99% lose. It is going to be 1984 or BraveNewWorld or BladeRunner or some ugly combination? Or will environmental collapse wipe us (and every other living thing) off the face of the earth? I do know this: our elite and our leaders lack imagination, vision, compassion. We are ruled by the dead.
Anonymous
This is the danger. Its late in the day for defending democracy and the powers that me are drunk with power and gold. They are not going to give up. The more we challenge them (peacefully and respectfully) the more dangerous it will become. We need everyone to wake up now!
I think about how the world will be if the 99% lose. It is going to be 1984 or BraveNewWorld or BladeRunner or some ugly combination? Or will environmental collapse wipe us (and every other living thing) off the face of the earth? I do know this: our elite and our leaders lack imagination, vision, compassion. We are ruled by the dead.
Anonoymouse
Torrent THOUGHT CONTROL IN ECONOMICS and get yourself educated about OWS and it's economics. Think for yourself, educate yourself, do it yourself, stop asking us to explain to you what the movement is about, go figure it out for yourself, stop trolling us about going to Washington, D.C. - we are already there - and stop using adjectives to describe OWS.
Anonoymouse
Torrent THOUGHT CONTROL IN ECONOMICS and get yourself educated about OWS and it's economics. Think for yourself, educate yourself, do it yourself, stop asking us to explain to you what the movement is about, go figure it out for yourself, stop trolling us about going to Washington, D.C. - we are already there - and stop using adjectives to describe OWS.
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