Tactical Briefing #25
Hey you redeemers, rebels and radicals out there,
Against the backdrop of a global uprising that is simmering in dozens of countries and thousands of cities and towns, the G8 and NATO will hold a rare simultaneous summit in Chicago this May. The world’s military and political elites, heads of state, 7,500 officials from 80 nations, and more than 2,500 journalists will be there.
And so will we.
On May 1, 50,000 people from all over the world will flock to Chicago, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and #OCCUPYCHICAGO for a month. With a bit of luck, we’ll pull off the biggest multinational occupation of a summit meeting the world has ever seen.
And this time around we’re not going to put up with the kind of police repression that happened during the Democratic National Convention protests in Chicago, 1968 … nor will we abide by any phony restrictions the City of Chicago may want to impose on our first amendment rights. We’ll go there with our heads held high and assemble for a month-long people’s summit … we’ll march and chant and sing and shout and exercise our right to tell our elected representatives what we want … the constitution will be our guide.
And when the G8 and NATO meet behind closed doors on May 19, we’ll be ready with our demands: a Robin Hood Tax … a ban on high frequency ‘flash’ trading … a binding climate change accord … a three strikes and you’re out law for corporate criminals … an all out initiative for a nuclear-free Middle East … whatever we decide in our general assemblies and in our global internet brainstorm – we the people will set the agenda for the next few years and demand our leaders carry it out.
And if they don’t listen … if they ignore us and put our demands on the back burner like they’ve done so many times before … then, with Gandhian ferocity, we’ll flashmob the streets, shut down stock exchanges, campuses, corporate headquarters and cities across the globe … we’ll make the price of doing business as usual too much to bear.
Jammers, pack your tents, muster up your courage and prepare for a big bang in Chicago this Spring. If we don’t stand up now and fight now for a different kind of future we may not have much of a future … so let’s live without dead time for a month in May and see what happens …
for the wild,
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Anonymous
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. --Horace Mann, address at Antioch College, 1859 [Like Occupiers today, Mann was then living in the time and a town of fast change where abolitionists, suffragists, banks (Union bank of england, Confederacy bank of france) and faith communities were all contesting for power]. As Casey Stengle said, "It's in the record book -- you could look it up."
RevolutionTruth.org: panel of 1-19-12 w/ Michael Moore, Chr Hedges, Kev Zeese, Dr. Marg Flowers, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, & Jim Holovat re: OccuMovemnt complex identity http://blogs.revolutiontruth.org/2012/01/22/revolutiontruth-panel-occupy-2012-battle-for-our-freedoms/
…what I’ve seen in countless others over the last few weeks: cynicism melting away, sprouts of hope shooting up through the thawing frost. -- Astra Taylor, “Occupation Breakdown”; OCCUPY-GAZETTE
Anger is not a great philosophy by which to govern a society nor even to build a society
Resentments develop in society when unequal distribution of wealth exists. Ceremonies. rituals, games develop and structure to redistribute wealth. Many cultures have learned to share. Why can’t the 1%?
Leaders & officials who play & lost with the rest of society validate the interdependence of all community members. Why is it so difficult to accept the significance of every person?
Why are the 1% so terrified that democratization will cause the loss of their identity? They will still be who they have become won’t they? Why is reciprocity & partnership so scary to 1%ers?
Birth, burial or even cremation without personal possessions is acceptable, even preferable, to even most 1%ers so why are these possessions so crucial to life before burial?
Why has original purpose of living been altered from reciprocal exchange to capitalistic exchange, and the balance of power shifted to favor of the 1%?
These 18 dying cities where Occupiers have been brutalized have gone way beyond being just, especially Oakland, NY, Portland, Nashville, therefore the states that refuse to intervene are equally guilty of war crimes. So is federal gov’t.
As crossbows & machine guns are unjustifiable .. LRAD should not be used on civilians…chemical gases are indiscriminate & not justifiable. War criminals use them.
Some police forces breach Chemical Weapons Convention (of 04-29-1997) prohibiting chemical weapons (inflicting human death or harm) of which a key point is peaceful use of chemistry in relevant areas.
Riot control Chemical Weapons (CW) deployment against a non-riotous civilian is reasonably considered an unjustified use of CW force.
It is just action only to redress a wrong suffered. The purpose of just action in societal conflict is to establish peace in a way that the peace established after the action is preferable to the peace that would have prevailed if the action had not happened. Authorizing police to disperse peaceful protesters through the use of force does not justifiably redress a wrong suffered by University of California campuses nor the Offices or persons of UC staff. Deployment of chemical weapons against civilian noncombatant populations is an unjust crime against humanity. Indiscriminate weapons deployment in societal conflict is unjust. Disproportionate action against a leader, proponent, or supporter of a cause with which one disagrees is unjust. Torture, by which I mean anguish of body or mind as well as infliction of intense pain (as from burning, crushing, or wounding) to punish, coerce, or afford sadistic pleasure, is to be uniformly repudiated by any authority who claims to be a human being working as a leader of a public institution, even a "following", rather than a "leading", institution in society. The honorable course of action for a leader of an institution that behaves in any of the unjustifiable ways listed above, such as any and all University of California campuses, is banning the use of chemical agents and banning physical violence against nonviolent protesters.
Chris Hedges, U.S.citizen, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, war correspondent, and theologian (ethics, practical theology, etc.) was asked, “ …how do you explain to someone…there is a news ‘blackout’?”
Hedge’s response @ 4:25 into Interview with Chris Hedges Part 2, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io8RLacFjlo “Because most Americans are passive consumers of information, and very few are proactive … internet is only useful if you are proactive … we are the most illusioned society on planet
Chris Hedges: “…vast majority of Americans live in fantasy about themselves, about who they are, about where we’re going.” “…we believe, courtesy of a vast system of propoganda, that we embody and promote virtues that the rest of the world should emulate.” “…economic equality rather than long debates with people who have embraced fantasy is what we should be working for and spending our time doing.” “… culturally, the systems of power have worked overtime, especially since 9-11, to make us afraid.”
Case study: VIDEO: Faking It: How the Media Manipulates the World into War by James Corbett 01-02-2012
Case study of msm blackout (news not reported): The Geo-Politics of the Strait of Hormuz: Could the U.S. Navy be defeated by Iran in the Persian Gulf? by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya 01-08-2012
Case study of msm blackout (news not reported): When War Games Go Live. Preparing to Attack Iran. "Simulating World War III" by Michel Chossudovsky 01-08-2012
Anonymous
"Resentments develop in society when unequal distribution of wealth exists. Ceremonies. rituals, games develop and structure to redistribute wealth. Many cultures have learned to share. Why can’t the 1%?"
You sound like our Kenyan import and community organizer extraordinaire, Barack Hussein Obama, the worst US president in history. What's with all the socialistic bullshit these days? Socialism has been tried countless times and it never works. Sooner or later you run out of other people's money. Why don't you idiots get a fucking job and earn your keep? Why should I "redistribute" what I earn to some unwashed, lazy bastards looking for a handout? Get off your ass and take care of yourself. You people are part of the reason that this country and others are in deep financial shit these days. Everyone wants a handout but no one wants to work for what they get anymore. Get a life, get a job. Asshats!
Anonymous
Why are you afraid to share? Maybe you are one person in that tiny core of financial institutions (like Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and The Goldman Sachs Group.) constituting an economic 'super-being' (147 of 43060 TNCs existing within the OECD definition of TNCs that are among about 30 million 'economic actors' in an Orbis 2007 database and that hold 80% of the control over the value of all TNCs on planet Earth) and you are terrified that nearly 7 billion human beings are fed-up with your selfishness and smallness of character. Or maybe you flunked the kindergarten lesson on holding hands and sharing cookies. (TNC: transnational corporation (OECD definition), (OECD: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development)
Here is a research result in a unique study, by which I mean a kind of study that has never before been attempted. It is not a “conspiracy theory” but instead it is a sophisticated look at a self-organizing, dynamic complex structure that is of global size and has consequences for several natural and anthropocentric complex global sized systems. Both this research result and the methods that produced it have many proponents and critics, both commenders and condemners. I hope to learn what you think of this study, the structure that is its focus, and your musings about any warning(s) of future events that you think this structure impels, either as a force of moral pressure or as propeller of consequences, if this structure exists as it is described, if you are able to address the issue of moral pressure. It might be that this structure is so unstable that to continue allowing it to exist is a just p;lain stupid survival strategy -- what do you think? Do you think?
The study to which I referred is entitled, “The network of global corporate control”
By Stefania Vitali 1, James B. Glattfelder 1, and Stefano Battiston 1^
1 Chair of Systems Design, ETH Zurich, Kreuzplatz 5, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland,
^ corresponding author, email: [email protected]
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1107/1107.5728v2.pdf
Anonymous
looks like you are the only hard worker left in society. we are fortunate to have you.
Anonymous
You should check out the peaceful OWS or other city occupiers who are totally peaceful in their actions to find out what it is all about. Adbusters has nothing to do with OWS as far as I can see except to give the original call to group in NYC. Adbusters is not OCCUPY. OWS is a peaceful movement.
Occupy Bristol
GLOBAL DAYS OF ACTION
http://march31.net/
Our Day of Action on March 31st 2012 will be a first step. Simultaneous demonstrations in many European countries are more than just a signal of solidarity. They’re already sparking transnational discussion and cooperation. We invite all emancipatory initiatives to join this process. We strive to grow independent of official institutions, and are prepared for a persistent struggle.
https://n-1.cc/pg/pages/view/1072753
May 15: General Strike / Strike!
There are several options to give political content to this first global strike:
The most strategic, democratic and practical choice is to decentralize the actions, by inviting a maximum amount of sectors of the population to strike and create their own direct actions and with their own demands (both of which can be included as part of bigger, [more] general actions or statements). Every group of strikers will evaluate the duration of their actions and it's important that they all have their voice during the GA's from this day onwards, thus opening a big platform of struggles, both local and global, and inviting people to support other actions and demands.
Another option is to write a statement of shared local and/or global demand(s) or point(s) in common (such referendums, reforms of the democracy, the right to protest, etc) over the next five months. The GA of May 1st can be a good occasion to build a consensus on the final draft.
We cannot impose any action or political content for the Global Strike but we can propose a global demand from an international working group to all the assemblies.
Anonymous
We are waiting. Yes, we the Police. All in black, no name plates, masked up. We will beat your ass just for fun. Wear your long hippie hair, throw your bags of shit. You want it you got it. When you get out of the hospital/jail, you will tell your attorney "the Officer in black kicked my ass and called me a pussy, now my vagina hurts". Or you can just protest and not act like an asshole.
greg_2
This time there will be those of us who are out to get you, motherfucker. And we, as you so stupidly state, will NOT look like what you expect, i.e. we will not be long hairs. You, though, will remain crew cut dent heads. We know who you are.
Chicago Citizen
And you will have no idea who else you'll be fucking dealing with. We are Chicago. And you can just chill the fuck out.
Anonymous
you are a monster disguised as a nobleman.
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