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
The whole world isn't watching. They see the usual protest cliches and the tune out. It's romantic and exciting, but Occupy has done more in six months than a decade of protesting at summits.
G8 protests are so predictable they've become part of the media narrative used by the elite to obscure the issues. They've already been used in Chicago to pass stiffer anti-protest laws - this indicates that invoking 1968 is not good PR. It plays right into the hands of those seeking to discredit the movement.
Can you not see the elite are hoping for major violence in Chicago, which they can then use as a weapon against Occupy?
Can you not see the elite is counting on lefty fascination with G8 protests to get them to spend less time on more effective tactics?
G8 protests didn't change the discussion in this country. Occupy activists doing local work in every city did. Encouraging people spend a lot of money and time on one predictable media spectacle with a high risk of violence doesn't serve the movement's goals. I'd argue it sabotages them.
Most of the 99% can't afford to take a month off to participate in political theater with a high risk of violence. Many of them would say this doesn't address their concerns. It just feeds the action fantasies of a few self-anointed culture jammers.
If you guys are such populists, how about thinking about the people?
Anonymous
YOu people need to get a job and earn your way through life.
Global warming is a hoax
The Occupiers are being played for fools
Go back to your mommy's basement where she can wipe your snibbling noses for you
Anonymous
You need to learn how to type. I know how, it's a skill that has served me well in the post-industrial economy, something that probably hasn't gone over that well for you. (I'm assuming you worked in manufacturing or some other nearly skill-less labor). I look forward to applying myself to the task of senseless destruction in Chicago, it will no doubt be more satisfying than my career. My career which has enabled me to buy a lot of useful things, like a gas mask, and has given me a lot of technical skills in the IT world. We are more successful than you idiots by your own standards, and we are still going to absolutely destroy this world. Get it through your heads, just because your an idiot and believe all the garbage about patriotism and hard-work doesn't mean we do. Most of us are worth more to this economy than you idiots are, and its for the same reason that we reject a lot of the ideas that control you-We're smarter. I will work as hard as humanly possible to cause as much destruction as possible in Chicago- I hope you'll be proud of me!
James Richard Bailey
A rather senseless comment. Your typing, compositional and proof reading skills are nonexistent. You're bound for the trash heap of time. [Note the difference between possessive and contraction use of the homophones.] This movement is not about destruction. Rather, it is about remedying conditions that abound at the end of empire. Get used to it. If you will do nothing, some of us with more energy and hope will. Mino bimaadiziwin Ah Ho!
Anonymous
You need an article before empire...you ass.
Anonymous
It is not as important to "cause destruction in CHICAGO" where the former speaker of the White House is now mayor, instead I strongly suggest you finally "rebel against the New World ORDER" by "smashing like an iconoclast" the idea that "EVIL KINGS ARE WELCOME TO THEIR EVIL SECRETS" it is only when "EVIL IS EXPOSED" that it can be abolished, to claim that "smashing property" itself is a virtue, results in the idea that the more destruction is caused the "more social change results" quite frankly I believe that the peaceful tactics of Martin Luther King were more successful in the end than the "looting, pillaging and burning" that took place after his murder, but I do agree it let the "people in power" know that when they kill a "civil rights leader" they will get hell to pay!
The KKK and the Mason are both operating under a shroud of secrecy, this shroud of secrecy will be lifted with the publication of the book that will "be a classic in conspiracy literature" for it will "expose how a secret society is run", it will show how these secret societies are "NOT OF GOD" but merely promote to power those who seek power, and often do so by "walking over dead bodies" and by "denying freedom of speech" like I was denied freedom of speech when I stated like Vincent Foster after me, that our government is corrupted by a "secret combination of conspiring kings" I was told, you are nuts, you are insane and that the "sword was mightier than the pen", I did "predict the forming of an outer parliamentary opposition" or an "APO" as that is called in German, and now we are here!
I commend every last occupier of Wall Street for their restraint and discipline, and I hope they will continue to avoid violent confrontation with the police while "confronting the police with these awful truths":
You are working secretly for the kings in power, you have made oaths that no christian gentleman should swear according to John Quincy Adams the sixth president, you are not "serving us" but you are serving "secret kingship" and secretive kingmen in the United States of America and we will "oust you from your evil lodges" we will bring all your evil secrets to light and we will "bring you down" from your high horse and will "deprive you of those funds" of which you have deprived us by "putting the bigger gun of the police and military power" at our head and we now "challenge you to do your worst" and just show us how evil and barbaric you are by "smashing in all our skulls" so that we can show to the world that "democracy" does not exist, and that "EVIL KINGS RULE OUR COUNTRY" and our world!
Neal
It's gonna be 53 degrees tomorrow here in Villa Park, and I may occupy a golf course for 9 holes.
Yep global warming is a what?
Anonymous
Dear Sir, I like you have a job, that of a trustee of a charity, but contrary to you, do not judge these people as "shiftless no gooders" that merely rebel at things that they do not understand, I agree with them that the "corporate raiders" do exist and they have exercised their "unlawful powers" by:
a) UNDERMINING THE US CONSTITUTION with secret society tactics:
meaning they elect the president by killing his predecessor, case in point Abraham Lincoln, this clearly violated every constitutional law for killing a sitting president has hardly ever resulted in a more just and more abundant US society, except for the kings who murdered him!
As a result the law that should have given forty acres and a mule to the people who worked for over 200 years in slavery, was "nullified by a presidential veto" and Andrew Johnson was "almost impeached" but not quite, because he was a "secret mason, a slave holder and did not like the idea that colored people should own property", perhaps he had this strange idea that colored people cannot work the fields by themselves but must have a whip cracked at them in order to be successful at raising a harvest!
Then corporate America, went to war with the "BARBARY PIRATES" in TUNIS, ALGIERS AND IN TRIPOLI, I just read that when the new Biography of George Washington came out, and I was disgusted that all they mentioned about him being part of the 'secret society that controls this world of abominable wickedness' was that he was buried with a "masonic ritual"!
Clearly there is "NO FREEDOM OF SPEECH" when it comes to the secrets of the evil kings who currently control our corporations and the police and military forces, therefore the idea that these people need a job is preposterous, they already have a job, which is to "rebel against evil kings who secretly undermine our freedoms" AND THEY HAVE MY SUPPORT IN EXERCISING THEIR FREE SPEECH RIGHTS, notice, I am not suggesting that any criminal actions on their part are right or just and they are likely to be infiltrated both from the left and right that seek a "violent confrontation" with the government but they need to get together and decide that this "total silence" about the wickedness of the evil kings who have governed our world up to this point is "no longer acceptable"!
IN PURSUIT OF THIS OBJECTIVE, I now call upon OCCUPY WALL STREET to lift the "veil of secrecy", that has been "put over all the operations of the government" that involved the "secret societies" of our nation, and to "force openness" on this government that has stated:
THE BOOK, THAT REVEALS THE SECRETS OF THESE EVIL KINGS WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED UNTIL THE RAIDERS WIN THE SUPERBOWL, this is what a "secret service agent told me" after I saw the president of this nation face to face in a church called St. John in Washington, DC, therefore I conclude since based on "corporate law" the actions of the servant is the action of the principal, this is really how our president feels about "releasing highly secret information" that really does not involve at all our elected officials, except that too many of our "elected public officials" believe and rightly so perhaps that "joining a secret society" increases their chances for election and I would not the least bit surprised to find out that "NEWT GINGRICH" was part of or was sponsored financially by the masonic fraternity in South Carolina, since that used to be their previous headquarters until they moved to Washington, DC where they state:
We serve the public for centuries by "murdering their presidents" that they have elected because they "fight wars with the monarchy", and by depriving colored people of their rights to property by vetoing law that would have paid them for their abject servitude for hundreds of years, that made the slave owners rich but even George Washington stated that it really was not a "profitable venture" for him to have slaves, as a matter of fact he had to provide for slaves that were both to old and too young to work, now HITLER on the other hand solved that problem by converting his slaves into "soap", and into emaciated bodies, thereby they solved the problem of the "INTERNATIONAL JEW" by "declaring themselves to be uninvolved", but secretly they "sponsored their destruction" all this must be published for the whole world to see, otherwise they will not "believe it" for the atrocities of this kingman fraternity are "unspeakable" until it is reported by the "INTERNATIONAL JEW" Mr Joshua Bethel the whole world will be in a state of "awful unbelief" and abominable wickedness and righteousness is "vilified" as evil, while "wicked murderers" run the show and shoot at and vilify those who finally saw the "inequity" which is a result of the "iniquity" of the rulers who rule our planet based on their material possessions which they stole from the rest of the world by "putting at them the bigger gun"!
Anonymous
Thank you for you eloquent response to the meaningless criticism "get a job". Although, in my opinion, a response is more than what a person like this wants or deserves. They have no genuine criticism as we are speaking truth and yet they are fearful and made uncomfortable by those with the courage to stand up. They can't argue with the truth so they invent invent an imaginary boogieman. We've seen it many times...Saddam Hussien, "Obama the socialist/kenyan/secret muslim/radical christian", and now we have the jobless protester.
I protest because I am a Doctor/Sunday school teacher working 3 jobs/7 days a week to make ends meet. I protest because it is clear to anyone willing to open their eyes (i.e. turn off Fox News) that this system has been polluted by corporate money preventing the government from working for the majority of the people.
It sounds like the original poster is happy with the way things are...how sad to be satisfied when we can do so much better!
greg_2
You, sir, need to get out of front of your TV and learn your way through life.
Global warming is a hoax because it is cold outside, right? Gee, you are so smart.
You need to stop placing people into those two groups of fools and you.
P.S. What kind of job do you have? What scientific evidence can you quote regarding the lack of global warming? (GW does not mean that everyday is getting warmer, BTW, it means that _average_ temperatures are rising over time; although you are obviously not able to understand basic scientific principles.)
Pathetic. Adbusters should ban your kind of ignorant and meaningless posts.
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