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Tactical Briefing #25

Showdown in Chicago.
Tactical Briefing #25: Showdown in Chicago

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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,
Culture Jammers HQ

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Anonymous

Amen to you. "Summit hopping stopped being effective after Seattle 1999" - thank goodness someone is doing more than just romanticizing the past.

There is a time for every tactic, ever tool, and if you don't make your methods fit the situation then you are just engaging in political theater, doing protest for the sake of itself rather than what works.

And yes, every summit protest has resulted in a generic message about "the struggle" that people can tune out, and if there's any conflict that becomes the story and the issues are ignored entirely.

israeltucker

Adbusters started Occupy Wall Street just like Al Gore invented the Internet.

The real dates are MAY15 - MAY21 #NATOG8 . #OCCUPYCHICAGO http://g8protest.org/why/ & chicagospring.org

Show up early and get arrested OR Show up on time and Peacefully Protest the G8.

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Anonymous

we in North America should really pay attention to what RON PAUL has to say!!
if no one has noticed it has been the same group of people in power behind the scenes since John Kennedy was murdered by his own collective!! and a long long time before!!
and all these eugenicists have one focus the general collapse of humanity .
from the ndaa act allowing indefinite detention of us citizens (clumped in with this disgusting little deal is a secret partnership that the Canadian prime minister is signing without Canadian voter consent, or knowledge and oversight which will turn us into a subsidiary of the us and streamline our security and health policy's with their own),
sopa, pipa, acta, which allows big corporations to shut down anything on the internet they want to, with no judicial overview on the whim of a big corporation aiding in the destruction of information sharing and free speech around the globe
vaccines like flu guard , guardasil, and other disgusting useless concoctions (that are killing people all over the world) including being tainted with toxic chemicals (like mercury or the s-v40 virus which directly causes cancer) to cause infertility, death, cancers and the systematic lowering of the natural human immune system,
the fukushima disaster which no one has been honest about since it started (American and Canadian governments, Tepco and Japanese governments yet this is an issue that will drastically affect all life on this earth in the years to come instead of informing the public to known and proven dangers of exposure ...our governments raise the minimal safe levels of exposure, which is an atrocious abuse of power, we as people deserve truth so we can make our own intelligent, informed decisions , radiation exposure is proven to lower your immune response to many issues plaguing people now days
fluoride in public water supplies which is linked to infertility, cancers, birth defects and tooth destruction and also affects your brain to make you slow and easily manipulated ,
bpa in our plastics which is a horrendous toxin, yet lobbyists around the globe have bought our politicians and have used monetary corruption to push these toxins on uniformed and sheep like people and mostly, most concernedly on our children's toys !!!,
the constant smear campaigns against people who are standing up for injustice and corruption around the world,(Governor Ventura, Ron and Rand Paul, Alex Jones, occupy & liberty movements around the globe, g-20 protesters ),
the affiliation of all north American governments with sex slave trading and prostitution rings one example the Picton pig farmer who was suspected of making snuff films using hundreds of native women, and the RCMP who have been proven to be the ones supplying most of those women
the deliberate dismantling of the north American manufacturing and technology sectors to eliminate jobs and create a divide in the control of money on this and other continents, by shipping these jobs over seas, aiding to widen the gap between rich and poor
the fast and furious scandal in which most of the sitting government officials within the last 2 administrations in the USA have been linked to shipping guns and drugs to and from Mexico,
the use of depleted uranium by soldiers around the world which causes lung cancers, birth defects and death among the very group of brave soldiers that are being used by these men in power to enforce there disgusting violations of humanity and sovereignty around the world and yes Canada supplied this uranium),
the soldiers in Afghanistan and our governments telling people openly they are growing and shipping opium in record amounts to North America, even though before our invasion the taliban had banned growing poppies and made it an offense punishable by death, yet we have a war on the same drugs, which only gives these people in power 2 ways to enrich themselves while doing nothing to address real issues,
the big medical conglomerates like Rockefeller, Health Canada, WHO, and others that support eugenics programs and systematic murder of humans threw profiting from the prolonging of diseases instead of curing the issues or root cause of the disease (hundreds of billions in prescriptions which do not affect change they only treat symptoms, and the systematic blocking of information exchange and release)
the take over of media outlets which are in general owned by 2 people Rupert Murdoch and the Rothschild family) and the suppression and destruction of independent media sources from exposing real truths ( one small example wikileaks and the treatment of Julian Assange) ,
big bankers and their continual exemption from prosecution for stealing, fraud and failure to follow the laws of our countries, insider trading, sponsorship scandal, bc rail, jp morgan and chase manhattan etc etc the list is long, distinguished and public with the right research),
The UN being caught and exposed around the world and linked to murder, rape, theft, slave and kidnapping rings and torture in the name of a new world order (example the Haitian people are rioting to remove the UN from their nation after repeatedly saying they do not want UN help because of their horrendous human rights violations, yet what we see on tv is American and Canadian idol, or jersey shore re runs !!
Canadians continual horrendous treatment of native peoples including but not limited to aiding to cover up the atrocities perpetrated by the roman and protestant churches, and royal family against the native peoples during the reign of parish schools including murder, kidnapping, rape, torture, and systematic destruction of an entire culture and their way of life
the systematic destruction of the family and the continuous bombardment threw media to keep us hateful, separate, uninformed and focused on each power struggling each other all the while destroying our ways of life

greg_2

"we in North America should really pay attention to what RON PAUL has to say!!"

Yes, like:

"The prevailing attitude of the American people is that everyone has a right to medical care. This is an intellectual error that will lead us down a path toward destroying what is good in the current system."

"The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding Fathers"

"I think it's a theory, the theory of evolution and I don't accept it as a theory."

"We must end the perverse incentives that encourage immigrants to come here illegally, including the anchor baby incentive."

"You know, the greatest hoax I think that has been around in many, many years if not hundreds of years has been this hoax on the environment and global warming. You notice they don't call it global warming anymore. It's weather control."

I could post quote after quote showing how Ron Paul is a KOOK.

Anonymous

continued
the use of Hollywood ,Gaming and Music industry as a vessel for mind control implication, desensitization and deliberate dumbing down of all our humanity using secret symbols, subliminal messages and general mind control techniques
these things and other issues i could go on and on about forever because there are so many of them. But don't take my word for it, as i didn't believe any of it either until i began to research and apply critical thinking to issues instead of a status quo approach we are dog trained in school to do, we all as a humanity need to awaken and approach issues with a clear mind and not the narrow dogmatic views so many of us are programmed with from birth!! .
also this support of flip flopper's like Gingrich and Romney is disgusting these are men with very little research can be linked to a number of atrocious issues which would drastically end support for their extension of a tyrannical agenda if people would wake up and read between the lines , Canada also has a long list of American influenced, corruption based, lie telling politicians in its pocket.
why is fox along with other media networks so forcibly excluding Ron Paul from polls, debates and appearances.... much like the current man in power who has affected no change except indefinite detention of his country's own citizens and the destruction of American and Canadian sovereignty instead of supporting the constitution and other things in which he swore an oath to defend, and the extension of abusing his military for corporate and special interest groups financial gains (Haliburton, imf, federal reserve, etc, etc) and destruction of civil free speech and exchange of information on our planet and yes Canada is just as complicit as of late
people need to wake up and realize what is going on !! we need to wake up and take back our government and our education systems, we need to take back our financial and medical systems from the plain tyranny and corrupt takeover by these evil entities we need to stop watching staged reality tv, and realize the roman empire during the time of Caesar used similar ways to keep people blind to the issues around them ...they were called the roman blood games an ancient form of reality television
wee all as a humanity and planet need to wake up and realize we are being treated like animals while the few at the top reap all the rewards ...this is a global problem and until we effect an awakening of our brainwashed dumbed down nations !! we will slowly slip continuously into oppression and darkness, the like of which have not been seen since Hitler and his rise to power. Using many of the exact same measures and tactics I have mentioned here to gain it. (eugenics, false flag at the Reichstag, martial law etc etc )

greg_2

Re: "...a three strikes and you’re out law for corporate criminals..."

I have always hated the "Three strikes you're out" laws for citizens, as it dis-proportionally effects those suffering from substance abuse who need treatment and not incarceration. Many Judges are against TSYO; some have quit over this. On many levels these kinds of draconian laws hurt society. Are you aware of how many young people are spending most if not the rest of there lives in jail for what amounts to petty crimes?

It is egregious to have TSYO laws on the books. It amounts to Cruel and Unusual punishment for young, city folk. Why would anyone want to apply it to any other crime?

Sure, it is a "feel good law" to get repeat offenders to stop offending by putting them in jail for an extremely long time; but it should be left up to the judge to take into consideration prior convictions when sentencing.

Let us not treat "corporate criminals" as a separate class of criminals. All people, "criminals" or not should been seen as equal before the law.

Otherwise I support #OCCUPYCHIGAGO and plan to participate.

* http://www.lao.ca.gov/analysis_1995/3strikes.html
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_strikes_law

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