For twenty years the culture jammer movement has been building momentum for a cultural revolution that will topple consumerism and spark a new way of living. Now Adbusters and our worldwide network of activists (86,000+ and growing) is calling for a Carnivalesque Rebellion this November. Our aim is to create a sudden, unexpected moment of truth – a mass reversal of perspective; a global mindshift – from which the corporate/consumerist forces never fully recover.
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Tactical Briefing:
In the weeks leading up to rebellion, we will release a MANIFESTO, tentatively called THE METAMEME MANIFESTO, that will go pandemic and spread from email to website and zine to word-of-mouth. What do you think should be the gist of this manifesto? What are our demands? What are the big ideas, the radical transformations – the metamemes – without which a viable future is unthinkable? Shoot from the hip to: [email protected].
Inspiration:
Tony Judt passed away August 6. He was a bold meme warrior who inspired generations of social activists with the way he lived, the fearless way he fought for his beliefs and then for the courageous way he died. Check out his work at NYBooks.com, Guardian.co.uk and NYTimes.com and be inspired one more time.
Action:
For the next two weeks, take these two visual memes and circulate them widely. Post them on Twitter, Facebook and blogs or print out the PDFs and paste them to bulletin boards and street corners.
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Anonymous
Wake up people. We are all slaves.
Anonymous
Wake up people. We are all slaves.
Akbar Lightning
i am a slave....a slave to awesomeness!
Akbar Lightning
i am a slave....a slave to awesomeness!
Anonymous
This is an excerpt from an article I found.
Free people can say "no". Free people can refuse demands for their money,time, and children. Slaves cannot. If someone demands that you do something and you can say "no" and refuse to do it, then you are a free human being. When you are forced to surrender half your life's work to the government in ever increasing taxes, then you are a slave. Can you say "no" to the confiscation of half your life? can you get the masters to reduce the burden by a significant amount? No? Congratulations you are a slave.
Millions of Americans did not want the war in Iraq. Could you refuse the war? No? Congratulations you are a slave. Can you refuse the confiscation of your children to fight and die in wars to fatten the profits of war profiteers? No? Congratulations you are a slave. After 9/11, the constitutional right to freedom of expression was confined to "free-speech" zones. And torture was "necessary" to "deal with our crisis". Were you able to refuse the changes made to the constitution? No? Congratulations you are a slave. Were you able to refuse having your public lands placed at risk by the US Government to cover loans you never authorized the government to make? No? Congratulations. You are a slave. Are you able to refuse corrupt and dishonest government? No? Congratulations. You are a slave. The United States is like that other slave empire, Rome. And I think it is headed for the same fate.
Anonymous
This is an excerpt from an article I found.
Free people can say "no". Free people can refuse demands for their money,time, and children. Slaves cannot. If someone demands that you do something and you can say "no" and refuse to do it, then you are a free human being. When you are forced to surrender half your life's work to the government in ever increasing taxes, then you are a slave. Can you say "no" to the confiscation of half your life? can you get the masters to reduce the burden by a significant amount? No? Congratulations you are a slave.
Millions of Americans did not want the war in Iraq. Could you refuse the war? No? Congratulations you are a slave. Can you refuse the confiscation of your children to fight and die in wars to fatten the profits of war profiteers? No? Congratulations you are a slave. After 9/11, the constitutional right to freedom of expression was confined to "free-speech" zones. And torture was "necessary" to "deal with our crisis". Were you able to refuse the changes made to the constitution? No? Congratulations you are a slave. Were you able to refuse having your public lands placed at risk by the US Government to cover loans you never authorized the government to make? No? Congratulations. You are a slave. Are you able to refuse corrupt and dishonest government? No? Congratulations. You are a slave. The United States is like that other slave empire, Rome. And I think it is headed for the same fate.
Akbar Lightning
your argument depends upon an identification of our income as a source of identity, and the use of that income through other people's actions as a source of responsibility.
although I agree that many people are enslaved by these identifications, i am not a pessimist, i think liberation is possible, even though it is made more difficult by the oppressive environment.
however, that liberation is dangerous and risky...but some of us have liberated ourselves, and we owe it to people to say there is an underground railroad, always has been, always will be....
one thing that many political thinkers avoid is the human predilection to follow, the desire for slavery as a means of avoiding the psychological struggle to find meaning...this is why i think progress requires a bottom-up as well as a top-down perspective...
Akbar Lightning
your argument depends upon an identification of our income as a source of identity, and the use of that income through other people's actions as a source of responsibility.
although I agree that many people are enslaved by these identifications, i am not a pessimist, i think liberation is possible, even though it is made more difficult by the oppressive environment.
however, that liberation is dangerous and risky...but some of us have liberated ourselves, and we owe it to people to say there is an underground railroad, always has been, always will be....
one thing that many political thinkers avoid is the human predilection to follow, the desire for slavery as a means of avoiding the psychological struggle to find meaning...this is why i think progress requires a bottom-up as well as a top-down perspective...
Anonymous
Forget the income and identity analogy. I'm not talking about money as a cultural problem. I'm talking about money in an economic sense. Money can be traded for time, goods, and services. All of these are necessary to a certain extent. I agree having a lot of money can turn us into consumer junkies, but in an industrial society we need money to represent the value of goods and services. If we have parasitic organizations like the "private banking cartel" that use federal income tax to pay off our debts to them, we are using our time and energy to make these bastards richer when we could have that time and energy for ourselves. The same is true for the energy and food interests that are buying up our government to further enrich themselves. We need to do something about this huge problem.
Anonymous
Forget the income and identity analogy. I'm not talking about money as a cultural problem. I'm talking about money in an economic sense. Money can be traded for time, goods, and services. All of these are necessary to a certain extent. I agree having a lot of money can turn us into consumer junkies, but in an industrial society we need money to represent the value of goods and services. If we have parasitic organizations like the "private banking cartel" that use federal income tax to pay off our debts to them, we are using our time and energy to make these bastards richer when we could have that time and energy for ourselves. The same is true for the energy and food interests that are buying up our government to further enrich themselves. We need to do something about this huge problem.
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