Buy nothing day has built enormous inertia from people in developing countries.. billions of them actively supporting the initiative

I like this article, and am putting my thoughts here.

First and foremost, if anyone plans any activities shall we say "Extralegal" do so with great paranoia. Do NOT use the net for communication and discussion. Operate on the "Cell" function and "Assume you are watched at all times" - That's advice I got from a person I know who is in "Da Government" and worried cause some of the "Black Helicopters/NWO takeover" seems to be true.

-This is of course, fantasy, for "Entertainment purposes only" like an old Paladin Press book:-)

But, there's more ways to be subversive than just blowing up stuff.

One thing to recognize is that we should be very, VERY humbled by the "Rich Elite". In the past few years they have done more than decades of anarchists, communists, eco-activists in getting the general public to hate them and be more accepted of our ideas, more potential to convert/convince. "The Virtue of some of the Rich is that they teach the rest of us to despise wealth" - Khalil Gibran. The book "The Khalil Gibran Reader" is in the gift books section at Barnes and Noble.

Now, I would advise two courses of action:

The "SeaStead" and the "Tong"...

If you can afford it, one should consider making "Floating Concrete" structures that people can live on and in. The more work you and your "Tribe" can directly do, the cheaper it is. Now, anyone into chemistry, it's the chance of a Nobel prize- Find a way to convert the plastic in the "Garbage Swell" to something useful, but in the meantime use it as extra "Flotation" for more structures. At least work out a way to seperate the 'atomized' stuff. Another option is aquaculture, protecting areas from drift nets (to protect your own crop of fish) and "Jellyfish Vacuuming". There's a Japanese process that can convert even the worst Jellyfish into an edible (though only non-suicidal if turned into filler) substance. With fish stocks collapsing and farms overstretched, any "Filler" substance will sell quite well. Don't get me wrong, we'd have to be self-sufficient, but sources of income would help live in better luxury and help us make it harder for the forces of control to try to get rid of. Hopefully, long enough that we become a nation so we are only worried about them trying to corrupt us, like to get rid of the "All pigs that feed off of usury shall be beheaded" law...

I'd suggest working with the "Island Nations" who's area is shrinking due to Global Warming and building them rafts (with the aid and mutual education of their populace for labor) in exchange for recognizing (to the UN) your "Tribe". Furthermore, tribes need to work together as a confederation, we should let each other do what we want for the most part, but anyone who helps an 'outsider' work against us becomes a 'non-entity' and others can raid and kill them with no penalty.

The other option, for those who can not or don't want to move to sea, is the "Tong". The philosopher Hakim Bey is all for the "Tong" idea and implementing it in the modern world. It is done in such societies where the elites work out this nice little power structure that helps themselves and basically lets the rest of the populace in servitude to them but less well off than wild beasts.

At the simplest, you start your own "Secret Society", but this isn't a "College dorm, coffeehouse anarchist" setup. It's for real, the things expected, the things given, the consequences for betrayal dire. You need to work out and research the best ways for a heiarchy, for rituals (both worthless and vital at the same time) for methods and codes... It, like a SeaStead is a momentous task for you need to fit it inside but hidden in a larger society and work out a "Robin Hood" type of image to those not initiated but of potential use/future recruitment. AND you'd need to be perfectly willing to get your hands dirty, like "Death of a thousand cuts" dirty.

For it to work, you'll have to make it so that it'll be like this:

FBI with someone handcuffed to a chair in an interview room:
"The government just signed an emergency bill, and we can jail you for life just cause we THINK you are a member of a 'secret org', in your case a "Social TONG" so you'd better tell all you know and wear a wire so we can catch some of the other operatives..."

"Alleged Member";
"I will not talk to you. I want a lawyer. I want a lawyer. I want a lawyer."

Then they get an anonymous note, such as on their pillow late at night in their motel-

"You have no idea what you are up against. We have good lawyers and will get out the innocent victim of your evil who will not be able to help you in any way, even if he could betray us."
"---But----"
"Even assuming the worst, that you can jail him for life, he would still prefer that to betrayal of our non-existant group. If he betrays us to you, he will beg you to put him in a supermax prison and at night he will wake up in a cold sweat of fear for what will eventually happen to him, or his family and friends."
"Please let this situation drop and leave us in peace. We can negotiate, such as not letting a certain right wing millitia get a nuclear weapon from a corrupt general on a nearby base, for instance?"

Now, "Tongs" aren't necessarily vicious mafias, that's more the "Triad" terminology. The difference is the former isn't necessarily intending to be 'criminal' (outright robbery, murder, extortion, prostitution, drugs) for revenues, but more of a "Secret Society" within a larger, unfair society for the purpose of supporting its members. They break laws, of course, even their existence is illegal where the laws say "You will give enough food to starve to death to the local official, and not even meet his gaze."

Frankly, besides good research the best source of information is a real "Tong".

Obviously, careful how you approach, but it's really a matter of making it known you are interested without putting anyone on the spot, and making sure they know and trust you first. Most, IMO, would love the opportunity to help a fledgling Tong- It's like being a parent of a child that's therefore expected to be on your side and supportive of you down the road. So, such a request would have a price, so make sure you associate with one you can bear being part of your tong.

For instance, say your source is a brothel you like to go to for "Sexpatriate" tours that is owned by them. The local tong does fake paperwork for you so you can say "Business trip" and they keep away the "Moralist nutbags" who try to film you as you take out for ice cream and a dolly your "Yung Pung Tang". Well, you wouldn't have to set up a tong that revolves around prostitution, they'd have dozens of other sources of income. But they'd want you to help them if they moved into your city. Some members would make trips, bring back "Wives", help them set up "Massage Parlors", have people silently pledging (not members, but those who needed a 'favor') to be on jury duty (bribed/member official=awesome!) and say "Not Guilty". If they didn't move into your city, they'd at least want you to send a few "Tourists" their way or give them a 'gift' once in a while to help them over there, and this would be reciprocated by you and yours still protected by them when you 'visited' them! Again, like the "Tribal" part of the seasteading, you are forming essentially a "Tribe" as much as a secret society and one lesson of history is that a "Tribal" society must always no matter what join with another such society against a larger "Empire" for good or bad.

Either event is a LOT of work and devotion, but it's necessary and a good "Lesson" to all of us. American society is collapsing because quite frankly, few people got involved in government, except those with a "Special Interest" and the latter cared nothing but for their own immediate goals. We had a very nice lifestyle that was bled away a drop at a time, and now we have to work for real. And the real irony, is the people that benefit most from the system are the ones who hurt it the most.

Any of the "Elite" reading this? It'd be a lot cheaper to just "Cut back a little" and go with only 10 instead of 20 mansions and yachts so Joe Average isn't worried about living indoors next year despite a super work ethic and a college degree. But if you keep your "Fiscal Quarter ONLY" way of thought, the "Brain Drain" to SeaSteads and other countries, combined with the "Internal Bleeding" of middle and lower class 'secret societies' will drain you dry. 'Cause, though I'm for both ideas, likely will try the former, I'd rather you guys just think long term and maybe be just a little thankful for those who let you live in such luxury.

PLEASE RADICALS READ ZIZEK'S "FIRST AS TRAGEDY, THEN AS FARCE" BEFORE DOING ANYTHING