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Dear Activists everywhere,

Are you ready for Occupy 2.0? Hell Yeah!
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Eleven years ago we sparked a wave of revolutionary fervor that swept the world. Now it’s time to do it again.
Are you ready for Occupy 2.0?

The original Occupy resonated because the moment was so hot. The wounds inflicted by the financial crash were deep and widespread. Everyone now knew what the 1% had gotten away with. The Arab Spring provided the prototype. The fuel was fresh, raw, homegrown fury.

Now, as we face the prospect of extinction, the conditions are in place for another monumental heave.
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This summer marked a terrifying new low-water-mark in the human project. Ecosystems crashed. Wars raged. Nations imploded. The iconic rivers of civilization — the Colorado, the Rhine, the Thames, the Danube, the Yangtze, the Ganges, the Nile — began to dry up. Others, swollen by flash floods, jumped their banks and displaced millions. Meanwhile, fires raged, supply chains failed, electricity grids blew up and water treatment plants ground to a halt.

Given the gravity of the catastrophe, you’d expect nothing less than a full-scramble response from world leaders.

Yet, unbelievably, that hasn’t happened. They’re doing almost nothing. The oil keeps flowing, the glaciers keep melting, the seas keep rising. It’s as if our leaders are hoping some magical solution to materialize out of the Egyptian desert at COP 27. Which it almost certainly won’t.

Our climate crisis will not be solved by the business-as-usual strategies of the past. None of the marching and pipeline blocking, the techno-fixes, conferences or Green New Deals will get this done. The only thing that can save us now is ourselves. We the people of the world must rise up and unleash a tsunami of rage so emotionally explosive that our leaders will simply have to listen and act.

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Whack this ULTIMATUM up on every lamppost in every city. Make it go viral, online and IRL. Hold it up before every intellectual, artist, writer, banker, politician, philosopher, poet and punk. Thrust it in the face of every world leader every chance you get.
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This last-ditch effort to win the planetary endgame begins on Saturday September 17, and continues unabated until we break through the suicidal inaction of our leaders.

When was the last time your opinion was taken seriously by political leaders? For too long, we, the people of the world, have been ignored. No longer. Imagine if a million people voted in this referendum, on our little website, it would send an overwhelming message to those in power. One they can no longer ignore.

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F*CK IT ALL FRIDAYS
“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”
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Activism has lost its might. We need to up the ante.
One single protest never changed the world.
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#FuckItAllFridays is a weekly global ritual. Every Friday we revolt. It’s the only way to stop humanity’s impending doom. Pick a way to win the planetary endgame this Friday, and next Friday, and the Friday after that too.

Upcoming / Past Campaigns

#WorldwideGeneralStrike - Tactical Briefing #1

Once in every era, the call of history compels a small number of people — or even just one person — to steer the world in a fresh new direction. This is that call. Why? The Earth is on fire. An unjust and destructive financial system threatens to pull everything down with it as it crumbles under its own weight.

#BuyNothingDay - Tactical Briefing 3

#BuyNothingDay, extending through #BuyNothingXmas to the New Year, has always served as a chance to meditate on our addiction to consumption and its poisonous effects — not just on our physical, but also on our mental environment.

#BuyNothingDay - Tactical Briefing 2

This year's #BuyNothingDay stands to be the most critical yet in the activist tradition's nearly 30-year history.Why? It hardly bears repeating: the coronavirus has decimated the economy and (re-)exposed nauseatingly profound inequalities. In its wake, barely any but the biggest and most ruthless of businesses can hope to survive while the rest drop like flies.

#BuyNothingDay - Tactical Briefing 1

With the advent of the coronavirus pandemic, the upcoming shopping season — beginning with Black Friday and continuing through Xmas to the New Year — is going to be a lot different than it ever was in the past. Not only have thousands of small and medium-size businesses gone belly-up, leaving only the most ruthless and eclipsing corporate monopolies alive.

#WhiteHouseSiege - Tactical Briefing #10

Tactical Briefing #10 It's time . . . time to jazz the vote.Get out your horn. Call your friends. Go to your nearest advance polling station and play some rebel jazz for all the good souls waiting there in line.

#WhiteHouseSiege - Tactical Briefing #9

Tactical Briefing #9 A week remains. The once-mighty U.S. is set to plunge into a moral, political, and constitutional crisis — unless we the people, the ultimate arbiters of power, intervene to set things to rights.

#WhiteHouseSiege - Tactical Briefing #8

Tactical Briefing #8 Imagine this: It’s midnight, November 3rd. Every American’s fingernails are gnawed to the quick. Trump holds a razor-thin lead. If the counting stopped here, he’d eke out a marginal win of the popular vote.

#WhiteHouseSiege - Tactical Briefing #7

Tactical Briefing #7 In a picture included in an e-mail we received August 13th, ten men in fatigues and tactical gear, bearing military-style rifles, pose with an American flag. The message, which refers to us at Adbusters as “lowly little skinny jean wearing fuck boys” (gee, does that sting!), reads as follows: “You’ve awakened a sleeping giant, the sheep will be fucked up real nicely by us SheepDogs ... seasoned vets whom seen war up and personal, actually, I kind of miss it a bit...” (sic).

#WhiteHouseSiege Campaign

In a picture included in an e-mail we received August 13th, ten men in fatigues and tactical gear, bearing military-style rifles, pose with an American flag. The message, which refers to us at Adbusters as “lowly little skinny jean wearing fuck boys” (gee, does that sting!), reads as follows: “You’ve awakened a sleeping giant, the sheep will be fucked up real nicely by us SheepDogs ... seasoned vets whom seen war up and personal, actually, I kind of miss it a bit...” (sic).

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