<nettime> ADBUSTERS TACTICAL BRIEFING #15

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

ADBUSTERS TACTICAL BRIEFING #15
Alright you redeemers, rebels and radicals out there,

We're living through a magical moment … #OCCUPYWALLSTREET has  
catalyzed into an international insurgency for democracy … the mood at  
our assemblies is electric … people who go there are drawn into a  
Gandhian spirit of camaraderie and hope for a new kind of future.  
Across the globe the 99% are marching! You have inspired more than you  
know. People are digging into Act One of the long Spring.

Its now time to amp up the edgy theatrics … deviant pranks, subversive  
performances and playful détournements of all kinds. Open your  
insurrectionary imagination. Anything, from a bottom-up transformation  
of the global economy to changing the way we eat, the way we get  
around, the way we live, love and communicate … be the spark that  
sustains a global revolution of everyday life!

As the movement matures, lets consider a response to our critics. Lets  
occupy the core of our global system. Lets dethrone the greed that  
defines this new century. Lets work to define our one great demand.

OCTOBER 29 – #ROBINHOOD GLOBAL MARCH
This is a proposal for the general assemblies of the Occupy movement.

Eight years ago, on February 15, 2003, upwards of 15 million people in  
sixty countries marched together to stop President Bush from invading  
Iraq … a huge chunk of humanity lived for one day without dead time  
and glimpsed the power of a united people's movement. Now we have an  
opportunity to repeat that performance on an even larger scale.

On October 29, on the eve of the G20 Leaders Summit in France, let's  
the people of the world rise up and demand that our G20 leaders  
immediately impose a 1% #ROBINHOOD tax on all financial transactions  
and currency trades. Let's send them a clear message: We want you to  
slow down some of that $1.3-trillion easy money that's sloshing around  
the global casino each day – enough cash to fund every social program  
and environmental initiative in the world.

Take this idea to your local general assembly and join your comrades  
in the streets on October 29.

for the wild,
Culture Jammers HQ




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