[IO-DA] Adbusters Tactical Briefing 28 - #PLAYJAZZ
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ADBUSTERS TACTICAL BRIEFING 28 - #PLAYJAZZ
Hey you nimble dreamers, wild cats and horizontals out there,
Our Spring offensive is building toward a climactic May uprising… time
to come out of winter hibernation and play jazz like we’ve never
played it before.
May 1 we leap into the new world with a mighty multinational General
Strike. Wherever you are, No Work; No School; No Shopping. No
illusions. No apologies. No business as usual. Into The Streets!
May 12, we intensify with three days of global action. Jammers in
London, Lisbon, Paris, Marseilles, Helsinki, Cuzco, Barcelona, Quebec
are already on board with more on the way. We’ll hold our assemblies,
hash out our demands and start building a parallel society that can
sustain autonomous, horizontal, revolutionary communities outside of
corpo-consumerism … we stop begging and we start creating … we begin
the change we want to see.
We scared the G8 away from Chicago and now some occupiers are planning
#OCCUPYCAMPDAVID – a cacophonous carnival of tree-sits, lockdowns and
nomadic encampments in the woods and nearby Thurmont. Bon Voyage!
Others are upping the ante with #OCCUPYCHICAGO – a mobilization of
anarchic swarms to shutdown the NATO summit.
And then one of the softer aesthetic moments of our Spring offensive
could well be the #LAUGHRIOT on May 18, the day the G8 leaders meet in
Camp David. There is something totally ludicrous, absurd, even insane
about the eight most powerful people in the world deciding to do the
people’s business people behind closed doors and razor wire fences.
This veneer of legitimacy is our tragedy turned to farce.
As Aristotle observed, to laugh is uniquely human… Imagine the scene:
first a few hundred of us, then a few thousand, then millions of
people across the world — each in their own way, some individually,
some collectively in flash mobs, offices, parks, encampments — all
breaking out in uproarious laughter on May 18. This could be a
delicious defining moment - the day when the people of the world have
a good laugh together and, from that point on, start thinking
differently about how the world should be governed.
Then we get ready for our next big challenge: How to Occupy the U.S.
Presidential Election on November 6.
Time to play wild, spontaneous jazz as Miles Davis intended,
for the wild,
Culture Jammers HQ
source: http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/playjazz.html
MORE: OccupyWallStreet.org / OccupyWallst.org / G8Protest.org /
OccupyChi.org / CANG8.org / Takethesquare.net / OccupyMay1st.org /
MayDayNYC.org / May12.net