The birth of a new Blue-Green-Black hybrid party.
The RNC was dominated by flat speeches and ghost furniture, and Ann
Coulter can't seem to tweet about anything #DNC2012-related other than
Bill Clinton's dating history – as we head towards the November
election, it becomes clearer and clearer that the system is farcical,
and that it's failing us.
Adbusters' publisher and editor-in-chief, Kalle Lasn, recently spoke to Angelo Aquaro of
la Repubblica about Romney, Obama, and the promise of a new, third party option:
The truth is the two-party system doesn't work. It is the first time
in American history that people seem to be becoming aware of this. I
call them the Coca Cola-Pepsi Elections: everything you drink has the
same flavor.
I'm imagining a real third party. In Europe they formed the Pirate
Party and it's going strong. But I'm thinking of something different.
I'm thinking of a Blue, Green, Black Party. Blue for transparency and
the Internet, Green because it would take care of the environment, and
Black because of the anger towards the corporations.
Read the rest of the interview at
la Repubblica.
USA
Interview with Kalle Lasn, the father and ideologue of Occupy Wall Street
by ANGELO AQUARO
CHARLOTTE - "I want to see Barack
Obama get up and say: Okay, these first four years were difficult, I've
had to go back on some promises I had made and, at times, I've even had
to compromise my principles in order to move forward. But if you give me four more years, you'll see: this time I won't disappoint you."
The
President of the United States is about to step onto the stage in
Charlotte for the speech that could cost him his reelection, and the
last person you would imagine giving him advice is the man that from
Canada launched the movement that besieged this and other ten, hundred,
thousand conventions in the whole world. Kalle Lasn, 70 years old, is
the father of Occupy Wall Street, the inventor of the slogan created on
the pages of the alternative magazine, Adbusters. The man that from
Vancouver got millions of people around the world to take to the
streets, and now, despite the lukewarm support for the African-American
president, is ready for the next step: the launch of a real political
party. The Occupy Party.
Between the two conventions
Occupy has started yelling a new slogan: voting is useless, corporations
decide everything, Left and Right are the same. Is that really true?
"The
truth is the two-party system doesn't work. It is the first time in
American history that people seem to be becoming aware of this. I call
them the Coca Cola-Pepsi Elections: everything you drink has the
same flavor."
Should we add another type of can?
"It's not
like with Ralph Nader or Ross Perot. I'm imagining a real third party.
In Europe they formed the Pirate Party and it's going strong. But I'm
thinking of something different. I'm thinking of a Blue, Green, Black
Party. Blue for transparency and the Internet, Green because it would
take care of the environment, and Black because of the anger towards the
corporations."
The Occupy Wall Street Party?
"Not
just Occupy, not just the young people. People can't take it anymore:
too much Coke, too much Pepsi. In four years we will have our very own
convention".
Speaking of decline: isn't that the same language of the Right?
"I
never felt, emotionally speaking, a great difference between the Tea
Party and Occupy. They are both movements borne of disaster: it is the
system that doesn't work."
So a party that goes from Occupy to Ron Paul.
"Maybe
not him, but a lot of people that would have voted for him. There will
be a big battle, a battle of ideas. And the best one will win."
Don't you worry about an explosion of violence? Charlotte has been besieged by Occupy.
"The
possibility is always there: but I don't think so. In the past year it
has been the police that have lost control of the situation. The
brutality that Mike Bloomberg displayed at Zuccotti Park was a lesson that was followed elsewhere: they tried to crush the movement with intimidation."
Has the season passed?
"We
have talked a lot about Occupy Wall Street but now it's time for Occupy
Main Street. Yes, there's still more battling to be done on Wall
Street, September 17th is the first anniversary. But careful, the season
might have come and gone, but look at what is happening globally: the
young people fighting in Mexico and Greece, Pussy Riot in Russia".
In America, though, the four years of Obama risk being erased by Mitt Romney.
"He
walks like a robot... On the contrary: if he loses it will be a huge
failure for the Republicans. At least Barack is smart, he works well on
television: and you'll see that he will demolish Romney in the debates."
Romney had a Hollywood star by his side, libertarian Clint Eastwood.
"I
have to admit that was great. Politics has become so scripted,
everything controlled, and to see this old guy on stage improvising,
without a teleprompter: it was the only true moment."
You seem more attracted by the show than the content.
"Imagine
the young people of Occupy walking into the conventions of the whole
world as a sign of protest, taking away the teleprompter, the
prompt-box, right before Obama, Romney or another bigwig starts to read... There, now tell us what you really think, now tell us what you are really made of."
In the meantime do we help Barack or no? Are you ready to vote for him or no?
"If
he gave that speech, if he admitted that in these first four years he
went back on everything... But coming back to reality: most people in
Occupy will vote for him anyway: but not with any enthusiasm."
(06 settembre 2012)
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