Hey all you believers in a new world out there,
May Day wasn’t so great was it… the numbers were low, the maxims
weren’t sublime, the excitement didn’t catch on. May 12 was hefty in
Europe, reigniting the snuffed Indignados, but the energy did not seem
to flow over to here.
Now we’re looking at May 18 ~ 21 when protesters,
possibly in Arab Spring numbers, swarm Chicago… Security experts say it
will be a challenge the likes of which no American city has had to face –
a leaderless, all-consuming non-violent swarm. If we can pull it off in
the fierce tradition of Gandhi and MLK, the next few days could become
the spark, the eruption, the new spiritual home of our Spring offensive.
On a softer, more aesthetic note, the likelihood of a global
#LAUGHRIOT starting May 18 feels especially fresh and new … imagine …
the globalization of laughter
… millions of people around the world decide to take a few minutes off
from their usual routines, get together with friends and pull off a
global cascade of riotously laughing flash mobs, transforming the flow
of power from the heads of the elite to the bellies of the people.
At a time when our human experiment is buckling under austerity,
financial madness and eco-angst, there is something so ludicrous,
bizarre, even insane about the eight most powerful people in the world
trying to conduct the people’s business – to set things right – from
behind closed doors and razor wire fences.
A global #LAUGHRIOT could break through the G8’s veneer of legitimacy
and expose the Camp David Summit and our current capitalist model for
the farce that it really is.
A global laugh-in could be the relief we’ve all been waiting for: the
moment when — in a communal burst of laughter — we the people suddenly
wake up to the fact that the only power our leaders have is the power we
give them.
Here goes … let’s laugh like we’ve never laughed before,
for the wild,
Culture Jammers HQ
OccupyWallStreet.org / Tactical Briefing
#30,
#31 and
#32 / Be present on May 18. Spark the
#LAUGHRIOT then swarm
Chicago.
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