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As the one year anniversary of OWS approaches, where do we stand?
To put it in a nutshell: the Zuccotti encampment model might have passed
its heyday, but the spirit of Occupy is still very much alive ...
evolving and inspiring, expanding our understanding of the possible,
exploding our political imagination. Before S17 we relied on the same
dinosaur paradigm of the dusty old left. We looked backward for
inspiration instead of forward. With Occupy we jumped over that old dead
goat. Now it's time to leap fresh again.
Look at what's happening in
Quebec ... the boldness of the media democracy movement in
Mexico ... the teenagers leading an education revolt in
Chile ... the Pussy Riot inspired art war unnerving Putin in
Russia ... and the new post-capitalist ways of living being forged in
Greece and
Spain. Witness the growing tempo of green riots across
China, the South African miner
strikes, the corruption protests of
India, the freedom fight in
Bahrain, the tremors of dissent in
Saudi Arabia, the total loss of confidence in America's corporate-funded Coke-Pepsi
election show.
Then, add to that the crippling droughts, looming food scarcity, the
end of easy oil and the tipping points hovering ominously on the horizon
...
Occupy began as a primal scream against the monied corruption of our
democracy ... but after a year of struggling against an unrepentant
corporatocracy, our goals are now deeper, our dreams wilder. We see a
common thread emerging — a blue-green-black hybrid politics — that
unites and elevates our movement:
On the blue front, we eradicate the commercial virus infecting our
culture – we liberate the flow of information, champion the leakers,
protect anonymity, and break up the corporate media monopolies with
outrageous creative hacks.
On the deep green front, we push towards a decisive victory in the
forty-year environmentalist struggle – we institute a binding
international accord on climate change, pursue a worldwide de-growth
economic agenda funded by a Robin Hood Tax and establish an across the
board true cost market regime in which the price of every product tells
the ecological truth.
On the black front, we restore the dominion of people over corporations
by all nonviolent means necessary – we unleash a visceral wave of jams,
meme wars and cultural interventions against the monied elite, the
financial fraudsters, paid-for politicians and megacorporate outposts in
our cities. We kill off criminal corporations like Goldman Sachs,
Exxon, Pfizer, Monsanto, Philip Morris and others that have broken the
public trust.
A radical blue-green-black transformation of the current global system
might sound hopefully idealistic, foolishly utopian, even radically
impossible, but remember that on July 13 2011, when the first call for
occupying the iconic center of global capitalism
went out, it sounded all too naively absurd as well.
#PIRATEPARTYUSA
#PIRATEPARTYUK
#PIRATEPARTYCANADA
#PIRATEPARTYAUSTRALIA
If you are in America, vote strategically but keep your eyes on the
horizon. Our civilization remains steadfast on its economic, ecological
and psychological crash course and sometime over the next few months,
maybe in the new year, a galvanizing global moment of truth will happen
... be ready for it ... prepare yourself ... stay loose, play jazz, keep
the faith, wake up every morning ready to live without dead time ...
Capitalism is heaving and our movement has just begun.
On September 17, meet at dawn ready to rumble on Wall Street:
http://s17nyc.org/schedule/s17/
for the wild,
Culture Jammers HQ
Occupywallstreet.org
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