Occupy’s Spiritual Quest / Adbusters Tactical Briefing #34

MARCUS DEMERY

Dear occupiers, jammers, dreamers,

Three years after the May 1968 uprising that swept the world, the great French philosopher Michel Foucault observed that a key strategy of power is to “appear inaccessible to events.” Power, Foucault argued with a nod towards 1968’s failed insurrection, acts to “dispel the shock of daily occurrences, to dissolve the event … to exclude the radical break introduced by events.”

UK Uncut Street Parties May 26

Hello Uncutters!

There are just a couple of days until UK Uncut’s Street Parties on Saturday
May 26. As always all of the information can be found on our website.

There are actions planned all over the country, to find your nearerst one
have a look here: http://ukuncut.org.uk/actions

We – Occupy Athens Manifesto, Athens 19th of May 2012

We are ordinary people, we belong to the 99%. We have rights and dreams, lost amid the daily battle of life. We witness an intolerable reality which worsens every day, due to the damaging measures of the memoranda. The problems in Greece however, do not begin, nor end with the memoranda.

Not long ago, during the economic bubble years, we were experiencing inequality and social fragmentation, violence or apathy, depression, systemic corruption and lack of justice, low education and low aesthetics.

 We do not wish to return to the situation preceding the economic crisis.

We participated, or at least tolerated, an individualistic way of life, the deification of money, consumerism, spectacle and rat race. As a result, and in the name of all the above, our society systematically raped the environment and violated human dignity.

Occupy Abai – day 8. One day in the life of protest camp against inauguration of Putin in Moscow – 14th of May

Occupy Abai – day 8

One day in the life of protest camp against inauguration of Putin in
Moscow – 14th of May

For photos, check original at http://avtonom.org/node/17655

Before evening Anarchist singer-songwriter “comrade Arkadi” made a
concert. Later, a freemarket was opened, where everyone could leave
their goods and gather what was left by other people. Tomorrow 15th of
May, there will be a lecture on free non-capitalist economy in the camp.

Occupy Copenhagen – MAY 12 – photos

GREETINGS OCCUPIERS OF THE WORLD!

May 12th, 2012 – Copenhagen, Denmark

In solidarity with the Occupy Movement’s Global May Manifesto, the Danish faction manifested today a parade in the streets of Copenhagen.

The procession was centred around a four-meter tall effigy of a politician controlled with strings by actors parodying fatcats – or the “1%”, as the OWS movement terms the wealthiest top-notch of society.

NYers Plan Vibrant Week of Anti-Austerity Events ANOTHER CITY IS POSSIBLE, ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE

Continuing to shift the discussion from austerity to economic inequality, Occupy Wall Street and dozens of NY-based organizations join global days of action, May 10th-15thBeginning on May 10th and culminating on May 15th in a mass convergence at Times Square, NYC organizations and individuals from all across the city will join together in action around the many issues we face: from cuts in social services, to an austerity agenda that redistributes your tax revenue into private hands, to the financial institutions (that we bailed out) that continue to make record profits at our expense. Actions on May 12th and 15th are in conjunction with global calls for action–coinciding with coordinated protests across Europe and the Mediterranean. Watch the video here.

Anti-NATO messaging call from Occupy Chicago

greetings!

as you now NATO is holding a summit in chicago may 19-21. Occupy Chicago has planned several actions to highlight the local effects of NATO’s global policies. check chicagospring.org for up to date info, oroccupychi.org for more information.

TACTICAL BRIEFING #32 – Occupy’s Turning Point

We innovate spontaneously – we play jazz

Hey you nimble dreamers, occupiers, believers,

Last May 15, a hundred thousand indignados in Spain seized the squares across their nation, held people’s assemblies and catalyzed a global tactical shift that birthed Occupy Wall Street four months later. Our movement outflanked governments everywhere with a thousand encampments in large part because no one was prepared for Occupy’s magic combination of Spain’s transparent consensus-based acampadas with the Tahrir-model of indefinite occupation of symbolic space. Now exactly a year later, a big question mark hangs over our movement because it is clear that the same tactics may never work again.

Spring re-occupations have largely failed here in North America. The May Day General Strike was stifled by aggressive, preemptive policing that neutralized Occupy’s signature moves. In light of these challenges, Saturday’s May 12 rebirth of the indignados could be a tactical turning point.

#OccupyManchester MON$T£R MADN€$$ MAY12 PROMO

Occupy Manchester in the UK will be staging an art activism event in Piccadilly Gardens in the City, from 2pm on 12M in solidarity with the Occupy Movement Worldwide.

Help us break the media silence about M1

> Comrads!
>
> After what I think was a huge triumph yesterday, I wake up today to find
> that (unsurprisingly) the mainstream media has decided to almost completely
> ignore our M1 celebrations, the huge mass of people that hit the streets,
> the series of protests, workshops, pickets and marches that took over the
> day and the tons of powerful and hopeful scenes that seem to signal the
> coming of a militant spring/summer. So, in true OWS fashion, we must be the
> change we wish to see, and flood the airspace with our media.
>
> Which is why we've decided to launch an *emergency campaign to collect
> testimonies, opinions and observations of all of those that took the
> streets yesterday* around the country to publish them on IndigNación (
> www.indig-nacion.org). We would like to turn this into an opportunity to
> turn our new platform into a real space of dialogue between what we know
> are very different perspectives within our community -- and I'm not talking
> exclusively of the Latino community. Although our content is exclusively in
> Spanish, we want to hear from everyone. Texts in English (or any other
> language, for that matter) will be translated and posted in both. Let's
> fill the silence of corporate media with the voices of the people!
>
> *PLEASE* take 15 minutes from your day today to write us at least a few
> sentences about what you saw, heard, thought or felt yesterday. Also,
> please share this email with all of your friends who were on the streets
> yesterday here in New York or in any part of the world, celebrating
> International Worker's Day. If you have photos or videos you want to share,
> we'd also love to see them. You can send all of your contributions to
> editores@indig-nacion.org and we ask that you please do it *TODAY if
> possible*.
>
> much love to you all and onwards!

>
> *        www.indig-nacion.org*
>
> *¡Conéctate! *
> www.facebook.com/ows.indignacion
> @INDIG_NACION

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