in the US they celebrate it on'black Friday'. here on Sat 26th Nov
On its twentieth anniversary, Ad Busters plan to take it up a gear, marrying Buy Nothing Day with Occupy in order to #OCCUPYXMAS
En su 20 aniversario Ad Busters intentan casar el DIA SIN COMPRAR con el movimiento OCCUPY..para OCUPAR NAVIDAD
This year Ad Busters effectively merged Occupy and Buy Nothing Day to create Occupy Christmas, or for shoppers and shop keepers, a general nuisance. The havoc has already begun State-side as hundreds of people occupy store fronts and shopping malls with sit-ins and flash mobs. It will certainly be interesting to see how this translates across the pond and if the momentum will carry through to December 25th.
For those who want to take part in one of the most exciting anti-capitalist movements of recent times or just refrain from spending money for a day, there is a point to be made and pennies to be saved. Either way take solace in nothing and appreciate that you have something.
When: Friday 25th November (US only, but feel free to take part, or not) Saturday 26th November Where: Everywhere and nowhere Cost: nothing
Our Lives or Their Profits.... Day of Action against the Banks
27 Octubre: Dia d’acció contra els bancs i caixes
Hola companyes i companys indignats, des de el 15M del Vallès occidental proposem que el dia 27 d’octubre sigui un dia ple d’accions a tot el territori català contra bancs i caixes. /
The Sabadell Assembly have cxalled Day of Action in all Catalunya against the Banks this Thursday
/ La idea és que cada localitat o cada territori s’organitzi per fer l’acció, aquesta proposta ja va ser aprovada a l’ assemblea general que es va realitzar a Plaça Catalunya.
The idea es that each area organizes to do an action. This proposal was already approved in the General Assembly held in Plaza catalunya.
Salut i revolució
Protecting the parliamentarians from the people they pretend to represent were fifteen thousand riot cops. But remarkably, supporters of the misnamed Communist Party of Greece formed their own battalion, protecting the police and the parliament from those they called “provocateurs” and even, bizarrely, “anarcho-fascists”. They might as well have accused demonstrators of being meat-eating vegetarians!
5000.000 demonstrators. The communist/stalinist union, anxious as ever to control, joined the police to save the Parliament. This allowed sold out politicians to rubber stamp still more cuts to try and save the European Capitalist System. There followed another Battle of Syntagma Square., with one unlucky stalinist dying of a heart attack.
An estimated 500,000 took to the streets of Athens – which is the equivalent of 2.5 million in London. It was the largest show of Greek working class power since the fall of the military junta in 1974.
But so long as the profit system remains in place, true power remains in the hands of the ultra-wealthy international financiers. As the debt bubble reaches the point of bursting, there are divisions within this group. Despite the divisions, the combined will of the international financiers in represented by the so-called ‘troika’ – unelected European Commission bureaucrats, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. The politicians who meet in the Greek parliament are therefore the puppets of the troika, though they still try to maintain a facade of democracy by arguing a bit before they pass each round of austerity cuts.
”When there’s a Revolution..The PARTY puts it down”
And yet – from the perspective of the trade union bureaucrats who form the base of that party – it makes a lot of sense. Though their website talks of
''if THEY don't pay then WE won't pay at all, then Humpty Dumpty will fall off the Wall!''
the PASOK government enforcing the will of the “plutocracy” by “fire and sword”, their worst fear is a working class movement that they cannot control, which organises on a rank and file basis, and will not accept sell-out after sell-out…..
The whole of Greek society is now in turmoil. Aside from the events of the last two days, almost every day sees fresh strikes and occupations. In response, the PASOK government is mobilising the military to crush resistance by refuse workers. But perhaps in doing so, it is preparing its own demise, one way or another.
Most economists now talk of a Greek default – or at least a huge debt ‘haircut’ – being inevitable. When this happens, the shockwaves will be felt around the world. Sooner or later, the Greek situation is coming to a town near you, and when it does, the international working class will need to organise itself at a grassroots level, and face down the threat of brutal dictatorship….
On Saturday 22 October at 1pm in London, the general assembly is geared up to receive a swell of visitors, as many who work are inspired by the camp and plan to come and visit and see what it’s all about. It will be an important test for the assembly facilitators, to hold the camp together as more voices enter the equation…Posted by Jamie Kelsey-Fry |
Saturday will mark a week since OccupyLondon claimed its space at the feet of St Paul’s Cathedral. It has been a difficult but utterly uplifting experience for all.
IMF predicts collapse of Capitalism!
People are gravitating to the camp constantly, drawn by what is really still an idea taking shape, but an idea that is already inspiring.
The camp is determined and committed to channelling peoples voices through general assembly and consensus. The aims of the London assembly and others around the world are cut from the same cloth. We all want to challenge the fundamental assumptions that underlie the world’s political and financial systems, which are failing us at all levels.
It’s an easy criticism to make that the assembly ‘offers no solutions’. Of course not, not yet. But the process of building a movement that asks the right questions, and considers that another world is possible, has begun. The systems of general assembly and consensus can be painstaking but they do mean that all those people involved have their voices heard.
The camp came up with their first statement in 48 hours. It’s now only six days in. I would suggest that if this process of forming a concrete vision of a fairer, safer more just world is anything as erudite as the way the London camp has organised itself, then we are in for something of great value. Perhaps an idea whose time has come.
If you plan to visit, I have no doubt that you will find the camp to be, at the very least, a source of hope. At best, you may find yourself deciding that you belong here, and the next thing you know, you’ll be collecting a sleeping bag and joining a working group. See you soon.
All proclaim their opposition to the capitalist status quo – with its obscene riches at one pole and sickening poverty at the other. All of this has been organised online, completely outside the clutches of the decaying trade union bureaucracies, for whom ‘international solidarity’ is just some words they used to say a few decades back. The old organisations of timid protest seek influence on the margins, but they are ignored and seen to be as irrelevant as they actually are. It is highly appropriate that this moment has been crowned by the apparently successful resisting of the attempt by New York’s mayor and second richest man to retake Liberty Park. There is a sense that the powers that be are losing control by the hour, if not the second if you follow it all on Twitter.
If you are can't occupy from tomorrow, you can follow the action on the #occupy Twitter hashtag, your local Indymedia site, and maybe even your local corporate media, if you've got the stomach for it.
Read much MORE http://infantile-disorder.blogspot.com/2011/10/15th-october-2011-birth-of-global-anti.html
Scuffles, arrests overnight at Occupy Wall Street
Although a massive march and rally in Lower Manhattan by Occupy Wall Streeters and their union supporters went off without a hitch Wednesday afternoon, the scene turned ugly again overnight when some protesters rushed police barricades where they were met with nightsticks, pepper spray and handcuffs.
They say Capitalism is about to collapse. Lets give it a push! Time to jump in! Only if we all jump together can we change the lunatic system we live under.
For an end to debt and money… No leaders , No parties, just us.. For a co-op world!
The map now marks 648 Occupations and demos, with 4 days to go!
Destroying the Banks in favour of a phased in Money-Free system. Banning Hierarchical, sexist and homophobic organizations. A minimum world wage, or free rations of basic goods. Abolishing armies and war. Community Co-operatives instead of companies. Phasing out of the Oil Economy in favour of renewables and NH3 fuel. Banning GMO’s. Collectivising excess private property. Abolition of the Prisons and police system….
El 15 de Octubre del 2011 va a ser una fecha inolvidable para la raza humana. Este sera el primer encuentro UNIVERSAL de ciudadanos por un mundo mejor.
NO es un tema de ideas políticas, religión o filosofía.
El asunto es sobre cuanto nos importa nuestro futuro y el futuro de la Tierra
They say Capitalism is about to collapse. Lets give it a push! Time to jump in! Only if we all jump together can we change the lunatic system we live under.
For an end to debt and money… No leaders , No parties, just us.. For a co-op world!
The map now marks 648 Occupations and demos, with 4 days to go!
Destroying the Banks in favour of a phased in Money-Free system. Banning Hierarchical, sexist and homophobic organizations. A minimum world wage, or free rations of basic goods. Abolishing armies and war. Community Co-operatives instead of companies. Phasing out of the Oil Economy in favour of renewables and NH3 fuel. Banning GMO’s. Collectivising excess private property. Abolition of the Prisons and police system….
El 15 de Octubre del 2011 va a ser una fecha inolvidable para la raza humana. Este sera el primer encuentro UNIVERSAL de ciudadanos por un mundo mejor.
NO es un tema de ideas políticas, religión o filosofía.
El asunto es sobre cuanto nos importa nuestro futuro y el futuro de la Tierra
The Free 