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Published on Thursday, January 26, 2012 by Common Dreams

Adbusters Issues New Call to Action: Occupy Chicago for G8/NATO Summit

- Common Dreams staff

The Occupy Wall Street movement traces its origin to a call to action in the Vancouver-based magazine Adbusters.
Now, Adbusters has issued a Call to Action to Occupy Chicago for the G8/NATO summit this coming May:
Hey you redeemers, rebels and radicals out there,

Against the backdrop of a global uprising that is simmering in dozens of countries and thousands of cities and towns, the G8 and NATO will hold a rare simultaneous summit in Chicago this May. The world's military and political elites, heads of state, 7,500 officials from 80 nations, and more than 2,500 journalists will be there.

And so will we.

On May 1, 50,000 people from all over the world will flock to Chicago, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and #OCCUPYCHICAGO for a month. With a bit of luck, we'll pull off the biggest multinational occupation of a summit meeting the world has ever seen.

And this time around we're not going to put up with the kind of police repression that happened during the Democratic National Convention protests in Chicago, 1968 … nor will we abide by any phony restrictions the City of Chicago may want to impose on our first amendment rights. We'll go there with our heads held high and assemble for a month-long people's summit … we'll march and chant and sing and shout and exercise our right to tell our elected representatives what we want … the constitution will be our guide.

And when the G8 and NATO meet behind closed doors on May 19, we'll be ready with our demands: a Robin Hood Tax … a ban on high frequency flash' trading … a binding climate change accord … a three strikes and you're out law for corporate criminals … an all out initiative for a nuclear-free Middle East … whatever we decide in our general assemblies and in our global internet brainstorm we the people will set the agenda for the next few years and demand our leaders carry it out.

And if they don't listen … if they ignore us and put our demands on the back burner like they've done so many times before … then, with Gandhian ferocity, we'll flashmob the streets, shut down stock exchanges, campuses, corporate headquarters and cities across the globe … we'll make the price of doing business as usual too much to bear.

Jammers, pack your tents, muster up your courage and prepare for a big bang in Chicago this Spring. If we don't stand up now and fight now for a different kind of future we may not have much of a future … so let's live without dead time for a month in May and see what happens …
for the wild,
Culture Jammers HQ

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/26

Keith Millea Wrote:Published on Thursday, January 26, 2012 by Common Dreams

Adbusters Issues New Call to Action: Occupy Chicago for G8/NATO Summit

- Common Dreams staff

The Occupy Wall Street movement traces its origin to a call to action in the Vancouver-based magazine Adbusters.
Now, Adbusters has issued a Call to Action to Occupy Chicago for the G8/NATO summit this coming May:
Hey you redeemers, rebels and radicals out there,

Against the backdrop of a global uprising that is simmering in dozens of countries and thousands of cities and towns, the G8 and NATO will hold a rare simultaneous summit in Chicago this May. The world's military and political elites, heads of state, 7,500 officials from 80 nations, and more than 2,500 journalists will be there.

And so will we.

On May 1, 50,000 people from all over the world will flock to Chicago, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and #OCCUPYCHICAGO for a month. With a bit of luck, we'll pull off the biggest multinational occupation of a summit meeting the world has ever seen.

And this time around we're not going to put up with the kind of police repression that happened during the Democratic National Convention protests in Chicago, 1968 … nor will we abide by any phony restrictions the City of Chicago may want to impose on our first amendment rights. We'll go there with our heads held high and assemble for a month-long people's summit … we'll march and chant and sing and shout and exercise our right to tell our elected representatives what we want … the constitution will be our guide.

And when the G8 and NATO meet behind closed doors on May 19, we'll be ready with our demands: a Robin Hood Tax … a ban on high frequency flash' trading … a binding climate change accord … a three strikes and you're out law for corporate criminals … an all out initiative for a nuclear-free Middle East … whatever we decide in our general assemblies and in our global internet brainstorm we the people will set the agenda for the next few years and demand our leaders carry it out.

And if they don't listen … if they ignore us and put our demands on the back burner like they've done so many times before … then, with Gandhian ferocity, we'll flashmob the streets, shut down stock exchanges, campuses, corporate headquarters and cities across the globe … we'll make the price of doing business as usual too much to bear.

Jammers, pack your tents, muster up your courage and prepare for a big bang in Chicago this Spring. If we don't stand up now and fight now for a different kind of future we may not have much of a future … so let's live without dead time for a month in May and see what happens …
for the wild,
Culture Jammers HQ

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/26

Yeah, a heavy 'call', but an inevitable one. Will this be another 'Toronto'? or a 'Kent State'? We shall see....I think the Government - both local and National = is going to handle these two roughly and try to send a message to all would be Occupii that the price will be high to challenge the System.

Class Warrrior Mitt Wants To "Help The 99%."

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Desperation, thy name is Mitt. Actually it's Willard. Romney keeps free falling, giving us more and more material to ridicule as he flips and flops. Now he seems to be in favor of class warfare and Occupy. Think I jest? Read this:
Politico
Mitt will occupy one of his mansions in protest! He's dividing us into the 99% and 1%!! Envier! Class warrior!
First we had moderate Mitt in Massachusetts (claiming he voted for Tsongas, was to the left of Teddy on gay rights, and later creating Romneycare when he was governor). Then, starting around 2006, we had GWOT Romney, the reborn conservative, neo-con. After losing in 2008 to McCain, we had Mitt the Job Creator. After Bain blew up in his face, we now have commpassionate Mitt, the class warrior on behalf of the 99% (a version of Job Creator Mitt).
It's just marketing. He's running for office, for gosh sakes.


Mr. 1% wants to "help" the 99%. He spent his life work amassing a fortunate by looting companies and destroying jobs, but he cares.
But how does he reconcile this with this:
http://www.dailykos.com/...
And this?
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Well, if corporations and banks are people (redundant), then maybe Mitt wants to help the 99% of corporations?
This guy is a joke. To borrow a boxing metaphor, he has a glass jaw. Newt is a terrible, washed up candidate, but he's taking Mitt down.

Quote:Yeah, a heavy 'call', but an inevitable one. Will this be another 'Toronto'? or a 'Kent State'? We shall see....I think the Government - both local and National = is going to handle these two roughly and try to send a message to all would be Occupii that the price will be high to challenge the System.

I'm worried about this one also Peter.This is just calling out for a battle.And,to have international protesters show up will NOT please people whatsoever.Maybe it's inevitable like you say.This will be an interesting year for sure.It is the........

YEAR OF THE DRAGON

The giving it right back to the phony-left Rahm aspect is irresistably appealing isn't it? Sort of reminds me of the founding fathers and their righteous zeal.


Abbie would be sleeping comfortably in his grave over this. May it expand and amplify. Fuck them.


You don't know what I'd give to see that phony Barney Fife fascism Homeland Security HQ burned-down by the American people...

Video: 26 Reportedly Arrested At Occupy Wall Street Foreclosure Auction Blockade


A screenshot from a video taken at Brooklyn Supreme Court today, showing a police officer confiscating a protesters phone
As Yogi Berra might say, it's deja vu all over again: over 25 Occupy Wall Street protesters have been arrested today at a foreclosure auction protest in Brooklyn this afternoon. According to John Knefel, over 80 people crammed into Brooklyn Supreme Court to sing songs and blockade the foreclosure sales, and it seemingly worked: "4 cops just said the auction was cancelled. #ows now being forced to leave. could it be a ruse? #blockade." Check out a video of protesters singing in the courthouse here, and below.



As people are being asked to leave the courthouse, Knefel just tweeted that confusion still reigns: "Update: just spoke w someone who was in court before, said that the auction DID keep happening. #ows #blockade...Court officer I just spoke w wouldn't confirm one way or the other. Said to ask people leaving what they "felt" happened." OWS protesters have been involved with trying to help homeless families hold onto foreclosed homes around Brooklyn since late last year.

According to Anonymous Oakland, the blockade was at least partially successful: "Foreclosure auction in Brooklyn disrupted, 26 reported arrests, only 1 of 4 homes sold. #blockade #OWS." We'll update as information becomes more clear.

Anonymous claims Stratfor spied on OWS

Published: 27 January, 2012, 23:11

Protesters affiliated with Occupy Wall Street demonstrate during an Occupy the Courts protest outside Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse on January 20, 2012 in New York City (Mario Tama / Getty Images / AFP)

Anonymous promised that after hacking the intelligence firm Stratfor, called by some a "shadow CIA," they'd prove that they were more than just a consulting firm.

Now it looks like the private company worked along with law enforcement in attempting to bring down the Occupy movement.

In some of the latest pieces of correspondence made public, however, information that many had already suspected about the role law enforcement played in infiltrating the Occupy Wall Street movement is brought to light. In an exchange of emails between Stratfor executives that has been published by hackers involved in the matter, employees of the firm go back-and-forth with one another in detail over information that Texas law enforcement supplied the firm after investigating an Austin Occupy meet-up.

In the emails, Strafor employees discuss intel about the Occupy movement that was supplied to them by a "Texas DPS agent," or an officer within the ranks of the Lone Star State's Department of Public Safety. The DPS is a state-wide law enforcement agency that investigates suspicious activity and allegations of terrorism within Texas. The question of why state law enforcement shared that email with a private intelligence firm is open to interpretation, but certainly suggests that attempts to understand and perhaps undermine the local OWS chapter was more than just a minor operation.

According to the documentation, which includes correspondence from late 2011, Stratfor employees discuss both Occupy Austin and the Deep Green Resistance, or DGR. While DGR is not directly affiliated with Occupy Wall Street, it is a similar movement to a degree that encourages environmental activism that isn't present in more mainstream campaigns. In a press release, the DGR attacks both Texas authorities and Strafor for their newly revealed roles.

"Deep Green Resistance condemns the surveillance and infiltration of activist groups by law enforcement and private corporations and calls on activists and their allies to expose and protest this violation of all of our constitutional rights," the group says in a statement published Thursday.

Rachel Meeropol, a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, adds that she is outraged over how Stratfor and the DPS were in cahoots over infiltrating Occupy Austin.

"Law enforcement sharing information about local activism with private intelligence firms should be a huge scandal," writes Meeropol in Thursday's statement. "Privately funded surveillance and infiltration of activist groups is especially chilling, as time and again we see such corporations operate as if they are above the law and accountable to no one."

In the emails, Stratfor staffers discuss how one of their own men went undercover to an Occupy Austin General Assembly and attempted to gain insight into how the group operates. Stratfor's Scott Stewart writes that the movement is considered by some to be "a terrible threat to corporations," but adds, "in reality, due to the history of anarchists, animal rights, anti-war and anti-globalization protesters, companies are well prepared for such hippy hijinks." As the Occupy movement continues to thrive more than three months after Stewart shared such words with other Stratfor employees, it is clear that that isn't the case.

In a separate email sent a month later in November, Korena Zucha of Stratfor writes that a Texas DPS agent has shared information about both movements. In it, Deep Green is linked with Occupy Austin, which DGR shrugs off as speculation. Representatives for DGR believe that the correspondence suggests that surveillance of both groups was ongoing.

In the back-and-forth, Stratfor staffers suggest that sources within Occupy Austin describe some of the DGR members as crazy, to which one adds, "that bothers me, because these Occupy people will tolerate just about anything."

Stratfor's Marc Lanthemann, who signs his email as a "Watch Officer" for the firm, suggests that coordination between the DGR and Occupy movement could have dire consequences. Lanthemann writes in one email that he thinks Deep Green is an "eco-terror group is focused on creating a situation where violent confrontation will be the ultimate outcome."

"It doesn't require an agent to get simple facts correct. Both of these assertions are just plain false," responds DGR.

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Who's police state?! Our Police State!!!!

Over 400 arrested with no warnings given - flashbangs and rubber bullets, teargas used...still ongoing as I write this. MSM telling lies and more lies......freakin' Police State now....demonstrating soon to be outlawed, IMHO> One livestreamer had her camera snatched by what seemed like an undercover policeman.

There's not enough bodies out there. They are under the suburban CNN radar as far as getting attention for their cause. This was just some lefties and street people running in the streets and getting arrested. Victory for the cops and cons. They're going to need a bigger revolution...