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align="right" height="614" hspace="10" width="408"><big><b>Alright
you 90,000 redeemers, rebels and radicals out there,</b></big>
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<p>A worldwide shift in revolutionary tactics is underway right
now that bodes well for the future. The spirit of this fresh
tactic, a fusion of Tahrir with the acampadas of Spain, is
captured in this quote:</p>
<blockquote class=" cite" id="StationeryCiteGenerated_5">"The
antiglobalization movement was the first step on the road. Back
then our model was to attack the system like a pack of wolves.
There was an alpha male, a wolf who led the pack, and those who
followed behind. Now the model has evolved. Today we are one big
swarm of people."
<p style="text-align:right; color: #999999; font-size: 80%;
margin-top:-20px;">— Raimundo Viejo, Pompeu Fabra University<br>
Barcelona, Spain</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The beauty of this new formula, and what makes this novel
tactic exciting, is its pragmatic simplicity: we talk to each
other in various physical gatherings and virtual people's
assemblies … we zero in on what our one demand will be, a demand
that awakens the imagination and, if achieved, would propel us
toward the radical democracy of the future … and then we go out
and seize a square of singular symbolic significance and put our
asses on the line to make it happen.</p>
<p>The time has come to deploy this emerging stratagem against the
greatest corrupter of our democracy: <strong>Wall Street, the
financial Gomorrah of America</strong>.</p>
<p>On September 17, we want to see 20,000 people flood into lower
Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and
occupy Wall Street for a few months. Once there, we shall
incessantly repeat one simple demand in a plurality of voices.</p>
<p>Tahrir succeeded in large part because the people of Egypt made
a straightforward ultimatum – that Mubarak must go – over and
over again until they won. Following this model, what is our
equally uncomplicated demand?</p>
<p>The most exciting candidate that we've heard so far is one that
gets at the core of why the American political establishment is
currently unworthy of being called a democracy: we demand that
Barack Obama ordain a Presidential Commission tasked with ending
the influence money has over our representatives in Washington.
It's time for <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><strong>DEMOCRACY
NOT CORPORATOCRACY</strong></span>. We're doomed without it.</p>
<p>This demand seems to capture the current national mood because
cleaning up corruption in Washington is something all Americans,
right and left, yearn for and can stand behind. If we hang in
there, 20,000-strong, week after week against every police and
National Guard effort to expel us from Wall Street, it would be
impossible for Obama to ignore us. Our government would be
forced to choose publicly between the will of the people and the
lucre of the corporations.</p>
<p>This could be the beginning of a whole new social dynamic in
America, a step beyond the Tea Party movement, where, instead of
being caught helpless by the current power structure, we the
people start getting what we want whether it be the dismantling
of half the 1,000 military bases America has around the world to
the reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall Act or a three strikes
and you're out law for corporate criminals. Beginning from one
simple demand – a presidential commission to separate money from
politics – we start setting the agenda for a new America.</p>
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what you think. Post a comment and help each other zero in on
what our one demand will be.</p>
<p>And then let's screw up our courage, pack our tents and head to
Wall Street with a vengeance September 17.</p>
<p style="font-size:120%;"><strong>for the wild,<br>
Culture Jammers HQ</strong></p>
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