*"An insidious campaign of donor money." Yep. That commonly does it.
From: indignant Adbusters guys
TACTICAL BRIEFING #29 – Battle for the Soul of Occupy
"Alright you jammers, occupiers and Springtime dreamers,
"First they silenced our uprising with a media blackout… then they smashed our encampments with midnight paramilitary raids… and now they’re threatening to neutralize our insurgency with an insidious campaign of donor money and co-optation. This counter-strategy worked to kill off the Tea Party’s outrage and turn it into a puppet of the Republican Party. Will the same happen with Occupy Wall Street? Will our insurgency turn into the Democrats’ Tea Party pet?
(((Wait a minute... Okay, what are the odds here? Why are these even rhetorical
questions? Was politics invented last year?)))
"It’s up to you to decide if our movement goes the way of Paris ’68, the dust bin of could-have-been-insurrections, or something more daring, more inspiring, something not yet dreamed. (((Something that'll never be recuperated, ever? Even Chairman Mao would have had a tough time keeping the population in tents.)))
"Will you allow Occupy to become a project of the old left, the same cabal of old world thinkers who have blunted the possibility of revolution for decades? Will you allow MoveOn, The Nation and Ben & Jerry to put the brakes on our Spring Offensive and turn our struggle into a “99% Spring” reelection campaign for President Obama?
"We are now in a battle for the soul of Occupy… a fight to the finish between the impotent old left and the new vibrant, horizontal left who launched Occupy Wall Street from the bottom-up and who dreams of real democracy and another world. (((If they're impotent, why would they be any big threat? Like, bigger than midnight paramilitary raids? Maybe you'd better get back to us when Ben & Jerry launch paramilitary raids. "PepperSpray Raspberry Whipple" flavor, maybe?)))
"Whatever you do, don’t allow our revolutionary struggle to fizzle out into another lefty whine and clicktivist campaign like has happened so many times in the past. (((Look, there were actual no-kidding revolutions all across North Africa. Some of those guys LIVE in tents, and they're trying hard to settle down.))) Let’s Occupy the clicktivists and crash the MoveOn party. Let’s #DEFENDOCCUPY and stop the derailment of our movement that looms ahead.
for the wild,
Culture Jammers HQ
OccupyWallStreet.org / Tactical Briefing #25, #26, #27 and #28 / Check out Oakland occupier Mike King’s take on MoveOn’s 99% Spring
P.S. For Adbusters #102, we’re looking for intimate portraits of life inside art/activist/visionary communes worldwide. Also, a lucid, incisive critique of the continuing anti-Palestine bias at the NY Times. Plus inspiring, strategic takes on the future of Occupy. Send to [email protected].
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