Adbuster proposal to General Assemblies: "On October 29, on the eve of the G20 Leaders Summit in France, let the people of the world rise up and demand that our G20 leaders immediately impose a 1% #ROBINHOOD tax on all financial transactions and currency trades. Let's send them a clear message: We want you to slow down some of that $1.3-trillion easy money that's sloshing around the global casino each day - enough cash to fund every social program and environmental initiative in the world."
Demonstrators dressed in green Robin Hood outfits paddle their kayaks down the Chicago River, 10/10/11. (photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Adbusters Calls for Robin Hood Global March
18 October 11
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Alright you redeemers, rebels and radicals out there,
We're living through a magical moment ... #OCCUPYWALLSTREET has catalyzed into an international insurgency for democracy ... the mood at our assemblies is electric ... people who go there are drawn into a Gandhian spirit of camaraderie and hope for a new kind of future. Across the globe the 99% are marching! You have inspired more than you know. People are digging into Act One of the long Spring.
Its now time to amp up the edgy theatrics ... deviant pranks, subversive performances and playful d�tournements of all kinds. Open your insurrectionary imagination. Anything, from a bottom-up transformation of the global economy to changing the way we eat, the way we get around, the way we live, love and communicate ... be the spark that sustains a global revolution of everyday life!
As the movement matures, lets consider a response to our critics. Lets occupy the core of our global system. Lets dethrone the greed that defines this new century. Lets work to define our one great demand.
October 29 - #RobinHood Global March
This is a proposal for the general assemblies of the Occupy movement.
Eight years ago, on February 15, 2003, upwards of 15 million people in sixty countries marched together to stop President Bush from invading Iraq ... a huge chunk of humanity lived for one day without dead time and glimpsed the power of a united people's movement. Now we have an opportunity to repeat that performance on an even larger scale.
On October 29, on the eve of the G20 Leaders Summit in France, let's the people of the world rise up and demand that our G20 leaders immediately impose a 1% #ROBINHOOD tax on all financial transactions and currency trades. Let's send them a clear message: We want you to slow down some of that $1.3-trillion easy money that's sloshing around the global casino each day - enough cash to fund every social program and environmental initiative in the world.
Take this idea to your local general assembly and join your comrades in the streets on October 29.
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And those progressives further down the ticket need a big turnout. Be there!
I also think the election will wind up in the House. Bernie Sanders, the ONLY viable candidate in the election, will receive many write-in votes in states where they are permissible, but most of them will not count if the states require registration as a write-in candidate. Many of the candidates who did not last the entire primary course may also receive write-in votes. The Green Party and other parties will receive generous protest support.
People who alway have opposed Clinton's and Trump's candidacies are unlikely to vote for either of them. Trump my pick up some die-hard so-called Democratic voters who truly loathe Clinton, just as Clinton may win some of the disgusted Republican voters. Independents, having the same options, probably will make the same choices.
I do not think that any candidate will have 51% of the vote.
Any one want to place a very small wager? Say, five toothpicks?
Sandersites need to wake up and smell the coffee. Hillary Clinton may not be their brand, but spitting her out because she doesn't taste just right might mean having to swallow the tainted stuff known as Donald Trump.
Assuming this happens, there will be some of the greatest debates we've ever had in this nation. Should be quite a circus to watch!! My money is on Jill Stein to win the debates.
You'd be throwing it away, even if she somehow actually does get to 15 percent. If Ms. Stein were that good, more voters would have heard of her by now. (Frankly, I'm surprised she's even at 7 percent.)
Unfortunately, things like the recent supreme court decisions are more likely to motivate Republican voters than to discourage them.
Now we need to shatter the Democrat party. Both need to be actively destroyed. Nothing new can emerge absent a destruction of the structures at hand which are literally sucking up all the oxygen in the country.
I don't know any progressives who talk about trade tariffs. To them, trade agreements are mostly about corporate power, environmental protection, worker rights, and the like. But tariff free trade is how corporations exploit workers.