The Adbusters Media Foundation, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, describes itself as a “global network of culture jammers and creatives working to change the way information flows, the way corporations wield power, and the way meaning is produced in our society.”
Adbusters is helping coordinate the September 17 action, Occupy Wall Street.
Adbusters now announces that #OCCUPYWALLSTREET, the group’s Twitter campaign, has gone global:
Inspired by the visceral potential of the Wall Street occupation, the Indignados of Spain just sent us word that on September 17th they too will set up camp outside the Madrid Stock Exchange. The surprise announcement, that their #TOMALABOLSA will join your #OCCUPYWALLSTREET, may embolden other cities as well. A rumor suggests the financial district of Paris may be next … or will it be Toronto’s Bay Street, Sydney’s Martin Place, or some yet to be chosen site in London?
Then on October 6th another kind of encampment begins in Washington, DC.
With a bit of luck, and the right mix of nonviolence and tenacity, S17 just might cascade into a Tahrir Moment on an international scale – wouldn’t that be something?
Although Adbusters does not identify its staff, advisors or supporters, October2011 does.
Among the leadership we find ’60s generation activists still pushing their same old, tired anti-American agenda.
. Ellen Barfield, a full-time peace and justice activist who serves on national boards or committees of War Resisters League, Veterans For Peace, and School of the Americas Watch, works with Nicaragua and Palestine solidarity groups.
The WRL was one of the first groups to blame the U.S. for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Veterans for Peace supported the Marxist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua in the 1980s. School of the Americas Watch “describes SOA as ‘a combat training school for Latin American soldiers’ that ‘has left a trail of blood and suffering in every country where its graduates have returned.’ For this reason, SOAW derisively refers to the institution as the ‘School of Assassins.’”
Only in America could a full-time antiwar activist like Barfield have served in the U.S. Army, and graduated with a college degree funded by taxpayers, then dedicate her life to anti-American activities.
. Ellen Davidson, an activist journalist and photographer in New York City who works with the Indypendent, the paper of the New York Independent Media Center, has also worked with the North American Committee on Latin America (NACLA) and the Palestine Aid Society and is active with the War Resisters League and Veterans For Peace. Davidson traveled to the West Bank in 2007 and 2009 and participated in the December 2009 Gaza Freedom March in Cairo.
NACLA was founded in 1966 by, among others, members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Students for a Democratic Society.
. Tarak Kauff, a longtime antiwar and social justice activist who leads the Veterans for Peace direct action program, took part in the 2009 Gaza Freedom March in Cairo alongside Ellen Davidson, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and CODEPINK.
Although he is a Jew, Kauff has been outed by locals in New York as an anti-Semite.
. Devra Morice is a New York activist who helped organize Movement for a Democratic Society, the geriatric support group for the new SDS, and is a contributor to Next Left Notes, an “independent journal with roots in SDS.”
People who have pledged to attend the October 6 protest include a gaggle of leftist radicals, including Obama’s Marxist advisor Cornel West, Obama bundler and CODEPINKer Jodie Evans, fellow CODEPINKer Medea Benjamin, and former congresswoman and America-hater Cynthia McKinney.
All have taken this PLEDGE:
I pledge that if any U.S. troops, contractors, or mercenaries remain in Afghanistan on Thursday, October 6, 2011, as that occupation goes into its 11th year, I will commit to being in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., with others on that day or the days immediately following, for as long as I can, with the intention of making it our Tahrir Square, Cairo, our Madison, Wisconsin, where we will NONVIOLENTLY resist the corporate machine by occupying Freedom Plaza to demand that America’s resources be invested in human needs and environmental protection instead of war and exploitation. We can do this together. We will be the beginning.
Will POTUS “I don’t believe in dumb wars” Obama join them?
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