By Ad Busters
Hey all you wild spirits out there, Here is how the Global Spring begins: A few lone wolves among us start pasting posters in and around Goldman Sachs HQ at 200 West Street, Manhattan, New York. Groups of two or three turn up and hand out leaflets at their branch office at Maria de Molina 6-5a, Madrid, Spain. People start gathering and having fun outside Goldman’s offices in 50 cities…
cross posted from adbusters, and opednews
Hey all you wild spirits out there,
Here is how the Global Spring begins:
A few lone wolves among us start pasting posters in and around Goldman Sachs HQ at 200 West Street, Manhattan, New York. Groups of two or three turn up and hand out leaflets at their branch office at Maria de Molina 6-5a, Madrid, Spain. People start gathering and having fun outside Goldman’s offices in 50 cities…
Then . . . on Thursday May 23, when Goldman Sachs holds its annual shareholders meeting at 222 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, 500 people turn up and solidarity games are held across the world. It gets serious when thousands start playing on September 17 in front of Goldman’s branches in Los Angeles, Toronto, Moscow,London, Buenos Aires, Melbourne, Beijing, Mexico City. The media picks up on this fledgling global revolt. . .
And, one fine day, the whole thing suddenly catches fire . . . #GOLDMAN becomes a rallying cry for people everywhere to rise up against the financial fraudsters who have been f*cking around with our lives for far too long.
When the moment is ripe, all it takes is a spark.
for the wild,
Kono Matsu / kono at adbusters.org
Culture Jammers HQ
P.S. Find teammates and Goldman Sachs locations at meetup.com/goldman
Catch up on the gameplay thus far, here.
Now print this poster, and plaster it all over the world!
Submitters Website: http://adbusters.org
Submitters Bio:
The Adbusters Media Foundation is a Canadian-based not-for-profit , anti-consumerist , pro-environment organization founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz in Vancouver , British Columbia. Adbusters describes itself as “a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age.”
Characterized by some as anti-capitalist or opposed to capitalism, it publishes the reader-supported, advertising-free Adbusters, an activist magazine with an international circulation of 120,000 devoted to challenging consumerism. Past and present contributors to the magazine include Christopher Hedges, Matt Taibbi, Bill McKibben, Jim Munroe, Douglas Rushkoff, Jonathan Barnbrook, David Graeber, Simon Critchley, Slavoj Zizek, Michael Hardt, David Orrell and others.
Adbusters has launched numerous international campaigns, including Buy Nothing Day, TV Turnoff Week and Occupy Wall Street, and is known for their “subvertisements” that spoof popular advertisements.
A revolution without a coherent program? Without a battle-tested vanguard capable of staying the course when inevitable repression sets in? What do you do after plastering Goldman Sachs with all those posters, which these plutos can easily have removed by their janitors??? Go home? Go back to your jobs? It will all dissolve into spontaneous action and the oligarchs will simply wait the crowds out and at the first opportunity resume business as usual. Ad Busters & Co. better study more closely the lessons of Greece, Cyprus, Spain, France and other fronts, not to mention history itself, where the masses… Read more »
Yes indeed Graham, such action will not influence the life of the bankers, and the 1% can just wait the crowds out. They are only forced to rethink what they are doing when all these plastering is done on their private living quarters. The program can be simple. We are the 99% and thus there is a 1% that is different and should be the target, make them equal to the 99%. Or remove money as the driving force in all decisions and replace it with the idea that all people have the same status. All these actions against austerity… Read more »