I believe Occupy Wall St, despite all its failings, was a well-needed morale boost for the american leftISTS (because there is no left here, only leftists) I also think we could do it better this time around, but only with discipline; even militancy.
What I'm hoping to do will require an IRL group, which are always infiltrated. So our first task will be designing a system that accepts and withstands infiltration the way black bloc does.
If you're in the NYC area and you want to participate (or you're COINTELPRO and you want to arrest us) take whatever security precautions you deem prudent and email [email protected]/* */ Note that regular email addresses won't work, you need an onion address- this is as necessary for your own anonymity as it is mine, so please don't >FBI me. If you do things right it shouldn't matter if the group is 50% FBI and 12% RWDS, Once we've got 10 people or so we can start working things out in group email and arrange a way to safely organize further.
In the meantime to keep this thread bumped we can talk broad strategy.
Do you think it's important to have an official movement mouthpiece? Intuitively I think that may have been a big failure in 2011, not having a unified narrative coming out of the camp to counter outside propaganda. It would just be important to come to an agreement on a basic narrative before taking action to prevent public infighting. Always better a small cadre than a blob of lukewarms I think
Angel Phillips
Bumping. Do your part NYC comrades
Ryan Watson
Well, OWS was a Soros backed astroturfing operation that blew up and got a life of its own. So good luck. Also the black bloc groups that showed up toward the end were agent provocateurs by the FBI.
Carson James
how do i register for sorosbux?
Charles Sanders
Why would Soros fund an anti-Wall Street/corporate thing exactly?
Anthony Thompson
I've been admiring the militancy of the japanese students in the sanrizuka struggle and thinking about the little green men in crimea lately. One of the less specific notes I've been keeping, what do you guys think about the crimea strat?
>learn from little green men- begin occupation without signaling alligence, shield wall should be both anonymous AND politically inscrutable- military dresss code + gas mask and helmet. If we seize the area around ******, cut ********, and begin a mysterious wooden construction behind phalanx, and do this without intentionally signalling our politics, I bet *ideologically* everyone watches with bated breath and no one moves. Police will still move ofc hence shields
The big reveal could be a really meaningful moment in american leftist history if we do it right, I think.
Jason Nguyen
We are already organising fam, join Action Front
Eli Wilson
Can you please answer this you absolute retard.
Logan Phillips
The main failing of the last occupy movement was not disrupting the economy, so as to force a confrontation with the state. If an OWS like movement happens again they need to actually occupy government buildings, the financial sector, and factories. This will force the police to use extreme violence against the peaceful protesters, then you go full euromaidan (except without CIA backing).
