Michael Lewis: Advice From the 1%: Lever Up, Drop Out. To: The Upper Ones From: Strategy Committee Re: The Counterrevolution As usual, we have much to celebrate. The rabble has been driven from the public parks. Our adversaries, now defined by the freaks and criminals among them, have demonstrated only that they have no idea what they are doing. They have failed to identify a single achievable goal. Just weeks ago, in our first memo, we expressed concern that the big Wall Street banks were vulnerable to a mass financial boycott -- more vulnerable even than tobacco companies or apartheid-era South African multinationals. A boycott might raise fears of a bank run; and the fears might create the fact. Now, we’ll never know: The Lower 99’s notion of an attack on Wall Street is to stand around hollering at the New York Stock Exchange. We have won a battle, but this war is far from over. As our chief quant notes, “No matter how well we do for ourselves, there will always be 99 of them for every one of us.”
Looming Threats In the End We’re outta here! Alex Jones: La hipocresía de Obama, Hillary Clinton y la OTAN. Omniverso Fractal. Infografía de una especie en vías de extinción.
Occupy Wall Street, Beyond Encampments: Lessons from Spain's Indigando Movement by Marina Sitrin and Luis Moreno-Caballud. As winter arrives and police crack down, how can occupiers keep their movement alive—and help it grow? Veteran activists share lessons from Spain’s Indignados. posted Nov 21, 2011 November 17 Day of Action celebrated the two month anniversary of OWS as well as the reoccupation of Zuccotti Park.
Marina Sitrin and Luis Moreno-Caballud—participants in the Occupy Wall Street movement and Spain's May 15 movement—share their advice for Occupy Wall Street's next step. We write this letter as participants in the movements, and as an invitation to a conversation. The evictions and threats to the physical occupations in the United States have again raised the question of the future of the movement. A look at the recent history of a movement similar to Occupy—the Spanish indignados or May 15 movement—can shed some light on the opportunities and urgency of this new phase. There are three key elements that have made the global movements of2011 so powerful: Let’s look at the first element.
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