The fork in the road ahead. From Adbusters Blog Dear occupiers, jammers, dreamers, Three years after the May 1968 uprising that swept the world, the great French philosopher Michel Foucault observed that a key strategy of power is to “appear inaccessible to events.” Power, Foucault argued with a nod towards 1968’s failed insurrection, acts […]
Video: What it was like to be there. From Adbusters Blog “Within five minutes into the march, we were met with a line of riot police blocking the street in front of us and the right, and all of them had batons in hand. The front of the march took off to the left in a frantic sprint and everyone followed. This set the tone for the rest of the night, as […]
http://roarmag.org/2012/05/spanish-revolution-15-m-may-madrid-puerta-del-sol/ This collection of photos and short stories recounts the historic events that took place in Puerta del Sol at the start of its occupation one year ago. Read more on ROARMag […]
http://www.bayofrage.com/from-the-bay/occupy-oakland-is-dead/ In the rebel town of Oakland, we built a camp that was not so much the emergence of a new social movement, but the unprecedented convergence of preexisting local movements and antagonistic tendencies all looking for a fight with capital and the state while learning to take care of each other and o […]
The largest student protest in the history of Canada is taking place. The premier of the Canadian province says that the police violence used against the uprising is keeping the public safe. The images you are about to see say otherwise.
Must see video - needs no words! From Adbusters Blog The global Occupy movement is undergoing a period of sustained tactical innovation. In the U.S. occupiers are experimenting with new techniques of nonviolent protest inspired by the Black Bloc. In Quebec, we are testing whether a sustained student uprising against fee hikes can spark a broad base anti-capi […]
During the October 25 Occupy eviction in Oakland, Iraqi war veteran Scott Olsen was shot in the head with a bean bag gun by police, fracturing his skull, nearly killing him. Now out of hospital, he made the trek to #Occupychicago to join Iraqi Veterans Against the War in protest against the NATO generals. We’re joined at the NATO summit in Chicago by S […]
Tactical briefing #33. From Adbusters Blog Hey all you believers in a new world out there, May Day wasn’t so great was it… the numbers were low, the maxims weren’t sublime, the excitement didn’t catch on. May 12 was hefty in Europe, reigniting the snuffed Indignados, but the energy did not seem to flow over to here. Now we’re l […]
Iraq Veterans Against the War organizer Aaron Hughes will be leading a column of veterans this Sunday at the NATO summit in Chicago where he’ll be returning the service medals he earned in Iraq. The one-time soldier is one of a growing number of American veterans standing up to their former NATO commanders. “Occupations don’t build democrac […]