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This is Commandant Narsha (aka Bernadine Doh Rn) of Brown Eyed Girls with Communiqué #7 to revolutionaries, situationists, communists, anarchists and any individual living in the U.S. that gives a fuck.  Before I begin my rant I would like to relate to you a story from the Carlos Revolutionary Youth Group.  While on tumblr for a brief time they observed that as they scrolled through the endless posts on the dashboard, they began to feel as though they were working on an assembly line; the members of CRYG felt something like “bottle inspectors” inspecting each bottle (image) that passed by their view.  They grew tired of this monotony and moved on to more fulfilling activities.  In light of that I thought it would be good from now on to refer to tumblr users as bottle inspectors.  Anyhow now to the matter at hand.  The above poster, sans myself, was found on Adbusters’ site and contains a brilliant strategy - Occupy Wall Street.  However the demand that the poster refers to is the most timid “demand” we could possibly imagine; “we demand that Barack Obama ordain a Presidential Commission tasked with ending the influence money has over our representatives in Washington.” A meaningless demand of a Presidential Commission!  We can only laugh at the lack of courage of this “one demand.”  Obviously it is the stolid utopian demand of magazine editors.  However the notion of occupying Wall Street is a notion whose time has come.  At a time when capital and the reactionary Right wage war on labor, women, immigrants, the commons and any progressive political tendency, we need to strike at the heart of the beast. (Or should I say bull?)  What better way to show solidarity with our Greek, Italian, British and Middle Eastern comrades than to not only occupy Wall Street but to take control of it.  The first series of acts would be to declare the Wall Street Commune and the nationalization of all of Wall Street and the establishment of Wall Street Worker’s Councils.  It is time to destroy this financial leech that feeds off the blood of workers.  At the moment Wall Street crumbles and workers take control the financial parasites will flee and capital will begin to shut down.  The retaliation will be immense so you might want to bring more than a tent.  But the struggle will be worth it.  And amid the struggles the Commune will be a festival; a space where hundreds of thousands of workers will share ideas, laughter and support and invent new ways of co-existing.  From the ashes and rubble of Wall Street, a new world can be seen where workers are the subject of history and not merely its representation.  Our comrades wait for us to shut down the global, financial machine.  Long live the Paris Commune!  Anyone who speaks of Presidential Commissions while occupying Wall Street has a corpse in their mouth.  Long Live Bbiribbom! Be realistic and demand what was once thought to be impossible and is now within our reach!

1 year agoJuly 19, 2011 6 notes Reblog economy class war rebellion Commandant Narsha