ANTI-CAPITALIST PIGS TO PLAGUE WASHINGTON DC TOMORROW

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[Gorons]

ANTI-CAPITALIST CONVERGENCE

  

WASHINGTON, DC

ACC HOMEPAGE

Fall 2002 Protests

The People's Strike:
A Day of Non-Compliance and Resistance

What's Happening: Friday, September 27

Autonomous Actions Starting between 6 and 7am - Form an Affinity Group, Plan an Action - Plug in at the welcome center and spokescouncil meetings! Shut Down Business as Usual! Take Back the Freedom to Control our Lives!

...or Attend one (or all) of the planned actions listed below

Working scenario plan updated on September 8

Autonomous Actions

On September 27 autonomous actions will occur all over the city as part of The People's Strike: A Day of Non-Compliance and Resistance. Activists from all over the country are coming to DC. People are getting organized and making plans to shut the city down for a day and effectively stop business as usual.

All kinds of actions can occur on the 27. Consider the following:

• Supporting planned actions by having your group bottomlining logistics for People's Strike actions
• Volunteer to do street communications, bike scouting, street medical and legal observing
• Messaging: banner drops, public art, and other messaging can help bring the politics of the day into the spotlight and strengthen more strategic actions
• Flying Squads: roam the city to strengthen weak spots and support lockdowns and other autonomous actions

Also! Organize your affinity group or organization to do an autonomous action around one of the political or strategic targets. Getting groups to commit to actions at these locations will be key to shutting the city down. Get in touch with the ACC for ideas on a political or strategic target or organize an action around an issue you or your group works on.

March to Put the Squeeze on Capitalist Greed!

Meet at Franklin Square Park (14th and K St NW, Washington DC) at 7:00 am.

The IMF, World Bank, Enron, WorldCom perpetuate misery, impoverishment, inequality, environmental destruction, racism, sexism, exploitation of workers, hopelessness and discontent - Enough is Enough! Join us as we SNAKE AROUND THE CITY and demand a world were people's survival and access to human needs is not determined by their economic means.

The Bike Strike

All Bikes on the Streets! Meet at Union Station at 7:30 am

Bike -> Against Big Oil
Bike -> Against Corporate Rule
Bike -> To Promote Alternatives
Bike -> For Earth Liberation

Join us on September 27 as we ride our bikes through the streets of DC in protest as we pass by the many corporate and governmental institutions headquartered here in DC that exemplify how global capitalism promotes poverty, racism, sexism, environmental destruction, and the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few. Reclaim the streets from the misery of business as usual and car-culture.

Beat the Anti-War Drums! - Percussion Protest - No War on Iraq

9 am Freedom Plaza (14th and Penn NW, Washington DC)
10am - Die-In at Freedom Plaza

Come together in a drum circle to say no to war on Iraq! Between the White House and the Capitol we'll drown out the cries for war with the beating heart of the peoples' resistance. Make Your Opposition Heard: Bring buckets, sticks, pots and pans and drums! Call to Resistance Against the War on Iraq.

[Gorons]

BUMP

[El Sordo]

Tis' a shame that we can't round them up and subject them to an intense lesson in basic economics.

[Gorons]

I say round 'em up and stick them with the orange suits in Gitmo.

That's where they belong.

[redbaiter]

Would someone please explain to me what global capitalism is? Is it like having a career?

[rickmichaels]

Tis' a shame that we can't round them up and subject them to an intense lesson in basic economics.

And personal hygiene.

[Objective Reality]

"Beat the Anti-War Drums! - Percussion Protest - No War on Iraq"

Oh, WHOOP de FREAKIN DO! Cause, you know, America cares what a bunch of neo-hippie stoners think about like, war and stuff, dude.

Ever seen the police break up a drum circle? Watch it if ever you get the chance. They let it go until the wee hours, the designated "end time" of the event. Then, one by one, they walk up to each thoroughly stoned participant, and shine a maglight into the eyes. The stoner looks up, transfixed, deer-in-the-headlights. "Party's over, son. Time to go home now." And one by one, they each get up, pack up their dumbek or water jug or what-have-you, and scuttle away into the night. The slow, steady strangulation of an upwelling of hippie culture, no resistence or defiance or any acting out of their fraudulent rhetoric. Quite a thing to behold.

[Objective Reality]

Of course, the Bush administration is just going to flat ignore this, as is appropriate.

What would REALLY be funny, though - and this is why I either should or should NOT be hired by the administration as a consultant, depending on your take - is to give the freaks a taste of their own bizarre fantasies. I'd dress the whole of D.C. up like the infamous "Hammerskins" segment from Pink Floyd's "The Wall." Huge thugs in black uniforms and jackboots marching through the streets, enforcing Order through intimidation. Huge freakin' banners and precision military flyovers. Trucks with huge loudspeakers on their rooftops blaring out deafening government propaganda: "Trust President Bush! Iraq Must Be Neutralized! Capitalism Is Freedom! Socialism Is Slavery!"

The streets would flow ankle-deep in hippie urine, and the reaction on DU alone would be worth the exercise. Then dismiss it all with "oh, that? We were just playing."

The Machiavellian thing to do, of course, would be to plant infiltrators to pelt cops with rocks, burn the flag and torch the occasional car. Do something to provoke the abject loathing of the American public, not to mention a firehose-and-teargas response from the police presence. Then again, likely a redundant exercise, as they're very probably going to be doing those things anyway.

[John Lenin]

I love the smell of pepper spray in the mornings ....

[steveegg]

Don't we already have roughly 260 of them in DC on a daily basis, cleverly disguised as Congressional DemonRATs?

[steveegg]

Item #1 is VERY devious. The second is just plain mean (and completely unnecessary considering that they don't need any help in that department).

[MedicalMess]

Half of them won't show up because of the rain. It will be too inconvenient and uncomfortable.

[buffyt]

Earth Liberation???? That is the group who burns down homes under construction, without making sure they are not occupied. These PINKOS love Unabomber and AlGore's books!!!!!!!!!

[buffyt]

Ha Ha Ha pepper spray and mace and smoke bombs in the morning for them all!!!