[chilefuturo] Indignados en Wall Street....

From: Patricio Chacon <pachamos@xxxxxxxxx>
To: chilefuturo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, chile-h@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Discussion Regarding the Chilean Social Sciences <CHILE-H@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Radio U. de Chile" <pautauchile@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:25:28 -0300

...causan replicas alrededor del mundo. (Indignados, en espaniol en el original)

Esta en
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/668296/the_call_to_occupy_wall_street_resonates_around_the_world/#paragraph2

Y pa los flojos, va la copia.

Sorry, va en ingles, pero no muy dificil.

Aqui en Chilito tenemos hartos motivos para hacer algo parecido, pero
parece que los unicos que estan motvados son los Pinguis.

Buena lectura
Patricito

The Call to Occupy Wall Street Resonates Around the World

On Saturday 17 September, many of us watched in awe as 5,000
Americans descended on to the financial district of lower Manhattan,
waved signs, unfurled banners, beat drums, chanted slogans and
proceeded to walk towards the "financial Gomorrah" of the nation. They
vowed to "occupy Wall Street" and to "bring justice to the bankers",
but the New York police thwarted their efforts temporarily, locking
down the symbolic street with barricades and checkpoints.

Undeterred, protesters walked laps around the area before holding a
people's assembly and setting up a semi-permanent protest encampment
in a park on Liberty Street, a stone's throw from Wall Street and a
block from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Three hundred spent the night, several hundred reinforcements arrived
the next day and as we write this article, the encampment is rolling
out sleeping bags once again. When they tweeted to the world that they
were hungry, a nearby pizzeria received $2,800 in orders for delivery
in a single hour. Emboldened by an outpouring of international
solidarity, these American indignados said they'd be there to greet
the bankers when the stock market opened on Monday. It looks like, for
now, the police don't think they can stop them. ABC News reports that
"even though the demonstrators don't have a permit for the protest,
[the New York police department says that] they have no plans to
remove those protesters who seem determined to stay on the streets."
Organisers on the ground say, "we're digging in for a long-term
occupation".

#OCCUPYWALLSTREET was inspired by the people's assemblies of Spain and
floated as a concept by a double-page poster in the 97th issue of
Adbusters magazine, but it was spearheaded, orchestrated and
accomplished by independent activists. It all started when Adbusters
asked its network of culture jammers to flood into lower Manhattan,
set up tents, kitchens and peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street
for a few months. The idea caught on immediately on social networks
and unaffiliated activists seized the meme and built an open-source
organising site. A few days later, a general assembly was held in New
York City and 150 people showed up. These activists became the core
organisers of the occupation. The mystique of Anonymous pushed the
meme into the mainstream media. Their video communique endorsing the
action garnered 100,000 views and a warning from the Department of
Homeland Security addressed to the nation's bankers. When, in August,
the indignados of Spain sent word that they would be holding a
solidarity event in Madrid's financial district, activists in Milan,
Valencia, London, Lisbon, Athens, San Francisco, Madison, Amsterdam,
Los Angeles, Israel and beyond vowed to do the same.

There is a shared feeling on the streets around the world that the
global economy is a Ponzi scheme run by and for Big Finance. People
everywhere are waking up to the realisation that there is something
fundamentally wrong with a system in which speculative financial
transactions add up, each day, to $1.3tn (50 times more than the sum
of all the commercial transactions). Meanwhile, according to a United
Nations report, "in the 35 countries for which data exist, nearly 40%
of jobseekers have been without work for more than one year".

"CEOs, the biggest corporations, and the wealthy are taking too much
from our country and I think it's time for us to take back," said one
activist who joined the protests last Saturday. Jason Ahmadi, who
travelled in from Oakland, California explained that "a lot of us feel
there is a large crisis in our economy and a lot of it is caused by
the folks who do business here". Bill Steyerd, a Vietnam veteran from
Queens, said "it's a worthy cause because people on Wall Street are
blood-sucking warmongers".

There is not just anger. There is also a sense that the standard
solutions to the economic crisis proposed by our politicians and
mainstream economists – stimulus, cuts, debt, low interest rates,
encouraging consumption – are false options that will not work. Deeper
changes are needed, such as a "Robin Hood" tax on financial
transactions; reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act in the US;
implementing a ban on high-frequency "flash" trading. The "too big to
fail" banks must be broken up, downsized and made to serve the people,
the economy and society again. The financial fraudsters responsible
for the 2008 meltdown must be brought to justice. Then there is the
long-term mother of all solutions: a total rethinking of western
consumerism that throws into question how we measure progress.

If the current economic woes in Europe and the US spiral into a
prolonged global recession, people's encampments will become a
permanent fixtures at financial districts and outside stock markets
around the world. Until our demands are met and the global economic
regime is fundamentally reformed, our tent cities will keep popping
up.

Bravo to those courageous souls in the encampment on New York's
Liberty Street. Every night that #OCCUPYWALLSTREET continues will
escalate the possibility of a full-fledged global uprising against
business as usual.

--
Patricio Chacon Moscatelli
Fono 56 9 96285304
En Skype, "pachamos"
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