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6. Here's the rest of the email I received...
Tue Mar 13, 2012, 07:13 AM
Mar 2012

On May 18, the day the G8 leaders meet in Camp David, why don’t we, the people of the world have a #LAUGHRIOT. Let roars of laughter rise up from towns and cities everywhere at the spectacle of the world’s leaders trying to crisis manage the economy from behind closed doors and razor wire fences.

Laughter is one of the most powerful tactical weapons of memewar … it signals supremacy and loss of fear. So let’s pull off the greatest comedy of howling flash mobs, riotous street parties and hysterical pranks the world has ever seen. May 18 could be a monumental tipping point… an ahahaha! moment when the people of the world have a collective epiphany, and from that point on start thinking differently about how the world should be governed.

Jammers, whatever we do this Spring, let’s float like butterflies and sting like bees! Let’s bend the G8 and NATO to our will with shock tactics and audacious culture jams that capture the imagination of the world. We may be far closer to a Global Spring than any of us has so far dared to imagine …

for the wild,
Culture Jammers HQ

OccupyWallStreet.org / Tactical Briefing #25 and #26 / OccupyWallst.org / G8Protest.org / OccupyChi.org / CANG8.org / Takethesquare.net / OccupyMay1st.org / MayDayNYC.org / Facebook / Twitter / Reddit

PS. Tell us your strategy for the Global Spring … and send your funniest G8/NATO spoofs, memes and jams to kono@adbusters.org and let’s get ready to laugh til it hurts.

Any previous versions of these online? I await clarification on the unpredictable global swarms, heh Leopolds Ghost Mar 2012 #1
"YOU CAN'T WRITE POEMS ABOUT TREES WHEN THE WOODS ARE FULL OF POLICEMEN" (Bertold Brecht) Leopolds Ghost Mar 2012 #2
My tactical two cents: the answer to the G8 is the G9T9 napoleon_in_rags Mar 2012 #3
Nice acronym. Also: Should, um, whomever really be relying on Adbusters to front for Occupy at every Leopolds Ghost Mar 2012 #4
Referring to Adbusters that is. Leopolds Ghost Mar 2012 #5
Yeah! I don't speak for OWS. napoleon_in_rags Mar 2012 #13
That's a great formulation! -- I hope you didn't think I was referring to you, but to Adbusters Leopolds Ghost Mar 2012 #14
I was taking it generally. napoleon_in_rags Mar 2012 #16
Here's the rest of the email I received... Generic Other Mar 2012 #6
I think this whole memewar thing needs to be refined further, or simply taken to small groups Leopolds Ghost Mar 2012 #11
They have alot of control around Camp David zipplewrath Mar 2012 #7
Peaceful silent demonstrations on the roadways? KoKo Mar 2012 #8
Also...there are East Coasters KoKo Mar 2012 #9
Look at Google Earth zipplewrath Mar 2012 #10
Yep..fortified for sure. Road looks more like a path... KoKo Mar 2012 #12
Into Camp David => "Parade of Shame" wall of silent Occupiers lining the route? 99th_Monkey Mar 2012 #15
+1 KoKo Mar 2012 #17
Only problem is they'd probably helicopter in everypony, if only because... Leopolds Ghost Mar 2012 #18
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