Hasta La Creative!

Hey you nimble dreamers, wild cats and horizontals out there,

Our Spring offensive is building toward a climactic May uprising… time to come out of winter hibernation and play jazz like we’ve never played it before.

May 1 we leap into the new world with a mighty multinational General Strike. Wherever you are, No Work; No School; No Shopping. No illusions. No apologies. No business as usual. Into The Streets!

May 12, we intensify with three days of global action. Jammers in London, Lisbon, Paris, Marseilles, Helsinki, Cuzco, Barcelona, Quebec are already on board with more on the way. We’ll hold our assemblies, hash out our demands and start building a parallel society that can sustain autonomous, horizontal, revolutionary communities outside of corpo-consumerism … we stop begging and we start creating … we begin the change we want to see.

We scared the G8 away from Chicago and now some occupiers are planning #OCCUPYCAMPDAVID – a cacophonous carnival of tree-sits, lockdowns and nomadic encampments in the woods and nearby Thurmont. Bon Voyage! Others are upping the ante with #OCCUPYCHICAGO – a mobilization of anarchic swarms to shutdown the NATO summit.

And then one of the softer aesthetic moments of our Spring offensive could well be the #LAUGHRIOT on May 18, the day the G8 leaders meet in Camp David. There is something totally ludicrous, absurd, even insane about the eight most powerful people in the world deciding to do the people’s business people behind closed doors and razor wire fences. This veneer of legitimacy is our tragedy turned to farce.

As Aristotle observed, to laugh is uniquely human… Imagine the scene: first a few hundred of us, then a few thousand, then millions of people across the world — each in their own way, some individually, some collectively in flash mobs, offices, parks, encampments — all breaking out in uproarious laughter on May 18. This could be a delicious defining moment – the day when the people of the world have a good laugh together and, from that point on, start thinking differently about how the world should be governed.

Then we get ready for our next big challenge: How to Occupy the U.S. Presidential Election on November 6.

Time to play wild, spontaneous jazz as Miles Davis intended,

for the wild,
Culture Jammers HQ

OccupyWallStreet.org / Tactical Briefing #25, #26 and #27 / OccupyWallst.org / G8Protest.org / OccupyChi.org / CANG8.org / Takethesquare.net / OccupyMay1st.org / MayDayNYC.org / May12.net / Facebook / Twitter / Reddit

España ha sido sacudida hoy por una Huelga General que ha cerrado los centros comerciales, las carreteras y los centros de transporte. Se levantaron barricadas de neumáticos en llamas en Barcelona, cientos de vuelos de las aerolíneas fueron cancelados y en torno a un 91% de todos los empleados de las grandes empresas se quedaron en casa o tomaron las calles, según El País.

La Huelga General no podría haber llegado en un momento más significativo desde la perspectiva del movimiento popular global. Como señala la revista ROAR, la Huelga General en España comenzó inicialmente con la llamada a la huelga del sindicato anarquista CNT, pero esta fue un éxito en útlima instancia porque fue asumida y potenciada por la juventud militante de los indignados, cuyas acampadas en toda España en mayo de 2011 inspiraron #OCCUPYWALLSTREET. Fue esa epifanía táctica de apoderarse de una plaza pública y realizar asambleas horizontales basadas en el consenso la que catapultó Occupy. Y ahora que el movimiento Occupy se prepara para su muy esperada Huelga General el 1 de mayo, los indignados nos muestran una vez más el camino.

La espectaular, masiva y exitosa Huelga General de España tendrá una profunda influencia en nuestro propio pensamiento táctico a medida que nuestra ofensiva primaveral cobre fuerza. Como explica la revista ROAR, esta es una lucha hasta el final entre el mundo antiguo y el nuevo: "con los mercados financieros empujando a la gente al borde de la desesperación, el apoyo popular hacia acciones radicales está aumentando con rapidez. Ahora que los indignados se preparan para una primavera del descontento, que culminará con un día de acción global el 12 de mayo, los poderosos están recibiendo una clara señal: mientras su sistema se hunde, nuestro movimiento gana cada vez más fuerza. Eche un vistazo a las fotos de la huelga de hoy en http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2012/mar/29/spanish-general-stri… y http://www.demotix.com/news/1129700/general-strike-begins-barcelona a continuación, discutamos abajo qué podemos aprender de todo esto.

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The people of Greece continue to fight against their technocratic, unelected government. In this video from the streets, an indy filmmaker captures public school teachers chanting “fight, rupture, overturn! History is written when you don’t follow the rules!”

Police across the country are increasingly using extreme violence against occupiers. The weekly SF Bay Guardian recently revealed that Oakland police have received numerous complaints of excessive force. In a complaint from Oct. 25, an occupier says that “officers found a person alone, beat him, and broke his knee.” A complaint from a Jan. 7 march says that a police officer kneed an occupier in the back “causing his spine to break.” In New York City, media reports that an occupier’s rib was broken on the six-month anniversary of OWS. When the wounded occupier began having a seizure, she was denied medical attention while a crowd watched in horror. When occupiers from across the middle of America gathered in St. Louis, Missouri for the Occupy the Midwest regional summit, they too were also brutally beat back. Tazers were used, a dozen arrests were made, and several occupiers were led away with their faces covered in blood.

In the following eyewitness account, an occupier describes how it feels to be in confronted by extreme police brutality:

“For those that have never witnessed police violence, I want to make something clear. Nothing about this situation followed the prescription of an arrest – this media image of a “You are under arrest. You have the right…” is not what happens in real life. A friend said it best, what happened Thursday night was some gangsta shit. It was angry, vicious people jumping unarmed protesters and bystanders. It was an attack. It was intentional brutality. They did not follow any procedure of kettling, “less lethal” tactics, etc. Their actions were directly targeting individuals and beating the shit out of them. It was so fucked up.

I am traumatized. I am having flashbacks, and the more I try to make the motions of my mundane life the more vivid they become. Work, school, friendly conversations all seem completely devoid of meaning. All I can do is tell the story of my experience and force the people I surround myself with to question the society we participate in. I am so fucking angry.”

Read the whole story at https://antistatestl.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/a-personal-account-of-the-… and join the discussion below on how Occupy can overcome increasing police brutality.

Hey, gatos salvajes, soñadores, redentores, horizontales,

El escenario está listo para una confrontaciónculminante en Chicago.

La crisis del capitalismo es cada vez más profunda. El desempleo juvenil ha alcanzado el 50% en España y en Grecia…el 30% en Portugal y en Italia, el 22% en Italia y en el Reino Unido… casi un 20% en los EE.UU. Cientos de millones de personas en todo el mundo se están dando cuenta de que su futuro no computa…que sus vidas serán una serie infinita de crisis ecológicas, financieras, y políticas… y que si no nos levantamos y comenzamos a luchar por un futuro diferente, no tendremos futuro.

Esa lucha se encenderá otra vez el 1 de Mayo.

#OCCUPYCHICAGO será el punto focal de esta insurrección global espiritual… 50,000 de nosotros convergiremos en la ciudad del viento y confrontaremos a los líderes del G8 y de la OTAN con un ultimatum. Montaremos acampadas improvisadas en toda la ciudad y desataremos una guerra de memes (* http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme) de amplio espectro apoyada por nuevas tácticas de abarrotamiento anárquico. Nuestra militancia directa noviolenta inspirará a miles de pueblos, ciudades y campus de todo el mundo a levantarse en solidaridad tal y como hicieron el pasado mes de Octubre. Este es un motín mundial de múltiples frentes en contra la manera en que nuestros líderes económicos y militares están dirigiendo el mundo.

En el FRENTE CULTURAL nos enfrentamos a la máquina corporativo-comercial de las mentiras – cambiamos la manera en la que fluye la información y se produce significado. Entrenamos a una nueva raza de livestreamers, ciudadanos-periodistas y visionarios p2p y les soltamos a las calles para que sean los ojos del mundo durante el mes de Mayo.

En el FRENTE MEDIOAMBIENTAL pedimos que el G8 llegue a un consenso para reducir drásticamente la huella de carbono y que ratifique un acuerdo internacional vinculante sobre el cambio climático.

En el FRENTE ECONÓMICO echamos el peso de nuestro movimiento en una sola demanda: la implementación de un Impuesto Robin Hood de un 1% sobre todas las transacciones financieras y sobre el comercio de divisas,

En el FRENTE GEOPOLÍTICO le decimos a Obama, Cameron, Sarkozy, Putin, Merkel, Noda, Monti, Harper y a los líderes militares de la OTAN que cesen la beligerancia y que comiencen a luchar por la paz. Bloqueamos la inminente guerra de Irán con una iniciativa global preventiva que casi todos en el mundo podemos abrazar: un mundo nuclear-free, empezando por Oriente Medio incluyendo Israel e Irán.

En el FRENTE PERSONAL, cientos de millones de nosotros deseamos vivir el mes de Mayo sin tiempo muerto… para experimentar la camaradería jubilosa…para abrirnos a una inminente epifanía que transforme nuestras vidas. Seguimos el consejo de Miles Davis sobre cómo tocar jazz: “se espontáneamente vivo y “toca lo que allí no está.” Occupy nos ha enseñado a todos. Innova, fractura, crece en resistencia y en diversidad. En este espíritu celebramos la ferocidad Gandhiana de los Zuccottis que lanzaron este movimiento con sus asambleas mágicas y sus maneras noviolentas…

Ensalzamos la creciente cosecha de grupos de trabajo y su deseo de un programa de cambio político y social. En el lado salvaje honoramos a aquellos en Oakland que han perdido el miedo contra todo pronóstico. Con esta coalición de arco iris, mantenemos las cabezas altas y abrazamos los días emocionantes de la Primavera.

Agitadores, coged vuestras tiendas, llamad a vuestros amigos, reunid a vuestros grupos de afinidad y preparaos para “poner el culo en línea” para un levantamiento global del pueblo que empieza el 1 de Mayo.

Hacia lo salvaje,
Sede de los Culture Jammers (Agitadores Culturales)

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Ehilà voi gatti selvaggi, sognatori abili e agitatori strategici ,

In un’improvviso voltafaccia, gli Stati Uniti hanno concesso una vittoria al movimento Occupy, trasferendo il vertice del G8 di maggio a Camp David, un' impenetrabile base militare nella zona rurale di Maryland. Wow! Pare che lo spettro di 50.000 occupanti pronti a sciamare con un elenco di richieste abbia trasformato la Showdown culminante di Chicago in un indietreggiamento umiliante del G8. E bravi! Dividere i vertici del G8 e la NATO è stata una mossa abile … ma ora abbiamo un profondo ripensamento tattico da fare. La questione principale è: seguiamo il consiglio di Mao ("quando il nemico si ritira, noi perseguiamo"), o quello di Sun Tzu ("Non perseguire un nemico che simula il volo")?

Abbiamo sentito opinioni convincenti da tutti i lati. Alcuni occupanti dicono che il movimento dovrebbe decidere per l’inseguimento e andare a fare un # OCCUPYCAMPDAVID contro ogni aspettativa … un mese di proteste, occupazione e accampamenti da nomadi nei boschi nelle vicinanze di Thurmont. Altri credono che sia meglio alzare la posta con un # OCCUPYCHICAGO: una mobilitazione ancora più grande che inizi con lo sciopero generale del Primo Maggio. Altri ancora sostengono un' insurrezione globale di sciami anarchiche attraverso un’imprevedibile tattico di ‘’dappertutto-allo-stesso tempo’ per tutto il mese di maggio.

Quando Ben Ali prima ha attaccato, per poi nascondersi dal suo popolo, fu deposto. Quando Mubarak ha rifiutato di negoziare, ed invece, ha cercato di battere il suo popolo, è stato deposto. Ora la Casa Bianca e il G8 ripetono gli stessi errori di autocrati dello scorso anno … in primo luogo, cercano di spaventarci con discorsi ‘tosti’ di ordinanze repressive anti-Occupy, con tecnologie di soppressione di folla, e la polizia paramilitare. Poi, si ritirano frettolosamente cercando la sicurezza di Camp David.

I leader del mondo fuggono da noi …e allora, cosa facciamo? Dobbiamo limitarci a ridere di loro?

Il 18 maggio, il giorno in cui i leader del G8 si incontreranno a Camp David, perché noi, il popolo del mondo, non organizziamo un # LAUGHRIOT. Facciamo sì che le risate si innalzino da tutte le città in tutto il mondo allo spettacolo dei leader mondiali che cercano di gestire la crisi dell'economia da dietro porte chiuse e recinzioni di filo spinato.

Ridere è una delle più potenti armi tattiche della guerra stessa … significa avere supremazia e la perdita della paura. Quindi, cerchiamo di tirare fuori la più grande commedia dei flash mob ululati con tanto feste di strada sfrenate e scherzi isterici, che il mondo abbia mai visto. Il 18 maggio potrebbe essere un punto di ribaltamento monumentale … un momento di ‘ahahaha!’ in cui la gente del mondo celebri un’epifania collettiva, e che da quel momento in poi, si inizi a pensare in modo diverso su come il mondo dovrebbe essere governato.

Agitatori, a prescindere da qualsiasi cosa decideremo di fare questa primavera, cerchiamo di volare come le farfalle, ma di pungere come le api! Pieghiamo il G8 e la NATO alla nostra volontà attraverso le tattiche d’urto e audaci mosse culturali che riescano a catturare la fantasia del mondo. Potremmo essere molto più vicini ad una Primavera Globale di quanto abbiamo mai potuto immaginare….

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

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For the last two months, Occupy UC Davis has been blockading a campus branch of U.S. Bank. Now, in a victory for Occupy that potentially gives birth to a new movement tactic, U.S. Bank has capitulated and permanently closed the branch.

U.S. Bank has been a visible symbol on campus of the corporatization and monied corruption of education in part because, as The Aggie campus newspaper explains, “in 2010, all students were required to get new ID cards with the U.S. Bank logo on the back.”

The tactic of the occupiers was simple, nonviolent and highly effective. The Aggie describes the scene: “the blockade became a daily ritual. Protesters — typically numbering around 15 — would arrive around noon, followed by an officer from the campus police department. Thirty minutes later, bank employees would leave and the entire process would be repeated the next day.”

A celebratory statement posted on Occupy UC Davis’s website said, “the blockade of the U.S. Bank was a real battle against the privatization agenda, and its closure is a victory… This is not enough, this is not the end.”

The victory at Davis opens a new tactical horizon for Occupy. Can the bank blockade tactic be replicated across the nation? Could shutting down big banks every day for a month be the tactical breakthrough we need for May?

É o seguinte, rebeldes, ágeis sonhadores e estrategistas subversivos,

Em uma repentina reviravolta, os Estados Unidos admitiram uma vitória do Occupy e transferiram a cúpula do G8 de maio para Camp David, uma base militar impenetrável na rural Maryland. Uau! Parece que a ideia de um enxame de 50.000 ‘ocupantes’ vindo com uma lista de exigências na mão transformou o Confronto climático de Chicago em um humilhante Recuo do G8. Muito bem! Dividir o G8 e a Otan foi uma hábil decisão… mas agora temos uma importante reconsideração tática a fazer.

A grande questão é: seguimos o conselho de Mao ("Quando o inimigo recua, nós o perseguimos") ou o de Sun Tzu ("Não persiga um inimigo que simula fuga")? Ouvimos argumentos persuasivos de todos os lados. Alguns ‘ocupantes’ dizem que o movimento deveria continuar e investir no #OCCUPYCAMPDAVID contrariando todas as expectativas… um mês de protestos sentados em árvores, bloqueios e acampamentos nômades nas florestas e na vizinha Thurmont. Outros acreditam que é melhor apostar mais no #OCCUPYCHICAGO: uma mobilização ainda maior, começando com a Greve Geral do Primeiro de Maio. Outros ainda defendem uma insurgência global imprevisível, simultânea, de multidões anárquicas durante todo o mês de maio.

Quando Ben Ali atacou e depois tentou se esconder de seu povo, ele foi derrubado. Quando Mubarak se recusou a negociar e tentou colocar seu povo na linha à força, ele foi deposto. Agora, a Casa Branca e o G8 estão repetindo os erros dos autocratas do ano passado… primeiro eles tentam nos assustar com discursos duros de leis repressivas anti-Occupy, tecnologias para conter multidões e policiamento paramilitar, depois eles batem rapidamente em retirada para a segurança de Camp David.

Os líderes do mundo estão fugindo de nós… então o que fazemos? Talvez só rir deles?

Em 18 de maio, dia em que os líderes do G8 vão se reunir em Camp David, por que nós, povo do mundo inteiro, não fazemos uma #LAUGHRIOT? Vamos causar trovoadas de risos em todas as cidades, dirigidas para os líderes mundiais que tentam administrar a crise da economia atrás de portas fechadas e de cercas de arame farpado.

O riso é uma das mais poderosas armas táticas da guerra do meme… ele indica supremacia e perda do medo. Então vamos fazer a maior comédia de flash mobs uivantes, festas de rua arruaceiras e trotes hilários que o mundo já viu. O dia 18 de maio pode ser um monumental ponto de virada… um momento ‘hahahaha’ em que as pessoas do mundo tenham uma epifania coletiva, e a partir desse ponto comecem a pensar diferentemente sobre como o mundo deveria ser governado.

Agitadores, independentemente do que vamos fazer nesta primavera (outono no hemisfério Sul), vamos flutuar como borboletas e picar como abelhas! Vamos dobrar o G8 e a Otan diante de nossa vontade com táticas de choque e audaciosas subversões culturais que capturem a imaginação do mundo. Podemos estar muito mais perto de uma Primavera Global do que qualquer um de nós já se atreveu a imaginar até hoje…

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

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So ihr Wildkatzen, Schnellträumer und Störtaktiker,

Durch eine taktische Kehrtwende, haben die Vereinigten Staaten Occupy einen Sieg zugestanden und den G8 Gipfel im Mai nach Camp David verlegt, eine uneinnehmbare Militärbasis im ländlichen Maryland. Wow! sieht so aus als ob das Gespenst von 50.000 Occupiern die bereit sind auszuschwärmen mit einer Liste von Forderungen den Höhepunkt eines Showdown in Chicago in einen erniedrigende Aufgabe der G8 verwandelt hat. Bravo! Den G8 vom NATO Gipfel zu trennen war ein schneller Schachzug … doch nun steht uns eine grössere taktische Neuorientierung bevor.

Die große Frage ist, folgen wir Mao’s Rat ("Wenn der Feind sich zurückzieht, verfolgen wir ihn") oder dem Sun Tzu’s ("Verfolge keinen Feind, der eine Flucht vortäuscht")? Wir haben von allen Seiten überzeugende Argumente gehört. Manche Occupier sagen die Bewegung sollte die Verfolgung aufnehmen und entgegen allen Widrigkeiten #OCCUPYCAMPDAVID durchziehen… ein Monat mit Baumsitzungen, vollständiger Abriegelung und Wanderzeltlagern im Wald und dem nahe gelegenen Thurmont. Andere glauben es sei das Beste mit #OCCUPYCHICAGO noch zuzulegen: eine noch grössere Mobilisierung, angefangen mit dem Generalstreik am 1. Mai. Wieder andere befürworten einen unvorhersehbaren, überall gleichzeitigen globalen Aufstand von anarchischen Schwärmen den ganzen Monat Mai hindurch.

Als Ben Ali zuerst angriff und dann versuchte, sich vor seinem Volk zu verstecken, wurde er gestürzt. Als Mubarak sich weigerte zu verhandeln und versuchte sein Volk zurück auf Linie zu prügeln, wurde er abgesetzt. Nun wiederholen das weiße Haus und die G8 die Fehler der Autokraten vom letzten Jahr … zuerst versuchen sie uns Angst zu machen mit taffem Gerede von repressiven Anti-Occupy Regelungen, Menschenmassen Kontrolltechnologien und paramilitärischem Polizeiaufgebot, dann ziehen sie sich hastig zurück in die Sicherheit von Camp David.

Die Weltpolitiker flüchten vor uns … also was machen wir nun? Vielleicht lachen wir sie einfach aus?

Am 18. Mai, dem Tag wenn die G8-Politiker sich in Camp David treffen…, warum veranstalten wir, die Menschen der Welt nicht einen #LAUGHRIOT, einen Lachkrawall. lasst röhrendes Lachen aufsteigen aus Ortschaften und Städten überall beim Schauspiel der Weltpolitiker, die versuchen die Wirtschaftskrise hinter verschlossenen Türen und Stacheldrahtzäunen zu kontrollieren.

Lachen ist eine der mächtigsten taktischen Waffen im Memekrieg … es signalisiert Überlegenheit und Angstverlust. Also lasst uns die größte Komödie von heulenden Flashmobs, lärmenden Straßenfesten und hysterischen Streichen abziehen, die die Welt je gesehen hat. Der 18. Mai könnte ein monumentaler Wendepunkt sein… ein Hahahaha! Moment, wenn die Menschen der Welt eine kollektive Erleuchtung erleben, und vo dem Punkt an anfangen anders zu denken darüber, wie die Welt regiert werden sollte.

Störer, was auch immer wir dieses Frühjahr tun, lasst uns schweben wir Schmetterlinge und stechen wie Bienen! lasst uns die G8 und NATO unserem Willen beugen mit Schock Taktiken und gewagten Kulturstörungen die die Vorstellungskraft der Welt in Bann schlagen. Vielleicht sind wir näher an einem Globalen Frühling als irgendjemand von uns es bisher gewagt hat sich vorstellen …

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

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The earliest evidence that federal authorities in the United States were aware of Occupy Wall Street and preparing to squash it comes from a September 1 Department of Homeland Security briefing. Warning of an upcoming protest on Wall Street, the leaked memo explained that the unique conjunction of culture jammers with politicized hackers was cause for alarm. “The ideologies set forth by Adbusters seem to align at a basic level with the stated intent of Anonymous’ newly adopted Hacktivist agenda … These protests are highly likely to occur,” the report declared. We also know now that the FBI was investigating Occupy at least two days before occupiers seized Zuccotti. In a leaked chat log Sabu, an FBI informant and prominent member of LulzSec, a hacktivist affinity group, pumped for information about Anonymous’s plans for Occupy. He is recorded asking: “Lets talk about OpWallStreet. I plan on going to Wall Street, do we have anything planned?” Shortly after, despite these counterintelligence efforts, Occupy Wall Street was born and Zuccotti Park became the spiritual center of an international movement.

Now, as the international movement gears up for a major escalation in May with myriad big bangs – a May Day General Strike, anarchic swarms in #OCCUPYCHICAGO, an international blast on May 12 and an effort to retake the squares on May 15, a #LAUGHRIOT on May 18, #OCCUPYCAMPDAVID the next day along with major protests against NATO on May 20 and 21 – stories of aggressive intimidation tactics are beginning to emerge from New York City. In a recent article in the New York Times, occupiers described frequent harassment and interrogation by NYPD intelligence and FBI: “police officers or detectives have been posted outside buildings where private meetings were taking place, have visited the homes of organizers and have questioned protesters arrested on minor charges … one protester says he was questioned by a police detective and an agent from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.” Meanwhile, authorities are demanding access to the Twitter accounts of prominent occupiers like Jeff Rae and logs of occupy websites. And in Florida, Occupy Miami was raided without cause by paramilitary police on March 13.

On reddit, one activist argued the situation is far worse than is being reported in the news, claiming to have encountered:”DHS bugging of common meeting grounds; DHS paying individuals to attend our meetings and cause disruption; police breaking into property, creating fire hazards, then getting protestors living there evicted for said fire hazard; police breaking into private property and installing surveillance equipment in people’s homes. In at least one instance they left it obvious enough to leave a message; police arresting individuals solely to have them identify photographs of other occupiers; manipulating our personal bank accounts, such as canceling our access to our own accounts.”

Taken together with news of the authoritarian new law H.R. 347, these sinister stories suggest that authorities in the United States are preparing to aggressively disrupt Occupy’s May spring offensive.

Weigh in below and tell us how you think the movement can outmaneuver these authoritarian efforts to shut down our people-power.