November's Carnivalesque Rebellion is swiftly approaching and ideas for action are coming in from communities across the world. From now until November, we will feature actions from culture jammers preparing for rebellion.
Our first dispatch comes from the streets of Berkeley, California where creative activists are jamming parking meters with an anticonsumerist message.
Download a sticker (or a whole sheet of them). Print on vinyl for a long lasting effect.
It pleases me to no end to
It pleases me to no end to see you actually discussing the impact of your own activities. A million vinyl stickers are but a fart in the wastewater treatment plant of civilization. Look to the Chevron refinery in Richmond. Look to the Tosco refinery.
And you want to put stickers on parking meters? Huh?
Get real.
Another elitist message from your pal, Accordion Bob.
Vinyl is hella toxic. Toxic
Vinyl is hella toxic.
Toxic being made, toxic being used, and toxic after use.
See the film Blue Vinyl.
Vinyl... that can't be good
Vinyl... that can't be good for the environment.
“When a finger points to the
“When a finger points to the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger.”
Ras is asking why there's
Ras is asking why there's shit on the finger. There's nothing stupid about that.
"It's the economy, stupid."
"It's the economy, stupid." [James Carville, 1992 Bill Clinton campaign strategist]
While there is merit to your point Anonymous, I would argue the original quote is still more important because until we acknowledge the fact that our political economy, based on generalized commodity production, is not a sustainable long-term model, our civilizations' efforts to save the Earth will be for nought.
Added to this is the fact that the majority of the world has yet to truly experience advanced capitalist production, being little more than unwitting and unfortunate life-long debtors to the IMF/WTO/WBG et al. Inc.
The truth is that we need all six to seven (going on nine by 2050) billion of us to be able to subsist before we can subdue the environmental damage a very small, very powerful number of people, corporations and governments have been regretfully allowed to accumulate gargantuan amounts of surplus-value from (8% of the people on Earth own 90% of its wealth, whilie 1% of adults own 40%; Is Greed Good?).
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