[OccupyComms] [2011movements-fsm discussion] Re: [#globalNOISE] Fwd: 5th Nov white symbol suggestion

[Mark Barrett]

Cheers for links and ideas Marita :)


On 18 September 2013 13:58, marita <maciacia50 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> the "wearing white campaign" and "having white" everywhere
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> was lanched as a campaign in 2001 by Emergency and it was succesful.
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> "A peaceful rug"   "uno straccio di pace"
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> From 2001 Emergency is carrying on using this symbol and asking people to
> wear it for peace o put a white rag (better than flag) in balconies and
> wherever you were staying
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> In 2003 everybody in Italy was walking around with a white peace rug
> attached to bags, rocksaks, or wherever they wanted while using the rainbow
> peace flag for demo
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> mariangela
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> El 18/09/2013, a las 09:42, Orsan Senalp escribió:
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> > +1 for white flags it helps with visibility and solving the practical
> > problems caused by having multitude of organizational flags.  would of
> > course would be great to use all sorts of masks to join 5 November
> > civil disobedience day called by anons; so next to Guy Fawkes masks,
> > lets use zapatista style snow masks, and gas masks as become a meme
> > during chapuller's revolt in turkey to show that we disobey economic,
> > political, ideological, cultural, gender... any kind of state and
> > corporate offensive;
> > surveillance, internal and external class wars (police and military
> > oppression), austerity, cuts, so-called economic governance, TTP, all
> > sorts of discrimination so on....
> > in this sense it could be linked to the social strike idea launched
> > during the hub meeting last week in Barcelona.
> >
> > On 18 September 2013 08:43, Mark Barrett <marknbarrett at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> >> As it is a global day, to get beyond just V for Vendetta masks one idea
> for
> >> 5th November is to link it to a colour white, as a uniting emblem  eg
> the
> >> suggestion for white as a global symbol of peace anti-war. Turkish
> >> solidarity protests recently used white and of course it is good for
> >> anti-war / imperiahite armbands could become a potent symbol of the
> movement - see eg
> >>
> >> Two thousand years ago, a Roman Senator suggested that all slaves
> >> wear white armbands to better identify them.
> >> "No," said a wiser Senator.
> >> "If they see how many of them there are, they may revolt."
> >>
> >> See also http://www.whiteflag.info which is a web-site written by a
> member
> >> of the Spanish indignados
> >>
> >> Also white is the symbol of the Nigerian people's movement against
> Shell and
> >> other corporates plundering in the Niger Delta and also it signifies the
> >> Russian democracy movement.
> >>
> >> Anyway just a thought
> >>
> >> Nov 5th actions planned worldwide
> >> http://millionmaskmarch.org/locations
> >>
> http://occupylondon.org.uk/events/opvendetta-millionmaskmarch-nov5th-2013/
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> >> IN Solidarity
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> >> Mark
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