On January 25th, Adbusters (who released the call to action that ignited the Occupy movement) announced plans to convene "the biggest multinational occupation of a summit meeting the world has ever seen." The protest, starting May 1, will be a response to a "rare simultaneous summit" of the G8 and NATO in Chicago.
In a scale of action not seen since the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, #OccupyChicago is intending to draw at least 50,000 people to create a counteracting presence to the "worldâs military and political elites, heads of state, 7,500 officials from 80 nations, and more than 2,500 journalists" who will attend the summit.
Calling for a "month-long people's summit" that will assemble to "set the agenda for the next few years and demand our leaders carry it out," the call to action states that
"if they donât listen ⦠if they ignore us and put our demands on the back burner like theyâve done so many times before ⦠then, with Gandhian ferocity, weâll flashmob the streets, shut down stock exchanges, campuses, corporate headquarters and cities across the globe ⦠weâll make the price of doing business as usual too much to bear.
"Jammers, pack your tents, muster up your courage and prepare for a big bang in Chicago this Spring. If we donât stand up now and fight now for a different kind of future we may not have much of a future ⦠so letâs live without dead time for a month in May and see what happens â¦"
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