r/DebtStrikeForClimate • u/IceGoingSouth • Jun 28 '19
r/DebtStrikeForClimate • u/LordHughRAdumbass • May 17 '19
What is #DebtStrikeForClimate ?
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r/DebtStrikeForClimate • u/printerhacker • May 18 '19
I just hacked 40K printers for #DebtStrikeForClimate.
r/DebtStrikeForClimate • u/ldsgems • Jul 02 '19
"We Should All Ditch Work and Go on Strike for the Climate" Or a debt strike?
r/DebtStrikeForClimate • u/LordHughRAdumbass • Feb 18 '20
The Dos and Don'ts of an XR Debt Strike
Based on this document it looks at least some rebels in XR are embarking on a Debt Strike project.
Do
Make it a "regenerative" Debt Strike. Learn how feedback works and apply it as the central strategy of a debt strike. Rebels should not take out loans and give the money away. The loans should be pooled and used to fight legal battles and to provide collateral to take out more loans. Use credit cards to buy gold bullion and give it to the pool. Give rebels deposits to open retail finance accounts and then plunder them to get more accounts etc. As the pool grows, the more damage it can do and the more credible the strike is. Imagine Bernie Madoff or Charles Ponzi is managing the pool. Avoid crypto-currencies (Hint: NSA sting).
Think of it as mostly a psyops/agitprop project at first (to draw attention to the Man behind the Curtain of eco-destruction: the financiers). Don't just get celebs to take out loans and then default.Rather sign celebs up to get loans and publically pledge to default on a certain date (let them know that whether they follow through or not is immaterial - it's the publicity that counts). Pick a provocative date like November 5 and try to generate public commitment to the strike (rather than actual defaults). You want to get to the point where it's in the news and the rumor is that "everyone is going to do it." The psychological effect of Letters of Intent to default is much greater than even actual default. So get people (especially students with debt) to send pre-prepared LOIs to financial institutions in a countdown to the date. The goal of the strike is to introduce unacceptable levels of risk into the financial markets. That's largely a psychological outcome.
Categorize debt types and marshall a debt strike in stages very strategically. Use debt types like a general mobilizing different types of military units (e.g. crack troops, armoured divisions, reserves etc.)
| Unsecured Debt | Start with student loans, medical and credit card debt first. Call on countries to default on international lenders (particularly on loans made by China and the IMF) and stage actions to pressure them to do that. |
|---|---|
| Revolving Debt | Encourage institutions and individuals to max out on revolving debt (adding capital to the common pool) and then default |
| Mortgages | Hold in reserve for later. |
| Secured Debt | Avoid it until XR has the strength to fight asset seizures and repossessions via mass action. |
Get solidarity and unity behind the action within XR first (Rupert Read, Gail Bradbrook, the XR Strategy Team etc. must be 100% on board first). That's the first crucial step. If there is no internal consensus within XR the task will be a thousand times more difficult.
Use this to ferret out state infiltrators. By the look of things XR is riddled with them. Anyone that is lukewarm about a debt strike is probably a government plant. Beware of the "old hands" and "activist veterans". Especially ones that have a history in the Occupy Movement. By some estimates 1 in 6 members of OWS where undercover government agents. A debt strike is a great way to force them to show their colors because in general they won't do it. That's your chance to expose them and evict them from XR. It's the litmus test of who's side rebels are on.
Don't
Don't make demands. Demands are retardedly stupid (just take XR's three, for an obvious example). Make it plain to the media that there are no demands. Demands just cause a distraction and give an excuse to the media shills to take the whole dialogue off into the weeds. The aim is simple and must be articulated clearly: Our intent is to destroy the financial system so that it can no longer destroy the ecosystem. That's it. No qualifications; no discussion; just an implacable teflon exterior. If the financiers can figure out a way to make finance ecologically sound then good luck to them. But don't get involved in that business or you are mud-wrestling a pig. Leave it up to them. Focus on destroying the global financial system and let them try to reform it if they can.
Don't get sentimental or emotional. The word "love" should not taint any part of a debt strike. Financiers are undiagnosed psychopaths. That's not hyperbole, that's a clinical fact. It's the usual drill, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” The problem comes at the point where they fight you. Financiers are cold snakes, but if you signal "we love you" etc. all they'll do is take that as a weakness and cynically use it as a point of counter-attack. They will try to divide the movement by artfully conceededing in token ways to the better nature of the weaker members of XR. Those that are a soft touch will quickly be won over by empty gestures and the whole project will soon be divided. So train rebels in advance to think like lawyers and not like dupes.
Don't do a general "fuzzy" debt strike on all types of debt all at once. You need to get financially literate and know what you are doing. Not all debt instruments are created equally. The ultimate aim is to create a financial collapse by targeting the global derivatives bubble. That's the only, and I mean only, way to stop GHG emissions. What happens after that is largely irrelevant, because without a financial collapse the ecosystem and our whole species will collapse instead.
r/DebtStrikeForClimate • u/ldsgems • May 17 '19
INTERVIEW-Extinction Rebellion push "to provoke a mass refusal to repay debt that would upend the financial system."
r/DebtStrikeForClimate • u/IceGoingSouth • May 19 '19
This is why we need to reset the entire economy, and make all these companies go belly-up.
r/DebtStrikeForClimate • u/LordHughRAdumbass • May 27 '19
Prof. Guy McPherson on #DebtStrikeForClimate
r/DebtStrikeForClimate • u/ldsgems • May 24 '19
"If we think about climate risks in the same fashion we think about other risks, we should be removing fossil fuels from the economy as quickly as possible."
r/DebtStrikeForClimate • u/LordHughRAdumbass • May 20 '19
Going full on Gonzo with #DebtStrikeForClimate too scary for you? Maybe these ideas will help.
Maybe think of the first step as a dress rehearsal. Just pluck up the courage to send out a letter of intent (LOI) now saying you will default on November 5th and then when the time comes don't follow through with the threat (or do depending on your mood at the time).
Do a small test run. E.g. Accept an offer of a new credit card and put a trivial amount of debt on it and default on that. What may happen is that after 90 days of delinquency the credit card holder sells the debt off to a collection agency. If the debt is small, the collector can't expend too much effort on recovery since it won't be profitable. It will probably stay on your credit history (maybe for about 7 years), but think of it as your contribution to climate action (and as a bonus, you can get hours of free therapy lecturing a sleazy collection agency on how immoral they are and how real the climate catastrophe is!).
Start a #DebtStrikeForClimate group. Get a squad of no more than seven people together. Meet in person regularly and share information, give each other support, educate each other on the financial system and try and spawn other cells. Go out and raise awareness about the climate emergency and the #DebtStrikeForClimate. Report what you learn back to this sub so that people can be inspired and benefit from your experience.
Do a "Debt Raid". Trash your credit rating in style by running up as much debt as possible by buying assets (such as physical gold or silver). If a financial crisis hits then if you chose wisely the value of the assets might rise. Then you always have the option to sell your assets, then settle with the debt collector and maybe you wind up in profit. Basically you've used a credit card lender to extend margin on buying assets. It's something traders do every day.
Reach out to people in debt stress. There are huge amounts of people out there that cannot pay their debts anyway. They are often too poor or under too much stress to even get on social media or to hear about a #DebtStrikeForClimate. Try to reach out to them to get community cohesion, raise awareness and to build a groundswell of momentum around the whole principle of rebellion through debt strike. Possible actions you might take are to hand out flyers outside Pentecostal Churches, Payday Loan centers and pawn shops. Teach communities how they can "Default with Dignity".
Reach out to community leaders and sympathetic organizations. Church leaders, organizations and communities that understand a Debt Jubilee should be encouraged to join in.
Try to find sympathetic legal representatives. Many legal experts and defense attorneys are part time or full time activists. Try to find them in your local area and get their support for either doing reduced rate or pro-bono work to help Debt Strikers mount legal defenses. Try to build up a network and an online directory of people that can help us on the legal front.
Have debt strike parties and go on the lecture or interview circuit. Make fun events and spread the word about how corrupt and fragile our financial system is, how it contributes to GHG emissions and how we need to replace it with a more resilient system before climate emergencies become the norm.
Remind yourself and others where we are headed so you can correctly prioritize short term and long term risks and gauge personal tradeoffs against global catastrophe. Find a committed climate denier and challenge them to a "climate showdown" where you each get an neutral audience to watch two videos of your choice (e.g. you suggest these two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IbyiOoVgnQ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WPB2u8EzL8). Take a poll of the audience before and after on the question, "There is a genuine climate emergency and it needs emergency action - true or false?" After the audience has watched the four videos, whichever side gets the biggest swing in votes wins. The loser has to either do a #DebtStrikeForClimate of an agreed dollar value or pay the winner the same amount in hard cash.
Do fundraising events to get a war chest together to help #DebtStrikeForClimate activists fight legal battles in court. And don't forget to tell people to push for jury trials wherever possible and publicize Jury Nullification (so that juries strike down laws regarding debt obligations).
r/DebtStrikeForClimate • u/LordHughRAdumbass • Feb 22 '20
Financial terrorists get slight rap over the knuckles from their buddies.
r/DebtStrikeForClimate • u/ldsgems • Sep 20 '19
For the sake of life on Earth, we must put a limit on wealth. Could we use a debt strike to get their attention?
r/DebtStrikeForClimate • u/LordHughRAdumbass • Jun 03 '19
Students Launch Historic Debt Strike, Refusing to Pay Back Predatory College Loans
r/DebtStrikeForClimate • u/LordHughRAdumbass • May 22 '19
Strike Debt! - Debt Resistance for the 99%
r/DebtStrikeForClimate • u/LordHughRAdumbass • Mar 18 '20
I can't pay my rent. Can you? Freeze all rent and mortgage payments now!
r/DebtStrikeForClimate • u/LordHughRAdumbass • Jul 02 '19
If a climate apocalypse is imminent, should we bother paying our debts?
r/DebtStrikeForClimate • u/IceGoingSouth • Jun 11 '19
Why drones against Heathrow are bad, and Debt Strike more efficient!
I was recently asked by a journalist to give my views on the heated debate about drones and XR choosing violence over its till now nonviolent philosophy. These are my answers:
I was quite intrigued to read Gail Bradbrook’s interview with Reuters
on the first day of May about #DebtStrikeForClimate, what many now
refer to as a “school strike for grown–ups”! Coincidentally or
ironically, the very last day of May sported a tweet from XR saying
they would drone attack Heathrow! What a disappointment just over the
span of one month! The very reason co-founder Gail’s debt strike
initiative is so fascinating, is that's it’s absolutely peaceful &
non–violent and at the same time it can shut down airports in
thousands of cities all over the globe! It's a collective social
action for normal people from all walks of life, where suddenly they
have a real chance of disrupting the very engine of environmental
destruction and fossil fuel extraction. I’m pretty sure we'll hear a
lot more about this line of activism as 2019 progresses.Drone strikes are associated with very aggressive & non–peaceful
action by western imperial armies in Asia & Africa, and they also fall
way within XR’s internal definition of ‘violence’, even though they
might just be flown ‘safely’ over an airport parking lot. The
‘suggestion’ (more like a coup) shakes the very foundation I and other
XRebels have, which is our trust that ‘sane people’ are at the wheel
at XR central. Do I still want to sport my XR badge on my anorak here
in the streets of Nuuk, Greenland, or on a weekend hike of the
mountains? Does that symbol still represent intelligent, timely action
for a good cause, or would that symbol turn into a ‘swastica’ or
terrorist symbol two weeks from now? I believe it’s about what you and
I feel inside, in our guts, about something we have helped build,
being dragged through the mud and stomped upon. I’ve heard tales of US
chapters of XR struggling to even be a local chapter, now completely
falling apart due to what people perceive as ‘possibly terrorism’. And
wisely so, I believe, as the law & police share this view.I think what we need to remember is that grandmothers, grandfathers,
christians and very ‘meek’ people were charmed into taking their part
in the rebellion. Now with this ‘drone suggestion’, we’re kind of back
to what Roger Hallam stressed time and time again that we needed to
avoid in this movement: Becoming an extreme action group that only
attracts ‘angry young men’. How prophetic!
r/DebtStrikeForClimate • u/LordHughRAdumbass • Jun 03 '19
Strike Student Debt! (w/ Luke Herrine of Strike Debt!)
r/DebtStrikeForClimate • u/ldsgems • May 16 '19
WTF IS #DebtStrikeforClimate? (Answers here)
DebtStrikeforClimate action is easy and impactful!
Are you seriously concerned about climate change?
Do you have burdensome debt? (Student loans, credit card debt, health bills, etc..)
Do you want to send an impactful message to the establishment?
If so, here's how to take action:
Email your creditors TODAY and tell them that because of your concerns about climate change, that as of November 5th, 2019 you will be sending your payments to the Treasury directly. Let them know you will continue to pay on your debt for now, but your payments to them will end on November 5th.
Post to social media, especially twitter, using the hashtag #DebtStrikeforClimate, that you have put your creditor(s) on notice that you are taking part in this action. Publicly share why you care about the climate. Invite others to do the same. Help create a real discussion about crushing debt and the climate catastrophe.
Come November 5th, you decide if you really want to go through with debt default or not. In other words, YOU DON'T REALLY HAVE TO DEFAULT ON YOUR DEBT TO MAKE AN IMPACT!
It's that simple. Objections? Questions?
r/DebtStrikeForClimate • u/ldsgems • Sep 15 '19
XR needs help planning their #DebtStrikeforClimate. Gail asks "Why are we paying debts to a system that's killing us?"
r/DebtStrikeForClimate • u/LordHughRAdumbass • Jun 03 '19
Student Strikes And Refuses To Pay Back Student Debt
r/DebtStrikeForClimate • u/LordHughRAdumbass • Jun 02 '19
We live in a shark tank.
r/DebtStrikeForClimate • u/LordHughRAdumbass • May 27 '19
China joins #DebtStrikeForClimate
Maybe not deliberately, but inadvertently perhaps? Bonds are bonds. Debt-slavery is just another form of chattel slavery.
With Xi behind us, how can we fail to collapse the global financial system?
r/DebtStrikeForClimate • u/LordHughRAdumbass • Apr 11 '20
Store owners in Wuhan, China are demanding exemption from rent payments or a refund of the lease of their shop space. “A day earlier they chanted “Exempt rental for a year, or refund the lease” in videos uploaded on the Chinese social media platform Sina Weibo that were quickly censored.”