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Alright all you rebels, redeemers and radicals out there,

15 years ago we were huddling up in Zuccotti Park, at the speartip of a global reckoning. We had the bastards on the run.

Since then the world has changed. Now the theft is total: not just our money, but our meaning. Not just our labor, but our future. An entire generation harvested for parts. Sacrificed for profit.

Resistance, back then, felt like a choice. Now it feels like an imperative. So we do this thing now.

We’re launching a new political party.

We do it because there is no other road out of this shitshow. The Dems and the GOP and Left/Right parties around the world have all run out of road. They have neither the appetite nor aptitude for the kind of change we need, which is a systemic overhaul. The soulless, extractive surveillance-driven capitalism we’ve landed on will not reform itself. It must be rewritten. By us. Starting now.

It’s easier than you think to start a new political party.

You choose a name, pick a leader and three officers, gather the required number of founding member signatures (250 here in Canada), and fill out a registration form. That’s it. You’re on your way.

But of course that’s just the beginning.

You then have to draft a platform. Get clear on your message. Sort out the admin stuff, name an accountant. And once you’re legit, you can raise funds. (You’ll be surprised how many donors want in on an agenda that jumps over the Left/Right divide and promises real change.)

History is with us on this.

The tremors of social unrest of the last half-century didn’t come out of nowhere: they were corrections. And they did move things forward.

The Sixties seeded social transformation that still evolves and unfolds today. Occupy sowed a permanent distrust of unfettered financial power, of markets allowed to metastasize. Now the ground is ready for this next thing.

And the swarm is forming again.

From Nepal to Sri Lanka, from Peru to Serbia, from Indonesia to Bangladesh, and now the cockroaches of India, leaderless youth movements have shown what’s possible when people scream “enough!” and start to move as one.

So here’s the next step:

We stop waiting.
We stop asking.
We start building.

Not just movements, but systems.
Not just outrage, but vision.
Not just moments, but momentum.

Gather up, online or in real life. Name what matters most. Forge a platform that cuts through the noise.

Choose leaders — or refuse them — but decide how we will act together.

And then we move.

Into the streets.
Into institutions.
Into power.

This is not a protest.

It’s a call to create something that does not yet exist — a political force equal to the urgency of the moment. It’s where all the seeds sown by earlier generations finally bloom. The planetary endgame.

So find each other.
Sharpen the demand.
Put your ass on the line and make it happen.

After thousands of years of top-down rule, all of a sudden, we go bottom-up.

In it with you,
The One World Collective.

Become a founding member of the ONE WORLD PARTY HERE.

The next issue of Adbusters (out in November) will be our first crack at a ONE WORLD PARTY platform. Get it HERE for 5 bucks.

Hey,

We need something new . . . can’t keep riding this ’ol horse it croaks.

Gotta find a mustang . . . one perky sonnuva bitch . . . and ride it to glory.

But what is glory?

Glory is upending surveillance capitalism and replacing it with the original FREENET.

Glory is making sure the price of every product tells the ecological truth.

Glory is downsizing corporations.

Glory is making the godless and immoral straight line wobble again.

Glory is bringing this techno-capitalist doomsday machine of ours to a sudden, shuddering halt.

But how do we get there?

The tone of our world right now’s a never-ending scream.

There is nowhere to get quiet, to go deep, to head out and hunt for the wild mustang.

We have to change the tone, the feel, the aesthetic of the world so there’s time for dreaming again.

So we made you this.

If you’re an artist, a designer, a creative, then this is the fuck-AI aesthetic you’ve been looking for.

It’ll be the dominant aesthetic vibe of the 21st century.

Get it in pdf form for just 5 bucks.

You’ve got til Sunday midnight.

Let’s ride.

Moment of Truth

Hey, have you ever thought about the future like this?

All our existential crises — climate change, the corporate takeover of the world, AI — are global crises. And they can only be solved if we the people of the world act as one.

To get there we need a spiritual breakthrough — that mystical aha moment that many astronauts have had on their cosmic travels:

This little blue dot of ours is ONE.

We have to transcend thousands of years of failed ideologies and top down thinking . . . imagine a powerful new way to connect with one another . . . give birth to the first truly global political movement in history . . . and start calling the shots from below!

This is the only way we’ll survive the flood and fury of the 21st century.

Join us HERE and let’s fly the ONE WORLD flag.

I can’t believe it.

Raoul Vaneigem died. He was one of my heroes in the 60s.

His book, The Revolution of Everyday Life, was such a powerful force. The idea that every intimate, little aspect of your life can change if you really want it to. Fuck, what an epiphany.

That’s how I want to be . . . that’s the way I want to live!

Back then, it felt like we were on the cusp of world revolution. Young people were awake, alive, and fighting like hell to swerve our sicko world in a bold, beautiful new direction. In Haight Ashbury, Chicago . . . Tokyo, Beijing, Mexico City . . . Prague, West Berlin, and Frankfurt too . . . we all felt the spark. Raoul Vaneigem and other Situationists like Guy Debord carried it through.

The Revolution of Everyday Life has stayed with me ever since. Everything we’ve done at Adbusters — Buy Nothing Day, Occupy Wall Street, and now this idea of giving birth to a new political ideology and launching Blackspot Parties around the world — it’s all been driven by people like him and that extraordinary spark.

Now, the big question hangs over us:

Is there enough of that spark left to morph this doomsday machine of ours into a new orbit?

“Daydreaming subverts the world.”

— KL