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Dear nettimers,
Over the past weeks the swarm of small-time, amateur
investors “revenge buying” stock in GameStop, AMC and other
firms has sent shivers down the spine of Wall Street and led to
unprecedented reactions from establishment experts, regulators
and corporations. Is this the insurgency against the financial
overlords we’ve been waiting for since the crisis of 2008? Or is
it just a part of the very financial system that it claims to
attack? Both? Neither?
Join members of the Moneylab board, nettimers and
the other iregulars for a facilitated discussion of the causes,
consequences and potentials of these historic events. Moneylab
is a community of activists, artists and thinkers who, over 11+
larger events and the last seven years have gathered to dream
dangerously about the radical future of money, finance and
economic systems.
Possible topics include:
- How can we contribute to this epic fight
against hedge funds and the broader logics of the
financial ‘markets’?
- Who are the GameStop insurgents and what do
they want? Is it a temporary aliiance? How about
Anonymous? Is the comparison with offline talk-fest Occupy
Wall Street justified and does this relate to existing
forms of finance activism?
- Is it also possible to sabotage high frequency
trading? How about collectively shortselling Facebook,
Amazon and other tech giants?
- Is the ultimate aim to get rid of stocks, the
stock market and shareholder capitalism as such?
- Can we please also get rid of the speculative
HODL bitcoin mentality?
Anyone is welcome to
participate or listen-in. Please pre-register at the
following link and a Zoom link will be emailed to you. A
related link list with relevant materials is in the making
and will be circulated soon. Contact geert@xs4all..nl for
more details.
The Institute of Network Cultures/MoneyLab is
inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting:
Topic: MoneyLab GameStop Debate
Time: Feb 1, 2021 9 PM (CET), 8 PM (UK), 3 PM
(EST), 7 AM (AUS).
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 393 333 1202