▼"Rhapsody in Occupy Wall Street" #N17 Day of Global Action
[video] AnonOps1337 "Occupy Wall Street 99% Spotlight Signal"
Irving Rapper "Rhapsody in Blue" (1945)
[remix] illcommonz

　　"Earlier this evening, tens of thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters marched throughout New York City, many making their way on to the Brooklyn Bridge, carrying LED candles and chanting. As Occupiers took the bridge in a seemingly endless sea of people, words in light appeared projected on the iconic Verizon Building nearby. The beam rolled through a series of words: "99% / MIC CHECK! / LOOK AROUND / YOU ARE A PART / OF A GLOBAL UPRISING / WE ARE A CRY / FROM THE HEART / OF THE WORLD / WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE / ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE / HAPPY BIRTHDAY / #OCCUPY MOVEMENT / OCCUPY WALL," then a long list of cities, states and countries and then "OCCUPY EARTH / WE ARE WINNING / IT IS THE BEGINNING OF THE BEGINNING / DO NOT BE AFRAID / LOVE."
"It came up at an action coordination meeting. We were talking about what to do on the 17th. We had a sense that the morning on Wall Street would be forceful and confrontational, and we wanted to not do the same kind of thing in the afternoon. Initial talks focused on having a thousand people taking the bridge in the afternoon, and continuing in a militant mode of activism. But we started thinking about creating a more unifying moment. A celebration of the birthday of Occupy Wall Street. Maybe taking the roadway and having lots of arrests might not be best thing. What if we took the pedestrian walkway, and gave out LED candles? We would give out 10,000 LED tea candles, a river of light streaming over the walkway.And a guy named Hero, who has been central to a lot of facets of the occupation since the beginning, turns to me and says, "We need a bat signal. The 99%." I said, I think I can do that. I know just enough about how the technology works that I think I can pull that off. And for the past two weeks, I've worked full time on figuring that out. My friend Will Etundi, who I know from these renegade street parties, the alter-globalization movement, carnivals against capital―he's part of a community of friends who deploy spectacle and art in the service of radical politics. Will and I have done other events that were about getting people into public space. Transforming the normal way we use space, turning it into a party, a roving community, something festive and mobile. Through that work, I'd already met people with a variety of skill sets, strange and magical abilities. I got in touch with them right away, and started pulling together a team. I feel immense gratitude to these youngsters for kicking my ass into gear. I'm feeling so much gratitude to everyone, for putting their bodies on the line every day, for this movement. It's a global uprising we're part of. We have to win."(Interview with creator of Occupy Wall Street "bat-signal" projections during Brooklyn Bridge #N17 march).

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　今日のOWS報告会のオープニング用に編集した映像。左の映像は、11月17日、ニューヨークのブルックリンで、ビルの壁面を強力なプロジェクターで占拠したもの。右の映像は、ガーシュウィンの生涯を描いた1945年(つまり著作権はもう消滅している)の映画｢アメリカ交響楽｣のハイライトシーン。ウディ・アレンの映画「マンハッタン」のオープニングでこの曲（「ラプソディ・イン・ブルー」）が使われていたことを思い出して、リミックスしてみた。

（おまけ）これは今日の報告会でのディスプレイ展示。