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Lectures, interviews, and talks by David Graeber — anthropologist, anarchist, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Bullshit Jobs, and The Dawn of Everything.
…around the world. There had been a camp, actually, outside the city hall, outside the mayor's house in New York City called Bloomberg, after Mayor Bloomberg, where a bunch of activists had formed a kind of a camp, protest camp. But it's sort of a…
…There had been a camp, actually, outside the city hall, outside the mayor's house in New York City called Bloomberg, after Mayor Bloomberg, where a bunch of activists had formed a kind of a camp, protest camp. But it's sort of a depressing thing was…
…I wanted to emphasize, again, was the international context. The people who came together There was a lot of people from the Bloomberg camp. There was a lot of anarchists. There was a socialist group, a Trotskyist group called the ISO, who was sort of…
…Barcelona, a million and a half in Britain. How many they would try to get in New York, we never know, because Bloomberg said you couldn't march anywhere, and nobody knew who could get out of the subways, because everything was jammed. The urban network…
…happened. On the ground, tactically, we pretty much won. The first eviction from Zuccotti Park, we managed to stop it. Bloomberg had to block down. A month later, something happened, and there was this coordinated wave of evictions across America, affected…
David Graeber is here. He is a longtime political activist. Bloomberg Businessweek has called him the anti-leader of Occupy Wall Street. On top of that, he is an anthropologist. Graeber is known for asking big questions about what exactly money is and how…
…the city in a radically different way from what it is. This city of New York has been transformed under the Bloomberg administration into a developer's paradise. Manhattan has been turned into one of the most affluent gated communities in the world. Not…
…they did in 1886. We have to turn back the clock on Mr. Romney, on Mr. Obama, on the Congress, on Mario Cuomo, on Bloomberg. And the 99 percent has to get their share. AMY GOODMAN. Well, to talk more about May Day and the Occupy campaign, we're joined…
…different kind of urban environment in which they're going to live. Earlier this month, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg compared the city council's living wage bill to communism. The bill would raise workers' wages at city-subsidized developments.…
…Michael Bloomberg compared the city council's living wage bill to communism. The bill would raise workers' wages at city-subsidized developments. Bloomberg made the comment in an interview on WOR Radio. If you think about it, the last time we really had…
…good for the employers. But if you force that, you will just drive businesses out of the city. AMY GOODMAN. That was Mayor Bloomberg, David Harvey. DAVID HARVEY. That's the usual story. But look at the situation. The top 1 percent in New York City earns,…
…happened. On the ground, practically, we pretty much won. The first eviction from Zucconi Park, we managed to stop it. Bloomberg had to block down. A month later, something happened. And there was this wave, or coordinated wave, of evictions across…
…to facilitate a meeting, which was at least 2,000 people. During a radio interview, New York governor—New York mayor Michael Bloomberg drew a comparison between demonstrators in Occupy Wall Street and those participating in the Arab Spring. You know, you have…
…up a flyer as you leave on the main floor. Now to the subject at hand. In the October 26th issue of Bloomberg Businessweek, of all places, Drake Bennett did a feature article on David Graeber, the title of which was David Graeber, the anthropologist,…