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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.
…who wrote the first pamphlet who were working with us. They wrote, We the 99%. It was a Korean Food Not Bombs guy named Chris. I'm not allowed to use his real name because he writes for the business press for a living. We can't put in the R.…
…someone from Greece did the graphics, and they used that text. Except they changed it to we the 99%. And then later, a guy named Chris, a Food Not Bombs guy, added the R. Okay. So is we the 99%? We are. So it was a collaborative effort. You know,…
…plans for the massive May Day protests that will include immigrant groups, workers, unions, members of Occupy Wall Street. Chris Silverez, secretary general of Teamsters Local 808. We want the immigrant community. We want teamsters. We want laborers. We…
…of taxation on the wealthy would reduce job creation and investment. Ryan was speaking on Fox News Sunday. If you tax something more, Chris, you get less of it. If you tax job creators more, you get less job creation. If you tax investment more, you get…
…instability to our system, more uncertainty, and it punishes job creation and those people who create jobs. Class warfare, Chris, may make for really good politics, but it makes for rotten economics. Class warfare, David Graeber. Well, generally speaking,…