New Orleans Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has this exactly right when she says the beating of bystanders, protestors, and women in Cairo’s Tafhir Square are “shocking.” Furthermore she added in a speech at Georgetown, “This systematic degradation of Egyptian women dishonors the revolution, disgraces the state and its uniform and is not worthy of …
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Bringing Down Occupy NOLA
New Orleans Front page headlines in the Times-Picayune had trumpeted the curious court battle around the removal of Occupy NOLA from Duncan Plaza across from City Hall to parts unknown. Mayor Mitch Landrieu had summarily pulled up the encampment only to have his hands slapped by a federal court judge ruling it was illegal and …
Dunning Dead Debt-beats and the Occupy Anthropology of Debt
New Orleans The notion that there might be a “house theorist” in the tent cities of the Occupy movement was interesting in and of itself, but the fact that such soul would be David Graeber who recently wrote, Debt: The First 5000 Years, was even more interesting to me. This whole debt thing is …