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 …
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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 …
TIDAL: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy
December 9, 2011 New Orleans A fellow organizer passed on an email to me yesterday that is worth sharing. Occupy Wall Street put out a combination position paper / magazine / whatnot entitled: “TIDAL: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy.” I was able to access the PDF by googling the title directly, and you might want to …