Last Thursday, Adrian Chen sponsored a Gawker live chat with David Graeber: It’s been over a year and a half since Occupy Wall Street took over the streets and the internet. At the time, David Graeber was pegged as the “anti-leader” of the leaderless movement, a prominent scholar and activist in whom many of the …
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Open Thread: Occupy, Act Two (or Six or… )
Something cheerful for a Friday afternoon. Paul Ford at NYMag, “For the New Occupy, Size Is Everything“: … I know a guy named Dan Phiffer, who is helping the Rolling Jubilee people with their web server. When we talked Monday night, he was worried that as the news got out, the site would crash. He …
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Update on Strike Debt & “Rolling Jubilee”
When I wrote about this Monday, everyone had questions. Some answers, from Ariel Kaminer, in today’s NYTimes: … The group is holding a fund-raiser on Thursday at the Greenwich Village nightclub Le Poisson Rouge, and says it has already raised $129,000 through online donations — enough to buy $2.5 million worth of defaulted loans, thanks …
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Bring the Rolling Jubilee?
__ __ I’d been holding this clip over the weekend, before Mistermix mentioned StrikeDebt.org this morning. Rolling Jubilee, “a bailout of the people by the people”, is a Strike Debt project, evolved from the Occupy movement. As I understand it (and I’m open to correction!), this is what the religious activists of my youth called …
Helping Superstorm Sandy Survivors
Form email from MoveOn.org Civic Action: … People still don’t have power or water, basements are still flooded, gas shortages have made it hard to run generators, and temperatures are getting down into the 30s. MoveOn members who have volunteered have told us about finding families wet and shivering in the cold, and meeting people …
Drinking With Wonkette
Getting hammered with Jim Newell and Rebecca Schoenkopf from Wonkette. (John made me get my iPad out at the bar for this bullshit post. – ABLxx)
Open Thread: Occupy Tampa
(Mike Thompson via GoComics.com) __ All sorts of disturbances brewing. Per Allison Kilkenney, in The Nation: Local Occupy Tampa activists will likely remain in place through the RNC, despite efforts to move the group from a West Tampa park, ABC reports. Protesters moved to Voice of Freedom Park back in January following the city evicting …