Overview of all pages with the tags #Occupy Wall Street

Not just snowflakes, fighting the culture wars in the age of Trump

November 1, 2017 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

ON OCTOBER 12, 2017, Erin Hagood interviewed Mark Bray, a participant in the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, lecturer at Dartmouth and author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, to discuss the relationship of the anti-fascist movement to the Left and the challenges it faces in the age of Trump. The interview was aired during an episode of “Radical Minds” on WHPK-FM 88.5 Chicago. What follows is an edited transcript of the interview. [Read More]

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The Millennial Left is dead

October 1, 2017 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

Those who demand guarantees in advance should in general renounce revolutionary politics. The causes for the downfall of the Social Democracy and of official Communism must be sought not in Marxist theory and not in the bad qualities of those people who applied it, but in the concrete conditions of the historical process. It is not a question of counterposing abstract principles, but rather of the struggle of living social forces, with its inevitable ups and downs, with the degeneration of organizations, with the passing of entire generations into discard, and with the necessity which therefore arises of mobilizing fresh forces on a new historical stage. [Read More]

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A Year, a Month, and a Day

Looking Back on Occupy

October 18, 2012 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

A roundtable discussion organized by the Platypus Affiliated Society on October 18, 2012 at New York University. PLEASE NOTE: Due to technical difficulties, the last five minutes of this panel were not recorded on either audio or video. We apologize for the inconvenience. Video Recording Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Fritz Tucker (Occupier, journalist) is a native Brooklynite, writer, activist, theorist, and researcher of people’s movements the world over, from the US to Nepal. [Read More]

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What is the Occupy Movement?

Teach-in at Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan

July 17, 2012 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

On July 17, 2012, Platypus Affiliated Society member Brian Hioe gave a teach-in entitled “What is the Occupy Movement? in Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan.

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The Day After: What is the #Occupy Movement? NYC III

May 2, 2012 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

Platypus@NYU presents a roundtable discussion following the May 1st General Strike. Held on May 2, 2012, at New York University. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Description Since November of 2011, and with the help of working groups and organizers of OWS, Platypus has been hosting a series of roundtable discussions reflecting on the obstacles and possibilities, political content, and potential future of the #Occupy movement. [Read More]

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The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and Resistance, NYC

April 26, 2012 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

A panel held on April 26, 2012 at New York University, as part of the 3 Rs panel series. Video Recording Panelists John Asimakopoulos (Institute for Transformative Studies) Todd Gitlin (Columbia University) Tom Trottier (Workers’ International Committee) Ross Wolfe (Platypus Affiliated Society) Description [After the 1960s, the] underlying despair with regard to the real efficacy of political will, of political agency… in a historical situation of heightened helplessness… became a self-constitution as outsider, as other… focused on the bureaucratic stasis of the [Fordist/late 20th century] world: it echoed the destruction of that world by the dynamics of capital [with the neo-liberal turn after 1973, and especially after 1989]. [Read More]

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The occupation of art's labor

April 1, 2012 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

ON NOVEMBER 28, 2011, Chris Mansour interviewed Julia Bryan-Wilson, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era (2009). Mansour and Bryan-Wilson talked about the history of the Art Workers’ Coalition and its political relevance today, in light of the increasing involvement of artists and artistic strategies in the Occupy movement. What follows is an edited transcript. [Read More]

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Whence Anarchism?

The Historical Conjuncture of #Occupy

March 31, 2012 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

Panel held on March 31st, 2012 at the Fourth Annual Platypus International Convention, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists John Slavin (Industrial Workers of the World, 4 Star Anarchist Organization) Daniel Dulce (Crimethinc) Kelvin Ho (Occupy Chicago) Sara Whitford (Formerly Occupy Chicago) Description #Occupy represents one of the most significant prospects and challenges for the Left in the past decade. [Read More]

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Lenin and the Marxist Left after #Occupy

March 31, 2012 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

A panel discussion held at the 2012 Platypus International Convention on March 31st, 2012.

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Transcript in Platypus Review #47

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Ben Lewis—Communist Party of Great Britain

Tom Riley—International Bolshevik Tendency

Chris Cutrone (Moderator)—Platypus Affiliated Society

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Defining Democracy: The Labor Movement and #Occupy

March 31, 2012 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

Panel held on March 31st, 2012 at the Fourth Annual Platypus International Convention, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists John Peterson (International Marxist Tendency) David Moberg (In These Times) James Manos (Occupy Chicago Labor Committee) Description In 2009 President Obama’s auto bailouts became a major flashpoint between the left and the mainstream of the labor movement. The majority of the left, including UAW dissidents, felt the auto bailouts were a missed opportunity to retool our manufacturing base, and a miserable half-measure. [Read More]

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