The Environmentalism of Occupy

 March 18, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

PLEASE NOTE: Due to technical difficulties, the first twenty minutes of this panel were not captured onto video. We apologize for the inconvenience. The first twenty minutes as well as the full audio for the panel can be found in the audio version below. Held at Left Forum 2012 at Pace University, New York on March 18, 2012. Hosted by the Platypus Affiliated Society. Video Recording Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Phil Aroneanu(US Campaign Director, 350. [Read More]
Occupy  Left Forum  Left Forum 2012  Ecology  Environment  Environmentalism  OWS  Sustainability 

The Significance of Art in the Occupy Movement

 March 17, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Video Recording Panelists Noah Fischer is a Brooklyn-based artist originally from north of San Francisco. He has exhibited kinetic art installations, photographs, and sculpture in New York, Europe, and India. He has also worked collaboratively with the Berlin-based performance group andcompany&Co. Noah initiated Occupy Subways and Occupy Museums in the first weeks of OWS. Noah is the curator of the No-Eyes Viewing Wall at Brooklyn Zen Center. [Read More]
Occupy  Left Forum  Left Forum 2012  Aesthetics  Art  Occupy  Occupy museums  Occupy subways  Occupy wall street 

The Significance of Art in the Occupy Movement

 March 17, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Video Recording Panelists Noah Fischer is a Brooklyn-based artist originally from north of San Francisco. He has exhibited kinetic art installations, photographs, and sculpture in New York, Europe, and India. He has also worked collaboratively with the Berlin-based performance group andcompany&Co. Noah initiated Occupy Subways and Occupy Museums in the first weeks of OWS. Noah is the curator of the No-Eyes Viewing Wall at Brooklyn Zen Center. [Read More]
Occupy  Left Forum  Left Forum 2012  Aesthetics  Art  Occupy  Occupy museums  Occupy subways  Occupy wall street 

Finance Capital and Occupy

Marxist Perspectives

 March 17, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Video Recording Panelists Radhika Desai is Professor at the Department of Political Studies, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. She is the author of Slouching Towards Ayodhya: From Congress to Hindutva in Indian Politics (2 rev ed, 2004) and Intellectuals and Socialism: ‘Social Democrats’ and the Labour Party (1994), She edited Developmental and Cultural Nationalisms in 2009. She is co-editing Volume 27 of Research in Political Economy with Paul Zarembka. [Read More]
Occupy  Left Forum  Left Forum 2012  Capitalism  Finance capital  Occupy  Political economy 

Finance Capital and Occupy

Marxist Perspectives

 March 17, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Video Recording Panelists Radhika Desai is Professor at the Department of Political Studies, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. She is the author of Slouching Towards Ayodhya: From Congress to Hindutva in Indian Politics (2 rev ed, 2004) and Intellectuals and Socialism: ‘Social Democrats’ and the Labour Party (1994), She edited Developmental and Cultural Nationalisms in 2009. She is co-editing Volume 27 of Research in Political Economy with Paul Zarembka. [Read More]
Occupy  Left Forum  Left Forum 2012  Capitalism  Finance capital  Occupy  Political economy 

What is the #Occupy Movement? London I

 March 16, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Held on March 16, 2012, at Housmans in London. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Barbara Dorn (IBT) Tammy Samede, Occupier Ed Nagle, Activist Steve Maclean, and Michael Richardson, editors of The Occupied Times Description A roundtable discussion with students and activists either directly involved with Occupy Wall St. or who are closely following the #Occupy movement. The recent #Occupy protests are driven by discontent with the present state of affairs: glaring economic inequality, dead-end Democratic Party politics, and, for some, the suspicion that capitalism could never produce an equitable society. [Read More]
Occupy  IBT  International Bolshevik Tendency  Michael Richardson  Occupy  Occupy London  Occupy wall street  OWS  Steve Maclean  Tammy Samede  The Occupied Times 

What is the #Occupy Movement? London I

 March 16, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Held on March 16, 2012, at Housmans in London. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Barbara Dorn (IBT) Tammy Samede, Occupier Ed Nagle, Activist Steve Maclean, and Michael Richardson, editors of The Occupied Times Description A roundtable discussion with students and activists either directly involved with Occupy Wall St. or who are closely following the #Occupy movement. The recent #Occupy protests are driven by discontent with the present state of affairs: glaring economic inequality, dead-end Democratic Party politics, and, for some, the suspicion that capitalism could never produce an equitable society. [Read More]
Occupy  IBT  International Bolshevik Tendency  Michael Richardson  Occupy  Occupy London  Occupy wall street  OWS  Steve Maclean  Tammy Samede  The Occupied Times 

What is the #Occupy movement?

A roundtable discussion

What is the #Occupy movement?

 March 1, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

LATE IN 2011, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a series of roundtable debates on the #Occupy Wall Street Movement. Speakers at the event held on December 9, 2011 at New York University included Hannah Appel (OWS Think Tank Working Group), Erik Van Deventer (NYU), Nathan Schneider (Waging Nonviolence), and Brian Dominick (Z Media Institute), with Jeremy Cohan (Platypus Affiliated Society) moderating. The original description of the roundtable reads as follows: “The recent #Occupy protests are driven by discontent with the present state of affairs: glaring economic inequality, dead-end Democratic Party politics, and, for some, the suspicion that capitalism could never produce an equitable society. [Read More]
PR Occupy  NYC  Occupy  Public fora  Roundtable 

Occupy everything... and?

Reflections on the problems and possibilities of a movement

 March 1, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

MY INITIAL REACTION to the occupation of Wall Street was generally positive. But soon that feeling gave way to doubt and unease. I still find much hope in so many people taking to the streets, but I’ve become less certain of what, exactly, is going on. From Naomi Klein and Michael Moore to Chris Hedges, David Graeber, and Slavoj Žižek—and even Kanye West – every lefty public intellectual and several celebrities have come out in support of Occupy Wall Street and its progenitors. [Read More]
PR Occupy  Occupy 

The movement as an end-in-itself?

The movement as an end-in-itself?

 January 31, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society  • Other languages: Ελληνικά

ON DECEMBER 16, 2011, Ross Wolfe interviewed David Graeber, Reader at Goldsmiths College in London, author of Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (2004), and central figure in the early stages of the #Occupy Wall Street Movement. What follows is an edited transcript of the interview. Folk singer Tea Leigh at the #Occupy site Ross Wolfe: There are striking similarities between the #Occupy movement and the 1999 anti-WTO protests in Seattle. [Read More]
Anarchism  David Graeber  Occupy  Occupy Wall Street  Protest  neoliberalism