What is the #Occupy Movement? Cambridge I

 December 15, 2011  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Video Recording A series of roundtable discussions hosted by The Platypus Affiliated Society. This is the first part of the discussion series held in Cambridge. Panelists Jason Giannetti (Lawyer) Doug Enaa Greene (Kasama Project) Nick Ford (ALL-oNE) Evan Sarmiento (FRSO) Stephen Squibb (Occupy Harvard, n+1) Held on December 15, 2011 at Harvard University. 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  ALL-oNE  FRSO  Kasama Project  N+1  Occupy  Occupy boston  Occupy cambridge  Occupy harvard  OWS 

What is the #Occupy Movement? Cambridge I

 December 15, 2011  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Video Recording A series of roundtable discussions hosted by The Platypus Affiliated Society. This is the first part of the discussion series held in Cambridge. Panelists Jason Giannetti (Lawyer) Doug Enaa Greene (Kasama Project) Nick Ford (ALL-oNE) Evan Sarmiento (FRSO) Stephen Squibb (Occupy Harvard, n+1) Held on December 15, 2011 at Harvard University. 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  ALL-oNE  FRSO  Kasama Project  N+1  Occupy  Occupy boston  Occupy cambridge  Occupy harvard  OWS 

What is the #Occupy Movement? NYC II

 December 9, 2011  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A series of roundtable discussions hosted by The Platypus Affiliated Society. This is the second part of the discussion series held in New York City, on December 9, 2011 at New York University. Video Recording Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Transcript in Platypus Review #44 Panelists Hannah Appel (OWS Think Tank Working Group) Erik Van Deventer (NYU) Nathan Schneider (Waging Nonviolence) [Read More]
Occupy  Occupy wall street  OWS Think Tank Working Group  Waging Nonviolence  Z Media Institute  Zuccotti park 

The Occupy movement, a renascent Left, and Marxism today

The Occupy movement, a renascent Left, and Marxism today

 December 1, 2011  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

ON NOVEMBER 5, 2011, using questions formulated together with Chris Cutrone, Haseeb Ahmed interviewed Slavoj Žižek at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation. Haseeb Ahmed: Are we currently – after Tahrir Square and the eruption of the Occupy movement – living through a renaissance of the Left? If so, what is the historical legacy that stands in need of reconsideration? [Read More]
Egypt  Vladimir Lenin  Maoism  Max Horkheimer  Moishe Postone  RCP (USA)  Slavoj Žižek  Theodor W. Adorno  Occupy  Occupy Wall Street 

What is the #Occupy Movement?

Halifax

 November 9, 2011  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A roundtable discussions hosted by The Platypus Affiliated Society at Dalhousie University on November 16, 2011. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Anna Bishop (King’s University) Miles Howe (Halifax Media Co-op) Jd Hutton (Dalhousie) Asaf Rashid (From the Margins host, CKDU) Hamish Russell (Dalhousie) Description 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  Occupy nova scotia  Occupy wall street 

Whither Marxism?

Why the occupation movement recalls Seattle 1999

 November 1, 2011  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

THE PRESENT OCCUPATION MOVEMENT expresses a return to the Left of the late 1990s, specifically the 1999 anti-World Trade Organization protests in Seattle. They both have taken place in the last year of a Democratic U.S. Presidential administration, been spearheaded by anarchism, had discontents with neoliberalism as their motivation, and been supported by the labor movement. This configuration of politics on the Left is the “leaderless” and “horizontal” movement celebrated by such writers as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri (Empire, Multitude, Commonwealth), John Holloway (Change the World without Taking Power), and others. [Read More]
Anarchism  Marxism  Occupy  Occupy Wall Street  Seattle  Globalisation 

What is the #Occupy Movement? NYC I

 October 28, 2011  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A roundtable discussion with students and activists either directly involved with Occupy Wall St. or who are closely following the #Occupy movement. Video Recording Roundtable Participants Phil Arnone is a grad student in NYU’s Draper Interdisciplinary Program. He has been active in the anti-war and alter-globalization movements since high school; was an organizer with Students for a Democratic Society and a member of United Students Against Sweatshops while completing his undergraduate studies at the University of Mary Washington, where he was a student organizer for the campus living wage campaign which successfully won a living wage for all University workers in 2006. [Read More]
Occupy  Occupy wall street  OWS  Working groups  Zuccotti park