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Arun Gupta Interview

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An interview with Arun Gupta co-founder and editor of The Indypendent newspaper

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occupy [and/or evacuate]

Circulating this outline for (your) feedback. I am in the process of 1. developing a book proposal for an anthology of recent writings from the student protest movement and 2. articulating an ajacent conceptual armature to arrange Occupy Everything content around.

I Occupy
A. Reform
B. Critical pedagogy
C. Archive

II Evacuate
A. Revolution
B. Militant research
C. Platform

III Economies of Exchange: Exchanging ‘Values’

A. Occupation
1) Fordist-Postfordist economies
2) Precarity and flexible workers
3) Privatization: Dismantling the public sphere and neoliberalism

B. Evacuation
1) Late-Postcapitalist economies
2) Information and relation (operational and affective) labor
3) Communization: Solidifying networks of mutual support

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Live from The Left Forum – Show #3

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First we address the pressing subject of the day (3-10-11), the western intervention in Libya with Ayman Mohyeldin of Al Jazeera and Ahmed Shawki of the International Socialist Review.  Then we turn back to the matter of Building a Powerful Left in the United States with social theorist Benjamin Barber of Demos,  Sociologist Saskia Sassen, Mark Brenner of Labor Notes, and cartoonist and author Ted Rall.

Guests: Ayman Mohyeldin, Ahmed Shawki, Benjamin Barber, Saskia Sassen, Mark Brenner, and Ted Rall

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Live from The Left Forum – Show #4

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Co-hosted by Alan Minsky and Meleiza Figueroa

Guests: Egyptian activist Mustafa Omar, Marxist Social Theorist David Harvey, Barbara Epstein from the History of Consciousness Program at UC Santa Cruz, Glen Ford of the Black Agenda Report, and Madison WI’s own John Nichols of the Nation Magazine.

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Live from the Left Forum – Show #2

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Guests: Cornel West, Paul Mason, Josh Clover, Walda Katz-Fishman, Jerome Scott, and four youth attending the Left Forum.