Fellow native new yorker (Bronx stand up!) and expert cutter-through-of-smoke-mirrors Noam Chomsky gave this talk in April 2011 while the currently flourishing #occupy movements were just a gnawing sense of horrific injustice in the occupiers bellies.
In it he breaks down such popular topics as:
1) Why economic power = political power
2) How financial regulations were systematically demolished in this country to benefit the 1% ending a ‘golden era’ of egalitarian prosperity
3) How Obama was bought by Wall Street and how he repaid them
He forgot his notes at the hotel and so it’s light on statistics and heaaaavy on truthy goodness. Â Need to explain to your friends why the Occupy Wall St movement matters at your next cocktail party? Â Start here.
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/22888970[/vimeo]
Big shout out to PDX Justice for filming and posting this on Vimeo, along with The Collins Distinguished Speaker Series and the Department of English of the University of Oregon at Eugene for holding the event. Â If I get a free hour I’d like to rip the audio for this and encode it as a podcast. Â If anyone else is motivated to do it first we’ll happily host and promote it here. Â The fact that this thing is so relevant to the current conversation and only had 636 views when I found it is terrible.