From Athens to Wall Street: reflections on occupy movements in Greece and the US

March 19, 2012: The CUNY Graduate Center A discussion on the past, present and future of uprisings and occupy movements in Athens and New York City. With Special Guests: Dimitris Dalakoglou is co-editor of the book Revolt and Crisis in Greece, and a member of the Occupied London Collective. He works as a Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sussex (UK). Manissa McCleave Maharawal is a writer, activist and a doctoral student in the anthropology department at the CUNY Graduate Center. She has been involved with and written extensively about the Occupy movement since it started. Isham Christie is a student at the CUNY Graduate Center studying critical social theory, philosophy, and film. He has been involved with Occupy Wall Street since before the occupation began, in a range of working groups.