"We Are the 99%": Occupy Wall Street Activist & Author David Graeber, Dead at 59, in His Own Words
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Upon the death of acclaimed anthropologist and anarchist David Graeber, we feature his 2011 interview on Democracy Now!, two days after the Occupy encampment began. Graeber helped organize the initial Occupy Wall Street protest and was credited with helping to develop the slogan, We are the 99%." The idea is the system is not going to save us; we're going to have to save ourselves," says Graeber. So, we're going to try to get as many people as possible to camp in some public place and start rebuilding society as we'd like to see it." He also discusses how his influential book Debt: The First 5,000 Years" makes the case for sweeping debt cancellation.