Category Archives: Talks
Short interview with me by Shauna Bittle from Evergreen State College Photoland, January 11, 2013
This is an interview with me about my approach to teaching with photos of protests and my comments on them. Here is the interview; open and click on it.
Why the U.S. Government Deficit is Not a Problem! Balancing the Budget Will Worsen the Economy. Challenging Austerity in Greece and Spain. Talk, October 20, 2012. People’s Movement Assembly, Olympia WA
The Human and Unnecessary Costs of Austerity Policies
The Human and Unnecessary Costs of Austerity Policies in the United States, Greece and Spain. Talk, October 20th, 2012 at the People’s Movement Assembly, Olympia, WA
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The Human and Unnecessary Costs of Austerity
Connecting the Anti-war and Occupy Movement, October 2012
The Afghanistan War and the Occupy Movement are Not Over; Connect the Movements! October 7, 2012
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Connecting the Anti-war and Occupy Movement
Talk on Grand Jury Repression: September 7th, 2012
We are living in a period of increased surveillance, especially electronic, and the use of police at the local, State, and national level to limit protest and resistance to an economic and social system that is broken and needs to be revolutionized, transformed. … Grand Juries, especially Federal Grand Juries, have been continually used as tools of political repression and increasingly to jail those who refuse to cooperate with government investigations of radical movements. … The most recent case and the focus of tonight’s meeting is the Federal Grand Jury that convened in Seattle in July, 2012. This Grand Jury is investigating the May Day demonstration in Seattle on May 1st of this year.
My Talk on Grand Jury Repression, September 7, 2012 at Traditions Cafe, Olympia, WA
Grand Jury Repression, September 7, 2012
We are living in a period of increased surveillance, especially electronic, and the use of police at the local, State, and national level to limit protest and resistance to an economic and social system that is broken and needs to be revolutionized, transformed. … Grand Juries, especially Federal Grand Juries, have been continually used as tools of political repression and increasingly to jail those who refuse to cooperate with government investigations of radical movements. … The most recent case and the focus of tonight’s meeting is the Federal Grand Jury that convened in Seattle in July, 2012. This Grand Jury is investigating the May Day demonstration in Seattle on May 1st of this year.
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Talk on Grand Juries, September 7, 2012 (.docx)
The Occupy Movement in the United States, June 2012
The Occupy Movement in the United States: Revealing the Failure of 21st Century U.S. Capitalism; a Step towards Participatory Socialism
Peter Bohmer, (presented at the University of Havana, June 20, 2012)
The Occupy Movement in the United States is part of a global upsurge that began in Tunisia in December, 2010 and then spread to Egypt and the Middle East, Wisconsin, Chile, Spain, Greece, Wall Street and the rest of the United States and now Quebec. I focus on the United States, particularly the Pacific Northwest where I have been an active participant…
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The Occupy Movement in the U.S.: Revealing the Failure of U.S. Capitalism and Pointing the Way Forward