“They were going to make speeches, and then we were going to march under waving banners,” said the anarchist David Graeber, who attended the meeting. ![]() The meeting was tacked on to a protest the group had organized against Republican attempts to enforce the federal debt ceiling and gut social services. Instead, an unaffiliated group called New Yorkers Against Budget Cuts, composed largely of socialists, announced a planning meeting the next month at Bowling Green in Manhattan’s financial district. After issuing the call, the magazine had “almost nothing to do with it,” its cofounder admitted. In retrospect, it’s astonishing that such a vague entreaty worked, especially since Adbusters declined to organize the action. ![]() ![]() The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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