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  • called Graeber Simmons & Cowen Inc. last year, also held onto its No. 2 position with $13.83 million billings, and moved up three spots this year to fourth, increasing billings from $4.96 million in 2009 to $9.10 million in 2010.

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  • One of its best articulations is a recent blog by anarcho-anthropologist David Graeber who was present at the very beginning of #Occupy Wall Street.

    Miles Mogulescu: Where Does the #Occupy Movement Go From Here? Miles Mogulescu 2011

  • An interesting recent example was the brilliant anarcho-anthropologist David Graeber who is both one of the people who helped start #Occupy Wall Street in its earliest days and the author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years.

    Miles Mogulescu: Up With Chris Hayes: The Best News Talk Show on TV Miles Mogulescu 2011

  • "We obviously are never going to defeat the 101st airborne division on the streets," said anthropologist and anarchist David Graeber, addressing that general assembly.

    Occupy protests in Oakland and New York: a weekend of police clashes 2012

  • Here's how Graeber puts it, describing the occupations as a refusal to work with or through the government or other institutions which ultimately rely on the threat of force, and a dedication to horizontal democracy...

    Miles Mogulescu: Where Does the #Occupy Movement Go From Here? Miles Mogulescu 2011

  • According to Graeber, a group made up mostly of such "horizontals" began to meet regularly in the weeks leading up the September 17 date called by the online magazine Adbusters for the start of #Occupy Wall Street.

    Miles Mogulescu: Where Does the #Occupy Movement Go From Here? Miles Mogulescu 2011

  • Graeber was a member of an FAA committee in the early 1990s that drafted an advisory to airlines permitting pilot napping and setting out ground rules.

    Solution for fatigued aviation workers eludes FAA 2011

  • As well as Graeber articulates the "horizontal" libertarian perspective, in my view it's extraordinarily naïve and utopian.

    Miles Mogulescu: Where Does the #Occupy Movement Go From Here? Miles Mogulescu 2011

  • The recent incidents are just "the tip of the iceberg" and "it would be a big step forward" for the agency to launch an experiment allowing so-called "controlled napping" at some locations, according to Curt Graeber, a fatigue expert and former high-ranking Boeing safety official "It should be based on the same type of scientific approach" he said, that the FAA is using to update pilot-fatigue rules.

    FAA Adds Staff to Towers After Dozing by Controllers Andy Pasztor 2011

  • If this evolution into a political movement designed for the long-haul does not begin, the #Occupy Movement will not, as Graeber argues, morph into a utopian alternative to the American government.

    Miles Mogulescu: Where Does the #Occupy Movement Go From Here? Miles Mogulescu 2011

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