Remember, both Tea
Partiers and Occupants are welcome at tonight’s 8pm Dionysium
gathering at Muchmore’s (2 Havemeyer St. on the corner of N. 9th in
Williamsburg, one easy stop into Brooklyn on the L – just walked three blocks
east of the Bedford Ave. stop).
I’ll be hosting a “summit” aimed at finding common ground between these two activist movements
spawned by the Financial Crisis. Creating a “post-Crisis reality,” if you will,
may require fusing these alternate worlds – especially if we are to get beyond
right and left and, as I think necessary, cope with the messier and far more
technical problem of the elaborate overlap between corporation and state
created by a century of regulation
built upon a pro-centralization Progressive legal foundation. What began with a misguided reformer’s
impulse to perfect things through a multiplicity of rules now requires us to
intelligently discard most of those rules and the web of subsidies and bailouts
and too-big-to-fail favors that go with them.
What better time than today – both Citizenship Day and
Constitution Day in addition to Occupy’s one-year anniversary – to explore
those issues? But you can also show your
support for Muchmore’s amidst another legal battle if you join us tonight: The
place was just given a summons for ostensibly violating the oft-derided cabaret laws, yes, the archaic New York
City laws against dancing that have been so often mocked here. So join us – just please, for Muchmore’s sake, don’t dance.
I guess I’ll have to hope local Tea Party-supporting
rapper Toots Sweet doesn’t show up and bring this bevvy of dancing
girls.
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