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<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUM5WfO60AA&amp;feature=related">Anarchist Anthropologist</a></p><p>Sort of surreal to watch this on a PBS video, but still a wonderful interview. Graeber is a magnificent anarchist intellectual, and here gives brief accounts into current insight about radical history and the role of anarchism in the world pre-WWI.</p><p>(Incidentally, for a more literary presentation, check out Pynchon's latest book <b>Against the Day</b>.)</p>

<p>The big issue in Austin is the cost of housing, and the fact that as Austin has become a hot spot recognized around the country, folks have been flooding in and driving up rental and purchasing costs of homes, much to the chagrin of natives, low-income groups, civil rights organizations, environmentalists- well basically everyone besides developers.</p>
<p>We talk and talk this issue to death, and I can't count the number of times I've heard people bash the Californians and their McMansions, but apart from some dynamic organizations like PODER or the Texas Affordable Housing Project, people don't seem to fight gentrification. It causes enormous anger, but people don't seem to know what to do about it, what tools they can use to fight it.</p>
<p><b>Austin Affordable Housing Crisis General Assembly</b></p>

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