Neoliberalism, Nike, and the Need to Organize a Movement

1. This is such a great video. Thank you so much for explaining everything so well. Keep up the great work.

2. I can't lie, some of these crime producing niccahas need to be gentrified.

3. "This is way beyond Obama." Point blank. He is still a tool. End of story. Community is organic. All institutions are organizations. Both a running stream and a dam can produce fresh water but there is ONE major difference. Can't you see? Communities are destroyed, to the rise of organizations/bu$ine$$ for BIG PROFIT. The God- Creative energy of Communities are sacrifice, while THE INVESTOR/ENTREPRENEUR is the NEW SAVIOR. Sunset is rising on what that is called humanity and soon, will be with the dinosaurs. Real peoples will countinue to build and live in communities that is organic. The organic community is the foundation and backbone of all attempts to build every civilizations. Therefore, in community building, every organism counts.

4. Obamak/Bidden/Bloomy?Buttjig/Warnan/Amy knob are selling the status quo. You know the one that got Trump elected because people were broke and disgusted. The DNC ripped off Bernie Sanders to put crooked Hillary the warmongering cruel, female sociopath up as a choice for president. Might as well put up George Bush. Now they are planning how to rip Bernie and his supporters and all of America again. Terrible.

5. O-bummer… Sooo many still make excuses for him when they should know better.

6. Obama nothing except trojan horse

7. I voted for the guy both times but when he said if Sanders became the front runner that he would ACTIVELY promote another candidate he lost all my respect .

8. Bernie 2020

9. ACORN- American Communist Organization Recruiting Network

10. Very good, educational interview/discussion, imo.

11. I wonder what Bill Fletcher Jr, Prince hall masonic # he falls under ? ..Pure jealous! When HE is not in You, then you ARE in the WORLD. Mr Fletcher need to go sell a book and don't be so J at grass rooter blowing His Trumpet and get a response. I won't call no name either.. B1 YAHU !!! #negrohebowpopcorn

12. The young generation is waking up to the Capitalist trap of debt and exploitation while the older generation is perpetuating the American dream BS. Capitalism is the flaw the your not addressing!

13. We don't need jobs, housing ect. We need to remove CAPITALISM and replace it with a system of fairness and justice.

14. Gentrification, Reganomics, neo liberalism are all terms related to Capitalism! The failure of the media to address Capitalism as the source of the problem is horrendous!

15. Bill Fletcher Jr.'s point about organizing is very important. The oligarchs are organized; we also must be.
    Please interview Jane McAlevey if you get the chance.

16. Is not what he is describing Greed Capitalism and Global Imperialism?

17. But, Obama is a Neoliberal! In fact that is what the Democratic Party is! How does Obama gets Separated from his IDEOLOGY? Look at Harlen in New York City! 🙈🙉🙊

18. Stadiums especially are tax dollar give-aways to the billionaire owners of sports franchises.

19. Ditto , Waikiki, Kakaako. Our politicians sold out to luxury developers and have built dozens of opulent multi million dollars. They are totally catering to rich Asian market. All the stores are all luxury high end stores. Right across the street are tent cities of homeless and overflowing sewage. Most of the investors are from Asia and don’t even live there full time. So, are the business are losing money. I moved with my family to Thailand because I can’t afford to live in my home state or Waikiki were I lived many years.

20. Obama, the war criminal and dronemurderer.

21. Why on earth is there this weird insistence, repeatedly in the video, that it's not about blaming Obama? It may be an issue that is larger than just him, but he is and was a major culprit in all of this! Specially in the location of his fancy self-tribute library. Which, in my opinion is totally unneeded in the first place, compared to so many genuine and more pressing human needs, some of which could be at least partially addressed with all that money–if he had an ounce of genuine care for humanity. I believe he deserves all the blame he gets for the many ways he let us all down as president also.

22. Corporate gentrification, most obvious and brutal, garnished with marketing speak.

23. I hear what you all saying, but new J's though….

24. Budweiser did a similar act as Nike is doing today… Budweiser put out a plethora of Pro-African-Centered posters, nostalgia, etc… corporate forms of social control and manipulation

25. This is business as usual from the capitalists. When Obama and Celebrities push expansion through exploiting the weak is accepted by the masses.

26. Obama was an empty suit who was used as a trojan horse! And it worked!

27. These types of colonialist-like activities are happening in my city, Dayton, Ohio.
    I prefer to call these Gentrification activities as a continuing massive con game that's orchestrated by developers, marketers and land speculators.
    If we look at the whole population movement and restructuring, one will notice that the low income group is literally placed in areas where the land speculators look to devalue those areas so that property can be purchased at extremely low prices… 20-25 years from that time of purchase, those areas will be 'redeveloped' and marketed as the new fad for upscale homes, etc… there more to add to this process (like marketing old formerly dilapidated warehouses as upscale expensive Lofts)… racism and white supremacist mythologies aid in this cycle of madness… and very profitable con game.

28. Gwyn Williams. Well done Jaqueline, this issue needs attention. But it´s not just the US or afroamericans, it´s a global problem of Neoliberal class war against working people and their communities. For example, in South Wales in the 70/80s, after cutting services to and running down working class areas in city centres, local councils – often under Labour Party rule – used emminent domain (War Powers act) to buy up the devalued housing and collude with financiers/ property developers to gentrify and "develop" the area and make a killing. In Swansea, the celebrity was Prince Charles who, allegedly had an interest in the developer, the Heron Corp. They even built a yacht marina.

29. The thesis of this segment is very similar to Adam Curtis' 2002 BBC documentary "The Century of the Self." Its four 1 hour segments and covers the evolution of advertising strategies over the 20th century, and how it effected s shift from public-oriented concerns driving politics to politics being driven by personal-benefit concerns. Its well worth watching.

30. Lets push Obama to build his library on Wall Street next to Goldman Sachs.

31. By all means; challenge neoliberalism, but don't challenge Obama! You might just as well invert the crucifix that's hanging above the mantelpiece.

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