The Anti-Inauguration — feat. Naomi Klein, Anand Gopal, Jeremy Scahill, Owen Jones, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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🗓️ 2 February 2017
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
On January 20, 2017, just a few hours after the inauguration of Donald Trump, one thousand people gathered in Washington, DC’s Lincoln Theatre (and 200,000 across the United States and abroad watched at home or at livestreaming parties) for The Anti-Inauguration, an event from Jacobin, Verso Books, and Haymarket Books.
The event featured author and activist Naomi Klein, journalist Anand Gopal, the Intercept‘s Jeremy Scahill, the Guardian‘s Owen Jones, and Princeton African-American Studies professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, with introductions by Jacobin editor and publisher Bhaskar Sunkara.
You can watch the video from the event here and download a free ebook from Jacobin, Verso, and Haymarket here.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Micahutrich, associate editor at Jacobin magazine. |
| 0:12.4 | On January 20th, just a couple hours after the and Haymarket Books put on the anti-inauguration at the Lincoln Theater in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:26.4 | Now there were nearly a thousand people who showed up, some camped out hours ahead of time, |
| 0:31.8 | to hear Naomi Klein, Anand Gopal, Jeremy Skahill, Owen Jones, |
| 0:37.0 | Kyanga Yamada Taylor, all discussing how we got to President Trump and how we should be fighting back. |
| 0:44.1 | The line for the event stretched around multiple city blocks. |
| 0:47.9 | At one point, I went out into the alley where people were lined up |
| 0:51.0 | and somebody was actually scalping tickets. So scalping |
| 0:54.7 | tickets to a free socialist event. To watch a video of the event you can go to our |
| 0:59.3 | Facebook page, Facebook.com slash Jacobin Mag. |
| 1:03.0 | And to download a free e-book of the event, |
| 1:05.0 | go to VersaBooks.com and click on the anti-enauguration on the home page. |
| 1:11.0 | The event begins with an introduction from Jacobin Editor and Publisher |
| 1:14.6 | Boss of this |
| 1:15.6 | on. |
| 1:16.6 | Hi everyone. Thank you for coming. Well welcome to the anti inauguration. |
| 1:25.0 | My name is Boskir Sancaro, I'm the founding editor and publisher of Jacobin and we're here with our |
| 1:39.7 | we're here with our co-sponsors at Haymarket Books and Versa Books. |
| 1:47.0 | And we're thrilled to present an incredible lineup tonight. |
| 1:53.6 | This is our A list. |
| 1:55.2 | This is like the first few people we asked all said yes. |
| 1:58.9 | So, and I would tell you otherwise, |
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