Michael Premo

Michael Premo is an artist who lives in Brooklyn. He played a significant role in Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Sandy's hurricane response effort.

Michael Premo in 2010

Quotes

• Mound Bayou was an oasis in turbulent times. While the rest of Mississippi was violently segregated, inside the city there were no racial codes ... At a time when blacks faced repercussions as severe as death for registering to vote, Mound Bayou residents were casting ballots in every election. The city has a proud history of credit unions, insurance companies, a hospital, five newspapers, and a variety of businesses owned, operated, and patronized by black residents. Mound Bayou is a crowning achievement in the struggle for self-determination and economic empowerment.
  • Mound Bayou, Mississippi – The Jewel of the Delta (November 10, 2007). storycorps.org.

• The occupation was always about values, it was about reconfiguring the relationship between people and profit so that people are privileged instead of profit. There's a natural affinity between those values and struggles over housing and land.
  • About Occupy Wall Street, as quoted in The itinerant US left has found its home in the Occupy movement by Gary Younge, 26 February 2012, The Guardian

External links

• Michael Premo - We Need to Shift the Balance Towards People. Salzburg Global Seminar - Home.