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Hi,

Thanks for doing this! I've been reading your work for maybe a couple years; I started with Are You An Anarchist? before expanding into your essays, and read Debt last summer. It's been one of the most transformative intellectual experiences I've ever had, and I still see [what I think of as] your work's major points in relation to my own experiences and those around me. Gushing aside, though, I had a few questions I was hoping you might be willing to answer.

• Have you had any moments or experiences in your life which you consider especially formative to your political philosophy?

• Who are some of your favorite activists to work with, and why? (I've seen you briefly mention some of them on Twitter; I was curious for some exposition.)

• What are your favorite hobbies, if you still have time for those?

Thanks, and solidarity.

If the park were reoccupied after your election, would you have the police remove the occupiers?

Here is the Atlantic Wire post nycgreg mentions, by the way.

Hi Bill,

For many New Yorkers, the NYPD is an aggressor, not a protector. Many working class and non-white communities are plagued by the police, from institutionalized harassment like stop and frisk and arrests for petty crimes to the outright violence of mass incarceration and the murder of innocent civilians, especially young black men like Kimani Gray and Ramarley Graham.

Given this reality, how come your policing plan includes provisions for maintaining and sometimes increasing the reach of the NYPD into areas that suffer from police violence, such as expanding the use of surveillance cameras, adding 500 officers to patrol duty, and supporting dangerous zero-tolerance policing? And why don't you support an end to the abusive practice of stop-and-frisk once and for all?