Carla Blumenkranz,Keith Gessen,Mark Greif,Sarah Resnick,Nikil Saval,Eli Schmitt,Astra Taylor,Judith Butler,Angela Y. Davis,Jodi Dean,Celeste Dupuy-Spencer,ZoltÃ¡n Gluck,Elizabeth Gumport,Doug Henwood,Christopher Herring,Svetlana Kitto,L.A. Kauffman,Kung Li,Audrea Lim,Manissa Maharawal,Thomas Paine,Marco Roth,Marina Sitrin,Rebecca Solnit,Stephen Squibb,Sunaura Taylor,Alex S. Vitale,Sarah   Leonard
In the fall of 2011, a small protest camp in downtown Manhattan exploded into a global uprising, sparked in part by the violent overreactions of the police. An unofficial record of this movement, ,Occupy!, combines adrenalin-fueled first-hand accounts of the early days and weeks of Occupy Wall Street with contentious debates and thoughtful reflections, featuring the editors and writers of the celebrated ,n+1,, as well as some of the worldâ€™s leading radical thinkers, such as Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek, Angela Davis, and Rebecca Solnit.,The book conveys the intense excitement of those present at the birth of a counterculture, while providing the movement with a serious platform for debating goals, demands, and tactics. Articles address the history of the â€œhorizontalistâ€ structure at OWS; how to keep a live-in going when there is a giant mountain of laundry building up; how very rich the very rich have become; the messages and meaning of the â€œWe are the 99%â€ tumblr website; occupations in Oakland, Boston, Atlanta, and elsewhere; what happens next; and much more.
Politics,Nonfiction,History,Social Issues,Activism,Academic,Sociology,Writing,Journalism,Social Issues,Social Movements
Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America