Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied AmericaCarla Blumenkranz, Keith Gessen, Mark Greif, Sarah Leonard, Sarah Resnick 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 world’s leading radical thinkers, such as Slavoj Žižek, 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 “horizontalist” 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 “We are the 99%” tumblr website; occupations in Oakland, Boston, Atlanta, and elsewhere; what happens next; and much more. |
Contents
Scenes from an Occupation | 1 |
One No Many Yeses | 7 |
Scenes from an Occupation | 12 |
It Really Is about the 1 | 15 |
Scenes from an Occupation | 19 |
Letters of Resignation from the American Dream | 23 |
Scenes from an Occupation | 31 |
Standing Up | 34 |
Scenes from an Occupation | 93 |
Chinatown is Nowhere | 99 |
Stop StopandFrisk | 105 |
Labor Again | 110 |
Occupy the Boardroom | 116 |
Scenes from Occupied Atlanta | 125 |
Un Occupy | 132 |
Scenes from Occupied Oakland | 134 |
Scenes from an Occupation | 41 |
The Theology of Consensus | 46 |
Scenes from an Occupation | 51 |
Drumming in Circles | 55 |
Scenes from an Occupation | 63 |
Dont Fall in Love with Yourselves | 66 |
Scenes from an Occupation | 71 |
NYPD and OWS A Clash of Styles | 74 |
Scenes from an Occupation | 83 |
Claiming Division Naming a Wrong | 87 |
Throwing Out the Masters Tools | 146 |
Scenes from Occupied Philadelphia | 157 |
The Homeless Question | 163 |
Scenes from Occupied Boston | 170 |
Rumors | 176 |
Bodies in Public | 192 |
Laundry Day | 195 |
The American Crisis | 213 |
Contributors | 215 |
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