Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America

Carla Blumenkranz is the managing editor of n+1.

Keith Gessen is a founding editor of n+1.

Mark Greif is a founder and Editor of the journal n+1. He lives and works in New York, where he is Associate Professor of Literary Studies at the New School. He is the highly acclaimed author of The Age of the Crisis of Man, and his criticism and journalism have appeared in publications including the London Review of Books, Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, and New Statesman.

Sarah Leonard is an editor at Dissent magazine and The New Inquiry.

Sarah Resnick is a senior editor at Triple Canopy.

Nikil Saval is an associate editor of n+1.

Eli Schmitt is a writer living in New York.

Astra Taylor is a writer, documentary filmmaker, and activist. Her films include Examined Life, and her books include The People's Platform.

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Frames of War, Precarious Life, The Psychic Life of Power, Excitable Speech, Bodies that Matter, Gender Trouble, and with Slavoj Zizek and Ernesto Laclau, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality.

Angela Davis is a teacher, writer, scholar, and activist/organizer.

Jodi Dean teaches political, feminist, and media theory in Geneva, New York. She has written or edited thirteen books, including The Communist Horizon and Crowds and Party, both published by Verso.

Celeste Dupuy-Spencer is an artist who lives and works in New York City.

Zoltn Glu?ck is pursuing a doctorate in anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Elizabeth Gumport is an associate editor of n+1.

Doug Henwood is a journalist who writes frequently about economic affairs. He is the author of The State of the USA Atlas, Wall Street, After the New Economy and My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency.

Christopher Herring is pursuing a doctorate in sociology at UC Berkeley.

Svetlana Kitto is a writer, teacher, and oral historian living in New York City.

L.A. Kauffman is an activist and organizer.

Kung Li is the former executive director of the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta.

Audrea Lim is an associate editor at Verso Books.

Manissa Maharawal is a graduate student at the CUNY Graduate Center, a writer and an activist.

Thomas Paine was a writer and revolutionary.

Marco Roth is a founding editor of n+1.

Marina Sitrin is a Visiting Scholar at the CUNY Graduate Center. She holds a PhD in Global Sociology and JD in International Women's Human Rights. She is the author of Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina (AK Press) Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina (Zed Books), the co-author of They Can't Represent US: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy (Verso Books). Her work focuses on social movements and justice, specifically looking at new forms of social organization, such as autogestin, horizontalidad, prefigurative politics and new affective social relationships.

Rebecca Solnit is author of, among other books, Wanderlust, A Book of Migrations, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, the NBCC award-winning River of Shadows and A Paradise Built In Hell. A contributing editor to Harper's, she writes regularly for the London Review of Books and the Los Angeles Times. She lives in San Francisco.

Stephen Squibb is pursuing a doctorate in English at Harvard University.

Sunaura Taylor is an artist, writer, and activist living in Oakland, CA.

Alex S. Vitale is Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College and a Visiting Professor at London Southbank University. He has spent the last thirty years writing about policing and consults both police departments and human rights organizations internationally. His essays have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, Nation, Jacobin, Fortune, and USA Today. He has also appeared on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, NPR, PBS, Democracy Now!, Vice News, and the Daily Show with Trevor Noah.

Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, four volumes of the Essential Zizek, and many more.