We Are Many
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We Are Many

Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation

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eBook - ePub

We Are Many

Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation

About this book

"A wonderful collection of questions and reflections on the state of the movement today, where we came from, and where we might be going. It is all too rare that in the process of creating the movement and living the moment, participants and thinkers step back and ask the most pressing questions. This book is an important step." Marina Sitrin, Occupy Wall Street organizer and author of Horizontalism

We have all been swept up by the momentum of the Occupy movement. We have seen the results of years of organizing in different communities come together in ways that few could have imagined, bolstered by the scores of people who have left the comfort of their daily routine behind and taken to the streets. Yet as a movement so overflowing with new social and political actors, we lack the framework we need to help us all to understand what a social movement is, to understand how change has happened in the past, to understand what this moment means and what this movement makes possible.

We Are Many is a reflection on Occupy from within the heart of the movement itself. Examining key questions: What worked? What didn't? Why? How? Is it reproducible? The authors and activists in this collection point toward a movement-based framework for future organizing. Heavily illustrated and annotated, We Are Many is a celebration of what worked, and a thoughtful analysis of what didn't.

Contributors: Michael Andrews, Michael Belt, Nadine Bloch, Rose Bookbinder, Mark Bray, Emily Brissette, George Caffentzis, George Ciccariello-Maher, Annie Cockrell, Joshua Clover, Andy Cornell, Molly Crabapple, CrimethInc., Croatoan, Paul Dalton, Chris Dixon, John Duda, Brendan M. Dunn, Lisa Fithian, Gabriella, David Graeber, Ryan Harvey, Gabriel Hetland, Marisa Holmes, Mike King, Koala Largess, Yvonne Yen Liu, Josh MacPhee, Manissa M. Maharawal, Yotam Marom, Cindy Milstein, Occupy Research, Joel Olson, Isaac Ontiveros, Morrigan Phillips, Frances Fox Piven, Vijay Prashad, Michael Premo, Max Rameau, RANT, Research & Destroy, Nathan Schneider, Jonathan Matthew Smucker, Some Oakland Antagonists, Lester Spence, Janaina Stronzake, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Team Colors Collective, Janelle Treibitz, Unwoman, Immanuel Wallerstein, Sophie Whittemore, Kristian Williams, and Jaime Omar Yassin.

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Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Kate Khatib: The Productive Life of Chaos: An Introduction to We Are Many
  3. Vijay Prashad: This Concerns Everyone
  4. Movement Story: Molly Crabapple
  5. Josh MacPhee: A Qualitative Quilt Born of Pizzatopia
  6. Movement Story: Annie Cockrell
  7. George Ciccariello-Maher: From Oscar Grant to Occupy
  8. Joel Olson: Whiteness and the 99%
  9. Lester Spence and Mike McGuire: Occupy and the 99%
  10. Movement Story: Brendan Maslauskas Dunn
  11. Occupy Research and DataCenter: Research by and for the Movement
  12. Yvonne Yen Liu: Where is the Color in Occupy?
  13. Croatoan: Who Is Oakland?
  14. Research and Destroy: Plaza—Riot—Commune
  15. Joshua Clover: The Coming Occupation
  16. Immanuel Wallerstein: Upsurge in Movements Around the Globe1
  17. Janaina Stronzake: People Make the Occupation and the Occupation Makes the People
  18. Ryan Harvey: Occupy Before and Beyond
  19. Movement Story: Gabriella
  20. Morrigan Phillips: Room for the Poor
  21. Movement Story: Yotam Marom
  22. Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
  23. Marisa Holmes: The Center Cannot Hold
  24. Andy Cornell: Consensus
  25. Movement Story: Manissa McCleave Maharawal
  26. Manissa McCleave Maharawal: Reflections from the People of Color Caucus at Occupy Wall Street
  27. Max Rameau: Occupy to Liberate
  28. RANT: Solidarity in Practice for the Street Demonstrations
  29. Movement Story: Paul Dalton
  30. Mike King and Emily Brissette: Overcoming internal pacification
  31. Kristian Williams: Cops and the 99%
  32. Rachel Herzing and Isaac Ontiveros: Reflections from the fight against policing
  33. CrimethInc. Ex-Worker’s Collective: Bounty Hunters and Child Predators
  34. Occupy Oakland: Proposal for Principle of Solidarity Against Police Repression
  35. Michael Andrews: Taking the Streets
  36. Jonathan Matthew Smucker: Radicals and the 99%
  37. Nathan Schneider: No Revolution Without Religion
  38. Rose Bookbinder and Michael Belt: Ows & Labor Attempting The Possible
  39. John Duda: Where was the Social Forum in Occupy?
  40. Movement Story: Chris Dixon
  41. Occupy Wall Street Community Agreement
  42. Cindy Milstein: Occupy Anarchism
  43. Movement Story: Koala Largess
  44. Movement Story: Anonymous
  45. Movement Story: Sophie Whittemore
  46. Movement Story: Unwoman
  47. Michael Premo: Unlocking the Radical Imagination
  48. Janelle Treibitz: The Art of Cultural Resistance
  49. Nadine Bloch: Shine a Light on It
  50. Movement Story: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
  51. Jaime Omar Yassin: Farmers, Cloud Communities, and Issue-Driven Occupations
  52. Gabriel Hetland: Occupying Democracy
  53. Occupy Wall Street: Statement of Autonomy
  54. Movement Story: Mark Bray
  55. Frances Fox Piven: Is Occupy Over?
  56. Lisa Fithian: Strategic Directions for the Occupy Movement1
  57. George Caffentzis: In the Desert of Cities
  58. Team Colors Collective: Messy hearts made of thunder
  59. Some Oakland Antagonists: Occupy Oakland is Dead. Long Live the Oakland Commune.
  60. Yotam Marom: Rome Wasn’t Sacked in a Day
  61. David Graeber: Afterword
  62. about the authors in this collection: