Occupy!

Scenes from Occupied America

Carla Blumenkranz, Keith Gessen, Mark Greif, Sarah Leonard, Sarah Resnick, Nikil Saval, Eli Schmitt, Astra Taylor, Carla Blumenkranz, Keith Gessen, Mark Greif, Sarah Leonard, Sarah Resnick, Nikil Saval, Eli Schmitt, Astra Taylor

• Publisher: Verso
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9781844679409
• eBook ISBN:
  9781781684221
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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 Zizek, 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Title
• Content
• Preface
• Eli Schmitt, Astra Taylor & Mark Greif: Scenes from an Occupation
• Marina Sitrin: One No, Many Yeses
• Eli Schmitt & Astra Taylor: Scenes from an Occupation
• Doug Henwood & the CBO: It Really Is about the 1%
• Astra Taylor & Mark Greif: Scenes from an Occupation
• Marco Roth: Letters of Resignation from the American Dream
• Elizabeth Gumport: Scenes from an Occupation
• Manissa Maharawal: Standing Up
• Sarah Resnick, Keith Gessen & Sarah Leonard: Scenes from an Occupation
• L. A. Kauffman: The Theology of Consensus
• Keith Gessen, Astra Taylor & Sarah Resnick: Scenes from an Occupation
• Mark Greif: Drumming in Circles
• Astra Taylor: Scenes from an Occupation
• Slavoj Žižek: Don’t Fall in Love with Yourselves
• Astra Taylor & Sarah Resnick: Scenes from an Occupation
• Alex Vitale: NYPD and OWS: A Clash of Styles
• Sarah Leonard & Keith Gessen: Scenes from an Occupation
• Jodi Dean: Claiming Division, Naming a Wrong
• Sarah Resnick, Sarah Leonard & Astra Taylor: Scenes from an Occupation
• Audrea Lim: Chinatown is Nowhere
• Svetlana Kitto & Celeste Dupuy-Spencer: Stop Stop-and-Frisk
• Nikil Saval: Labor, Again
• Mark Greif: Occupy the Boardroom
• Kung Li: Scenes from Occupied Atlanta
• Angela Davis: (Un)Occupy
• Sunaura Taylor: Scenes from Occupied Oakland
• Rebecca Solnit: Throwing Out the Master’s Tools
• Nikil Saval: Scenes from Occupied Philadelphia
• Christopher Herring & Zoltán Glück: The Homeless Question
• Stephen Squibb: Scenes from Occupied Boston
• Astra Taylor & Sarah Resnick: Rumors
• Judith Butler: Bodies in Public
• Keith Gessen: Laundry Day
• Thomas Paine: The American Crisis
• Contributors