The occupiers : the making of the 99 percent movement / Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky.
2015
HN59.2 .G69 2015
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The occupiers : the making of the 99 percent movement / Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky.
ISBN
9780199313914
9780199313921 (electronic book)
9780199313921 (electronic book)
Published
New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (329 pages) : illustrations
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HN59.2 .G69 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.48/40973
Summary
"Occupy Wall Street burst onto the stage of history in the fall of 2011. First by the tens, then by the tens of thousands, protestors filled the streets and laid claim to the squares of nearly 1,500 towns and cities, until, one by one, the occupations were forcibly evicted. In The Occupiers, Michael Gould-Wartofsky offers a front-seat view of the action in the streets of New York City and beyond. Painting a vivid picture of everyday life in the square through the use of material gathered in the course of two years of on-the-ground investigation, Gould-Wartofsky traces the occupation of Zuccotti Park--and some of its counterparts across the United States and around the world--from inception to eviction. He takes up the challenges the occupiers faced, the paradoxes of direct democracy, and the dynamics of direct action and police action and explores the ways in which occupied squares became focal points for an emerging opposition to the politics of austerity, restricted democracy, and the power of corporate America. Much of the discussion of the Occupy phenomenon has treated it as if it lived and died in Zuccotti Park, but Gould-Wartofsky follows the evicted occupiers into exile and charts their evolving strategies, tactics, and tensions as they seek to resist, regroup, and reoccupy. Displaced from public spaces and news headlines, the 99 Percent movement has spread out from the financial centers and across an America still struggling to recover in the aftermath of the crisis. Even if the movement fails to achieve radical reform, Gould-Wartofsky maintains, its offshoots may well accelerate the pace of change in the United States in the years to come"-- Provided by publisher.
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Table of Contents
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Introduction: Enter the 99 Percent
Chapter 1. Occupy before Occupy
Chapter 2. Organizing for Occupation
Chapter 3. Taking Liberty Square
Chapter 4. Crossing Brooklyn Bridge
Chapter 5. Escalation to Eviction
Chapter 6. The Occupiers in Exile
Chapter 7. Otherwise Occupied
Chapter 8. Spring Forward, Fall Back
Conclusion: Between Past and Future
Notes
References
Index.
Introduction: Enter the 99 Percent
Chapter 1. Occupy before Occupy
Chapter 2. Organizing for Occupation
Chapter 3. Taking Liberty Square
Chapter 4. Crossing Brooklyn Bridge
Chapter 5. Escalation to Eviction
Chapter 6. The Occupiers in Exile
Chapter 7. Otherwise Occupied
Chapter 8. Spring Forward, Fall Back
Conclusion: Between Past and Future
Notes
References
Index.