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.
