A deftly edited
anthology--Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker
"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.