This book is the first study
of the processes and structures of the Occupy Wall Street movement,
written from the perspective of a core organizer who was involved
from the inception to the end. While much has been written on OWS,
few books have focused on how the movement was organized. Marisa
Holmes, an organizer of OWS in New York City, aims to fill this gap
by deriving the theory from the practice and analyzing a broad range
of original primary sources, from collective statements, structure
documents, meeting minutes, and live tweets, to hundreds of hours of
footage from the OWS Media Working Group archive. In doing so, she
reveals how the movement was organized in practice, which experiments
were most successful, and what future generations can learn.
