Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action That Changed America - Softcover

Writers For The 99%

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935928686 ISBN 13: 9781935928683

Publisher: OR Books, 2012

Synopsis

In the early hours of Tuesday November 15th the Occupy Wall Street camp in New York was destroyed when police swept suddenly into the square, tearing down the tents, library, kitchen and medical centre, and arresting hundreds. Already an extraordinary instant history of Occupy Wall Street from its inception on September 17th right up to its forced dispersal that night has been assembled by Writers for the 99%, a group of active supporters of the movement. Occupying Wall Street: The inside story of an action that changed America is all the more remarkable for the way it has been assembled - using the consensus methods of Zuccotti Park in open editorial meetings at the site itself. Occupying Wall Street draws on extensive interviews with those who took part in the action to bring an authentic, inside-the-square history to life. It describes in rich detail how the protest was devised and planned, how its daily needs were met, and how it won support across America. In a vivid, fast-paced narrative, the key events of the occupation are described: the pepper spraying of young women corralled between plastic fences by the NYPD; the mass arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge; the victory on October 14th when an announced "clean up" of the square was abandoned by a mayor's office fearful of a PR disaster; and the eventual storming of the occupation that brought it to an abrupt end. Woven throughout are stories of life in the square focusing on how the kitchen, library, media centre, clean-up, hospital, and decision-making at the General Assembly functioned, all in the words of the people who were there.

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Review

"I'm awfully glad these writers were taking notes and recording this history as it happenedOWS is one of the most important developments in this country in many a year, and we need to understand how it happened and where it might go. This volume goes a long way toward filling that need!" Bill McKibben
"An essential and galvanizing on-the-ground account of how oxygen suddenly and miraculously flooded back into the American brain." Jonathan Lethem
"The last thirty years belonged to Wall Street. If Occupy gets it right, the next thirty should belong to us. This indispensable book is the first chapter in the story about the long revolution to come." Andrew Ross
The emphasis will be on everyday details of the occupationa recreation of texture, in all its unfiltered smells and brain-bursting sounds. The Daily Beast
"
-I'm awfully glad these writers were taking notes and recording this history as it happened--OWS is one of the most important developments in this country in many a year, and we need to understand how it happened and where it might go. This volume goes a long way toward filling that need!- --Bill McKibben
-An essential and galvanizing on-the-ground account of how oxygen suddenly and miraculously flooded back into the American brain.- --Jonathan Lethem
-The last thirty years belonged to Wall Street. If Occupy gets it right, the next thirty should belong to us. This indispensable book is the first chapter in the story about the long revolution to come.- --Andrew Ross
-The emphasis will be on everyday details of the occupation--a recreation of texture, in all its unfiltered smells and brain-bursting sounds.- --The Daily Beast

About the Author

Writers for the 99% is a group of writers and researchers, active in supporting Occupy Wall Street, who came together to create this book. A list of all those contributing will appear at the back of the book.

About this edition

• Publisher: OR Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1935928686
• ISBN 13: 9781935928683
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 218