Amy Lang, Lang / Daniel Levitsky

Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of materials, from public statements to engaged reportage, concentrating on the building of the Occupy movement.

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A record of the thinking, writing and imagery from Occupy, and a tool for those who carry the Movement forward.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Internationalist
• Seitenzahl: 319
• Erscheinungstermin: Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781780260846
• ISBN-10: 1780260849
• Artikelnr.: 35336486

Autorenporträt

Amy Lang: Amy Schrager Lang taught U.S. literature and cultural studies for thirty-five years and is Professor of English and Humanities at Syracuse University. The author, most recently, of The Syntax of Class (Princeton, 2003) and the co-editor of What Democracy Looks Like (Rutgers, 2006), Lang currently serves as co-editor of the University of Michigan's Class : Culture series and as the book review editor of the AAUP's journal, Academe. Daniel Lang/Levitsky: Activist, author, artist and theater producer. Daniel Lang/Levitsky is a theater artist and organizer based in Brooklyn, a founding member of the Direct Action Network - NY and Jews Against the Occupation, and active in a range of radical movements. Lang/Levitsky has written on radical history, politics, and theater for Bridges, Monthly Review, History News Network, and others.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Eileen Myles, "Anonymous". Amy Schrager Lang & Daniel
Lang/Levitsky, "The Politics of the Impossible". Information Desk Richard
Kim, "The Audacity of Occupy Wall Street". Naomi Klein, "The Most Important
Thing in the World". Ira Livingston, "Darth Vader and Occupy Wall Street: A
TwitterEssay". Media Declaration of the Occupation of Wall Street. Occupy
Student Debt Campaign Pledges & Principles. UAW Local 2865 Resolution in
Support of Occupy Oakland General Strike. American Library Association
Occupy Wall Street Library Resolution & Press Statement. Council of Elders
Occupy Wall Street Statement of Solidarity. Solidarity Statement by Mexican
Comrades, "We Walk by Asking, We Reclaim by Occupying". United American
Indians of New England (UAINE) Statement of Support for Occupy/Decolonize
Boston. Occupy Oakland Port Blockade Working Group, "Clarification on
Nature of Call for West Coast Port Blockade". Comrades from Cairo respond
to OWS Egypt delegation. Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq Message of
Solidarity. Library Barbara Kingsolver, "Another American Way". Angus
Johnston, "What I Saw at #OccupyWallStreet Last Night, and What I Saw When
I Left". Ursula K. Le Guin, "A Small Update from What I Have Been Able to
Observe". Keguro Macharia/Gukira, "Occupy DC (hasty notes)". Jaime Omar
Yassin/hyphenated-republic, [posts on Occupy Oakland]. Mike
Konczal/rortybomb, "Occupy Wall Street Is More Popular Than Civil Rights or
Feminist Movements In their Heyday". Sustainability Jimmy Higgins, "Damn,
was I wrong about Occupy Wall Street". Vijay Prashad, "Occupying the
Imagination, Cultivating a New Politics". Sarah Jaffe, "the class
implications of 'know your history'". Lemony Snicket, "Thirteen
Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching. Occupy Wall Street from
a Discreet Distance". Sara Paretsky, "Stop the Tether Ball". Dana Spiotta,
"In the name itself". Emma Rosenthal, [posts from In Bed with Frida Kahlo
on Occupy LA and dis-ability]. Aaron Bady/zunguzungu, "The Oakland
Commune", "The Trick of Occupying Space is Tricky" & "Society Must Be
Defended From Rats traxus4420/queldesastre, "The First Weekend of Occupy
Austin". Adrienne Maree Brown, "from liberty plaza", "one step in building
the 'occupy/unify' movement in detroit" & "let it breathe". Facilitation
Statement from DeColonize LA. Anne Tagonist, "Heirs to the Autonomen".
Larissa Mann/DJ Ripley, "On Occupy Boston". Safer Spaces Statement of
Occupy Boston's Women's Caucus. A bunch of trans women occupiers, "OWS Must
Resist Cis-Supremacy and Trans-Misogyny". Occupy Wall Street Safer Spaces
Working Group, "Transforming Harm & Building. Safety: Confronting Sexual
Violence At Occupy Wall Street & Beyond". People of Color Manissa McCleave
Maharawal, "So Real It Hurts: Notes on Occupy Wall Street". Bruce A. Dixon,
"Occupy Where? What's In It For Black and Brown People?". Tammy Kim,
"Race-ing Occupy Wall Street". Rinku Sen, "Forget Diversity". Trudy
Hamilton/thetrudz, "Police brutality SUCKS. But I need some White Americans
to stop behaving like it started with Occupy if they expect solidarity on
OWS." low end theory, "the last thing we need [on 'Trouble Beside the
Bay']" & "not to be a tease". unsettlingamerica, "#DecolonizeTogether".
Harsha Walia, "Letter to Occupy Together Movement". Arts & Culture Kenji
Liu, "Memory Is Solidarity: Ogawa-Grant Plaza as Opportunity". Jaime Omar
Yassin/hyphenated-republic & commenters including Chris Kendrick, "'I'm on
a Boat!': Occupy Oakland Navigates in Unknown Waters". Sarah Jaffe, "now
there's an occupy love". Occupy Lulz images [Pepper Spray Cop meme;
"Diabetus Cat" OWS sign; Luke Skywalker "I am the 99%"; #OccupySesameStreet
meme; etc.). Documentation of visual/cultural interventions [Occupy Cal
flying tents at Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley; OWS Puppetry Guild; Occupy Our
Homes action visuals; etc.]. Propaganda design work [from @OccupyDesign;
Just Seeds; etc.]. Analytic graphic of the Declaration of the Occupation of
Wall Street. Town Planning Sarah Jaffe, "Occupy Wall St. Prepares for
Crackdown. Will Bloomberg "Try to Tear It All Down?". Sara Marcus, "C-SPAN
for Radicals". Hannah Chadeyane Appel, [posts from Dispatches from an
Occupation]. Jaime Omar Yassin/hyphenated-republic, "Occupy Oakland, Day 8:
Solving Global Problems in a Downtown Microcosm" & "GA Can Also Stand for
Getting off your Ass, Updated". Direct Action Michelle Ty, "The Day Before
the Day of Action". Crank UCDavis/bicyclebarricade, "No Cops, No Bosses".
Mike Konczal/rortybomb, "The Sword and the Shield: Occupy Foreclosures".