Occupy Reading
Volume 28, Number 4
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Volume 29, Number 1
Volume: 28
Number: 4
By Felicity Palma Occupy Wall Street protesters gather in Lower Manhattan to resist the corporate greed and banking practices that caused the current economic crisis. The encampment in Zuccotti Park started September 17, 2011. Since then, hundreds of similar encampments have sprung up all over the country and world. nearly 7,000 people have been arrested…
SUSTAINABLE MEAT, UNSALTED I was taken aback when reading in the summer WIN (2011) editorial that avoidance of meat in the diet seems to be a foundational tenet of WRL’s nonviolence and that you had to issue what amounted to an apology or disclaimer about including a meat-based recipe from our indigenous cousins in Minnesota….
Between Credit, Bullion, and Rebellion Debt: The First 5,000 Years By David Graeber 2011, Melville House Publishing, 544 pages, $32 Right now, everyday people are feeling increasing stress from all directions. Pressure from the faltering economy, violence and warfare, debt/deficit worries, and austerity measures are approaching a breaking point. Human-scale economic considerations are being crushed…
WWI, the Picture of Futility To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918 By Adam Hochschild Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011, 448 pages, $28 Although non-pacifists might attempt to justify some wars because their intent is to save lives or protect freedoms, no reasonable person could justify the carnage produced by World War…
Letters of Insurgents By Yarostan Vochek and Sophie Nachalo (Fredy Perlman) Black and Red, 1976, 831 pages, out of print Politics: That’s the religion of today, that’s the cancer that annihilates every possibility of community and puts an end to every period of ferment. —Fredy Perlman, Letters of Insurgents Arab Spring! The occupation of…
Classics Revisited: A Child’s-Eye View of Wartime Jeux Interdits (Forbidden Games) Directed by René Clément 1952; in French; available (with English subtitles) from Netflix There are no battlefield scenes in Forbidden Games and only one explicit war scene; most of the movie takes place in the bucolic French countryside, at some remove from the fighting….
Photo: Barfield and Willson during their 1991 trip to Palestine and Iraq. Rejecting “AWOL” Blood on the Tracks: The Life and Times of S. Brian Willson By S. Brian Willson PM Press, 2011, 536 pages, $20 On the evening of September 1, 1987, I walked into the living room of the home I shared…
Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond By David Gilbert 2011, PM Press, 384 pages, $22 Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times By Amy Sonnie and James Tracy 2011, Melville House, 256 pages, $16.95 Diary of a Heartland Radical By Harry Targ…
“The protesters are coming! Watch out for ‘outside agitators!’” One reads it almost daily here in the Windy City. For months, everyone thought both the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the G8 would convene in Chicago’s cavernous McCormick Place in May, bringing heads of state and thousands of other world leaders and their…
By Mindful Occupation Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In September 2011, the Occupy Wall Street protests erupted in response to the growing social and economic injustice that becomes more visible each day. Many of us with backgrounds in mental health and disability organizing have been…
I’m on a number of email lists across the activist spectrum, and have noticed an increasing tendency toward what might be termed “ideological opportunism” on the part of some sectors that ostensibly stand in support of the Occupy Movement. The idea that certain segments—most viscerally the derogatory and divisive tropes of the “freeloading homeless”…
Photo by Felicity Palma Since the brutal eviction of Occupy Wall Street’s (OWS) enscampment at Liberty Plaza, questions about the future of the Occupy movement have loomed large. Its rapid development comprised two months of near-constant actions, arrests, and activity. What we built from September 17 to November 17 is transitioning into a long-term movement…
Resistance in Brooklyn (RnB), a 20-year-old anti-racist, anti-imperialist collective rooted in the 1970s/80s movements in solidarity with struggles of communities and nations of color, is awed by the creativity, tenacity, and commitment of the burgeoning Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. RnB has been working with Occupy since early October, focusing most of our energies…
October 7, 2011 Dear Extended Families, As many of you may know, I’ve been getting super excited about all this “We Are the 99%” and “Occupy Wall Street” stuff. Coincidentally, as these protests have been spreading we’re covering the American, French, and Haitian revolutions in the community college history classes I teach. Examining past…
A Fierce Hope Carries Us Suddenly, there’s optimism. The rising movements have seen setbacks: the betrayal of much of Egypt’s spring, evictions of occupiers everywhere. Yet the movements appear to be continuing and, on the whole, to react to those setbacks as challenges, not defeats. If the risings circled the globe like a virus, the…
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