Occupy! will publish on the three-month anniversary of the occupation of Wall Street - the first full-length book to come out of the Occupy movement. The book will combine adrenalin-fuelled first-hand accounts of the early days and weeks of the occupation - when a small sleep-in grew explosively into a global phenomenon, sparked in part by violent overreactions by the police with contentious debates and thoughtful reflections featuring the editors and writers of the celebrated journal n+1, as well as some of the world's leading radical thinkers, such as Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler, and Angela Davis.
The book conveys the intense excitement of being immersed in the birth of a counterculture, while providing the movement with a serious platform for debating goals, demands, and tactics. Articles address the history of the 'horizontalist' structure at OWS; how to keep a live-in going when what you've tried to shut down refuses to shut; how very rich the very rich have become; the genesis and meaning of the 99% tumblr website that has captured the imagination of many; occupations in Oakland, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and elsewhere; what happens next; and much more.
It will be a book for the new generation of activists as well as a broad readership of people interested in this movement, which has been described by the eminent historian Immanuel Wallerstein as 'the most important political happening in the United States since the uprisings in 1968'.
