Thank you, anarchy : notes from the Occupy apocalypse / Nathan Schneider ; foreword by Rebecca Solnit.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schneider, Nathan, 1984-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Occupy Wall Street (Movement).

Occupy movement--New York (State)--New York.

Occupy movement.

Protest movements.

History.

New York (State)--New York.

Protest movements--United States--History--21st century.

Equality--United States.

Equality.

United States.

Income distribution--United States.

Income distribution.

Local Subjects:

Occupy Wall Street (Movement).

Equality--United States.

Income distribution--United States.

Occupy movement.

Occupy movement--New York (State)--New York.

Protest movements--United States--History--21st century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 194 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]

Summary:

Thank You, Anarchy is an up-close, inside account of Occupy Wall Street's first year in New York City, written by one of the first reporters to cover the phenomenon. Nathan Schneider chronicles the origins and explosive development of the Occupy movement through the eyes of the organizers who tried to give shape to an uprising always just beyond their control. Capturing the voices, encounters, and beliefs that powered the movement, Schneider brings to life the General Assembly meetings, the chaotic marches, the split-second decisions, and the moments of doubt as Occupy swelled from a hashtag online into a global phenomenon. A compelling study of the spirit that drove this watershed movement, Thank You, Anarchy vividly documents how the Occupy experience opened new social and political possibilities and registered a chilling indictment of the status quo. It was the movement's most radical impulses, this account shows, that shook millions out of a failed tedium and into imagining, and fighting for, a better kind of future.

Contents:

Foreword: Miracles and obstacles / Rebecca Solnit

Part 1: Summer to fall. Some great cause ; New Messiah

Part 2: Fall to winter. Planet occupy ; No borders, no bosses ; Sanctuary

Part 3: Winter to spring. Diversity of tactics ; Crazy eyes

Part 4: Summer to fall. Eternal return.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0520276809

9780520276796

0520276795

9780520276802

OCLC:

829937188

Publisher Number:

99961860063