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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452881403321

Autore

Schneider Nathan <1984->

Titolo

Thank you, anarchy [[electronic resource] ] : notes from the occupy apocalypse / / Nathan Schneider ; foreword by Rebecca Solnit

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013

ISBN

0-520-27679-5

0-520-95703-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Disciplina

339.20973

Soggetti

Occupy movement - New York (State) - New York

Occupy movement

Protest movements - United States - History - 21st century

Equality - United States

Income distribution - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword: Miracles and Obstacles -- 1. Some Great Cause -- 2. New Messiah -- 3. Planet Occupy -- 4. No Borders, No Bosses -- 5. Sanctuary -- 6. Diversity of Tactics -- 7. Crazy Eyes -- 8. Eternal Return -- Acknowledgments -- Works Not Cited

Sommario/riassunto

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.