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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463638703321

Autore

Gould-Wartofsky Michael A.

Titolo

The occupiers : the making of the 99 percent movement / / Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-19-931393-8

0-19-931392-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Disciplina

303.48/40973

Soggetti

Occupy movement - United States

Protest movements - United States - History

Political participation - United States - History

Income distribution - United States

Equality - 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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Enter the 99 Percent -- Chapter 1. Occupy before Occupy -- Chapter 2. Organizing for Occupation -- Chapter 3. Taking Liberty Square -- Chapter 4. Crossing Brooklyn Bridge -- Chapter 5. Escalation to Eviction -- Chapter 6. The Occupiers in Exile -- Chapter 7. Otherwise Occupied -- Chapter 8. Spring Forward, Fall Back -- Conclusion: Between Past and Future -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Occupy Wall Street burst onto the stage of history in the fall of 2011. First by the tens, then by the tens of thousands, protestors filled the streets and laid claim to the squares of nearly 1,500 towns and cities, until, one by one, the occupations were forcibly evicted.  In The Occupiers, Michael Gould-Wartofsky offers a front-seat view of the action in the streets of New York City and beyond. Painting a vivid picture of everyday life in the square through the use of material gathered in the course of two years of on-the-ground investigation, Gould-Wartofsky traces the occupation of Zuccotti Park--and some of



its counterparts across the United States and around the world--from inception to eviction. He takes up the challenges the occupiers faced, the paradoxes of direct democracy, and the dynamics of direct action and police action and explores the ways in which occupied squares became focal points for an emerging opposition to the politics of austerity, restricted democracy, and the power of corporate America.  Much of the discussion of the Occupy phenomenon has treated it as if it lived and died in Zuccotti Park, but Gould-Wartofsky follows the evicted occupiers into exile and charts their evolving strategies, tactics, and tensions as they seek to resist, regroup, and reoccupy. Displaced from public spaces and news headlines, the 99 Percent movement has spread out from the financial centers and across an America still struggling to recover in the aftermath of the crisis. Even if the movement fails to achieve radical reform, Gould-Wartofsky maintains, its offshoots may well accelerate the pace of change in the United States in the years to come"--

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779829703321

Autore

Maruya Saiichi <1925-2012, >

Titolo

Grass for my pillow / / Saiichi Maruya ; translated by Dennis Keene

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Columbia University Press, , [2002]

©1966

ISBN

0-231-50157-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (521 p.)

Collana

A Pacific Basin Institute book

Columbia Asian studies series

Disciplina

895.6/35

Soggetti

Conscientious objectors - Japan

World War, 1939-1945 - Conscientious objectors - Japan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Translator's Introduction -- One -- Two -- Three -- Four -- Five -- Six -- Seven -- Postscript: Sugiura's Travels



Sommario/riassunto

First published in Japanese in 1966, the debut novel of the critically acclaimed author of Singular Rebellion is an unusual portrait of a deeply taboo subject in twentieth-century Japanese society: resistance to the draft in World War II. In 1940 Shokichi Hamada is a conscientious objector who dodges military service by simply disappearing from society, taking to the country as an itinerant peddler by the name of Sugiura until the end of the war in 1945. In 1965, Hamada works as a clerk at a conservative university, his war resistance a dark secret of the past that present-day events force into the light, confronting him with unexpected consequences of his refusal to conform twenty years earlier.