{"product_id":"generation-occupy-isbn-9781640094499","title":"Generation Occupy","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe fight for a $15 minimum wage. Nationwide teacher strikes. Bernie Sanders’s political revolution and the rise of AOC. Black Lives Matter. #MeToo. Read how the Occupy movement helped reshape American politics, culture and the groundbreaking movements to follow. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the ten-year anniversary of the Occupy movement, \u003ci\u003eGeneration Occupy\u003c\/i\u003e sets the historical record straight about the movement’s lasting impacts. Far from a passing phenomenon, Occupy Wall Street marked a new era of social and political transformation, reigniting the labor movement, remaking the Democratic Party and reviving a culture of protest that has put the fight for social, economic, environmental and racial justice at the forefront of a generation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe movement changed the way Americans see themselves and their role in the economy through the language of the 99 versus the 1 percent. But beyond that, in its demands for fairness and equality, Occupy reinvigorated grassroots activism, inaugurating a decade of youth-led resistance movements that have altered the social fabric, from Black Lives Matter and Standing Rock to March for Our Lives, the Global Climate Strikes and #MeToo. Bookended by the 2008 financial crisis and the coronavirus pandemic, \u003ci\u003eGeneration Occupy \u003c\/i\u003eattempts to help us understand how we got to where we are today and how to draw on lessons from Occupy in the future.\"Fluidly written . . . Levitin’s enthusiasm is infectious . . . It is no exaggeration to say that Occupy Wall Street and its offshoots changed a good deal more of the landscape than Zuccotti Park’s three-quarters of an acre in New York’s financial district.\" —Tod Gitlin, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Michael Levitin's \u003ci\u003eGeneration Occupy\u003c\/i\u003e is a much needed debrief on the Occupy Movement, one that focuses less on lofty theoretical meanings and more on nuts and bolts and human issues––who was there, what they thought they wanted to do, how they tried to do it, and how they felt about the movement later on. This is a documentary account about a community, therefore, and as such it refreshes North American non-fiction writing, creating a beautiful collage of stories about idealism, disenchantment, and influence ex post facto. The idealist in you will unfold anew over the course of these pages, again, with gratitude for the discussions started by Occupy and for the lives it changed.\" ––Rick Moody\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Abundant . . .  Levitin includes colorful vignettes of his time at the [Occupy Wall Street] protests, and offers fresh insights on union workers’ participation and the Rolling Jubilee campaign to abolish student debt . . . A noteworthy contribution to the discussion over why Occupy Wall Street happened, and what it meant.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A vigorous history of the Occupy Movement by a journalist and activist . . . An evenhanded account of a political strain that remains influential, if now relatively subdued.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In an exhilarating combination of memoir, history, and political analysis, Levitin makes an airtight case: that the Occupy movement has had a profound influence on all aspects of American life. \u003ci\u003eGeneration Occupy\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece that illuminates our past, present, and future.\" —Brian Platzer, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Body Politic\u003c\/i\u003e and education columnist at \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“In this book, Michael Levitin makes a compelling case that the Occupy movement had a much greater impact than is typically acknowledged. Combining political analysis with profiles of key activists, \u003ci\u003eGeneration Occupy\u003c\/i\u003e offers a dedicated defense of the power of mass protest.” —Mark Engler, co-author of \u003ci\u003eThis Is An Uprising\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Occupy Wall Street may not have changed the way the wealthy see the world, but as Michael Levitin beautifully documents, it changed everything for the 99% of us who must learn to live here, together. Occupy was less a protest than the formulation of a new approach to economics and governance, whose full impact is only being realized today. Levitin draws the connections between Occupy Wall Street and everything from Black Lives Matter to the Climate Strikes, reminding us we have a shared legacy, a common cause, and a hopeful future.\" —Douglas Rushkoff, author of \u003ci\u003eTeam Human\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What started as a scrappy protest camp in 2011 has lived on as a long, surprising echo through the institutions—not a march of people through the halls of power so much as an immediate and lasting influence on grassroots movements like Black Lives Matter, on policies within the Democratic Party, even on Wall Street itself. Levitin writes an elegant, hard-edged history of the American Left over the last ten years.\" —Michael Scott Moore, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Desert and the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Levitin\u003c\/b\u003e is a journalist and co-founding editor of The Occupied Wall Street Journal. He started as a reporter covering the Cochabamba Water War in 2000 for the English language newspaper Bolivian Times. He earned his master’s degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and later worked as a freelance correspondent in Barcelona and Berlin covering politics, culture and climate change. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e and the\u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. His debut novel, \u003ci\u003eDisposable Man\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2019. He teaches journalism at Diablo Valley College in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he lives with his wife and two children.","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303191302373,"sku":"NP9781640094499","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781640094499.jpg?v=1767727917","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/generation-occupy-isbn-9781640094499","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}