We Are Many
Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation
Published on 3. January 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
355 pages
978-1-84935-116-4 (ISBN)
Description
The only book on Occupy written by organizers, for organizers! Essential lessons from key movement strategists.
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Edition
Annotated edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Edition type
Annotated edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
674 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84935-116-4 (9781849351164)
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Kate Khatib | Margaret Killjoy | Mike Mcguire
We Are Many
Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation
E-Book
10/2012
AK Press
€20.49
Available for download
Persons
The Editors:
Kate Khatib: Kate Khatib is a member of the AK Press collective, and a co-founder of Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse in Baltimore, MD.
Margaret Killjoy: Margaret Killjoy is an itinerant author, editor, photographer, and graphic designer, and the co-founder of Combustion Books. In addition to editing Steampunk Magazine and Graceless, Margaret is the author of What Lies Beneath the Clocktower (Combustion Books, 2011) and the editor of Mythmakers & Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction (AK Press, 2009).
Mike McGuire: Mike McGuire is a global justice organizer based in Baltimore, Maryland who works extensively along the eastern seaboard and in Latin America.
Contributors: Michael Andrews, Michael Belt, Nadine Bloch, Rose Bookbinder, Mark Bray, Emily Brissette, George Caffentzis, George Ciccariello-Maher, Annie Cockrell, Joshua Clover, Andy Cornell, Molly Crabapple, CrimethInc., Croatoan, Paul Dalton, Chris Dixon, John Duda, Brendan M. Dunn, Lisa Fithian, Gabriella, David Graeber, Ryan Harvey, Gabriel Hetland, Marisa Holmes, Mike King, Koala Largess, Yvonne Yen Liu, Josh MacPhee, Manissa M. Maharawal, Yotam Marom, Cindy Milstein, Occupy Research, Joel Olson, Isaac Ontiveros, Morrigan Phillips, Frances Fox Piven, Vijay Prashad, Michael Premo, Max Rameau, RANT, Research & Destroy, Nathan Schneider, Jonathan Matthew Smucker, Some Oakland Antagonists, Lester Spence, Janaina Stronzake, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Team Colors Collective, Janelle Treibitz, Unwoman, Immanuel Wallerstein, Sophie Whittemore, Kristian Williams, and Jaime Omar Yassin.
Kate Khatib: Kate Khatib is a member of the AK Press collective, and a co-founder of Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse in Baltimore, MD.
Margaret Killjoy: Margaret Killjoy is an itinerant author, editor, photographer, and graphic designer, and the co-founder of Combustion Books. In addition to editing Steampunk Magazine and Graceless, Margaret is the author of What Lies Beneath the Clocktower (Combustion Books, 2011) and the editor of Mythmakers & Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction (AK Press, 2009).
Mike McGuire: Mike McGuire is a global justice organizer based in Baltimore, Maryland who works extensively along the eastern seaboard and in Latin America.
Contributors: Michael Andrews, Michael Belt, Nadine Bloch, Rose Bookbinder, Mark Bray, Emily Brissette, George Caffentzis, George Ciccariello-Maher, Annie Cockrell, Joshua Clover, Andy Cornell, Molly Crabapple, CrimethInc., Croatoan, Paul Dalton, Chris Dixon, John Duda, Brendan M. Dunn, Lisa Fithian, Gabriella, David Graeber, Ryan Harvey, Gabriel Hetland, Marisa Holmes, Mike King, Koala Largess, Yvonne Yen Liu, Josh MacPhee, Manissa M. Maharawal, Yotam Marom, Cindy Milstein, Occupy Research, Joel Olson, Isaac Ontiveros, Morrigan Phillips, Frances Fox Piven, Vijay Prashad, Michael Premo, Max Rameau, RANT, Research & Destroy, Nathan Schneider, Jonathan Matthew Smucker, Some Oakland Antagonists, Lester Spence, Janaina Stronzake, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Team Colors Collective, Janelle Treibitz, Unwoman, Immanuel Wallerstein, Sophie Whittemore, Kristian Williams, and Jaime Omar Yassin.
Content
We Are Many: Table of Contents
Full TOC forthcoming in February
Chapter Structure & Outline:
Editors' Preface: Kate Khatib, Mike McGuire, and Margaret Killjoy
Foreword: TK
Introduction: Kate Khatib and Mike McGuire
Section 1: Origins of the Occupy Movement
* Timelines
* Socio-economic conditions
* Precedents
* Origins
* Global and national movements
Section 2: What Have We Done?
* The Call & Response of Adbusters & NYGA
* Organization vs. Spontenaeity
* Tools of the movement (Assemblies, Spokescouncils, People's Mic)
* Intra-movement coordination
* The 99% meme and what it really means
* Leaderless vs. leaderful movements
* The Public Square
* Beyond the Public Square
* Kinship with other movements (labor, housing rights, economic human
rights)
* Ideological structures
* Anti-capitalism & anarchism
* Culture
Section 3: Where are we going?
* Allies & enemies
* Power relations
* Co-optation
* Keeping dissent public
* What would it look like to win?
* Expansion vs. proliferation
* What are useful tools for planning a campaign?
* How do we learn to think strategically?
Section 4: Movement Stories
Afterword: David Graeber
Full TOC forthcoming in February
Chapter Structure & Outline:
Editors' Preface: Kate Khatib, Mike McGuire, and Margaret Killjoy
Foreword: TK
Introduction: Kate Khatib and Mike McGuire
Section 1: Origins of the Occupy Movement
* Timelines
* Socio-economic conditions
* Precedents
* Origins
* Global and national movements
Section 2: What Have We Done?
* The Call & Response of Adbusters & NYGA
* Organization vs. Spontenaeity
* Tools of the movement (Assemblies, Spokescouncils, People's Mic)
* Intra-movement coordination
* The 99% meme and what it really means
* Leaderless vs. leaderful movements
* The Public Square
* Beyond the Public Square
* Kinship with other movements (labor, housing rights, economic human
rights)
* Ideological structures
* Anti-capitalism & anarchism
* Culture
Section 3: Where are we going?
* Allies & enemies
* Power relations
* Co-optation
* Keeping dissent public
* What would it look like to win?
* Expansion vs. proliferation
* What are useful tools for planning a campaign?
* How do we learn to think strategically?
Section 4: Movement Stories
Afterword: David Graeber