Dreaming in Public

Since September 2011, the Occupy movement has captured the world's imagination. The media has been flooded with accounts of demonstrations, descriptions of the encampments, interviews with Occupiers, and discussions of Occupy's merits, political and otherwise. But what do its participants have to say? Dreaming in Public gathers together dispatches, essays, blog posts, and images from within the movement aimed at influencing its development and addressing those not yet in the streets and plazas. Produced by participant journalists, political analysts, writers, polemicists, photographers, organizers, and activists, these documents capture the vibrant, contentious, illuminating, and inventive exchange of Occupy. Work from contributors such as Naomi Klein and Harsha Walia complement public declarations from the movement, images, and graphics. Some pieces explore the rites and rituals of the movement, others its aims and overall structure. Yet others take up the role differences of race and gender play in a movement that claims to represent the 99%, and the complicated business of maintaining urban encampments. Many consider the challenge participatory democracy poses to conventional ideas of what politics is or should be. The materials in this collection attest not only to the extraordinary political energy that has already come out of Occupy, but to the implications of the movement for the future. Amy Schrager Lang is professor of English and humanities at Syracuse University and author of a number of books. Daniel Lang/Levitsky is an artist, theater producer, writer, and founding member of the Direct Action Network and Jews Against the Occupation.

Auteur

Amy Lang: Amy Schrager Lang taught U.S. literature and cultural studies for thirty-five years and is
Professor of English and Humanities at Syracuse University. The author, most recently, of The Syntax of Class (Princeton, 2003) and the co-editor of What Democracy Looks Like (Rutgers, 2006), Lang currently serves as co-editor of the University of Michigan's Class : Culture series and as the book review editor of the AAUP's journal, Academe.
Daniel Lang/Levitsky: Activist, author, artist and theater producer. Daniel Lang/Levitsky is a theater artist and organizer based in Brooklyn, a founding member of the Direct Action Network - NY and Jews Against the Occupation, and active in a range of radical movements. Lang/Levitsky has written on radical history, politics, and theater for Bridges, Monthly Review, History News Network, and others.

Contenu

Introduction Eileen Myles, "Anonymous". Amy Schrager Lang & Daniel Lang/Levitsky, "The Politics of the Impossible". Information Desk Richard Kim, "The Audacity of Occupy Wall Street". Naomi Klein, "The Most Important Thing in the World". Ira Livingston, "Darth Vader and Occupy Wall Street: A TwitterEssay". Media Declaration of the Occupation of Wall Street. Occupy Student Debt Campaign Pledges & Principles. UAW Local 2865 Resolution in Support of Occupy Oakland General Strike. American Library Association Occupy Wall Street Library Resolution & Press Statement. Council of Elders Occupy Wall Street Statement of Solidarity. Solidarity Statement by Mexican Comrades, "We Walk by Asking, We Reclaim by Occupying". United American Indians of New England (UAINE) Statement of Support for Occupy/Decolonize Boston. Occupy Oakland Port Blockade Working Group, "Clarification on Nature of Call for West Coast Port Blockade". Comrades from Cairo respond to OWS Egypt delegation. Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq Message of Solidarity. Library Barbara Kingsolver, "Another American Way". Angus Johnston, "What I Saw at #OccupyWallStreet Last Night, and What I Saw When I Left". Ursula K. Le Guin, "A Small Update from What I Have Been Able to Observe". Keguro Macharia/Gukira, "Occupy DC (hasty notes)". Jaime Omar Yassin/hyphenated-republic, [posts on Occupy Oakland]. Mike Konczal/rortybomb, "Occupy Wall Street Is More Popular Than Civil Rights or Feminist Movements In their Heyday". Sustainability Jimmy Higgins, "Damn, was I wrong about Occupy Wall Street". Vijay Prashad, "Occupying the Imagination, Cultivating a New Politics". Sarah Jaffe, "the class implications of 'know your history'". Lemony Snicket, "Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching. Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance". Sara Paretsky, "Stop the Tether Ball". Dana Spiotta, "In the name itself". Emma Rosenthal, [posts from In Bed with Frida Kahlo on Occupy LA and dis-ability]. Aaron Bady/zunguzungu, "The Oakland Commune", "The Trick of Occupying Space is Tricky" & "Society Must Be Defended From Rats traxus4420/queldesastre, "The First Weekend of Occupy Austin". Adrienne Maree Brown, "from liberty plaza", "one step in building the 'occupy/unify' movement in detroit" & "let it breathe". Facilitation Statement from DeColonize LA. Anne Tagonist, "Heirs to the Autonomen". Larissa Mann/DJ Ripley, "On Occupy Boston". Safer Spaces Statement of Occupy Boston's Women's Caucus. A bunch of trans women occupiers, "OWS Must Resist Cis-Supremacy and Trans-Misogyny". Occupy Wall Street Safer Spaces Working Group, "Transforming Harm & Building. Safety: Confronting Sexual Violence At Occupy Wall Street & Beyond". People of Color Manissa McCleave Maharawal, "So Real It Hurts: Notes on Occupy Wall Street". Bruce A. Dixon, "Occupy Where? What's In It For Black and Brown People?". Tammy Kim, "Race-ing Occupy Wall Street". Rinku Sen, "Forget Diversity". Trudy Hamilton/thetrudz, "Police brutality SUCKS. But I need some White Americans to stop behaving like it started with Occupy if they expect solidarity on OWS." low end theory, "the last thing we need [on 'Trouble Beside the Bay']" & "not to be a tease". unsettlingamerica, "#DecolonizeTogether". Harsha Walia, "Letter to Occupy Together Movement". Arts & Culture Kenji Liu, "Memory Is Solidarity: Ogawa-Grant Plaza as Opportunity". Jaime Omar Yassin/hyphenated-republic & commenters including Chris Kendrick, "'I'm on a Boat!': Occupy Oakland Navigates in Unknown Waters". Sarah Jaffe, "now there's an occupy love". Occupy Lulz images [Pepper Spray Cop meme; "Diabetus Cat" OWS sign; Luke Skywalker "I am the 99%"; #OccupySesameStreet meme; etc.). Documentation of visual/cultural interventions [Occupy Cal flying tents at Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley; OWS Puppetry Guild; Occupy Our Homes action visuals; etc.]. Propaganda design work [from @OccupyDesign; Just Seeds; etc.]. Analytic graphic of the Declaration of the Occupation of Wall Street. Town Planning Sarah Jaffe, "Occupy Wall St. Prepares for Crackdown. Will Bloomberg "Try to Tear It All Down?". Sara Marcus, "C-SPAN for Radicals". Hannah Chadeyane Appel, [posts from Dispatches from an Occupation]. Jaime Omar Yassin/hyphenated-republic, "Occupy Oakland, Day 8: Solving Global Problems in a Downtown Microcosm" & "GA Can Also Stand for Getting off your Ass, Updated". Direct Action Michelle Ty, "The Day Before the Day of Action". Crank UCDavis/bicyclebarricade, "No Cops, No Bosses". Mike Konczal/rortybomb, "The Sword and the Shield: Occupy Foreclosures".