| Description |
1 online resource (225 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Beginnings -- An occupation is born -- The general assembly -- Brooklyn Bridge -- 60 Wall Street -- Students and unions -- Living in the square -- Defending the occupation -- POCcupy--a call to critical consciousness -- At the edge of the square -- Washington Square, Times Square -- The art of the square -- The occupation spreads -- The media, occupied -- Eviction -- The future of the occupation -- Day in the life of the square -- Timeline of a movement on the move -- Useful contact information |
| Summary |
For two months this fall, Zuccotti Park, squeezed deep in a canyon between bankers' skyscrapers in lower Manhattan, was the site of an extraordinary political action. Home to the hundreds of anti-capitalist protestors who camped there overnight, and the thousands who visited to join the protest, the park became a magical place: a communion of sharing and consensus in the heart of a citadel defined by greed and oligarchy. In the early hours of Tuesday November the 15th the occupiers' camp was destroyed when police swept suddenly into the square, tearing down the tents, library, kitchen and medi |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Occupy Wall Street (Movement)
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| SUBJECT |
Occupy Wall Street (Movement) fast |
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Occupy movement -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Anti-globalization movement -- New York (State) -- New York
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Protest movements -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 21st century
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Anti-globalization movement
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Occupy movement
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Protest movements
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Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) -- Political aspects
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New York (State) -- New York
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New York (State) -- New York -- Wall Street
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781921942624 |
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1921942622 |
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