This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement

Sarah Van Gelder, Staff of Yes! Magazine (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

96 Seiten

2011
Berrett-Koehler (Verlag)
978-1-60994-587-9 (ISBN)

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YES! Magazine has been at the forefront of reporting on the Occupy Wall Street/99% movement that has spread all over the U.S. and around the world. Now the editors of YES! have pulled together outstanding reports and analyses of the who, what, when, where, why, and how of this movement - especially the ways it "changes everything" in creating a world that works for the 99% and not just the top 1%.

Occupy Wall Street protests have spread around the world, with a common slogan of "We are the 99%." But there is a great deal of confusion and misperception about this movement. This book clarifies the who, what, when, where, why, and how of this movement. It provides profound insight into the movement's power, messages, significance, methods, and impact. The editors of YES! Magazine bring together voices from inside and outside the protests to show how the meaning and impact of this movement are much bigger and more far-reaching than is being reported.

The central thesis of this book is "This Changes Everything." The authors show how this movement changes (1) how citizens view themselves, (2) what citizens see is really going on in the world, (3) what is possible in creating a world that works for the many (the "99%") and not just the few (the "1%"), and (4) how citizens can bring about changes they seek in their communities, nations, and the world.

Sarah van Gelder is co-founder and executive editor of YES! She writes for YES!, blogs at Huffington Post, and speaks and is interviewed by national media on themes in this book. Founded in 1996, YES! Magazine is a quarterly print magazine and a daily online source for articles that fuse powerful ideas with practical actions to drive profound change. The YES! audience is a worldwide community of thought leaders and engaged citizens. Project Censored editors call YES! "the standard for solutions journalism."

Introduction: How Occupy Wall Street Changes Everything by Sarah van Gelder

Part 1: Occupy Wall Street
1: How Occupy Wall Street Really Got Started by Andy Kroll
2: Enacting the Impossible: Making Decisions by Consensus by David Graeber
3: Principles of Solidarity by the Occupy Wall Street General Assembly
4: The Chills of Popular Power: The First Month of Occupy Wall Street by Marina Sitrin
5: The Challenge of Bringing Diversity to Occupy Wall Street by Hena Ashraf
6: Declaration of the Occupation of New York City by the Occupy Wall Street General Assembly
7: No Leaders, No Violence: What "Diversity of Tactics" Means for Occupy Wall Street by Nathan Schneider
8: The Most Important Thing in the World by Naomi Klein

Part 2: What Needs to Change
9: How Inequality Poisons Society and Equity Benefits Everyone: An Interview with Richard Wilkinson by Brooke Jarvis
10: Six Ways to Liberate Main Street from Wall Street by David Korten
11: A Fair Tax System: Three Places to Start by Chuck Collins
12: How to Create Living-Wage Jobs that Are Good for the Planet by Doug Pibel and Sarah van Gelder

Part 3: We Have the Power
13: How to Put the Rights of People and Nature Over Corporate Rights by Thomas Linzey and Jeff Reifman
14: Going to the Streets to Get Things Done by Ralph Nader
15: The Occupation of Hope: Letter to a Dead Man by Rebecca Solnit
16: Ten Ways to Support the Occupy Movement by Sarah van Gelder

Verlagsort	San Francisco
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 217 mm
Gewicht	138 g
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-60994-587-5 / 1609945875
ISBN-13	978-1-60994-587-9 / 9781609945879
Zustand	Neuware