{"id":7189,"date":"2020-03-16T17:06:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T17:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arielsheen.com\/?p=7189"},"modified":"2020-03-16T18:05:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T18:05:08","slug":"review-of-occupying-wall-street-the-inside-story-of-an-action-that-changed-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/16\/review-of-occupying-wall-street-the-inside-story-of-an-action-that-changed-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action that Changed America"},"content":{"rendered":"

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According to the book blurb “\"\"Occupying Wall Street draws on extensive interviews with those who took part in the action to bring an authentic, inside-the-square history to life. In these pages you will discover in rich detail how the protest was devised and planned, how its daily needs were met, and how it won overwhelming support across the nation.” – which I think is funny as OWS certainly did not win overwhelming support across the nation. Did it eventually attract media interest after a number of events designed to get attention – like the fake news about Radiohead performing? Yes certainly, but there was never any great support for a new revolutionary lead by communists, anarcho-crust-punks, disaffected professors who felt the world ought to listen to their unique contributions to understanding the world and narcissistic artists and poets.<\/p>\n

The book isn’t terribly written, though the Biblical saying here about the need to remove the beam in one’s eye before casting out the splinter in one’s brother is appropriate.<\/p>\n

The absurdity of the premise – a call for a leaderless politics of revolution without demands, which is an open invitation for subverstion – is never questioned in opposition to simply becoming more active in the existent political project. That was my response when I was first approached by a New School student several months before the Occupation of Zuccotti Park. \u00a0I’m pretty sure my response was, “If I wanted to go camping, it’d be in the woods and if I wanted to change politics, I’d get involved in elections and policy-making.”<\/p>\n

There are multiple admissions that the anti-capitalist seed society that the occupation camps was meant to be were riddled with problems such as theft, assault, inability to organize hygene and food and the organization being completely dependent on donations and grants to function as no one there was employed in any sort of productive activity. The encampment attracted people with mental disorders that non-professional volunteers tried to assist, but couldn’t, etc..<\/p>\n

I’ll not keep heaping contempt on these people so deserving of it but instead share the names I’ve been collecting from OWS literature to determine if they were involved with the World Social Forum or it’s offshoots.<\/p>\n

Occupiers\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amy Roberts
\nMarina Sitrin \u2013 Professor at City University of New York
\nMatt Presto
\nJustin Wedes
\nBrennan Cavanaugh
\nMandy
\nImani J Brown \u2013 Open Society Foundation
\nChristy Thorton \u2013 NYU graduate student
\nAnthony Whitehurst \u2013 Med Mob
\nCharlie Gonzalez \u2013 Consciousness Group
\nMichael Rodriguez
\nBrendan Butler
\nFateh Singh
\nLisa Montanarelli
\nAdreanna Limbach
\nJohn Paul Learn
\nRebeka Beiber
\nPauly Kostora
\nBreanna Lembitz
\nEd Mortimer
\nFrank White
\nLily Johnson
\nMiriam Rocek
\nJesse Jackson
\nMaria Fehling
\nMesiah Bruciaga-Hameed
\nBetsy Fagin
\nMaida Rosenstein
\nBenjamin Shepard
\nAmina Malika
\nKat Mahaney
\nAlex Gomez-del-Moral
\nDaniel Levine
\nWilliam Scott \u2013 Professor of English at the University of Pittsburg
\nJason Ide
\nIlektra Mandragou
\nRivka Little
\nJez
\nReg Flowers \u2013 theatre artist
\nImani
\nBoris Nemch
\nAlessandra De Meo
\nNani Mathews
\nLeo Goldberg
\nKara Segal
\nDan La Botz
\nTara Hart
\nJesse LaGreca
\nNatasha Lennard
\nCaitlin Curran
\nKirby Desmarais
\nHermes \u2013 from Mobile, Alabama
\nBill Scott
\nJosh Frens-String \u2013 NYU Historian
\nJulian Tysh
\nBetsy Fagin
\nMandy Henk
\nZachary Loeb
\nDaniel Levine
\nHeather Squire
\nEmily Curtis-Murphy
\nErin Littlestar
\nMany Henk \u2013 from Greencastle, Indiana
\nWilliam Scott
\nAngela Davis
\nJanos Marton
\nMark Bray
\nJason Ahmadi
\nDiceyTroop \u2013 from Foxboro, Massachusetts<\/p>\n

Foreigners<\/strong><\/span>
\nSenia Barragan – Colombian
\nPatricia \u2013 A Chilean woman
\nAlexandre de Carbalho \u2013 A Brazilian from Rio de Janiero
\nJaco – from Toronto<\/p>\n

Groups<\/strong><\/span>
\nNational Lawyers Guild
\nOccupy the Hood
\nOccupy 477
\nMovement for Justice in El Barrio
\nAudre Lorde Project
\nPoetry Guild<\/p>\n

181st St Community Garden
\nbeautificationproject.blogspot.com
\n212-543-9017
\n880 West 181st Street, #4B
\nNew York, NY 10033<\/p>\n

Ali Forney Center
\nwww.aliforneycenter.org
\n212-222-3427
\n224 W. 35th St. Suite 1102
\nNew York, NY 10001<\/p>\n

ALIGN – the Alliance for a Greater New York
\nalignny.org
\ncontact@alignny.org
\n212-631-0886
\n50 Broadway, 29th Floor, New York, NY 10004<\/p>\n

ANSWER Coalition
\nanswercoalition.org
\nnyc@internationalanswer.org
\n212-694-8720
\n2295 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd., New York, NY 10030<\/p>\n

Asian American Arts Centre
\nhttp:\/\/www.artspiral.org\/<\/p>\n

CAAAV
\ncaav.org<\/p>\n

Campaign to End the Death Penalty
\nwww.nodeathpenalty.org<\/p>\n

Campaign to End the New Jim Crow
\nendnewjimcrow.com<\/p>\n

Center for Immigrant Families
\n212-531-3011
\n20 W 104th St
\nNew York, NY 10025<\/p>\n

Coalition for the Homeless
\ncoalitionforthehomeless.org
\ninfo@cfthomeless.org
\n212-776-2000
\n129 Fulton Street, New York, NY 10038<\/p>\n

Code Pink
\ncodepinkalert.org
\ninfo@codepinkalert.org
\n310-827-4320<\/p>\n

Community Voices Heard
\ncvhaction.org<\/p>\n

Families for Freedom
\nfamiliesforfreedom.org
\ninfo@familiesforfreedom.org
\n3 West 29th St, #1030, New York, NY 10001
\n646 290 5551<\/p>\n

FIERCE
\nwww.fiercenyc.org
\n147 West 24th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10011
\n646-336-6789<\/p>\n

Fort Greene SNAP
\nfortgreenesnap.org<\/p>\n

FUREE
\nfuree.org
\n718-852-2960
\n81 Willoughby Street, 701, Brooklyn, NY 11201<\/p>\n

Green Chimneys
\nwww.greenchimneys.org
\n718-732-1501
\n79 Alexander Ave \u2013 42A, Bronx, NY 10454<\/p>\n

GOLES
\ninfo@goles.org
\n169 Avenue B, New York, NY 10009
\n212-358-1231\u201d<\/p>\n

Guide to New York City Women\u2019s and Social Justice Organizations
\nbcrw.barnard.edu\/guide<\/p>\n

Immigrant Movement International
\nimmigrant-movement.us
\nunited@immigrant-movement.us
\n108-59 Roosevelt Avenue, Queens, NY 11368 USA<\/p>\n

Industrial Workers of the World
\niww.org\/en
\nwobblycity.wordpress.com<\/p>\n

International Socialist Organization
\ninternationalsocialist.org
\ncontact@internationalsocialist.org
\n773-583-5069
\nISO National Office P.O. Box 16085 Chicago, IL 60616<\/p>\n

Iraq Veterans Against the War
\nwww.ivaw.org\/new-york-city
\n646-723-0989
\nP.O. Box 3565 New York, NY 10008-3565<\/p>\n

La Union
\nla-union.org
\nLabor community forum
\nlaborcommunityforum@gmail.com<\/p>\n

Make the Road
\nmaketheroadny.org
\nBushwick, Brooklyn: 301 Grove Street Brooklyn, New York 11237
\n718-418-7690
\nJackson Heights, Queens: 92-10 Roosevelt Avenue,
\nJackson Heights, New York 11372
\n718-565-8500
\nPort Richmond, Staten Island:479 Port Richmond Avenue,
\nStaten Island, New York 10302
\n718-727-1222<\/p>\n

Malcom X Grassroots Movement
\nmxgm.org
\n718-254-8800
\nPO BOX 471711 Brooklyn, NY 11247\u201d<\/p>\n

Marriage Equality NY (MENY)
\nwww.meny.us<\/p>\n

Mirabal Sisters Community and Cultural Center
\nMirabalcenter.org
\ninfo@mirabalcenter.org
\n212-234-3002<\/p>\n

National Lawyers Guild
\nwww.nlg.org
\nnlgnyc.org
\n212-679-5100
\n132 Nassau Street, Rm. 922, New York, NY 10038<\/p>\n

New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCORE)
\nnycore.org<\/p>\n

New York Students Rising
\nnystudentsrising.org<\/p>\n

NMASS
\nnmass.org
\nnmass@nmass.org<\/p>\n

No Gas Pipeline
\nnogaspipeline.org
\nnogaspipeline@gmail.com
\n235 3rd Street, Jersey City, NJ 07302<\/p>\n

Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition
\nnorthwestbronx.org
\n718-584-0515
\n103 East 196th Street Bronx, NY 10468<\/p>\n

NYU4OWS
\nnyu4ows.tumblr.com<\/p>\n

Occupy the DOE
\nnycore.org\/occupy-the-doe\/<\/p>\n

Occupy Equality NY
\nwww.facebook.com\/groups\/OccupyEqualityNY\/<\/p>\n

Occupy Wall Street
\nwww.occupywallst.org\/
\nGeneral Inquiries: general@occupywallst.org
\n+1 (516) 708-4777<\/p>\n

Organizing for Occupation
\nwww.o4onyc.org<\/p>\n

Parent Occupy Wall St
\nparents@everythingindependent.com<\/p>\n

Parents for Occupy Wall Street
\nparentsforoccupywallst.com<\/p>\n

Picture the Homeless
\npicturethehomeless.org
\ninfo@picturethehomeless.org<\/p>\n

Queer Rising
\nQueerRising.org
\nqueerrising@gmail.com
\n917-520-8554<\/p>\n

Queerocracy
\nwww.queerocracy.org
\ncontact@queerocracy.org<\/p>\n

Shut Down Indian Point Now
\nshutdownindianpointnow.org<\/p>\n

Speak Up HP
\nspeakuphp.org
\ninfo@speakuphp.org<\/p>\n

Strong Economy for All Coalition
\nstrongforall.org\/coalition<\/p>\n

Students United for a Free CUNY
\nstudentsunitedforafreecuny.wordpress.com<\/p>\n

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I haven’t yet started cross-referencing all of the people listed above, but as \u00a0Imani J. Brown has a uniqiue name I looked her up. There I found that she is not just an Occupier, but also a Open Society Foundations fellow and that the Arts Incubator called Antenna<\/a> that she is the Director of – which looks super cool and has some interesting community events – also works with other Open Society Fellows, like Dread Scott. Below is a clip from his community-engaged performance art project titled Slave Rebellion Reenactment<\/a>, reinterpreting Louisiana\u2019s German Coast Uprising of 1811\u2014the largest rebellion of enslaved people in U.S. history.<\/p>\n

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