ISBN:
9781595588272
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (273 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als From Cairo to Wall Street : Voices from the Global Spring
DDC:
303.48/4
Keywords:
Protest movements
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Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Occupy Wall Street is by now the catchphrase of 2011, and perhaps many years to come. But this movement against entrenched injustice belongs was born of a wave of protests that swept across the globe and, together, radically shifted the currents of change. From Tunisia to Egypt, from Athens to Madrid, from Zuccotti Park to London's financial district, each local movement aired its own grievances and acted with its own goals in sight. The anger and frustration that underpin these movements, however, is collective. It is the sense that our societies have for too long favored the few and left
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Foreword: The Global New Progressive Movement xi; Preface: What Took Us So Long? xix; Acknowledgments xxvii; Introduction: The World Wakes Joseph E. Stiglitz 1; EGYPT; From Partier to Protester: The Birth of a Social Conscience Jawad Nabulsi 28; The Revolutionary Road Starts in Tunisia Lina Attalah 36; TUNISIA; Out from Behind the Sun Mouheb Ben Garoui 48; Internet Activism, Tunisian Style Haythem El Mekki 57; SYRIA; Patriot and Fugitive Razan Zaitouneh 72; BAHRAIN; A Bumpy Road with No Alternative: Q&A with Matar Ibrahim Matar 86; Darkness Before Dawn Ala'a Shehabi 96; SPAIN
Description / Table of Contents:
From New York to Madrid and Back Again José Bellver 112We Are the 99% Sara López Martín and Javier García Raboso 119; "Think Global, Act Local": Neighborhood and Town Assemblies Alejandra Machín Álvarez 126; A Social Awakening: History of the Protests Against Evictions Jonay Martín Valenzuela 133; CHILE; Students of Change: How a Call for Education Access Became a Cry for True Democracy Giorgio Jackson 145; GREECE; No Tears for Greek Democracy Fivos Papahadjis 158; Nights in Syntagma Square Antonis Voulgarelis 168; OCCUPY WALL STREET
Description / Table of Contents:
From Wisconsin to Wall Street: A Cheesehead Does Not Stand Alone Harry Waisbren 180The Accidental Activist Lisa Epstein 189; My Trajectory with Occupy Suresh Naidu 202; David Ippolito: Occupy Wall Street's Woody Guthrie 206; OCCUPY LONDON; The Occupied Times Martin Eirmann and Steven Maclean 214; Counter-Case Study: Ireland Fails to Respond to Its Debt Crisis Andy Storey 223; Afterword: Social Media and the Protests Laurie Penny 233; Notes 241;
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