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Generation Occupy: Reawakening American Democracy Audiobook
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From the fight for a fifteen-dollar minimum wage to the nationwide teacher strikes, from Bernie Sanders to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and from Black Lives Matter to #MeToo, Generation Occupy reveals the lasting impacts of the Occupy movement on American politics and culture.
On the ten-year anniversary of the Occupy movement, Generation Occupy sets the historical record straight about the movement’s lasting impacts. Far from a passing phenomenon, Occupy Wall Street marked a new era of social and political transformation, reigniting the labor movement, remaking the Democratic Party, and reviving a culture of protest that has put the fight for social, economic, environmental, and racial justice at the forefront of a generation. The movement changed the way Americans see themselves and their role in the economy through the language of the 99 versus the 1 percent.
But beyond that, in its demands for fairness and equality, Occupy reinvigorated grassroots activism, inaugurating a decade of youth-led resistance movements that have altered the social fabric, from Black Lives Matter and Standing Rock to March for Our Lives, the Global Climate Strikes, and #MeToo. Bookended by the 2008 financial crisis and the coronavirus pandemic, Generation Occupy attempts to help us understand how we got to where we are today and how to draw on lessons from Occupy in the future.
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“What started as a scrappy protest camp in 2011 has lived on as a long, surprising echo through the institutions—not a march of people through the halls of power so much as an immediate and lasting influence on grassroots movements like Black Lives Matter, on policies within the Democratic Party, even on Wall Street itself. Levitin writes an elegant, hard-edged history of the American Left over the last ten years.”
— Michael Scott Moore, author of The Desert and the Sea
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“A noteworthy contribution to the discussion over why Occupy Wall Street happened, and what it meant.”
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“A vigorous history of the Occupy Movement by a journalist and activist…An evenhanded account of a political strain that remains influential, if now relatively subdued.”
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“Combining political analysis with profiles of key activists, Generation Occupy offers a dedicated defense of the power of mass protest.”
— Mark Engler, coauthor of This Is an Uprising -
“This documentary account about the Occupy community refreshes North American nonfiction writing, creating a beautiful collage of stories about idealism, disenchantment, and influence ex post facto. The idealist in you will unfold anew over the course of these pages, again, with gratitude for the discussions started by Occupy and for the lives it changed.”
— Rick Moody, author of The Ice Storm -
“Occupy was less a protest than the formulation of a new approach to economics and governance, whose full impact is only being realized today. Michael Levitin draws the connections between Occupy Wall Street and everything from Black Lives Matter to the Climate Strikes, reminding us we have a shared legacy, a common cause, and a hopeful future.”
— Douglas Rushkoff, author of Team Human -
“Generation Occupy is a masterpiece that illuminates our past, present, and future.”
— Brian Platzer, author of The Body Politic
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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About Michael Levitin
Michael Levitin is a journalist and cofounding editor of the Occupied Wall Street Journal. He earned his master’s degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and worked as a foreign correspondent in Barcelona and Berlin covering politics, culture, and climate change. He teaches journalism at a college in the San Francisco East Bay, where he lives with his partner and daughter.
About Alex Boyles
Alex Boyles has been acting pretty much his entire life. He got his BA in theater–acting/directing performance from CSU Long Beach and his MFA in acting performance from Ohio State University. He started narrating audiobooks in 2019 and hasn’t looked back!