...Heather Gautney Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is part of an ongoing series of pro-democracy protests throughout the United States against alarming trends in social inequality, high rates of home foreclosure and unemployment, and the excessive influence of corporate and financial interests on government...

...Emma Dowling; Anna Feigenbaum; Susan Pell; Katherine Stanley This essay brings together the authors’ experiences and observations with reflections gathered in an open workshop about Occupy London organized under the banner of the Tent City University working group. The essay posits Occupy London...

...Yates McKee Among the most prominent offshoots of Occupy Wall Street is Strike Debt, an organization that aims to build a nationwide movement of debtors determined to act against the creditor class of Wall Street. Artists and cultural producers of all sorts have been crucially involved...

... Occupying Tahrir Square: The Myths and the Realities of the Egyptian Revolution ​In May 2011, after hundreds of thousands of Egyptians occupied Tahrir Square and succeeded in deposing their dictator, Hosni Mubarak, Vanity Fair published photos of a number of the victorious...

... of Postcolonialism . Albany : SUNY Press . Alfred J. López Occupying Reality: Fanon Reading Hegel As long as he has not been effectively recognized by the other, that other will remain the theme of his actions...

... of possible thought and action. The central thesis in this work is that the Inuit, occupying a vantage point defined by their Indigeneity (marked by the power they possess to build and maintain their own worlds of meaning through and about themselves, and their relationship to the world around), can advance...

...—and subsequently “religion”—in ways commensurate with the moral, intellectual, and political determinants of a given moment. Thus grounded in a suspicion that these latest objectifications of Christianity will likewise yield images of a religiosity made uncannily legible to the disciplinary formations occupied...

... subjectivation. Analysis attempts to compare discourses and manifestos to acts of coordination and mutual support in an effort to show that the “occupy the squares” phenomenon is multifarious and dynamic and that it challenges many of the certainties of oppositional movement (Left or anarchist). © 2012 Duke...

... with other antibase struggles in challenging the loss of sovereignty over occupied land, in demanding fundamental democratic rights, and in opposing unchecked government power and the archaic vestiges of colonialism on which all extraterritorial bases rely. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 A G A I N S...

...Susana Draper This essay connects Jodi Dean’s and Bruno Bosteels’s works on the “horizon” and the “actuality” of communism with some of the problems that constituted the political landscape during the past decade in Bolivia and in the past years (2011-13) of Occupy Wall Street. It proposes...

...Marina Sitrin Since the end of 2010, millions of people around the globe have been taking to the streets in cities, towns, and villages—assembling in plazas and occupying parks, buildings, homes, and schools. This new wave of movement is both revolutionary in the day-to-day sense of the word...

...Katerina Nasioka The movement against austerity—the movement of occupied squares—in Greece in 2011 displayed little or no homogeneity. Rather than project an alternative proposal, it unveiled the contradictions existing in the field of labor. The essay traces the movement’s contradictory trajectory...

.... The synchronization of these different tempos configures the present crisis of democracy and its different reactions, such as the recent Occupy and anti-austerity movements, which have expressed their disenchantment with formal democracy. The article examines these disjointed temporalities of capital, state...

...” and argues that the “real as process” informs both the process of valorization of capital and the process of prefiguring a reality that is not-yet. In moments of negation/creation value is confronted by hope. Negation creates an excess that occupies a wide space in the reality of struggle that cannot...

...Eli Clare “May Day, 2020” is a poem by Eli Clare, who is white, disabled, and genderqueer and lives near Lake Champlain in occupied Abenaki territory (currently known as Vermont) where he writes and proudly claims a penchant for rabble-rousing. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021...

...Amna A. Akbar Today’s left movements are rejecting neoliberalism and pivoting toward mass politics through an array of strategies and tactics. Struggles for reforms—or nonreformist reforms—loom large. This essay examines Occupy Wall Street, defund the police, and relations between the Green New...

...Olga Lafazani This essay discuss the everyday life processes in the occupied City Plaza Hotel, inhabited by almost four hundred migrants and solidarity activists. As a member of the reception group since day one, I attempt to discuss the challenges of the project, rather than try to praise and show...

.... This is perhaps mimicked, mirrored, or informed by Afropessimism, which seems to offer us very little in terms of imagination of ourselves and what we could be or do together. However, as an invented and occupied space while under siege, shutdown also holds the potential for the heralding of alternate timespace...

... the emergence of the constitution-as-commons as the space for a public, shared, collectively crafted jurisprudence of citizenship, occupying the commons of the nation and the commons that the Constitution in fact is, bringing space and belonging together in unanticipated ways. What are the implications...

... into or use as a residence or place of abode any house, building or structure, or any part of any house, building or structure situated or located on any block * * * the houses, buildings, and structures on which Segeegation of White and Negeo Races in 'Cities 5 block, so far as the same are occupied or used...