Occupy!: Die ersten Wochen in New York. Eine Dokumentation

by Keith Gessen (Editor)

Nach Tunis, Kairo, Madrid, Tottenham und Athen hat die globale Welle der Empörung nun auch das Auge des Sturms erreicht, die Wall Street in New York. Die Aktivisten, die am 17. September 2011 den Zuccotti Park im Financial District besetzten, kämpfen unter dem Motto »We are the 99 percent« für soziale Gerechtigkeit, die strikte Trennung von Wirtschaft und Politik und entwerfen Modelle für eine humanere Gesellschaft im 21. Jahrhundert. Unmittelbar nach dem Beginn der Proteste haben sich junge Publizisten und Aktivisten zusammengetan, um die Entwicklungen vor Ort zu dokumentieren. Neben atmosphärisch dichten Reportagen enthält dieser Band Essays über die Hintergründe und Aussichten der Bewegung, darunter Texte von Judith Butler, Joseph E. Stiglitz und Slavoj Žižek.

95 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 14, 2011

About the author

Keith Gessen was born in Moscow in 1975 and came to the United States with his family when he was six years old. He is a co-founder of the literary magazine n+1 and the author of the novels All the Sad Young Literary Men and A Terrible Country. He has written about Russia for the London Review of Books, n+1, the Nation, the New Yorker, and the New York Times Magazine, and has translated or co-translated several books from Russian, including Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich, There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, and It's No Good by Kirill Medvedev. He is also the editor of the n+1 books What We Should Have Known, Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager, and City by City. He lives in New York with his wife, the author and publisher Emily Gould, and their son, Raphy, who likes squishy candy.