Occupy the Studio

In this special edition of the n+1 podcast, Liz Hynes sits down with Nathan Schneider of Waging Nonviolence, n+1 editor Charles Peterson, and Sarah Leonard of Dissent and The New Inquiry to discuss Occupy Wall Street. The group explores everything from new tactics of resistance to mainstream media’s obsession with sanitation at Zuccotti Park. They meditate on the origins of OWS and where the movement might go in the coming days and months.

Image: Zuccotti Park, October 23, 2011. From Allison Brown.

Occupy Onwards
- “Occupy Onwards,” Dec. 18
  
  Announcing a daylong, OWS-inspired conference on policy, money, history, and strategy. Noon, Sunday, December 18. Theresa Lang Auditorium, 55 W. 13th St., New York. Free and open to the public. More…
- #occupywallstreet
  
  Someone suggested that we “assemble,” so we all sat down in a circle. It seemed almost like a joke at first, as when any group of highly self-aware people agree to do something together that could be construed as a cliché. More…
- #OWS Eviction Support Team Needed
  
  SPREAD THE WORD: (Substantiated call) ALL CALL FOR #OWS EVICTION DEFENSE SUPPORT FRIDAY 6AM. City is coming with sanitation crew to clean the park, requiring us to leave. We can come back provided we abide by the (public) park “owner’s” rules. More…
- A Day in the Movement
  
  We may have lost Zuccotti Park, and city government clearly intends to keep us out of other public spaces that we have used to assemble. But the movement is far from dead. We are just beginning. More…
- A Labor Movement
  
  Labor is the thing one does to sustain life, and thing that one hates for that very reason; it creates wealth, and it takes wealth away from the wealthiest. Everything we make for our wants and want to make is labor. More…
- After the Action
  
  This was not September 17, 2011, the beautiful and hopeful day of Occupy Wall Street’s public debut, and the poster was not the now-famous Adbusters image of the ballerina poised on the bull. More…
- After the Eviction
  
  Early this morning occupiers sent a message: “You Can’t Evict an Idea.” My friend Rebecca Solnit put it more poetically: “You Can Pull Up the Flowers But You Can’t Stop the Spring.” More…
- An Open Letter to the Men and Women of the New York City Police Department
  
  As Americans, we have a right to assemble until we are satisfied that our voices have been heard, and that our leaders are sustaining, not destroying, our safety and our livelihoods. More…
- At the NYSE
  
  He looked like he had been waiting his entire life to shove young women into metal poles and onto concrete. But perversely, this probably meant not that he had, but that he’d lost it already. More…
- Back at Zuccotti Park
  
  I went back to Zuccotti Park last night, for the first time since the 17th. Michael Moore was there, reporting for MSNBC from the corner of Liberty Street and Trinity Place. A crowd gathered around him. More…
- Blockupy, May 16–20
  
  At the second conference on the historic campus of Bockenheim (where the Frankfurt School was born), information sessions and working group meetings considered every possible issue for a joint protest. More…
- Cairo Dispatch
  
  For five days last month, Tahrir Square felt like a war zone, at least to someone who has never been to one.. Half of the streetlights had stopped working, probably knocked out by projectiles. More…
- Contributors’ Civil Disobedience and Arrests
  
  Yesterday morning, November 17, many of us from magazines here in New York went as demonstrators to join the call in support of Zuccotti Park and for political and economic change. More…
- Crossing Sixth Avenue
  
  I was on the ground, my glasses knocked off, two buttons torn from my shirt, my knee hurting. I didn’t see who had done this, but I heard, “He’s on the ground” and “We’ve got one. We only need one.” More…
- Debt
  
  There are things that social democrats like about having the government do things. The flipside of that is that when the government uses those powers to become your debt collector. More…
- Eviction Defense in the Bronx
  
  Fifty thousand people marched through the city in a memorial parade—and after that it became incredibly difficult to evict anybody in Chicago. More…
- Help Support Our Occupy-Inspired Gazette
  
  We’ve been watching the growing Occupy movements, first in New York City, then across the country and the world with awe, excitement, a dose of skepticism, and then once more with awe. n+1 and several talented associates have put together a quick history, analysis, and documentation of OWS. Now we just need to publish it. More…
- Last Night at Zuccotti Park
  
  I saw a chant give you pause last night. “This—is—a peaceful—pro-test” was one; you all stopped shoving us and stood there like blue clad mannequins. Why did that paralyze you? More…
- Leave Your Cellphone at Home
  
  Cell phones are tracking devices that make phone calls. It’s sad, but it’s true. More…
- Leaving Wall Street
  
  Many of the adverse reactions to OWS have been something like, “They’re just jealous.” Of course Wall Street thinks OWS is about envy. Envy is part and parcel of its daily life. More…
- Letters of Resignation from the American Dream
  
  It might be the case that the 99 percenters represented by the Tumblr will be viewed by future historians as the necessary fallen of the age of post-industrialization, the great adjustment, or whatever name they give our present moment. More…
- Mayor Bloomberg’s Language
  
  What does it mean to live a life of qualities? Is quality, by definition immeasurable, only describable, something that can be charted by the cleanliness of a street, the absence of certain smells, certain people? More…
- Montreal Diaries
  
  It started with some clinking and clanking coming through the window. I went to my balcony, listening to the sporadic polyrhythms of neighbors hitting pots and pans with wooden spoons and spatulas. More…
- Montreal Diaries
  
  We took over Avenue du Parc, turned left on Rue Laurier. We were hundreds, walking without a destination, without a route. Later that night, we would become tens of thousands. More…
- Notes From an Occupation
  
  Many of us who saw the crackdown on dissent after September 11 assumed the occupation would be impossible, that it wouldn’t last more than a day. Younger people, inspired by movements abroad, said why not? More…
- Occupy and Space
  
  Even before Liberty Plaza was raided, many of us were asking what was next for Occupy Wall Street. The movement, we said, was about more than holding a space, even one in the heart of Manhattan’s financial district. More…
- Occupy Discussion, November 7 at Housing Works
  
  Writers and activists will discuss the situation at Zuccotti Park—what it means, how it’s going, and where to go from here. Panelists will include Meaghan Linick, Sarah Resnick, and Astra Taylor, and the conversation will be moderated by Keith Gessen. More…
- Occupy LSX
  
  Last Friday, people from Finsbury Square gained access to an empty office building a stone’s throw from the camp. In an act of public repossession, they opened it as a “Bank of Ideas.” More…
- Occupy Oakland
  
  We marched through Oakland reclaiming our streets and demanding our parks be returned to us. Over and over again, we were met with tear gas and extreme police force. Many people were injured. More…
- Occupy Our Homes Action, December 6
  
  n+1 and Occupy! Gazette editors will be joining an Occupy Our Homes action at 1 PM on Tuesday, December 6. If you’re definitely coming and want to make sure to meet us, please write to gazette [at] nplusonemag.com, and we’ll stay in touch. More…
- Occupy Philadelphia
  
  The first planning meeting of Occupy Philadelphia was to be held at the Wooden Shoe Bookstore, an anarchist collective; the day of the meeting, 200 people showed up, so it was moved to the Arch Street United Methodist Church. More…
- Occupy UC Davis
  
  About ten of us were pepper-sprayed and the same number were arrested; several were taken to the emergency room and two were hospitalized—all to remove a few tents from the quad outside the student union. More…
- Occupy Wilmington
  
  For the first five weeks, the Wilmington, North Carolina General Assembly met under a pavilion in Greenfield Lake Park, where signs warn passersby not to feed or tease the alligators. More…
- Occupy! Launch Party, Friday, December 16
  
  The venerable radical publisher Verso has turned our gazette into a book, with a fair amount of added material, and we’re having a party at Verso’s office to celebrate. More…
- On the Occupation and Vanguardism
  
  Over at National Review Online, my friend Reihan Salam has a post up critiquing my recent piece on Occupy Wall Street. In it, Reihan suggests that the Occupation is a familiar caricature of an American left-wing movement. More…
- Read Our New Gazette
  
  With the help of Astra Taylor (Examined Life; Zizek!) and Sarah Leonard of Dissent, we’ve put together a history, both personal and documentary, and the beginning of an analysis of the first month of the occupation. More…
- Rumors
  
  On the train platform, we discussed second occupation attempts—past failures, future possibilities. Rumors. We put forth suggestions—places we’d like to see taken—though they were reveries to be sure. More…
- Second Gazette Online and in Print
  
  The second issue arrives at the office today, with new dispatches from Oakland, questions about relations with the police, arguments about the role of the homeless, and more. More…
- The Day After the Eviction
  
  I was on one of the wildcat marches north from the park towards Astor Place, and there when they charged the last stand at Broadway and Pine. I think we won something both places. More…
- The New School in Exile, Revisited
  
  The endowment was meager, and the school relied on tuition for revenue. The New School needed to improve its financial situation and its status, and it was going to do it through real estate. More…
- The Next Step
  
  One month ago, on September 17th, I dragged myself to Wall Street with a sense of obligation: yet another demonstration I felt a duty to attend, though I had little hope it would amount to anything significant. More…
- The Police and the 99 Percent
  
  The Occupation self-consciously seeks to construct the means—a radicalization of the political environment—and not the ends of left-wing policy. In order to do so, it must last and it must contain multitudes. More…
- The Politics of the Poor
  
  “Who are they and what are their demands?” everyone immediately demanded to know. The puzzlement showed how Occupy Wall Street differs from the great social movements of the past fifty years. More…
- Twilight of the Fossils
  
  Unable to imagine the past except in the form of costume dramas or to think of the future except in terms of far-off collapse, our era has suffered from a blocked political imagination. More…
- Unions Coming
  
  OWS has opened a political and educational space for meaningful solidarity, and labor movement organizations would be smart to make this much bigger and increase its leverage. More…
- Wednesday on Wall Street
  
  Join our contingent as part of the march against corporate greed and the big banks organized by the Transit Workers Union in support of Occupy Wall Street. More…
- What Do You Do When You Can’t Shut it Down?
  
  The 2001 sit-in by the Harvard living wage campaign had something in common with Occupy Wall Street: neither shut its target down. At Harvard, we occupied the main administrative building for three weeks demanding a living wage. More…
- Where to Go, What to Do, November 17
  
  Tomorrow, November 17, we march! In anticipation of this day of action—chosen to mark the two-month anniversary of the Occupy Movement—we want to share ways to participate. More…

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