Generation Occupy

"Michael Levitin's Generation Occupy is a much needed debrief on the Occupy Movement, one that focuses less on lofty theoretical meanings and more on nuts and bolts and human issues––who was there, what they thought they wanted to do, how they tried to do it, and how they felt about the movement later on. This is a documentary account about a community, therefore, and as such it refreshes North American non-fiction 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

of us who must learn to live here, together. Occupy was less a protest than the formulation of a new approach to economics and governance, whose full impact is only being realized today. 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 "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