Catch This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street And The 99% Movement Curated By Sarah Van Gelder Expressed As E-Text

of short articles from the initial months of the Occupy movement, While this was assembled quickly to document current events, it's also a wellselected overview, Most pieces arepages, and lend themselves well to occasional reading and reflection, or could be used as seeds for group discussion.
An interesting atthetime snapshot of Occupy NY, with twenty bitesize essays by those present in the first months, As such it presents a helpful reminder and education of the movement's origins, ambitions and achievements, The 'live' format ignores the detraction of later and the critiques of sharks and thus, an inspiring read, Not loftily sentimental. This was a good explanation of a movement that has been largely mischaracterized by the media at large and by its detractors.
I cannot say I agree with all the points they make or all of their goals, but they do have many good ideas, some of which I would like to see implemented and they have some very inspiring essays.
It's a nice revitalizing read for those feeling disillusioned with politics and government in general, Motivating. I'm not sure if the Occupy movement changes everything, but it is nice to read about the movement from people inside of it.
At least these people are trying to do something, I think the book its self is fairly unorganized, which I suppose embodies the movement well, but the lack of consistent, Tone makes for a disconnected read, I thought this was an informative book because it included real books sections, speeches and articles published during the Occupy movement, It was very inspirational to read the platform for the movement, This is very informative about the Occupy Wall Street movement directed from the progressive point of view, Quick pieces put together about this movement from various locations, I love the principal behind OWS and when students have asked me about it we've had great discussions, A quick read lots of little articles about the occupy movement and all the various and diverse realities associated with it, A decent intro into occupy, Very helpful in understanding the OWS movement also creates a desire to be proactive, I agree with Nasser's review, which called the "book" more like an extended political pamphlet premature, Most of the articlespages each were written in the heat of the moment by those who were participating, I understand that probably the intent was to get out quickly the message about what Occupy was about, but inthis quality leaves one unsatisfied.
Even the pieces by David Graeber and Naomi Klein are quickly penned, propagandalike but without much analysis, It does give one a good sense of the spirit of the time, but little else, If i am to describe this book, i'd say it was premature, It's clear that it was put together in such haste as to publish it to meet a deadline, or rather spread awareness of the movement during the time of the occupation.


It's not actually a book, it's more of a collection of different articles written by many people, some of which were actually involved in the Occupy movement.
The book does give a clear idea about what was going on on the inside of the movement, but it vaguely touches the reasons behind the Occupy Wall Street Movement.
And since the chapters articles of the book were written by many different people, there is just a lot of repetition,

The only thing that would make me recommend this book is that it's a very short onepages, But, after reading it, i have to say that i'm still to see a book that goes into details about all the ins and outs of the Occupy Movement.
A nice collection of first hand accounts, essays, blogposts, etc, that tell the story of thefrom those who were/are actively participating in the movement, If you want to know what the Occupy movement is all about this is the book for you, Great introduction to the Occupy movement! Short and outdated at this point, but certainly helped me pinpoint issues I want to read into further.
epic. The Occupy Movement is beautifully articulated in much needed ways through this book, The only thing better than reading this book is living it, . This is a very small book consisting of short essays by Occupy participants and others Naomi Klein and Ralph Nader among others.
My biggest takeaway was the declaration of Occupy Wall Street of October, The news media kept asking 'what do they want', yet the declaration lays it out clearly, So apparently the news media was simply too lazy to actually ask Occupy, or to read their declaration, I wish there where still occupiers This is a hard book to rate, On the one hand it does capture the energy, chaos and heteroglossic nature of the very early days of the Occupy movement but it also, unfortunately, contains the themes that point to its demise as a political force.


I had to wait until I was twothirds in before someone, correctly, identified the oppression of people because of race, sex, physical ability or religion as an issue of economics rather than sociology and this rather highlighted the lack of true analysis in this book.


As I was reading it, it felt like a rushed job and it lacked the cohesive structure that time and close editing, not to mention more content, would have brought to the project.
In many ways its a mirror of the movement itself, which seems to have blossomed energetically and emotionally into being from nothing only to fracture into leaderless splinter groups without any strong, centralized manifesto for change.


There are some great essays that point to the precise reasons for the current economic climate that we all must struggle to live in, but they are all so brief that this title can only ever be a primer for the generally interested to be fair that may be the intention of the editors.
Read section two to learn the most about why we are here and what we can do, the interview with Richard Wilkinson and David Kortens essay stood out to me, otherwise its all very emotive stuff but light on depth.


I think I was most disappointed by the essay from Hena Ashraf, who clearly does not understand the full implications of the term “the.
” It was while reading her essay that I realized that we on the left will never be a progressive force for good in the world until we understand the

need to drop our insistence on recognition for the myriad historical oppressions that we can all name and that, as one united human mass, we need to point at the “corporate supremacists” thank you Ralph Nader and say “Wait just one second”.

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