A semi-regular, forty-page tabloid newspaper inspired by the Occupy movement.
May 13, 2014
A gazette revival
On Monday, May 5, Occupy Wall Street protester Cecily McMillan was found guilty of assaulting NYPD Officer Grantley Bovell at the OWS anniversary protest on March 17, 2012. She now faces two to seven years in prison, with the possibility of probation. To tell McMillan’s story and assess its consequences, a group of editors revived the Occupy! gazette in anticipation of her May 19 sentencing. Our hope is to enter into evidence what the court ignored.
May 8, 2014
Reflecting on police misconduct
In light of Cecily McMillan’s guilty verdict, we once again encourage readers to look at Suppressing Protest, a report prepared by a coalition of legal scholars and human rights activists calling for police reform.
April 30, 2012
The Communist Party organized eviction resistance in the cities. Let me describe what eviction resistance involved.
April 30, 2012
When I think about Wall Street, I think about its stunted rainbow of pale pastel shirts.
April 30, 2012
Another thing we’re trying to do is change the language around student debt. We’re not asking for forgiveness.
January 17, 2012
As I reached Water Street, the whole police phalanx suddenly emerged from the flat block between Water and South Street.
January 5, 2012
If Occupy Wall Street takes the wrong space it may end up as lost as if it had none at all.
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. Occupation, I often heard, was a means, not an end; a tactic, not a target. The goal, from the beginning, was to do more than build an outdoor urban commune.
December 29, 2011
I was greeted by as many Occupiers as I’d ever seen in one place—at least twenty!—standing on the sidewalk.
December 26, 2011
The meeting was led by a tall, skinny Philosophy graduate named Jacob, and a chain-smoking Politics student.
December 16, 2011
We knew we hadn’t managed to recreate Seattle, but we didn’t have a method or language for evaluating what we had done.
November 29, 2011
The familiar conflict between corporate and public interests is here being played out against a backdrop of ermine trim.
November 28, 2011
We occupy space to communize it. We occupy space to decolonize it.
