Mark Bray - Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street
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Translating Anarchy tells the story of the anti-capitalist anti-authoritarians of Occupy Wall Street who strategically communicated their revolutionary politics to the public in a way that was both accessible and revolutionary. OWS organizer Mark Bray combines his direct experience in the movement with nearly 200 interviews with the most active, influential architects of Occupy Wall Street, to reveal the revolutionary anarchist core of Occupy. Although The New York Times and CNN thought that OWS simply wanted tighter financial regulations and a millionaires tax, Bray shows that the vast majority of organizers called for the abolition of capitalism altogether.
By translating their ideas into everyday concepts like community empowerment and collective needs, these anarchists sparked the most dynamic American social movement in decades.
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ReviewIn Translating Anarchy Mark Bray provides unique insight into the inner workings and politics of OWS and its interactions with the press and the public. Straightforward and non-academic but in fact scholarly and historically informed, it provides an often witty good read. It is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the OWS phenomenon or who may ever interpret social movements for the public and the media. -Jeremy Brecher, author of Strike!
Brays meticulous, rich insider account of Occupy Wall Street demonstrates the central influence of anarchism on its core militants, but refuses to shy away from drawing hard lessons from its limitations. Anarchism, he convincingly argues, must position itself as an everyday movement of the ordinary folks who alone can change the world - this requires a positive, practical programme and message, self-reflective and accountable politics, solid organization, and clear tactics and strategy. -Lucien van der Walt (Rhodes University), co-author of Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism
Translating Anarchy is an impressive example of movement analysis, one of the most important books about anarchism of its time, and a must read for anyone studying contemporary anarchism and its implications, challenges, and possibilities. ~ Gabriel Kuhn, editor of Gustav Landauer: Revolution and Other Writings and Erich Mhsam: Liberating Society from the State and Other Writings, Alpine Anarchist Productions
About the Author
Mark Bray is a PhD Candidate in Modern European History at Rutgers University and longtime political activist. He was a core organizer of the Press Working Group of Occupy Wall Street.
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First published by Zero Books, 2013
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Alresford, Hants, SO24 9JH, UK
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Text copyright: Mark Bray 2013
ISBN: 978 1 78279 126 3
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Dedicated to the memory of Ida Braiman
I would like to thank all of the Occupy organizers that were kind enough to grant me their time for an interview. Without you all, this project would have been impossible. I want to specifically send my appreciation to Marisa Holmes, Priscilla Grim, and Sofa Gallisa for introducing me to more fantastic people to interview. Thanks to Bill Scott for prompting me to write about the media and Occupy. Your invitation to discuss media issues was highly influential for the first chapter of this book. Thank you to Zero Books for giving me the opportunity to publish my work. And thanks to Eric R. McGregor and Jessica Lehrman for providing many of the photos in this book.
Thank you to all of the Rutgers faculty and students who supported OWS and my participation in the movement. Special thanks to my advisor, Temma Kaplan, for all of her guidance and support these past years. I also want to tip my cap to Matt Friedman for organizing OWS informational events on campus. Big shout-outs to my friends and comrades around the world who have been so warm and hospitable over the past years and taught me so much about their struggles: Sofia, Eliana, Tzissous, Vangelis, Malamas and everyone else with Alpha Kappa, Ellison, Mario and the Madrid CNT, Keisuke Narita and the Irregular Rhythm Asylum, Takesi and the Freeters Union, and Fabien Delmotte. Special thanks to my brother Alfonso Prez of the CIPO-RFM in Oaxaca for teaching me so much about the indigenous struggle and being such a great friend and comrade over the years. Special thanks to my sister Rudy Amanda Hurtado Garcs for being such a courageous freedom fighter. Su apasionada bsqueda de la autodeterminacin y autogestin de los pueblos ha sido una inspiracin enorme.
I am deeply indebted to my dear friends and comrades Abbey Volcano, Chris Spannos, and Harpreet K. Paul for taking the time to give me invaluable support and feedback throughout the writing of this book. Especially big hugs for Deric Shannon who really helped me navigate the uncertainties of the publishing process and gave me essential moral support.
I want to thank my wonderful Auntie Sue and Uncle Neil for their support of Occupy Wall Street. Neil, I really appreciated the time you took to discuss political strategy with me; it helped me reflect on some vitally important issues. Also thanks to Joyce and Bob Herman for visiting Liberty Square and taking the fight to the banks up in Rochester. Big hugs for Vanessa, Gigi, and Karina for their support. Karina, Ive always appreciated your righteous indignation at injustice and your comradeship at all of the demonstrations over the years.
Finally, Ill conclude by thanking my incredible family. Mom, thank you so much for the pride you take in everything I do. Wearing your 99% pin and standing up for us in the newspaper really meant a lot to me. Emily, thank you for supporting my organizing and for being such a great friend over the years. You have helped me to become a more caring and compassionate person. Dad, thank you for always pushing me to be an independent thinker, inculcating me with a love of reading and writing, and making me comfortable with being the black sheep once in a while. And to Senia, the love of my life, without you this book, and everything else, would be unimaginable. (It was a moment like this, do you remember?)
It is often said that anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forest of prejudices that besets us.
Pyotr Kropotkin, 1896
Many-Legged Gods
If the abolition of slave-manacles
began as a vision of hands without manacles,
then this is the year;
if the shutdown of extermination camps began as imagination of a land without barbed wire or the crematorium,
then this is the year;
if every rebellion begins with the idea
that conquerors on horseback
are not many-legged gods, that they too drown
if plunged in the river,
then this is the year.
So may every humiliated mouth,
teeth like desecrated headstones,
fill with the angels of bread.
Martn Espada
2011: for the first time in a long time people across the world said, this is the year. From the revolutions of the Arab Spring to the student uprisings in Chile and Colombia, from the Spanish 15M Movement which spread to the squares of France, Greece, Israel, and Latin America to the rage of the dispossessed on the streets of London, to Occupy. Many of us never thought we would live to see a year that could be compared to 1989, 1968, or even 1848 with a straight face, but there it was in TIME Magazine. In an attempt to explain such a historic outpouring of resistance, mainstream commentators tended to reduce the origins of each movement to its context and political nature. In their eyes the Arab Spring, entirely unthinkable to liberal and conservative warmongers who only years earlier had argued that regime change grows out the barrel of an American gun, made sense in the context of dictatorial regimes and a fanatical political culture. The squares movements in southern Europe and the occasional Greek riot made sense in the context of their declining economies and entitled political culture that was resistant to reasonable cuts in life-sustaining social services.
So then where did Occupy come from and what did it mean to those who made it happen? The mainstream consensus was that Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was a liberal response to Obamas failure to do more to soften the blows of the economic crisis. Liberal pundits saw it as an intriguing cultural novelty, a sign of the times in a post-historical world, and a welcome shot of adrenaline to a Democratic Party that had been drifting rightward for at least twenty years. More fundamentally, however, sympathetic mainstream observers saw it as an example of our cool-headed, pragmatic, post-60s American political culture briefly awakening from its hibernation in order to nudge our political system back into line before drifting back into the 4G dream world. The subtext read something like this: the world of jihadists, Molotov cocktails, dictators, and extremism is elsewhere. Here, were rational, even-handed, and realistic. Were the mature ones in this world since our movements resolve things with words instead of fists, and reforms instead of insurrections. In that sense, liberals attempted to recuperate Occupy into a self-congratulatory nationalist narrative that posits protest as the greatest indicator of the life of a democracy.
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