'The Occupy Handbook' Features Paul Krugman, Michael Lewis, Matt Taibbi And More

You know what those chirping birds and blooming flowers mean? It just might be warm enough to start re-occupying.

Now, there's now a handbook to help any of those interested. The Occupy Handbook is coming out next week, but you can already order it on Amazon, and Kindle edition too! It features chapters from some of the country's most prominent economic thinkers and writers including Paul Krugman, Michael Lewis, Matt Taibbi, Robert Shiller and others.

It remains to be seen whether the Occupy movement can regain its momentum even with the warmer weather. At a celebration of the movement's six month anniversary in March, many of the Occupy Wall Street mainstays -- the communal kitchen, the oft-profiled library -- were noticeably absent. Still, the activists say they’re hopeful that they can recruit more people to their fight.

The revolution will be published and available online. Check out the cover below:

 

Comments

[marbiol]

07:10 PM on 04/22/2012

apparently, there will also be an edition published in farsi....

[Darthpanda]

12:01 AM on 04/22/2012

An old hippy (my dad) once told me: non-violent resistance is often very slow and awfly boring. Sometimes a cause lacks a plan. Remember that peaceful resistance can take many years. To shorten the time you have to narrow the path. Every cause under the heavens is generous altruism but renders poor returns. One cause, but a cause that has trickle down potential, allows the revoultionary to focus, define and exacute a policy that lends itself to no other interpretation except success. I will be getting that handbook. Heck, I read The Zobie survival guide (lots of good stuff to know). Sure Amazon is a corporation and they are part of the problem. Use the tolls and weapons availible and we'll deal with apparent conflict of interest later, at our liesure.

[Mary B NY]

12:17 PM on 04/15/2012

Interested in hearing from some of the book's writers? Come to a free talk on Wed, April 18; 3:30-5:30; The New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th STreet NYC. Martin Wolf, Jeffrey Sachs, Bethany McLean, Jeff Madrick, Raghuram Rajan and David Cay Johnston will share a discussion around the topic. Moderated by John Cassidy, the New Yorker with David Scobey, Dean or the New School.

[Andrew Nutra]

12:35 PM on 04/15/2012

An OWS drum circle will open the event. Then feel free to mic check the speakers as OWS have been doing to other speakers.

[Andrew Nutra]

02:44 PM on 04/13/2012

Amazon's a corporation, right?

[coyotefever105]

01:55 PM on 04/13/2012

Paul Krugman is supporting this? That's the kiss of death right there.

[bigjakeIII]

01:31 PM on 04/13/2012

I find it hard to believe that the very people who are complaining about the lack of jobs would outsource their "handbook" to a company owned by a foreign corporation?

[steviebb3]

01:08 PM on 04/13/2012

Sitting in a park and voicing discontent is not a plan to accomplish anything of worth.
The OWS should take a page from the Women's Rights movements or the end-the-Vietnam- war movement in that they both had a concrete goal and were able to explain it in one sentence for the average, not-to-bright American populace.
For example: If they put forth a "Reform Congress NOW" platform that would 1. Prevent current C'men from becoming future lobbyists (Since now they deliver legislation in exchange for million-dollar jobs once they're out of Congress") and 2. make them purchase Health Insurance on the open market. But use RCN as a rallying cry. Who doesn't want to reform Congress?
It's actually all about marketing one's ideas. No matter their worth, ideas need to be pushed forward in a focused way to gain national support. You can't just sit in the park snarling at "those rich MFs on Wall Street". Might just as well drive by the NYSE and flip the bird out the window as you pass.

Or

[Martianmonkey]

12:45 PM on 04/13/2012

Why is Krugman in this?
I get the sense that there will be a strong drive to turn the Occupy movement into the liberal Tea Party.
No one should want to be lapdogs like they want them to be.

[Imissgeorgew]

12:24 PM on 04/13/2012

How I wish Paul Krugman and Andrew Breitbart could have traded places last month.

[coyotefever105]

01:56 PM on 04/13/2012

No. Let's not go there.

[desertdreamer]

08:38 AM on 04/13/2012

Work continues in the Movement, despite the lack of coverage by the corporate-owned media.

Read about one of many courageous American patriots who is willing to step up and change our broken system. While others feel impotent, are fear and couch-bound, or reveling with sophomoric glee in the delusion that Occupy is ineffective, patriots like Leah Bolger show us another way -- a way forward through one courageous act after another until we realize the changes we want to see. It's not an easy way, but a necessary way. The way of courage and vision and fortitude. Thank you, Leah! You continue to serve our country and set an inspiring example for all of us.

http://october2011.org/blogs/kevin-zeese/20-year-veteran-pleads-guilty-act-civil-disobedience

For background information on the 99% Declaration, refer to:

http://october2011.org/blogs/kevin-zeese/99-s-deficit-proposal-how-create-jobs-reduce-wealth-divide-and-control-spending

[Andrew Nutra]

10:14 AM on 04/13/2012

ZZZZ, OWS occupies space, performs theater, basks in attention, gets arrested, evacuates, repeat. I've seen this movie before and its more-of-the-same sequels. Wake me if the ending ever changes.

[Imissgeorgew]

12:29 PM on 04/13/2012

Dreamer, 1875 Germany called. They want their propaganda back comrade.

[Andrew Nutra]

09:30 PM on 04/12/2012

I hope they interviewed these two for the book:
OWS1
http://youtu.be/mGTaYo0VSz4
OWS2
http://youtu.be/7SwKxUz7osM

[Andrew Nutra]

09:27 PM on 04/12/2012

Each book will come with a free subscription to Adbusters and a drum set.

[pflickner]

04:29 PM on 04/12/2012

Let us know when the normal (non-Nook/non-Kindle) ebook version is out.

[williamina]

09:17 PM on 04/12/2012

it is out, just got one

[Andrew Nutra]

09:30 PM on 04/12/2012

The book better be made of materials that are free range, organic and free trade!

[desertdreamer]

04:15 PM on 04/12/2012

For ongoing Occupy news that the gcorporate-owned media won't report, here's another source:

http://www.nationofchange.org/live-stream-wall-street-occupation-1316970901

[Andrew Nutra]

09:28 PM on 04/12/2012

As they say in journalism: Not everyone reads the words but everyone pays attention to the images:

OWS in action
http://youtu.be/Er7ZLcXnT7Y

[ja ja]

03:29 PM on 04/12/2012

I would like to apologize for my generation we have it too easy. Blah blah blah money this businesses that. all I care about is having more freedom like own a gun, or smoke weed. Drink at 18 the same year your allowed to go to war. Lots of jobs would be nice too. The times are a changing and they are not looking good.

[pflickner]

04:34 PM on 04/12/2012

You don't have to apologize. I was born at the end of the baby boomer cycle and only saw the issues on tv as a kid. I was never an activist, had no interest in politics although I did vote every year for a long time as a sheeple (I voted the way CBN told me to vote as a good Christian Republican). It took me to 2003 to see that something was really wrong, and then the Supreme Court decision that handed Bush a second term convinced me, but since I was never an activist, I didn't know what I could do. I mean, I wasn't anyone important. Obviously, that changed. Just because y/our generation did nothing at first, and may have even initially participated actively in this coming about, we can all do something now. There is no such a thing as "not important." Every single one of us is important. Just remember that it takes only one drop of water to change a river into a flood. Choose to be the flood.

[ja ja]

04:51 PM on 04/12/2012

I don't know what to tell you. The hippy generation was horribly outspoken weather they were wright or wrong. OWS is an excuse for protesting they are protesting themselves because liberal regulations and the EPA make it easier for big businesses to function the little guy can't afford a room full of lawyers to sort through the bureaucratic mess or even the fines and high taxes. Every country needs rules just not so many, so were is that fine line being drawn and by whom. Not OWS or the liberal left. And in hind sight i wish bush would of lost because now we have Obama because of it, yuck!

[Pauline Seville]

07:47 PM on 04/15/2012

"Choose to be the flood" - optimistic and hopeful...nice, I like that, we do have the power to change our World!

Fanned & Faved!

[pflickner]

04:38 PM on 04/12/2012

Oh, and freedom isn't free. It is comprised of rules and regulations. Of course, you may not have read Lord of the Flies, but I'd recommend it. It is the Libertarian handbook for life without regulation.

[mm3264]

10:45 PM on 04/12/2012

Bush allowed the banks and Wall St to be anarchist. No rules, no laws, no regulations. Which is why it's taking so much time to recover from this depression.