New Book! Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action That Changed America

Published by OR Books and created by more than 60 writers under the banner of Writers for the 99%. Media contact WORKHOUSE, CEO Adam Nelson nelson@workhousepr.com End Quote

New York, NY (1888PressRelease) February 15, 2012 - WORKHOUSE (workhousepr.com), one of the country's leading public relations and integrated creative agencies, has come to the aid of the Occupy Wall Street Movement banding together with publishers OR Books to promote the first published volume of its kind entitled Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of An Action That Changed America created by more than 60 writers under the banner of Writers for the 99%.

MEDIA CONTACT
Interested media who wish to receive a review copy please contact Workhouse, CEO Adam Nelson via telephone +1 646. 205. 3540 or via email nelson ( @ ) workhousepr dot com to explore the options further dot Visit www dot owspr dot com

All profits from this book will be donated to Occupy Wall Street.

For two months this fall, Zuccotti Park, squeezed deep in a canyon between bankers' skyscrapers in lower Manhattan, was the site of an extraordinary political action. Home to the hundreds of anti-capitalist protestors who camped there overnight, and the thousands who visited to join the protest, the park became a magical place: a communion of sharing and consensus in the heart of a citadel defined by greed and oligarchy. In the early hours of Tuesday November the 15th the occupiers' camp was destroyed when police swept suddenly into the square, tearing down the tents, library, kitchen and medical center, and arresting hundreds. For the multitude supporting the action it was a heart-rending moment. But if the occupation at Zuccotti was destroyed that night, the movement it spawned across America has only just begun. Issues of equality and democracy, absent from mainstream political discussion in the United States for decades, are today springing up everywhere.

Now, in a new book assembled by a group of writers active in support of the occupation, the story of Occupy Wall Street is being told. Occupying Wall Street draws on extensive interviews with those who took part in the action to bring an authentic, inside-the-square history to life. In these pages you will discover in rich detail how the protest was devised and planned, how its daily needs were met, and how it won overwhelming support across the nation. In a vivid, fast-paced narrative, the key events of the occupation are described: the pepper spraying of young women corralled between plastic fences by the NYPD; the mass arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge; the victory on October 14th when an announced "clean up" of the square was abandoned by a mayor's office fearful of a PR disaster; and the eventual storming of the occupation that brought it to an abrupt end. Woven throughout are stories of daily life in the square focusing on how the kitchen, library, media center, clean-up, hospital, and decision-making at the General Assembly functioned, all in the words of the people who were there.

The future course of Occupy Wall Street remains unclear. But one thing is starkly evident: Under the banner "We are the 99%" the protest has given birth to America's most important progressive movement since the civil rights marches half a century ago. This is the story of that beginning.

WRITERS FOR THE 99%
is a group of writers and researchers, active in supporting Occupy Wall Street, who came together to create this book. A list of all those contributing will appear at the back of the book. For more information visit http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/ows

COVERAGE FOR OCCUPYING WALL STREET
The Huffington Post, February 1st 2012
Electric Literature, February 9th 2012
Nerve Magazine, January 30th 2012
The Guardian, January 25th 2012
Philosophy Football, January 24th 2012
The Telegraph, January 6th 2012
The New Yorker, January 2nd 2012
Counterpunch, December 23rd 2011
The Daily Beast, November 17th 2011
MSNBC - PowerWall, October 29th 2011
Galleycat, October 28th 2011
Good, October 27th 2011
Lit Reactor, October 27th 2011
Washington Post - Political Bookworm blog, October 27th 2011
The Millions, October 27th 2011
LIS News, October 26th 2011
Death and Taxes, October 26th 2011
Christian Science Monitor, October 26th 2011
Huffington Post, October 25th 2011
Village Voice, October 25th 2011
New York magazine, October 25th 2011

PRAISE
"I'm awfully glad these writers were taking notes and recording this history as it happened-OWS is one of the most important developments in this country in many a year, and we need to understand how it happened and where it might go. This volume goes a long way toward filling that need!"
Bill McKibben

"An essential and galvanizing on-the-ground account of how oxygen suddenly and miraculously flooded back into the American brain."
Jonathan Lethem

"The last thirty years belonged to Wall Street. If Occupy gets it right, the next thirty should belong to us. This indispensable book is the first chapter in the story about the long revolution to come."
Andrew Ross

"The emphasis will be on everyday details of the occupation-a recreation of texture, in all its unfiltered smells and brain-bursting sounds."
The Daily Beast

OCCUPYING WALL STREET:
The Inside Story of An Action That Changed America

WRITERS: Writers for the 99%
PUBLISHER: OR Books
PUBLICATION: February, 2012
PAGES 200 Pages
TONE: B&W Illustration
COPY: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-935928-68-3
EBOOK: ISBN 978-1-935928-64-5
BOOK PRICE: $15
EBOOK PRICE: $10
INFO: http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/ows/

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