Maybe you saw a scene from it on HBO’s The Newsroom. Or perhaps you annotated part of it on RapGenius. Some of you may have even glimpsed the foreword by Rebecca Solnit, in which she wrote:
Thanks to this meticulous and elegant book, we know what one witness-participant was thinking all through the first year of Occupy, and what many of the sparks and some of the tinder were thinking, and what it was like to be warmed by that beautiful conflagration that spread across the world.
One way or another, the news about Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse is getting out!
Get your copy
Thank You, Anarchy is available as an affordable paperback, extravagant hardcover, or ephemeral ebook. To support fine non-profit publishing, you can buy it directly from University of California Press using the discount code 13W4710. That should bring the price to just about where Amazon has it (and I guess you also can get it there if you have to).
Also, between now and Occupy’s second anniversary on September 17, you can get a signed copy of the book by becoming a member (at $5/month or more) of Waging Nonviolence, the publication where the Thank You, Anarchy got its start.
Once you’ve read the book, I hope you’ll consider writing a review at Goodreads or Amazon, or anywhere really, to tell the world what you think.
Attend an event
There are lots of opportunities coming up:
- 9/15, New York, NY: OWS Participatory Walking Tour and Cartography Party
- 9/22, Brooklyn, NY: Panel with David Graeber, Astra Taylor, and Moustafa Bayoumi at the Brooklyn Book Festival
- 9/24, Arlington, VA: Reading at Busboys & Poets
- 10/2, New York, NY: “The Occupy Apocalypse” at the Catholic Worker
- 10/9, Hempstead, NY: Lecture on proofs at Hofstra University
- 10/24, Brooklyn, NY: “An Evening of Song and Abstraction” at the Oratory Church of St. Boniface
- 10/26, New London, CT: Discussion with Frida Berrigan at Monte Cristo Bookshop
- 10/30, Brooklyn, NY: “Was Jesus a Zealot?” at St. Joseph’s College
- 11/8, Providence, RI: Beckett Lecture for the Brown-RISD Catholic Community
- 11/18, Cambridge, MA: Celebrating On Anarchism with Noam Chomsky and the Boston Review
- 11/23, Baltimore, MD: Panel at the American Academy of Religion
- 3/9, Washington, DC: Center for Inquiry lecture
Keep up with more events to come on my speaking page. If you’re interested in helping organize an event in your hometown, don’t hesitate to contact me.
There’s more
Can’t get enough anarchy? Here’s what else to look out for this fall:
- “Where are they now”-style features on Occupy Wall Street in The Nation and the website of the new Al Jazeera America network.
- A new collection of Noam Chomsky’s writings published by the New Press, On Anarchism, includes an introduction of mine: “Anarcho-Curious or, Anarchist Amnesia.”
- Don’t miss a pair of fantastic new Occu-books by friends hot off the presses, including my Waging Nonviolence co-editor Laura Gottesdiener’s acclaimed A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home and Mark Bray’s Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street.
Thank you, as always, for reading.
