This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement Paperback – Illustrated, December 5, 2011

The only fault I found with this account of the Occupy movement is that it doesn't cover the hows and whys of the violent, nationally-coordinated police suppression of the movement. (This from someone near Oakland, Calif, where the suppression was especially brutal, and the City has still not apologized.

This book was very informative and I was very glad I got it to read. You won't be disappointed either if you want to know about the grass roots of this fabulous movement!

Wish more people would read it. It is sad how greedy the world has become. People love to waste money on things. Much to the detterment of the enviroment

This book is a series of articles from Yes! Magazine. It is a good source of first hand information directly from Occupy Wall Street protestors. Each chapter is an article written by a protestor and published in Yes! Magazine. Although the overarching theme of the book is to provide readers information about the protest, there is no clear connection of one article to another. The articles seem to have been randomly selected and ordered in this book. This may be due to the fact that Yes! Magazine attempted to distribute this publication as quickly as possible.I read this book because I wanted to learn more about the Occupy Wall Street movement specifically their grievances and demands. This book illustrates many of their grievances but there are no clear demands. In fact, one of the authors states that there is no list of demands because the system is broken in countless ways. Furthermore, there is no way to compile a list because the problems appear differently from multiple perspectives. The only issue that all of the authors seem to agree on is the fact that they are unhappy and frustrated at their current situations. The authors go on to complain about various entities at which they are furious including but not limited to the government, big banks, Wall Street, the one percent and the media. In fact, the protestors blame the media for inaccurate portrayal of the movement. Additionally, some of the items that the protestors complain about in this book include world trade, oil consumption, failure to develop alternative energies, not protecting the environment, the cost of higher education, practices of mortgage companies and health insurance. Albeit the protestors have a myriad of complaints but they do not have any suggestions for change or long-term plans.If you are interested in learning more about the Occupy Wall Street movement, this book is a good starting point as it only begins to scratch the surface. It does provide ample perspectives about the movement. It is important to note that the articles in this publication come directly from protestors. This book is probably the best source of first hand information available on the Occupy Wall Street movement. It is a quick and easy read. Yes! Magazine did fulfill its goal of distributing this publication in a short time and conveying the grievances of protestors.

For the record, I emphatically disagree with features of Steele's review.Readers with a working knowledge of YES -- a highly respected, progressive magazine -- already know that "slick" and "opportunistic" never describe YES publications and projects. I'm speaking to potential readers who might hesitate to buy a copy of the book (all profits donated to the Occupy movement) because of this review's negative tone. As a former senior editor for the magazine, I had ample opportunity to see how YES operates. Try "embodying the highest ethical standards." Try "every word weighed for fairness and accuracy." Try "content informed by intelligence and pragmatism.""This Changes Everything" neither promotes itself as world-changing nor projects a rosy future. What it does do is offer a fine overview of the beginning and early development of the Occupy movement. The book includes first-hand accounts from the Occupy sites and essays that analyze the movement from different points of view, resisting the temptation to neatly wrap the whole in a palatable, spuriously coherent package. The conscious decision to choose inclusivity over slickness honors the inclusive, grassroots nature of the movement. It means that "This Changes Everything" is, itself, imbued with the spirit of the Occupy movement.And that, as much as anything, makes this an important book.

this street and w 72nd have been occupied by tyrants and dirty cops for years not doing serious police work just going around with a billy club and hitting over the head whoever Josh Richstein says he doesnt like...Please help me occupy your my only hope..anyway if your homeless come to my block w 74th CPW... I will help you anyway i can and protect you..take naps on the couch showers cook up stuff sleep in my car maybe...whatever. hand out watch movies have snops and some sponge cake

This book is not that good, but some of the indications made about the world are astute and make sense. We do have challenges, but tearing apart everything makes no sense. I liked the book American Séance was much better because it gave examples of what should be done instead and why. It had some good ideas. This book seemed to just want anarchy and that doesn't work. What would you do instead is what I like to hear.

This is "go to" material in developing an understanding of the history of OCCUPY and how it has empowered the 99% who have been and are being robbed of their power. Beginning on page 36, the 'Declaration of the Occupation of New York City: in their own words, why protesters are occupying Wall Street' is a partial list of the grievances expressed by 99%ers who have been and continue to be wronged/cheated by the corporate forces of the world. The world is rapidly changing in response to the injustice perpetuated by Wall Street and giant corporations. This little book addresses the lies and injustice, the fraud and manipulation by the 1%; as it introduces OCCUPY and the awakening 99% who are now naming names, pushing back, speaking out and organizing toward a society that works for all, not just the 1%.

They raise important and interesting points and help you look at the more important aspects of the movement that old media seems to hide under the carpet. But, it doesn't try to be unbiased, and it lacks a little more sociological analysis or at least a more open list of authors...I would have liked to have found an article written by someone a little bit distant from the movement itself who might have raised new questions or provided new points of view. Amateurish...a bit....But a must-read for everyone trying to analyse OWS. Read this one, but don't stop here....