american navy were, in fact, de facto at war -- >> north atlantic. >> there was a lot of fighting going on. there was a couple of ships, wasn't there an american cruiser -- >> there were both commercial and naval vessels that were fired upon and sunk in the north atlantic. ever since back in the spring of 1941, of course, fdr as you know had instituted lend-lease with great britain to helpture chi. - churchill. upon that action adolf hitler ordered a shoot on sight order to the wolf packs that were patrolling the north atlantic. but the american people knew about it. and it was not a spur to them to get involved in the european war even though this was war was, in fact, going on, naval war was going on in the north atlantic. and, of course, roosevelt in kind ordered naval ships to defend themselves against the

u-boats. >> there wasn't any impact? >> no. not on public opinion. >> political. >> right. the lucetania wasn't the spur to get us into world war i either. >> well, and in some respects we forget over a period of time japan was already at war in craze from '37. >> yeah. >> they had been four years. >> right. they went into china, invaded china in -- >> and then we're at two years and three months with germany and europe. >> right. >> so it's not totally isolation in that, it's just we don't want to get involved. >> we're aware of it, we just don't want to get involved in it. >> right. >> especially committing actual manpower into combat positions. >> yes, down here in the front. if you'll, also, wait for my colleague, he's coming. thank you. >> how much impact did it have when the united states decided to curtail supplying japan with

certain critical kinds of material? >> there's a theory that's kind of floated around there for years that we somehow provoked the japanese into attacking us. one of them was that fdr had personally ordered the fleet moved from san diego to honolulu in the spring of 1941. but those embargoes, and by the way, we didn't embargo oil because we didn't want to send too much of a shock to their economy, so we kept shipping oil. but there were, you know, scrap metal and things like that we stopped shipping. but that was in response to the invasion of china. so it wasn't the other way around. it wasn't that our actions provoked them into military actions, we were taking economic actions in response to their militaristic actions. >> somebody else from the audience? i'll start down my other list of people. >> over here. >> ah. sorry.

i usually look to my far right. [laughter] >> get up here where i can hear. my question is did we, was it a cultural thing that we greatly underestimated the japanese military prowess? >> maybe that was a tack to have. factor. surveillance was not easy on an island that was thousands of miles away. from the united states. we had no nearby bases to do over flights, it was all based on hearsay or secondhand mostly. the military did their best to track the japanese ships in the pacific but be would frequently lose track of them. we attempted to track japanese ship movements but also lost track of those as well. there's probably a little bit of that. the definitely, it was a failure of imagination on the part of

everybody in america to imagine that a japanese armada could sail thousands of miles, stop in the middle of the pacific to refuel and then steam up again and make the this way all the bay undetected because, you know, we forget that pan-am, for instance, had routine over flights between san francisco and the philippines and other parts of the pacific. there were commercial vessels and fishing ships that operated there. there are naval ships that operated there. and so i think there was partially an assumption that nobody could get away with this. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. coming up next, the history of the occupy wall street movement written by 60 activists who were central to its creation. seven of the contributors to the book read selections from it and answer audience questions. this is just under an hour.

>> well, thanks to kgb for hosting this evening. and, um, i just wanted to say a little bit about the first experience that we had when we were putting this book together. and i suppose really we had the idea for doing the book a couple of weeks after occupy wall street started. and we thought, well, we'd better try and get some kind of permission for doing the book because we wanted to write an instant history. but the difficulty was that getting permission from a movement without any identifiable leadership was actually quite difficult.

so we talked to a few of the facilitators in zucotti park, and they said that they thought the best thing to do would be to go to a general assembly in the park and in the announcements in the general assembly just announce that we were doing the book and ask for volunteers. so around about the beginning of october a few of us went down to the ga, and i was scheduled to speak. and i was feeling a little nervous about it, first of all, because i'd never spoken through the people's microphone before, and it's a particular skill. you have to speak very concisely ask to the point -- and to the point. and secondly, i was anxious

because the points i was trying to get over to the general assembly were actually quite complicated. i wanted to say we were going to do a book that was an instant history that was not analytical, but really descriptive, that didn't claim to be the official voice of occupy wall street but that was going to try as we were putting it together to mirror the principles of occupy wall street in that it was going to be participatory and horizontally organized. anyone who wanted to be a part of putting the book together could be, but it was going to be democratic. and that it was going to be written by a collective. i was sitting on the steps, um, in zucotti thinking this is going to be quite difficult to get over to this crowd through the people's microphone, but i sort of reassured myself by the fact that, actually, it was

actually a very small general assembly that night. there were probably no more than maybe 100, 150 people at the most at the ga that night. but just before the section of the avenn da that -- agenda item was to come up on curred, michael moore who was speaking on the other side of the park finished speaking and about 2,000 people turned around and came and sat in the square in front of us. [laughter] so it was very, very nerve-wracking. fortunately, the fact that 3,000 people -- 2,000 people came to the general assembly meant that we never actually got to the item we were supposed to be talking about. we waited three hours, and they actually still hadn't got to that item, so we abandoned it, and they, we abandoned the attempt to talk to the general

assembly about the book, and they said, well, actually the facilitator said don't worry about it, just go to an education and empowerment committee meeting. working group meeting. these were taking place in 60 wall street in the deutsche bank building. and asked for volunteers there. a few of us went along to the next education empowerment subcommittee meeting, and that was a little bit of a fraught experience because -- [laughter] there was a lot of support for the book, the idea of the book in the meeting, but there was also quite a lot of, um, feeling that it was too early to perform an analysis of what was happening and that people were worried, i think, you know, reasonably that we might be seen as official spokespeople for

occupy wall street. and, actually, at that meeting we got blocked. it's the only time i've ever actually had the block. and it's not an experience i want ever to go through again. [laughter] we couldn't get it through. and so we were feeling a bit downcast and wondering whether we would just have to abandon the project. but then we noticed that quite a lot of people from the education empowerment committee came up to us afterwards and said you know what? just go ahead and do it anyway. we'll help, find volunteers for you. so that's what we did. we started meeting at 60 wall street every week, and every week that we met more and more people came along. and from that point on it was the most wonderful experience because i think this book, you know, which i'mer thely proud of publishing -- terribly proud of publishing, does represent the

principles of occupy wall street. it was written by between 50 and 60 people collectively. it was a pleasure going to meetings every week to discuss how we were going to do it. we went out and interviewed dozens, maybe even hundreds of people around the occupation. we divided those interviews up chapter by chapter. we allocated two, three, four writers to each chapter. the chapters came in, they were delivered on time. i can't tell you how unusual that is -- [laughter] if you're a publisher. i mean, it's just amazing. they came in on time. and not only do they come in on time, but they were actually beautifully written. the thing about this book is that it's actually a tremendous read. it really is a great read. and it's an indication that that kind participatory, collective work which occupy wall street

represents really does produce wonderful results. and i think it was because people imbued the spirit of what was going on in zucotti that the book was possible. and, you know, it really is a, it's -- i think it's just a tremendous achievement. i've never done a book like it before, and it really is just a marvelous piece of instant history about a wonderful time in new york city when revolution was in the air. so we've got a bunch of people here who are going to read some bits from it, and the first person who's going to read about the beginnings of occupy wall street is lisa. [applause]

>> occupy wall street is part of a global movement that reached nearly every continent in the last year. although the protests arose in different nations under disparate forms of government and vary inside their demands, all have voiced outrage at the inequities of unfettered global capitalism. unrest in tunisia broke out on december 17, 2010, after 26-year-old street vendor mohamed boaz si let himself ablaze which went live on facebook and sparked colossal street demonstrations that led to the january 14th ouster of due nice president ben ali. next, protests erupted in algeria, jordan, mauritania, oman and saudi arabia. the first egyptian protests took place on january 25th. by january 31st more than

250,000 had swarmed cairo's tahrir square. in the mild winter weather, tens of thousands pitched large open-air tents, canvas or plastic sheets draped over beams. visitor donated food, and inhabitants of ideologies formed committees such as a volunteer service, trash collection, medical services. these committees served as a template for later movements in europe and the u.s. by summer the uprisings had spread to sub-saharan africa, latin america, asia and europe. all these protests influenced the people who later participated in occupy wall street. company ya from the press working group noted, for example, that latina occupiers got big inspiration from a less-publicized movement in chile, mexico and venezuela.

but of all the protests of 2011, the massive spanish encampments of the indignants had, program, the largest impact on the the forum and strategies of occupy wall street. coordinated through facebook and twitter, the spanish may 15th movement marched in roughly 60 spanish cities. highly visible public scares giving occupiers another name, campouts. willie, an activist involve inside some of the earliest planning sessions for ows described the camps he visited in june. these camps become centers of revolutionary life. council booths focused on the environment, the military, women's rightses and held meetings, teach-ins and public discussions. they covered the camps with

placards displaying revolutionary slogans, and everywhere they went they left behind card ambassador signs and graffiti. forming general assemblies and working groups that reached decision through a consensus-based process, they created structures that occupy wall street would recycle and repurpose. the spanish occupation electrified willie. in spain, he said, i gained renewed urgency and actually recognized the nature of the historical moment and the possibilities available to us here in the u.s. the camp feels magical, but it's also totally jerry rigged. improvisation built upon improvisation. cape, string, tarp, metal poles holding up sagging canvas roofs. a truly massive storm could take the whole thing town, but the same be said of the status quo? this camp if joined by enough around the world could be that

storm. during his visit, willie built contacts and later conferred with them as he and other activists planned the occupations in new york city. so organizers on different continents communicated in sync with one another. sharing ideas and tactics. among other commonalities, the protesters built communities that took care of all their members' needs for food, clothing shelter. the encampment gave them a set location to dialogue with each other and the press. and while facebook and twitter were unevenly censored in some of these countries, many of the protesters carried smartphones to quickly mobilize massive numbers of people. this could explain the wildfire spread of the 2011 protest and their preference for nonhierarchical organizing which resembles online social americaing rather than the

traditional governing structures. thank you. [applause] >> thanks, lisa. so next up, um, all of these people who are reading tonight were involved in writing the book. olivia's going to read from a section about the general assemble, the first general assembly in zucotti. [applause] >> as the time for the first general assembly approached, a group of 40 or 50 gathered to figure out how to run it. finally, marina, marisa and a few others who had been in the

thompkins square general assemblies which were where they planned the occupy wall street action, agreed to facilitate it. marina recalls, it was beautiful and powerful. we started with megaphones, and it didn't work very well. we were standing in the center up on one of the benches, and everyone was standing around in a mass circle. so we had to speak in two directions. after 10 or 15 minute, we put the megaphones down, and i spoke to the people this front of me using the people's mic which is something that we had practiced in facile traitor training two nights previously. i had participated in it and seen it used in seattle in the 1999 w20 protests, but i had thought of it as useful for communication, i hadn't thought of it as a way of conducting an assembly. but we were standing in the center of a group of 2,000 people, and megaphone were not working.

she spoke a few words to the people closest by, then asked them to repeat it in unison to the others. that first night using the people's mic, people hadn't done it before but immediately picked up on it. it creates an atmosphere to active listening and participation. as soon as we started the people's mic, the vibe and energy totally changed. the general assembly decided that the group would occupy zucotti park overnight and hold a general assembly at so 10 a.m. the next morning. about 300 people settled down in sleeping bags for the night, but the police waited nearby. matt presto remembers feeling pleasantly surprised but still on edge about what would happen next and thinking how long did the police tolerate this? they'll probably break us up sunday evening or monday. [applause]

>> so next up, travis holloway is going to read a bit from the chapter that we've got in the book on art in the square. >> so the art in the square begins with a quote, we believe we are at the brink of a new art movement a new school of thought. hopefully, you will join us, end quote. that was an e-mail that was sent to me as a poet in late september. i'll just read a couple of paragraphs about what we did as poets at occupy. another one of the early artist groups was the poetry guild which emerges in a similarly organic fashion. the first meeting of poets at occupy wall street happened in late september when there were 50 poets gathered for reading at liberty square. there was no headliner, no

unifying style, and it's fair to say no ordinary poetry reading. their initial event, a weekly reading that came to be called the poetry assembly, was organized and performed less like a poetry reading and be more like a democratic athenian assembly. each voice had the prerogative to speak before the assembly. if occupation was a horizontal and leaderless movement, poetry would be no different. poets were chosen at random by lot. lines of poetry were repeated back to the poet using the same call and response method utilized regularly at occupy wall street. they were there to not just demand democracy, but to perform it. other events soon led for new calls for artists to form at occupy wall street. as an e-mail from the arts and collective subcommittee to the poets stated: we believe we are on the brink of a new art movement, a new school of thought. wewe are creating collect is to

advance our movement and society aesthetically towards a new paradigm. we already have a collective on performance art, one in music and, hopefully, you will join us for poetry. the poets joined as did a multitude of others. today the list of guilds affiliated with arts and culture consists of the photographers, actors, writers, architects, film makers, dancers, painters, the list seems endless and comprises every field imaginable. [applause] >> um, and next up we're going to take a little break after this one, but christine is going to read a little bit about the meditation space in the park.

>> so first i actually want to read something about writing this book. because i think that's relevant for all of you to hear about. you heard colin's version of the sort of leading up to, but this was the writers actually working on it because it got a little stressful. so i worked on a section in living in the square on the sacred space and the meditation space. so this is on writing that. the tree of life was one of the first things i noticed upon entering zucotti park in the middle of october. so when i noticed the section of the living in the square chapter had been dedicated to the subject, i eagerly volunteered to write about it. problem was, i didn't know anybody directly involved with the sacred space. once i realized how little i had to work with, i sent out an

e-mail to everyone who was a part of the book project asking for help. lisa -- am i saying that right? another writer for the 99% who'd been involved specifically with the meditation group responded quickly and shared her experiences. she then helped connect me to the e-mail list for the members of the wellness group. at first they were surprisingly quiet. i didn't hear anything for a few days, and with the deadline fast approaching, i was worried my chapter would full of holes,ic complete or just plain bad. that saturday i threw together what notes i had on the sacred space, mostly tangential remarks from other interviews, and refreshed my inbox several times. i began receiving e-mails from charlie gonzalez, brendan butt her and others. it was a slow trickle as first, but by morning my inbox was swirling with voices that all wanted to contribute to the section. then i had to figure out what to do with them all.

monday morning and afternoon were spent patching together descriptions and dialogues, sending drafts back and fort on the -- forth on the list serve and making last minute, frantic phone calls. there were sever several details that shouldn't be included. i tried to hide my growing panic as best i could. at 5:50, ten minutes before our deadline, they were still sending me mails about information they feldt should be included. i finally had to say, all right, it's as good as it's going to get and send the thing in. looking at it now, i can see it's made up of many voices that may not harmonize perfectly with one another, but i'm certain it's representative of the people and energy that existed in the space, and for that i feel satisfy. so i'm going to read a brief section from the chapter that that was just describing or the section. this is the meditation space. at the intersection of liberty and trinity a few paces into the northwest corner of liberty square stands a tree that's

surrounded by low granite benches. these benches form a ring around the tree making it the folk point of the seating area. the tree is a loan bonn plain -- london plain that resulted from the combination of an oriental plain and the american sycamore. most trees within new york are reminders of the concrete jungle that surrounds them. nothing natural about a tree emerging from granite, yet this was one of the focal points at liberty square. away from the kitchen and the dozens of other working groups, the tree of life became the spiritual center of the park. in the weeks prior to the occupation of zucotti park, med mob a holistic community producing events in the new york city area for years, meditated on wall street outside the new york stock exchange. they also held public meditations at union square and washington square park. anthony whitehurst, a member of

med mob, described the effort as a collaboration with about 10-12 active facilitators in the group. he added the structure is intended to be universal. it includes chanting, silent medication, playing music -- sorry, and playing music. following a flash mob meditation on october 5th, members of med mob and the consciousness working group among other groups in the community created the beginning of the community altar. charlie gonzalez, a founder of the consciousness group, created a sign declaring the london plain as a tree of life. within a few days the space began to flourish. the sacred space is it is designated on the map of the park was used for self-reflection, yoga, chanting, prayer and meetings of a spiritual focus. when speaking to the participants involved in the creation of the space, may thead it clear it was -- they made it clear it was not owned or defined by any one group. rather it was a collective,

shared space that many groups can work with in their own way and all of whom will have their own views and opinions. the initial altar at the tree of life was handmade and donated by an ows supporter. michael rodriguez was often to be found at the tree. he built a second altar, and both he and brendan butler looked after its general upkeep and design. rodriguez and butler are were often referred to as the guardians of the altar. the around this altar that members of the group and the interdependence group and other groups organized and maintained 5 days of continuous prayer, music, interfaith practices, worship and community discussions. occupiers and visitor alike contributed a myriad of objects to the altar; sage, flowers, candles, buddha statues, day of the dead decorations, peace signs, crucifixes, rosaries,

rose petals, stones, feathers, shells, crystals, incense, figurines, photos of spiritual teachers, signs and artwork. in the daily life of occupy wall street, the sacred space offered a refuge from crowds and chaos a place to pause and reflex on priorities -- reflect on priorities. ..

in all traditions and even science. as a symbol of art and i cannot nest. okay, thank you. [applause] >> thanks, guys. it's been great so far. we will take it quick rate, so have a, to giant the bartender. we will reconvene in a couple minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> so i just want to say a little about the publishing of the book. so we actually managed to publish the book. we have copies of the book two months after we started the process. so november 17, we decided that

we were going to go down and give copies to the people's library -- i'm sorry, december december 7th team, to give people a copies of the people's library at a protest that was taking place for the occupation had been moved from the caveat about them at canal street. so ill met down there that afternoon and there had been some rumpus with the police that afternoon. they tried to start a new occupation in a square they are in the police have basically met them on pretty fast. so by the time we got there, we couldn't find the people's library. so we had her copies of the book that we wanted to donate to ban and i remember asking john, who is going to read in a day for

the people's library was. he said well, i think they are running down the road over the air. so he ran off to them with copies of the book and and were seen coming out, can we donate copies to the people slavery. there is he actually got quite a lot of books are trying to carry at the moment away from this thing. last night but they were kind enough to take copies and you can get them there at least at the people's labor and were very proud of that. but since the book came out, wiesel writes in an all around the world. it's going to be published in the coming months and australia and in italy. weaseled rights in india and in korea and japan. so the occupy wall street and everywhere in the world is

echoing around the world, too. there's something really great about that. the book is also coming out from haymarket books in march and will be available in bookstores they are. and is selling very well for us. saw the proceeds from the book are going to go to occupy wall street. and as a publishing project, something that's been very successful. so the next person who is going to read is jackie desalvo and she is going to be debate about duden family for. [applause] >> i am reading mostly the later part of the students and labor chapter because that is what i wrote. i'm not a perfect, but not

convergence of students and workers at foley square in response to the sober first arrest of more than 700 over to u.s. the u.s. protesters on the brooklyn bridge played a pivotal role in raising public awareness of the occupying movement. the event also shows how occupy wall street facilitated interconnections in coalition outings. indeed, the o. ws enabled holiday or deep between student and labor movements was by no means inevitable. conflicting motivations, need chemicals had in recent years foster divisions, not only between workers and students but between students of public and private universities and between workers from different unions. with its amorphous goal but ardent opposition state budget and corporate takeover of public services, the occupying movement offered efficiently large umbrella to mobilize groups are

seemingly different priorities towards a common cause. the story of how the occupied should rally and march came to be in the event is subsequently highlights occupies our asset mention of solidarity. as the occupation approached its third week, o. ws grew increasingly collaborating with the burgeoning student movement and gaining support from labor unions. rfid number 29, less than two weeks into the occupation out of a coalition of community and labor groups, including united new york, strong oral coalition, the working families party, united federation of teachers, workers united, as the i.q. 1199 in the transport workers union local 100 announced they would hold a community and labor rally in support of occupy wall street the following week on this same

wednesday that the students called for a student walkout. the first issue of the occupy "wall street journal" holds this unity come in the front page displayed a large photo of a woman with a tambourine and the headline, new york united, wednesday at dover fifth, student walkout, union marches, occupy wall street.org, new york student writing.org. the new york city student assembly, which facilitated connections among student activists at different universities had been acting along with others in solidarity with the local workers, especially the art handlers of the teamsters local age 14. the union members had been locked out of work for failing to agree to a nastier new

contract with a 10% wage cut and a stipulation green team owners unlimited freedom to hire nonunion workers. the latter would have effectively ruined the union. united together, students and trade unionists affiliated with occupy wall street and still traded options, interacting the sale of multimillion dollar's paintings and furniture. [applause] 680 million, onewon a dubious infiltrator announced in the midst of an option and put its workers on on the street. then 10 minutes later, after the auction return to work or come a protester would rise to show coming south of the ceo makes $60,000 today. these interventions continued, eventually causing to require a

$5000 deposit just to enter the filter. o. ws affiliated protesters all who disrupted lunch at high-priced restaurant owned by danny meyer's come a member of the southeast board of trustees informing key trends at the restaurant they were sitting in the ported to thought to be his black outcome of the wide array of actions in support of a lockout of workers which included several arrests for blocking the house culminated on november 9 with 200 people, including college students and members of at least 10 different unions join the southeast picket line. indeed, a ws and the burgeoning student movement of foster provided a lucrative opportunity for labor movement to stage a broader-based counterattack against owners increasingly hard-line packets at the burgeoning table as well as this renewed threat against collect his bargaining and state houses

nationwide maida rosenstein, president of united auto workers local 21 said we had the uaw have been talking about how do we mobilize people and our members are not just elect comically. how do we mobilize people to get out and protest and rally and demonstrate? to protest against wisconsin governor scott walker to act on collective bargaining in february of 2011 in which students and union workers occupied the state capital of madison before erecting tent city served as an important precedent while they failed to prevent unionbusting off in passing, those protests are too the labor movement nationwide in navy leaders quick to recognize the potential benefits of aligning with occupy wall street. this is a dream come true for us to have these young people speaking out about what is

happening to working people said george presson, local 1199 coming union of 300,000 health care workers. trade unionists were active in occupy wall street from the outset, taking part in the first general assembly in august 2nd informing the o. ws labor working group within the first week of the occupation of ducati. the group would come to have more than 100 members representing more than 40 unions adopted a dual purpose supporting union struggles and taking inventory for the occupying movement. by the october fire valley, the group had succeeded in securing the endorsement of the executive council of the afl-cio but larger federation of unions in the united state. i was surprised at the eagerness with which the units responded to me. a founder of the labor working group, this alliance is

unprecedented in the u.s. and distinguishes occupy wall street from the movement of the 60s when unions were more conservatives in the youth culture tended to be antiunion. the unions have been under attack for the 1% and they are looking for new strategies and new allies. one said she was the transit workers union, 100 which in the fall of 2011 was involved in difficult contract negotiations. working through the o. ws labor working group to tw rank-and-file set the table of liberty plaza fast and with hard hats off by laborers from the nearby freedom tower construction site, the table served as a place where workers could share their stories with visitors at liberty plaza as well as learn about the movement. the occupation also facilitated connections among unionists, members through local 802 were introduced to members from locally for a team in the two locals quickly decided to support one another's respective

struggle with managing. julian tatian organizer with the locally 14 printed the occupying movement encouraging workers on the clients will universalizing struggles by fitting them against a common enemy, the one with the occupying movement has changed unions have stirred apple valley, president of the retail wholesale and department store union. you see a lot more unions want to be aggressive messaging and dvd. indeed in response to occupy wall street, many unionists are quick to seize upon the 99% spoken of fixing the two buttons and signs tuesday october 5th porridge. at 5:30 on october 5, foley square team that thousands of students and workers laughing, chanting and reveling in the power of their numbers. at as the sunset, trickled they trickled out of the square to the south, marching towards liberty plaza and the occupation

that occasion their unity. just a little bit more, this is the biggest moment between neighboring occupied was the moment of the first attempted eviction. this is the night before. several working groups began reaching out to the movement supporters in the new york community and preparation for the confrontation takes you to become the next morning. hold the note over the internet urging anyone who is able to make their way down to the part. the labor outreach committee procured a strong strolling of solidarity for new york city union, contacting park employee, sanitation workers and custodians still at the cleanup. more significantly, many unions including communication workers, auto workers, service employee and inflation than members of exciting and on the 14th, an hour before the scheduled cleaning. and the united federation of

teachers also thought to turn on members of solidarity. in an unprecedented move, the new york city area afl-cio sent out an emergency e-mail i run it be a minute before but the subject line reading, go to wall street now. labor was also landing support behind the scenes according to major rosenstein. a lot of people are calling the mayor and colin elected officials and telling them to call the mayor. people leveraging the clout that they had with elected officials. weight is that can. the next morning at a certain point, since a labor people started pouring into the area and want occupier recorded and said an electric city in the air as a crowded mass. the excitement with a contingent of hundreds descended on the part of ones. the unit i hear to back aside.

the figure to back us up someone shouted to the people's microfilm andrés cheers. [cheers and applause] >> so, the next i'm going to read is ben shepherd and he is going to read from a chapter in the book about what is going on on the edge of the square and that is the name is going to from. [applause] >> at such a pleasure to be part of this project. we did a book reading here 10 years ago and michael shaker, our lower side squatter who is here. so anyway, tonight part is how

all of these movements come together that is what is so interesting as watching labor and community garden in all these events come together in this movement which is continuing. anyway, using liberty. liberty cafés facilities with enormous quantities of food, an ftc dinner to 1500 people on weekdays on the weekends. sustainability committee, if you would never bring now helped out with developing a dishwashing system so as to avoid the waste of using disposable plates. think you may organize system for getting rid of kitchen scraps as burning cavanaugh, one of the founders explained. with the amount of food coming in and out and donations and the amount of food being prepared, there is a lot of food waste. it was my wife catherine's idea

to start creating compost buckets and taking it out. that was my idea to start doing it on cycles. so cavanaugh and company were soon collaborating with bike activists to form a bike brigade and remove compost. we have to pick up today, fortunately. yesterday we pulled a 75.buckets of food waste and figure that those buckets wait anything from 30 to 35 pounds each. so seven back cases over 200 pounds taken out a day. the crews to bring food waste to several from scottie today lowers than encouraging proviso, community gardens, plus a cultural and any number of others. pedal power was also used to provide electricity for the kitchen as well as for the rest of the part. one of the first things we realize we had to do was to get everybody here by fossil fuels and medicaid income and good looking man across the room.

so keep in now we can tal a deep cycle battery. we started powering some of the things this occupation needs like laptops, cell phones and cameras. as soon as we plugged it into all of the other committees, approached us and said we need one, too. so when we move over to another section about bikes, which is my passion right now. depending on the time of day, we are costly in the early weeks of the occupation. the closer one god the place walking around the southern side box, it became the polls. the occupy drummers who would claim the space and the steps on the park's website. the location combined with the tree of life and committee altar piled with highly candles come in peace, plants, fruit and incense in the years of the

northwest corner gave the park's western edge a more spiritual life. but that didn't stop the occasional dance party from breaking out. one evening in early october, group of bicyclists sometimes up in new york city based on paramount group activity action descendents of the parts westernized with a special sound by pumping jcb worker, james brandon paddock enemy can as an occupier stance let up a little steam enchanted all day, all we, occupy the piece and brandon cavanagh and ows activists who organized the impromptu dance party recall before the barricades all around the park and you couldn't go on, easily. there were still no wow some people started running out and ran in the lot beside pumping their fists in the air. they push the dancers down the block in a matter of days the barricades were set. over the final sentence or two. but i love this i have no idea who wrote so much of what is

lovely and it. so is reading it today and found a lighter love. from the earliest days of the movement, personal storytelling had hoped to build solidarity and put spaces on ows to better explain it to the outside world. for many, desire to exercise associated frustrations to as possible as was deeply motivating and still lives. thank you. [applause] >> so next up going to read brad the people of color. [applause] >> my first reading i've ever

damned. [cheers and applause] the movement was beautiful. it was dusk and of late, late in the floor amongst the marble paving stones like a thick cloud -- as the crowds ebbed and flowed above them, blocking and a black dress for down the stairs on september 23rd. her first day to survey the scene. she looked left and right and up at the big red to seem interested in the persons around her for not recognizing anyone personally or by association she waited awkward in silence until the general assembly began. she was lost in the crowd. jamie, a member of the people of color working group who describes herself up to 99% and a person of color first went down to occupy wall street on october 15, national day of action. i met them myself she explained because no one else wanted to go

with me. none of my friends or interest it and i was like well, i'm going to go out and check it out on my own. i love the energy of all of it, but what some people started to notice was the gaa with the maturity white and male, which is the highest privilege you can have in this society that constructed like her own. there a lot of people who are the 99% who look at these issues, issues most prevalent than, issues that directly affect them everyday, but not kerry ducati part because they feel alienated or they feel their voices will be heard or experienced racism at some point. sal on october 1, as tensions surrounding this feeling of alienation built, one of them stood up at the assembly and prepares the people of color working group. asking that anyone interested meet me at the red sink now.

though she had discussed the idea with many of her white allies and people of color, the earliest member of pac has nevertheless had to send off to white man in order to get her proposal on the agenda in the first place. occupy wall street wasn't the diverse basic process to be. i didn't expect it to beat the movement -- i didn't expect it to be she said. the move that was created in a racially hostile society by individuals who bought into the dangerously flawed logic of color blindness that they are the hat. about five people, those people of color showed up at the initial meeting and exchange e-mail. at the next meeting, the group attracted by an imprisoned by the third, the 100 people of all colors administered both and through consensus became a close space for any person who

identified as a person of color. finally on october 1, the calls to people of color from a ws is the poc working group was released. so i believe that for you guys. [applause] >> so, alas reader this evening is going to read a section from the capture as the conviction. [applause] >> howdy. so i heard about the eviction as many, many people and activists and supporters of occupy wall street heard about it being woken up in my bed and proclaim

and then i responded immediately to the phone calls of a many others did and said i'm not going to go in the back to sleep. about 30 seconds later i got a then they went. and you know, this is the eviction chapter, but it's not about the ending. it's about a new beginning and i hear so many amazing things have been via the eviction. and so i hope that spirit comes through. meanwhile, three m., hundreds of justice occupies the protesters soling chronograph mankind ballplayer case and armed police they watched in stunned silence as cops and sanitation workers build a study led dump trucks and drove off into the night. a house is not dump truck killed one man. they are stealing our stuff grandmother over the barricades a tour played tenor guitar and singing dog dillon from the ship comes in.

i'll spare you a ring out, your? , take off that rice soup. last back and tell me what democracy looks like. this is what democracy looks like. under the dump truck and jens krall and the crowd then, journalists interviewed displaced campers while protesters try to reconcile themselves with what had happened and speculated about the future. occupiers chatted in between text and phone calls, reassuring friends and loved ones who want to know where they were and if they received yet they also exchanged hats with fellow protesters and scattered throughout the streets of lower manhattan. still others i'm been scribbled scribbled on police cars and summoned that this across the line of police vehicles and use their flakier to let the air out of the tires and once wilson louche. nearby when the dump trucks are carried out the book of the parts content, police made their push to reopen broadway here

just behind the police line, three hot clad protesters who did and was sold at a young blonde female officer. she gritted her teeth. two male officers, both a head taller than she stared down the cat collars in disguise. a nearby mail at risk that the bond officer size as to say, i'm sorry. as she calmly walked him out of the street, the two chatted hirschi about her usual beats in upper manhattan and he about the culture bricklin. meanwhile, as stores about features a model announced that caution if you don't beat the street you will be arrested. several protesters responded by humming "star wars" at the imperial march. it gave way to the chance all day, all week, occupy wall street. the chant started out slowly, almost halftime, the quick and as the n.y.p.d. swept the

streets. altercations of this of this is a police line surge pushing never got the street and onto the sidewalk outside trinity churchyard. some protesters pushed back until a sort of officers overpowered that. others hurled idols which are objects from a bar. when enabled onto a police cruiser and threw himself onto the crowd of police. cries rang out. fascist. you are protecting? and shame. other protesters called the police to join them. they are stealing your pensions, to some shouted. within a matter of minutes, police reclaimed broadway. ministry was clear to those who defy police were arrested in god, some had to change their tires, which bought the morning traffic for additional 30 minutes. this traffic resumed, those rereading made their way to the square were general assembly was already debating the movement next step. by 6:00 a.m. the throngs of protesters had dispersed. only few dozen remaindered links a month police and reporters chasing not