The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement by Gould-Wartofsky Michael A

Author:Gould-Wartofsky, Michael A.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

Figure 6.3 Return to Zuccotti Park. November 17, 2011. Credit: Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky.

“Basically, a bunch of folks got really pissed off and broke off . . . to do [their] own thing,” says Max Berger, a young white organizer from western Massachusetts who had previously worked with MoveOn.org and Rebuild the Dream. “They were just like, ‘We’re out’. . . . I think that split is what killed Occupy.”

The split left two rival factions in its wake, known as the “Ninjas” and the “Recidivists.” The Ninjas were avowedly anarchist and anti-capitalist, opposed to the making of demands, and oriented toward the reoccupation of urban space. The Recidivists touted a more pragmatist, populist politics, centered on coalition-building and community organizing for political and economic reform. The factions would go on to form opposing poles within the 99 Percent movement, competing for organizational resources, ideological hegemony, and the loyalty of the people in the middle.

Displaced from the center of their communal life, the occupiers in exile would make of the movement a house divided.

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