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"I don't think there'll ever be a day when there's nothing to dissent about." (Lawrence Ferlinghetti) "The game is being operate on people nevertheless they don't know the way the game is being run." (Arthur Blaustein) "I often feel as though right before a motion people think nothing is going to improve." (Candace Falk) Since the eviction of Occupy protestors from encampments in many places across the world, smaller and even more targeted occupations have extended. Employees in a Chicago stock occupied - with the support of their union - to protest layoffs. Teachers and students in Tucson staged a walkout to protest the removal of Chicano history catalogs from the curriculum. Home foreclosures were disrupted, even averted, by immediate community action. But what does it all mean? What do we speak about when we speak about "revolution", if we speak about it in any way? Journalist Amelia Stein sat down with a few of our most prominent thinkers, artists, and activists and asked them. The resulting conversations were exciting, thoughtful, and engaging. This is actually the perfect handbook for anybody looking to engage more deeply with this own, ongoing, American Spring.
