Occupy

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Occupy" gives Noam Chomskys thoughts on a movement which swept the world " Occupy" is the first major public response to thirty years of class war. Since its appearance in Zuccotti Park New York in September 2011 the Occupy movement has spread to hundreds of towns & cities across the world. No longer occupying small tent camps the movement now occupies the global conscience as its messages spread from street protests to op-ed pages to the highest seats of power. From the movements onset Noam Chomsky has supported its critique of corporate corruption & encouraged its efforts to increase civic participation economic equality democracy & freedom. Through talks & conversations with movement supporters " Occupy" presents Chomskys latest thinking on the central issues questions & demands that are driving ordinary people to protest. How did we get to this point? How are the wealthiest 1 per cent influencing the lives of the other 99 per cent? How can we separate money from politics? What would a genuinely democratic election look like? How can we redefine basic concepts like growth to increase equality & quality of life for all? " Occupy" is another vital contribution from Chomsky to the literature of defiance & protest & a red-hot rallying call to forge a better more egalitarian future. Noam Chomsky is the author of numerous bestselling political books including " Hegemony or Survival" " Failed States" " Interventions" " Perilous Power" " What We Say Goes" " Imperial Ambitions" " Making the Future" " How the World Works" & " Hopes & Prospects" all of which are published by Hamish Hamilton/ Penguin. He is a professor in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT & is widely credited with having revolutionized modern linguistics. Chomsky has supported the initiatives of the Occupy movement from its first weeks. He lives in Lexington Massachusetts."