{"id":835,"date":"2012-05-01T20:01:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T20:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/c3northampton.org\/?p=835"},"modified":"2015-07-28T02:21:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T02:21:32","slug":"liberty-squared-a-multiplicity-of-voices-from-the-occupy-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/?p=835","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Squared: a multiplicity of voices from the occupy movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liberty Squared<\/strong><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0is a\u00c2\u00a0zine compiled by local folks who have been engaged in and thinking about the occupy movement.<\/p>\n

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The creators\/editors include:\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong> Taryn Amina, Jackie Dougherty (C3 Collective Member), Julia Handshuh, and Tanner Slick.<\/p>\n

Contributers include:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0taryn amina,\u00c2\u00a0rob crowner,\u00c2\u00a0ramiro davos-comas,\u00c2\u00a0jackie dougherty,\u00c2\u00a0leah mae dyjak,\u00c2\u00a0larry ely,\u00c2\u00a0chelsea granger,\u00c2\u00a0julia handschuh,\u00c2\u00a0jeff havens,\u00c2\u00a0sita magnuson,\u00c2\u00a0alice posner,\u00c2\u00a0steve randall,\u00c2\u00a0tanner slick,\u00c2\u00a0tiny tenting task force,\u00c2\u00a0jill turner<\/p>\n

Pick up a paper edition at\u00c2\u00a0Food for Thought Books<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0or download one at\u00c2\u00a0Valley Art Share<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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INTRODUCTION
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Hot Topic sells Che Guevara underwear. You can get a beaded curtain with Frida Khalo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s face on it at the mall. Again and again, when radicals get singled out as leaders, capitalism finds a way to suck them back into the fold, selling their dissent back to us.<\/p>\n

Capitalist logic goes: if you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t beat \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcem, turn \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcem into heroes.<\/p>\n

American media is obsessed with cranking out heroes — super heroes, action heroes, war heroes, revolutionary heroes — because heroes are perfectly sellable. They can be individually wrapped and sold separately. They can be isolated and confined. They can be used to knock whole movements down, in that they come to represent the movement in society\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eyes — and an individual, no matter how glorious, is much easier to bring down than a mass of people working together. Heroes are tragic.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, the media has tried to make heroes out of Occupy. Local media in the valley hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been an exception, with left-leaning publications such as the Advocate painting active local individuals in golden light one week, and assassinating their character the next. It is good to talk to individuals — to get their perspectives and gut reactions and questions, desires, fears. These make up a movement\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s blood, and understanding them is critical. But equally critical is understanding them in plurality.<\/p>\n

No one represents Occupy. And Occupy has no heroes. Occupy has a trillion heads! It has a trillion hearts and a trillion guts! Occupy is a trillion-tentacled octopus! An occupus! It is not a hero.<\/p>\n

To that end, this zine presents you with some of the voices — plural — who the mainstream media thought they drowned out when they fired up the hero machine.<\/p>\n

Occupy is not a hero, and will not go down like one.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u201dTaryn Amina<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liberty Squared\u00c2\u00a0is a\u00c2\u00a0zine compiled by local folks who have been engaged in and thinking about the occupy movement. The creators\/editors include:\u00c2\u00a0 Taryn Amina, Jackie Dougherty (C3 Collective Member), Julia Handshuh, and Tanner Slick. Contributers include:\u00c2\u00a0taryn amina,\u00c2\u00a0rob crowner,\u00c2\u00a0ramiro davos-comas,\u00c2\u00a0jackie dougherty,\u00c2\u00a0leah mae dyjak,\u00c2\u00a0larry ely,\u00c2\u00a0chelsea granger,\u00c2\u00a0julia handschuh,\u00c2\u00a0jeff havens,\u00c2\u00a0sita magnuson,\u00c2\u00a0alice posner,\u00c2\u00a0steve randall,\u00c2\u00a0tanner slick,\u00c2\u00a0tiny tenting task force,\u00c2\u00a0jill turner Pick up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}