This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement [Paperback]

We’re bombarded by messages telling us that bigger and better things are the keys to happiness—but after we pile up the stuff and pile on the work hours, we end up exhausted and broke on a planet full of trash. Sarah van Gelder and her colleagues atYES! Magazinehave been exploring the meaning of real happiness for eighteen years. Here they offer fascinating research, in-depth essays, and compelling personal stories by visionaries such as Annie Leonard, Matthieu Ricard, and Vandana Shiva, showing us that real well-being is found in supportive relationships and thriving communities, opportunities to make a contribution, and the renewal we receive from a thriving natural world. In the pages of this book, you’ll find creative and practical ways to cultivate a happiness that is nurturing, enduring, and life affirming.FOREWORD Fran Korten
INTRODUCTION: HOW OCCUPY WALL STREET CHANGES EVERYTHING Sarah van Gelder
10 WAYS THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT CHANGES EVERYTHING

PART I: OCCUPY WALL STREET
1. HOW OCCUPY WALL STREET REALLY GOT STARTED, Andy Kroll
2. ENACTING THE IMPOSSIBLE: Making Decisions by Consensus, David Graeber
3. PRINCIPLES OF SOLIDARITY, The Occupy Wall Street General Assembly
4. THE CHILLS OF POPULAR POWER: The First Month of Occupy Wall Street, Marina Sitrin
5. CLAIMING SPACE FOR DIVERSITY AT OCCUPY WALL STREET, Hena Ashraf
6. DECLARATION OF THE OCCUPATION OF NEW YORK CITY, The Occupy Wall Street General Assembly
7. NO LEADERS, NO VIOLENCE: What Diversity of Tactics Means for Occupy Wall Street, Nathan Schneider
8. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE WORLD, Naomi Klein

PART II: WHAT NEEDS TO CHANGE
9. HOW INEQUALITY POISONS SOCIETY AND EQUITY BENEFITS EVERYONE: An Interview with Richard Wilkinson, Brooke Jarvis
10. SIX WAYS TO LIBERATE MAIN STREET FROM WALL STREET, David Korten
11. A FAIR TAX SYSTEM: Three Places to Start, Chuck Collins
12. HOW TO CREATE LIVING-WAGE JOBS THAT ARE GOOD FOR THló´