Introduction: On Insurrection and Historical Memory -- Chapter 1: Miss Kelley on the Insurrection of Hunts Point -- Chapter 2: Kawkab Hassan on Liberating the Levant -- Chapter 3: Tanya John on the Free Assembly of Crotona Park -- Chapter 4: Belquees Chowdhury on Student and Worker Occupations -- Chapter 5: Quinn Liu on Making Refuge, from Hangzhou to Flushing -- Chapter 6: S. Addams on the Church Fathers of Staten Island -- Chapter 7: Aniyah Reed on Pacha and the Communization of Space -- Chapter 8: Connor Stephens on the Fall of Colorado Springs -- Chapter 9: Latif Timbers on Gestation Work -- Chapter 10: An Zhou on Ecological Restoration -- Chapter 11: Kayla Puan on Growing Up in the North Ironbound Commune -- Chapter 12: Alkasi Sanchez on the Mid-Atlantic Free Assembly.
Summary:
"By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism--New York City. This book, a collection of interviews with the people who made the revolution, was published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the New York Commune, a radically new social order forged in the ashes of capitalist collapse. Here is the insurrection in the words of the people who made it, a cast as diverse as the city itself. Nurses, sex workers, antifascist militants, and survivors of all stripes recall the collapse of life as they knew it and the emergence of a collective alternative. Their stories, delivered in deeply human fashion, together outline how ordinary people's efforts to survive in the face of crisis contain the seeds of a new world."--Amazon.
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