Everything for everyone : an oral history of the New York commune, 2052-2072
Call Number
- SCIENCE FICTION OBRI (CEN)
Publication Information
Brooklyn, NY : Common Notions, [2022]
Physical Description
239 pages : map ; 21 cm
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.
Contents
- 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.