Micah White. (2016). The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution. Knopf Canada.

Micah White. 2016. The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution. Knopf Canada.

Micah White, The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution. Knopf Canada, 2016.

Micah White. The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution. Knopf Canada, 2016.

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   • bioText: MICAH WHITE is the award-winning activist who co-created Occupy Wall Street, a global social movement, while an editor of Adbusters magazine. His essays and interviews on the future of protest have been published in publications including The New York Times, The Guardian Weekly and Folha de São Paulo. Widely recognized as a pioneer of social movement creation, Micah White has been profiled by The New Yorker, and Esquire has named him one of the most influential young thinkers alive today. He directs Boutique Activist Consultancy—a think tank specializing in impossible campaigns—and is a frequent guest lecturer. Micah lives with his wife and son in Nehalem, a rural town on the coast of Oregon. His website is www.micahmwhite.com
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Is protest broken? Micah White, co-creator of Occupy Wall Street, thinks so. Disruptive tactics have failed to halt the rise of Donald Trump. Movements ranging from Black Lives Matter to environmentalism are leaving activists frustrated. Meanwhile, recent years have witnessed the largest protests in human history. Yet these mass mobilizations no longer change society. Now activism is at a crossroads: innovation or irrelevance.
 
In The End of Protest Micah White heralds the future of activism. Drawing on his unique experience with Occupy Wall Street, a contagious protest that spread to eighty-two countries, White articulates a unified theory of revolution and eight principles of tactical innovation that are destined to catalyze the next generation of social movements. 
 
Despite global challenges—catastrophic climate change, economic collapse and the decline of democracy—White finds reason for optimism: the end of protest inaugurates a new era of social change. On the horizon are increasingly sophisticated movements that will emerge in a bid to challenge elections, govern cities and reorient the way we live. Activists will reshape society by forming a global political party capable of winning elections worldwide. 
 
In this provocative playbook, White offers three bold, revolutionary scenarios for harnessing the creativity of people from across the political spectrum. He also shows how social movements are created and how they spread, how materialism limits contemporary activism, and why we must re-conceive protest in timelines of centuries, not days.
 
Rigorous, original and compelling, The End of Protest is an exhilarating vision of an all-encompassing revolution of revolution.

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   • source: J.B. MacKinnon, author of The Once and Future World
   • content: "Fearlessly lucid, radically open-minded, Micah White puts protest back where it belongs--among the greatest forces ever to shape history. Then he exposes a protest culture just as jaded as the structures it seeks to overthrow, and as desperately in need of 'ruthless innovation.' Many books tell us why we should protest; this book tells us how."
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   • source: LA Weekly
   • content: "Micah White's new book, The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution, could not have arrived at a more propitious moment. . . . A rich reflection on our quagmire of culture, corruption and the future of activism, politics and spirituality, which provides compelling context and proposes a call to action at a critical point in time when misery-infused doom seems like the prevailing national menu selection."
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   • source: Gabriella Coleman, author of Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy
   • content: "Micah White issues an impassioned clarion call for activists to reinvent protest--a format that that has been so utterly devitalized, it has lost its bite and power to impel change. White makes his case by drawing on decades of personal experience and the historical record, and what springs forth from these pages is an eminently readable playbook packed with wisdom and practical advice for resuscitating the power of dissent in the twenty-first century."
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     March 7, 2016
     High-profile activist White, former editor of Adbusters and co-creator of the original Occupy Wall Street proposal, believes revolution is around the corner. But anyone looking to break their shackles of oppression will find little help in this hodgepodge of academic theorizing, first­person heroics, new age shibboleths, and back­to­the­land romanticism. Some would agree that North American protest movements are in a rut, but White's rejection of past approaches to social change is contradictory. His futuristic scenarios rely on tired tactics—electoral politics, social media memes, the Internet as revolutionary force multiplier—that he dismisses elsewhere as limited or unworkable. His rallying cry to form a singular social organism—"the people"— could well be used by totalitarians of the left and right. White's style, an earnest combination of PhD thesis, didactic megaphone rant, and revolutionary cheerleading, is reminiscent of Yippie Abbie Hoffman (sans humor), especially his focus on the medium helping to create the message. White's cherry-picked history and theory of revolution lacks insightful analysis of significant grassroots movements of the past half century and is missing the evidentiary foundation to support his thesis. The book may appeal to armchair activists but won't help those on the front lines of dangerous actions, such as Latin American peasants on the front line resisting mining multinationals. Agent: Suzanne Brandreth, Cooke Agency International.

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     March 15, 2016
     Revolution for the hell of it? Perhaps, this latter-day rejoinder to Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals suggests, since revolution of other kinds seems nigh on impossible. Impossible, perhaps--but still worth trying. Occupy Wall Street co-creator White, a graduate of the Adbusters school of paradigm subversion, is nothing if not optimistic on that point, at least most of the time, even as he candidly assesses past missteps. "Occupy Wall Street was a political miracle," he writes," a rupture moment that redefined reality, pushed the limits of possibility and transformed participants into their best and truest selves." That movement grew from an anti-Starbucks campaign that fizzled--and probably rightly, since Starbucks actually pays its workers a living wage--with "a few insignificant actions that didn't catch on." So, given that failure, the ultimate failure of Occupy for all its self-transformation, and the many failures of protest generally, why bother? Because, White assures readers, there's life in the path to replacing old paradigms with new ones, and if Occupy "failed to live up to its revolutionary potential" and "protest is broken and the people know it worldwide," that doesn't mean injustice has taken a holiday. Though the author sounds Leninist at times ("the people must capture legislative and executive control constitutionally and legitimately"), White can be a little theological and even New Age-y, as well ("scour the edges of politics and adapt the protest behaviors that make you excited and a bit nervous")--all while he looks toward the possibility of carving out new paths of resistance with such things as meme warfare along with the old tried-and-true of satyagraha and sit-down. Fans of Alinsky will find points in common here, but direct-action types will be disappointed to discover that under the revolutionary bluster, this is a rather quietly spiritual treatise and certainly no Anarchist Cookbook. Of a decidedly leftist bent, but activists, organizers, and civil libertarians of whatever stripe will want to have a look.

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