Published in Overland Issue Online Occupy Issue · Uncategorized Issue Occupy Jacinda Woodhead Occupy special published 27 January 2012 In the wake of economic crises, political atomisation and an increase in militarised policing, what does the Occupy movement mean? Contents Jacinda Woodhead – Editorial Occupy – Features Sean Scalmer – ‘The world of all of us’ Occupying history Elizabeth Humphrys – From Global Justice to Occupy Everywhere The antecedents to a new movement Jude McCulloch and David Vakalis – Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue Militarised policing and Occupy Melbourne Ali Alizadeh – The revolution to come? Revolutions past and present Occupy – The view from Europe Giovanni Tiso – Europe’s Perfect Ruins The crisis on the continent The OWS perspective Manissa McCleave Maharawal and Chris Maisano – ‘We are at the beginning’ Activists in Dialogue about Occupy Wall Street Jacinda Woodhead Jacinda Woodhead is a former editor of Overland and current law student. More by Jacinda Woodhead › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 17 April 2026 · Friday Fiction These old hands, they are still growing Sam Fisher It was an old house meshed in an unrelenting grid of brick and weatherboard. Its walls still stood stark, red brick. Paint like tender old sagging skin on the timber windows. A bastard of a garden surrounded it, ran up brick wall and concrete path. The lawn, dead that time of year, luminescent in the streetlight. In the center of that void, a sign, Auction. 15 April 202615 April 2026 · Climate politics The $67 billion climate betrayal: how Australia’s record fossil fuel subsidies fund global destruction Noa Wynn The contradictions aren't failures of implementation. They're the predictable result of a political system that has decided fossil fuel profits matter more than climate stability, more than the Great Barrier Reef, more than Pacific Islander lives, and more than the future habitability of the planet.
