Al R Suarez

Solidarity Forever? The Struggle of an Occupier Al R Suarez

Book is at a new price more than three times cheaper as it originally was. The book is a unique insight into the movement complete with photos, and a side to the tale few have known from deep inside the movement that shows the mistakes that were made that can be corrected to make a even better movement. It also includes articles the author wrote at the time in the movement when things were fresh in his mind. There are 16 chapters. The author was practically on every occupy camp in the east coast, starting in New England through days of homelessness, where he met intellectuals like Chomsky and Norman Finkelstein, both of whom he later interviewed. Also a man who would later turn into a national hero at the Boston Bombings, Carlos Arredondo, the author had the honor of meeting. Occupy started as a movement to fight Wall Street corruption but expanded into a multi-cause front. Internal disputes, infiltration, and other factors, caused the movement's demise, this book is written by a controversial figure who is finally telling his side. Described as a modern Grapes of Wrath book, this is the author's humble attempt to tell the truth. Solidarity Forever was a song the author sang with his comrades the two times he was arrested, there are different versions of the song, he put a question mark as it seems there is a lack of solidarity in what remains of the movement, that is why the title starts that way, and this is a attempt to show what really happened as no one else has dared written from his first edition. Here is a review of the book by former Philadelphia police captain Ray Lewis, arrested in uniform at Occupy, who is a respected activist: "I love the intimacy of it. You so personalize it. Even subjects that I would not initially think would be interesting - you make interesting. It reads like very informative novel that one does not want to put down."