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
“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.” —J.B. MacKinnon, author of The Once
and Future World
“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.” —LA Weekly
“Innovative. . . . Part manifesto, part memoir, and part history of
activism, The End of Protest is a radical document in
every sense of the word. . . . The End of
Protest encompasses so much more than reflections on a
controversial movement. . . . The End of Protest is
crammed so full of fascinating research, stunning language, and
spirited optimism that it’s bound to make you stop and think.” —The
Huffington Post
“President Kennedy said, ‘Those who make peaceful revolution
impossible make violent revolution inevitable.’ One of the most
urgent existential questions of our time is how to respond to that
supposition. In The End of Protest, Micah White guides
the conversation by combining an expansive grasp of history
and political philosophy, with a thrilling sense of future
possibility.” —Marianne Williamson
“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.” —Gabriella Coleman, author of Hacker, Hoaxer,
Whistleblower, Spy
“Micah White offers us a deeply honest, courageous and ultimately
optimistic view of how people can make a far better world — and why
we’re not there yet. The book is so packed with insights and ideas
that you’re bound to agree with some and question others. But you
will be challenged and you will get smarter. This book is much
needed fuel for a people’s compassionate revolution.” —Jonah
Sachs, author of Winning the Story Wars
“The End of Protest is nothing less than a new paradigm for
resistance. It will be sure to initiate a heated and necessary
debate about how to confront oppression, and what constitutes
victory.” —Douglas Rushkoff, author of Throwing Rocks at the
Google Bus and Present Shock
“Micah White gives us a bird’s-eye view of the ever-shifting battle
field of dynamic social change. New wars require new arts to be
successful.” —Lupe Fiasco, rapper and hip-hop artist
“The End of Protest is an engrossing historical document, call to
arms, guide, and self-critical look at the Occupy movement from one
of its co-founders. It traces the history of protest in the North
and offers a new vision, tactics, and strategy for a peaceful
revolution through a horizontal, mundialist movement. An inspiring
must-read for any activist.” —Carmen Aguirre, author of Mexican
Hooker #1 and Something Fierce, winner of Canada Reads
“The End of Protest is an informative and inspiring book for
activists of any and every stripe. White’s emphasis on ‘mental
environmentalism,’ as he puts it, is brilliant.” —Alex Ebert, lead
singer of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
“Micah White is a strategist, a new breed of revolutionary.
He knows that resistance isn’t so much about what you do as
who you are: it cuts right inside you, into your very Being, into
your belief systems, into your democratic hopes, into your
anti-corporate desires, into your whole mental environment. This is
Rules for Radicals for the World Party—the one yet to be.” —Andy
Merrifield, author of The Wisdom of Donkeys and Magical Marxism
“Micah White argues convincingly that established modes of protest
are outdated and sketches the outlines for how activists can and
must innovate. His book is a love letter to activists of the
future.” —Michael Hardt, co-author of the Empire trilogy (Empire,
Multitude, Commonwealth) as well as Declaration
“Within the context of his experience with the Occupy movement,
Micah White bravely challenges the current protest-rut in which
many social justice activists find themselves. His critique of
modern social movements challenges activists to progress to the
next level, while leaving us hopeful that the revolution for a
better world is already upon us.” —Pam Palmater, Mi’kmaw lawyer,
professor and Idle No More spokesperson & educator
“The End of Protest is not just about the end of the effectiveness
of protest, it is also a manual for how to overthrow the broken
world systems we suffer under. This is a playbook for everyone who
dreams of revolutionary change.” —Jonah Sachs, founder of
Free Range Studios
“[T]he author is not short on ideas for how activists can mix
things up as we attempt to change the world. . . . Readers embark
on a whirlwind tour of historical examples. . . . At times, the
book feels like looking through the activist equivalent of a genius
designer’s scrapbook. . . . The End of Protest stakes out a
unified schema and spectrum of possibilities. . . . The
critical-minded will find much to debate, but they may also find
much-needed ideas for how to protest a little differently—and more
effectively—next time.” —rabble.ca
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