Andrew Morantz. The Anti-Coup. New Yorker, November 23, 2020, pp. 36-45.
In 2011, at the Occupy Wall Street encampment, in New York, activists set up a community kitchen, a library, and a media hub to disseminate live steams generated by the movement-- all examples of what Sharp called "alternative social institutions." If protests are expressions of what a movement is against, then alternative institutions can be manifestations of what a movement is for, a glimpse of how the world might look one it has been transformed.
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A library is part of a utopian community, as is a functioning media system.
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