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    The Occupation
    The Occupation
    The Occupation
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    The Occupation

    By Justin Muller

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    “The Occupation,” is a dramatic piece, in the form of a short story, about the arrests and eviction, on 15 November 2011, of numerous Occupy Wall Street activists in and from Zuccotti Park, New York City.

    At the time of the arrests and eviction, many protesters had been in the park for several weeks, and are unwilling to vacate the location or abandon the protest. As a result, violent clashes between police and protesters ensue. This piece is a fictitious account of the events, in dramatic style.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJustin Muller
    Release dateApr 19, 2019
    ISBN9780463389393
    The Occupation
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    Justin Muller

    Justin Muller is a freelance writer from Cape Town, South Africa. He enjoys writing fictional pieces that are partly satirical at times, sometimes semi-humorous, conventional, or non-conventional: “Always fresh,” as he describes his work. He is also as avid writer of children’s literature, and believes that this genre complements his other writing. Academically, he is legally trained and holds inter-alia, an LLB degree. He also worked as a researcher at the law journal of the University of the Western Cape, Law Democracy and Development.

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      The Occupation - Justin Muller

      JUSTIN AL MULLER

      The Occupation

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2018, Justin Muller

      This book is protected by copyright under the Berne Convention. Save for the lawful exceptions, no unauthorised reproduction and/or utilisation is therefore permitted. All rights reserved.

      As a work of fiction, this book is only partially based on activities undertaken by a protest movement. Therefore, several bits of content were created by the author, by way of his imagination. These bits include characters, places, incidents, and sentiment.

      The story may not be true, but it is very real.

      Justin Muller, 10 October 2018

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Dedicated to all who have supported,

      and do support this publication,

      especially the readers.

      The Occupation

      15:11:2011

      SIXTY BEATS PER MINUTE — the tempo at which my world is closing in on me. The footsteps of a rhythmical, shadowy myriad of occupiers, of enemies of the state of our affairs. My heart rate — more than double that. The air turned to soup. NO, HALT! Those are the words of a Mr. Rushdie, in a different narrative… … In Zuccotti Park, the air (nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide etc.) was…well…(Downtown Manhattan) air; being passed through frantic nasal vestibules and oral cavities, toward a gas exchange in the pulmonary alveoli that needed to take place faster than a Manhattan banking transaction. Because, anxiety and breathing aren’t always complementary processes.

      A shadow army closes in on a group of unsuspecting protesters at exactly 1am (1 AM, 1-AM, as if the blue army of shadows was announcing itself in vindictive, or perhaps vindicatory grandeur, gloating, as if to proclaim the arrival of the I AMs[1 AMs]).

      Gaining ground as a stopwatch gains seconds — too fast, too mechanical, too inhumane. Anthony Wilson and Partners — fellow resisters ((resisters and rebrothers, young and old, short and tall, blue and red — a supermarket of people from every shelf imaginable)) stand firm and formless.

      Meanwhile the noble shields close in on the idea of fairness, that the dreamers so fondly came to refer to as The Cause. And, their adversary, known to some as the system, the machine, the running wheel or the slave mill, was unofficially termed (the) Bcause.

      The rhythmical advance of the blue army of shadows is met by weeping sweat glands, thumping chests, dissident voices, in the island of Liberty. There, in the heart of the financial district, beneath those scrapers of sky, those uncompromising giants, a New York Times article is being written.

      The blues advance and the rainbows stand firm: one side hurling commands; the other, disobedience — left right left right left (WHOSE PARK? OUR PARK!)right left right(WHOSE PARK? OUR PARK!)left right(WHOSE PARK?)left right left (OUR PARK!) right (WHOSE left! PARK right? left OUR right!) left right…WHOSE left?…OUR right!)

      As the colour spectrum becomes progressively repressed by the darker shades, Anthony Wilson is instantaneous taken away from the imminent distress, to a place approximately 20 km ago, and 20 years away, where a fifth grader stands

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