Laura Gottesdiener is a journalist, social justice activist, and author of A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home,published this month by Zuccotti Park Press. She is an associate editor for Waging Nonviolence, and she has written for Rolling Stone, Ms. magazine, theArizona Republic, AlterNet, and other publications. This is her firstTomDispatch piece. She lived and worked in the People’s Kitchen during the occupation of Zuccotti Park. 
