We Make Our Own Justice introduces the reader to communities around the world who are already resolving harms and conflicts themselves, without looking to the state or judiciary. The book explores a number of locations where alternative forms of justice are taking place. With particular focus on indigenous- and women-led movements from across territories including, Mexico, Argentina, Rojava, Kenya, Greece, India and the USA, it looks at how each came to be, and the theoretical and political underpinnings/visions.

Reflecting on new forms of social organization, such as horizontalism and autogestión, as well as alternative conceptions of value and power, Marina Sitrin shows how an economic crisis spurred a people's rebellion; how factory workers and medical clinic technicians are running their workplaces themselves, without bosses; how people have taken over land to build homes, raise livestock, grow crops, and build schools, creating their own art and media in the process.

Horizontalism is an oral history of the exciting transformations taking place since the popular rebellion. It is a story of cooperation, vision, creation and discovery. It is a history told by people in the various autonomous social movements, from the occupied factories, neighborhood assemblies, arts and independent media collectives, to the indigenous communities and unemployed workers movements. 

One of the first books to assert that mass movements in disparate places such as Greece, Spain, Argentina, and the United States share a goal — to raise the question of what democracy should mean. These horizontalist movements, including Occupy Wall Street, exercise and claim participatory direct democracy with autonomy and self organization as some of the roots of revolutionary social change today.

Occupying Language is an open conversation. Through it, the reader is invited to join an exploration of insurgent movements that have been evolving in Latin America over the past thirty years, and to connect key concepts and language from those struggles with what has been developing in movements in locations such as the United States (Occupy), Spain (15M), Greek assembly movement.