Monthly Archives: January 2012
The Sad Story of Five Imprisoned Children’s Books
On Tuesday, January 24th about 20 people met at the Red Cube down by Liberty Plaza to march in solidarity with the People’s Library to One Police Plaza to retrieve five children’s books (a few of which were Spanish-English language … Continue reading
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Anthem For The Year 2012
For those of you unfamiliar with Hilarity, Hilarity is an awesome squat house in Oakland that has a long standing history of housing punk/anarchist/queer/radical folks. I’ve spent a few nights there: highlights were wild conversations, dumpster diving and coming home … Continue reading
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OWS Poetry Reading Live Feed Video
For some reason the live feed embed code won’t work with wordpress. Does anyone know how to get it to work on here? Here is the link to the video.
Join Us in Supporting the Students and Teachers of Tucson Unified School District
Have you wanted to get involved with Occupy, but not really a marcher? Too far away from an Occupation? Intimidated by crowds? Do you support the right to read and abhor censorship? We’ve got the action for you. The Tucson … Continue reading
Filed under Announcements, Direct Action, Donations, Emergency Actions, Free Speech, Mandy, OccupyLibraries, OccupyTucson, Solidarity
People’s Library presentation at ALA Midwinter
Following is the text presented at the American Library Association’s Midwinter Conference Saturday January 21, 8:30 am at the Dallas Convention Center Theater by Occupy Wall Street Librarians Daniel Norton, Mandy Henk, Betsy Fagin, Jaime Taylor and Zachary Loeb. [Danny] … Continue reading
Filed under Mandy, Betsy, Danny, OccupyLibraries, Scholarship, NYPL, 11/15 Eviction, Jaime, Zach
Today’s Action: Time Change!
For those who were planning to join us on our action this afternoon, we’ve had to change the meet time to 3pm, rather than 4pm. This one’s totally on me. You’d think a librarian would have her shit together a … Continue reading
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Join Us: Jan. 24th at 4pm at The Red Cube!!! [change: 3pm]
Tomorrow, January 24th 2012, the People’s Library requests everyone in solidarity with the library to join us at the Red Cube at 4pm [note: has been changed to 3pm]. As many of you know, since the raid we’ve had quite … Continue reading
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Weekly Working Group Meeting 1/22/12
Our weekly working group meeting of The People’s Library will be held this evening 1/22/12 at 6PM at the atrium at 60 Wall St. Come out and join us there!
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Bloomberg Beware: OWS Poets are EVERYWHERE!!!
On Thursday, January 26th, 2012 at The Bowery Poetry Club from 5:00pm-7:30pm the Poetry Collective of Occupy Wall Street invites you to share your poems at our Winter Poetry Assembly. We imagine a kind of poetry town hall meeting where … Continue reading
People’s Library at American Library Association conference
A few of us will be doing a panel presentation about our library, radical librarianship, the commons, what democracy looks like, what a police state looks like etc. in the ALA Masters Series at the Midwinter Conference in Dallas this … Continue reading
Filed under Announcements, Betsy, Danny, Direct Action, Jaime, Mandy, OccupyLibraries, Radical Reference, Solidarity
Tonight’s meeting is cancelled–January 15, 2012
The working group has agreed that rather than huddle up in a meeting tonight we’re going to hit the streets to attend the MLK vigil. Please join us. Schedule » 6:30pm – Assemble at Cathedral St. John the Divine, 1047 … Continue reading
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Elitist Vandam club “Work in Progress” kicks The People’s Library out of our own party.
After inviting the People’s Library to set up in their nightclub and using our name and graphics in their advertising, WiP’s creative director, Stuart Braunstein decided that the 99% weren’t up to his standards. The Village Voice reports: More than 50 … Continue reading
Filed under Announcements, Michael, Solidarity, Stephen
Working Group Meeting
Hi, all! Library will be having its regular working group meeting on Sunday at 6pm, at 60 Wall St.
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Weekly Working Group Meeting
Come and join The People’s Library at our weekly working group meeting this Sunday, January 8 at 6PM at the atrium at 60 Wall St. We will be discussing our upcoming mobile actions, and talking about the exciting future of … Continue reading
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OWS Poetry Anthology UPDATE 10
Photo of the OWS Poetry Anthology at the Tree of Life in Zuccotti Park The 10th Update of the OWS Poetry Anthology is now online. Sadly, the poems aren’t pouring in the way they used to so I’m not going … Continue reading
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Mic Check: NYPD Refusing Protesters The Right To Speech!
On January 3 2012, Occupy Wall Street demonstrators assembled at Grand Central Station, spreading the word about NDAA. NYPD arrested anyone that stood up and Mic Checked the crowd. RIP First Amendment 1791 – 2011
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Book Party: DJ Spooky, People’s Library and Origin Magazine!
Clear your calendars on Wednesday, January 11th 2012 because it’s time to dance! DJ Spooky is throwing a party at W.i.P. (work in progress) and asked the People’s Library to come set up a mobile unit so you can take … Continue reading
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Working Group Meeting
The Library will be having its regular working group meeting at 6:00 pm this Sunday, January 8, at 60 Wall St. All are welcome.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 6, 2012
New Yorkers and members of Occupy Wall Street to protest Bloomberg/NYPD attacks on First Amendment rights of journalists. Street action at billionaire mayor’s mansion – photographers, videographers, livestreamers will bring NYPD misconduct to public attention. New York, NY—Outraged New Yorkers … Continue reading
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