Monthly Archives: February 2012
Working Group Meeting Minutes 26 February 2012
Library Working Group Minutes 26 February 2012 Tompkins Square Park [Today's meeting was relocated from 60 Wall St to Tompkins Square Park due to the Occupy Town Square] present: Chantal, James, Germ, Charlie, Darah, Esther, Jaime, Hristo, Betsy, Frances reportbacks/announcements: … Continue reading
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Occupy the OccuPAST: Echoes of Dissidence in the UPS Underground Newspaper Collection (pt. 4 of 4)
Today we have the final installment of Laurie Charnigo’s essay Occupy the OccuPAST: Echoes of Dissidence in the UPS Underground Newspaper Collection. Previous sections are posted here, here and here. Unlike the literature of Occupy Wall Street, the publishers of … Continue reading
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Operation Book Bomb Tucson!
As many of you may have already heard The People’s Library in solidarity with Occupy Tucson recently launched an action called Operation Book Bomb Tucson. In response to the disgraceful decision of the Tucson Unified School District to end the … Continue reading
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OWS Poetry Anthology on WBAI!!
On February 20th, 2012, WBAI had me on their Occupy Broadcast to talk about the OWS Poetry Anthology. Here’s the show in its entirety (I come on at 8:40 and continue for about 20 minutes): For more progressive talk, go … Continue reading
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Protest History: Underground Press Syndicate pt. 3 (of 4)
Continuing Laurie Charnigo’s essay on Protest History, here is part 3 of 4 from Occupy the OccuPAST: Echoes of Dissidence in the UPS Underground Newspaper Collection. Although newspapers, as shown in the previous examples, varied on issues so widely that … Continue reading
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19 February 2012 Meeting Minutes
Library working group meeting minutes 19 February 2012 60 Wall Street Atrium, 6 pm Present: Antonia, Josh, Germ, Dee, Dylan, Charlie, Darah, Frances, Betsy, Danny, Mark, Jaime, James Facilitation: going rogue: this meeting is freestyle Introductions Agenda: Illuminator: description– debut … Continue reading
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The Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology reading/celebration
Friday February 17, 2012 10:00 pm at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, 131 E. 10th Street, New York, NY 10003 This reading will celebrate The Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology. The OWS Poetry Anthology is a living/breathing, all-inclusive, … Continue reading
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“Modern civilization is a dangerous, insane process– destructive of man’s natural potential, murderous to other species of life, symbol addicted, anti-life. Drop out of the social game.”
Protest History: Underground Press Syndicate pt. 2 (of 4) Continuing from last week’s installment, here is part two of Laurie Charnigo’s essay, Occupy the OccuPAST: Echoes of Dissidence in the UPS Underground Newspaper Collection. While the underground newspapers of the … Continue reading
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Protest History: Underground Press Syndicate
We are lucky enough to have a series of guest blog posts from Laurie Charnigo, a Reference Librarian at the Houston Cole Library at Jacksonville State University. One of the gems of their collection is the Underground Press Syndicate (UPS) … Continue reading
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Weekly Working Group Meeting 2/5/12
The weekly working group meeting of The People’s Library will be held this Sunday, February 5 at 6PM at the Atrium at 60 Wall St. Come and join us to hear all of the updates on our latest campaigns including … Continue reading
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OWS Poetry Anthology Update 11
The 11th update of the OWS Poetry Anthology is officially online, here. The latest update has about a hundred pages of poems and some poetic oil paintings that cartoonist/artist, Sharon Rosenzweig, shared with us. One of her works is the … Continue reading
