Author Archives: stevenimbus
Guest Speakers at The People’s Library
The People’s Library at Occupy Wall Street has been fortunate to host a number of special guest speakers in recent days including Carl Mayer, Jonathan Lethem, Lynn Nottage, Jennifer Egan, and Douglas Rushkoff. Upcoming are Michael Zweig and Daniel Pinchbeck. … Continue reading
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Transcript of Jonathan Lethem’s Speech at the People’s Library on November 7th
This is a lucky day for me, to stand before you.I wish I could offer something in returnFor what you’ve given me: The hope I thought I’d spent three years ago. You great human specimens Who offer your nights and … Continue reading
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Jonathan Lethem (11/7) and Douglas Rushkoff (11/9) to visit the People’s Library!
Please join us to greet Jonathan Lethem with special guest Lynn Nottage on Monday, November 7th at 3:30 pm at the People’s Library and Douglas Rushkoff on Wednesday, November 9th at 12:00 pm.
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New York Review of Books piece on Occupy Wall Street
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/nov/10/zuccotti-park/?pagination=false
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More visitors to The People’s Library: Johanna Lawrenson, Mickey Z, and Jesse Jackson
Mickey Z and Johanna Lawrenson (Abbie Hoffman’s widow) stopped by the library yesterday. Jesse Jackson also passed through.
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Chris Hedges visits The People’s Library
As you can see, he also signed and donated a bunch of his books! Chris is an amazing guy and very kind. He’s been to the library a few times already. I’m hoping to have a group conversation with him. … Continue reading
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London Review of Books blogs about the OWS Library
This is my favorite publication, so I’ve been waiting to see them do a piece on us or the movement as a whole. They also have a blog, and we did get a mention there and even a link back … Continue reading
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The People’s Library Loves Books and the Writers of Books Love the People’s Library
Here’s Beth Gutcheon donating a copy each of all of her books—and in the rain! I asked her to pose for a photo and inscribe her donations. Because, how great is this? If you meet any other writers who want to … Continue reading
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My photos of shoes from Occupy Wall Street—Occu-pieds
http://www.flickr.com/groups/occupieds/
Nationwide Occupation Libraries Unite!
I’ll be visiting the following cities on behalf of the OWSLibrary on these dates: Chicago: Oct 24 – 28 Boston: Nov 3-6 Philadelphia: Nov 12-13 San Francisco: Nov 16-30 Get in touch if you would like me to visit your … Continue reading
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Naomi Klein and Eve Ensler visit The People’s Library
Lovely people both and excited about what we’re doing.
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Slavoj Zizek visits OWS (Video and Transcript)
I’m sorry I missed this. I love Zizek! http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/736
A useful daily feed of updates from occupations around the country
http://www.thenation.com/blog/163885/occupyusa-blog-tuesday-frequent-updates Yes, also provided by The Nation! I find this useful, because I don’t hear about all the celebrity visitors to Liberty Plaza, which is interesting to hear about. The support of well known people can’t hurt. Yesterday, I failed … Continue reading
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I just love this photo
A day in the life of the People’s Library Reference desk.
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The Nation visits The People’s Library
We were delighted to welcome Katrina vanden Heuvel, the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of The Nation magazine, to The People’s Library today. For those who aren’t familiar with this publication, it is the longest running, continuously published weekly magazine in the … Continue reading
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OWSL now has its own lawyer!
A woman named Nicole stopped by the library last night and offered her legal services to us. She may be ideal for the job, since her regular job is as a criminal justice attorney for a non profit in New … Continue reading
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LibraryThing catalog for OWS Library now available
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/OWSLibrary The RSS feed for recently added books doesn’t work, though, so I tried unsuccessfully to fix it (changing it to reviews instead didn’t help). Someone else on their help site complained about it not working in 2009, so perhaps … Continue reading
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Our new Flickr photo stream
Please post and encourage visitors to the library to post their photos to our new Flickr group photo stream. http://www.flickr.com/groups/owsl/
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