Jet Li HomeWebsite Take This Book: The People's Library at Occupy Wall Street by Melissa Gira Grant "No one founded the library. The library founded itself. This is one story of the People's Library at Occupy Wall Street, as told to me by many of the librarians behind it: how the library began, what happened after the November 15 raid on Zuccotti Park, and why they're rebuilding. Take This Book is an extended essay -- just over 10,000 words -- based on the stories of the librarians and the library's patrons. Update: an excerpt from Take This Book was published at Rhizome Take This Book is ready to publish, and as soon as this project is fully funded, I will release the digital edition (in epub and Kindle formats) to all backers. By backing this project, you are pre-ordering a digital or print copy. I'm a writer and the founder of Glass Houses, a media label. With Glass Houses, I make books. To Sarah Jaffe and Meredith Clark and Joanne McNeil. Video CreditsAdditional footage: OWSLibrary, OccupyTVNY, OcupaniuyorMusic: The Harlem Hot Chocolates, "St.
Las relaciones sociales entre individuos son… Thin Places, Where We Are Jolted Out of Old Ways of Seeing the World Getting to a thin place usually requires a bit of sweat. One does not typically hop a taxi to a thin place, but sometimes you can. That’s how my 7-year-old daughter and I got to St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. Video camera in hand, she paused at each statue of the various saints, marveling, in a hushed voice, at their poses and headgear. She was with me, too at the Bangla Sahib gurdwara, a Sikh temple in New Delhi. At the gurdwara, time burst its banks. Not all sacred places, though, are thin. Thankfully, Rumi’s tomb, in Turkey, has not met such a fate.
NYC General Assembly: The people's library is no... Interview with Guy Laramée, Artist: Part 1 | ANOBIUM “The erosion of cultures – and of “culture” as a whole – is the theme that runs through the last 25 years of my artistic practice,” says Québécois artist Guy Laramée. His four-page CV details only a portion of his artistic career, which has included exhibits, collections, essays, interdisciplinary performances, and sculpture, stands as a testament to his dedication to art as a style of living. I first learned of Laramee’s work through his photogenic Great Wall project. For this project, Laramee carved sculptures and landscapes into the books (photos of which are interspersed in this piece) comprising a hundred-volume historiographic series about the so-called “Great Wall of America.” I contacted Laramee to ask if he would be open to a conversation about his work, and the work of art in general. Q: In your artist statement, you talk about the difference between progress and primitivism. First, let me say that it is the ideology of progress that I question, not change itself.
Occupy Wall Street Library - mur Shouts & Murmurs: How I Met My Wife SHOUTS AND MURMURS about man who describes meeting his wife at a party. In his description, he drops many prefixes. It had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled and consolate. I was furling my wieldy umbrella for the coat check when I saw her standing alone in a corner. Amy Goodman: The Brave New World of Occupy Wall Street The Brave New World of Occupy Wall Street Posted on Nov 15, 2011 By Amy Goodman We got word just after 1 a.m. Tuesday that New York City police were raiding the Occupy Wall Street encampment. I raced down with the “Democracy Now!” The few of us members of the press who managed to get through all the police lines were sent to a designated area across the street from Zuccotti Park. We saw a broken bookcase in one pile. As the night progressed, the irony of finding Huxley’s book grew. “Brave New World Revisited” was Huxley’s nonfiction response to the speed with which he saw modern society careening to that bleak future. Huxley wrote in the book: “Big Business, made possible by advancing technology and the consequent ruin of Little Business, is controlled by the State—that is to say, by a small group of party leaders and the soldiers, policemen and civil servants who carry out their orders. One of the People’s Library volunteers, Stephen Boyer, was there as the park was raided.
arthurcclarke In October of 1945, an article titled "Extra-Terrestrial Relays — Can Rocket Stations Give Worldwide Radio Coverage?" was published in Wireless World magazine, in which world-renowned science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke discussed the idea that, in the near future, artificial satellites placed in a geostationary orbit (now sometimes known as a "Clarke Orbit") could be used as repeaters to relay radio signals. Eleven years later, Clarke wrote the following letter to Andrew G. Haley. In it, he mentions the aforementioned article and then expands on his earlier writings by correctly predicting the future development of both satellite television and GPS. Transcript follows. (Source: Res Communis; Image: Arthur C. Transcript Aug 56Dear Andy,Odd that we should have crossed in the post!
The People's Library (OWSLibrary) CollectionsYour library (9,500) Reviews1 review Tagsnon-fiction (204), fiction (142), politics (51), history (45), biography (39), Americana (37), economics (34), kids (29), people of color (29), women (28) — see all tags Cloudstag cloud, author cloud, tag mirror About meThe People’s Library is the collective, public, open library of the Occupy Wall Street leaderless resistance movement. About my libraryLocated in the northeast corner of Liberty Plaza, the library provides free, open and unrestricted access to our collection of books, magazines, newspapers, ‘zines, pamphlets and other materials that have been donated, collected, gathered and discovered during the occupation. GroupsOccupy Wall Street Libraries Ho Also onFacebook Real nameThe People's Library LocationLiberty Plaza, New York, NY Favorite authorsNot set Account typepublic, lifetime Member sinceOct 9, 2011
IN EVENT OF MOON DISASTER On July 18 of 1969, as the world waited anxiously for Apollo 11 to land safely on the surface of the Moon, speechwriter William Safire imagined the worst case scenario as he expertly wrote the following sombre memo to President Nixon's Chief of Staff, H. R. Haldeman. Transcript follows. (Source: The National Archives; Image: Armstrong & Aldrin on the Moon, via.) Transcript To: H.