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… NYC General Assembly: The people's library is no... Occupy Wall Street Library - mur 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.
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
The Pirate Bay Is The World’s Most Efficient Public Library Infopolicy – Zacqary Adam Green The way media piracy works is that one person or group purchases a work, and then shares it with millions of other people. This supposedly deprives the author or artist of those millions of people’s money. It begs the question why every author, filmmaker, and musician isn’t up in arms about the New York Public Library’s rampant sharing, while there’s a ton of opposition to the sharing habits of BitTorrent peers who use The Pirate Bay. Before the New York Public Library can share an item with you, you first need to schlep all the way to 5th Avenue and 42nd Street in Manhattan. The Pirate Bay, on the other hand, requires you to type in a search term, click on a download button, and wait a little while. Either way, whether you read a library book or a torrented e-book, you no longer have to give the publisher any money. Physical public libraries — like the New York Public Library — are universally thought of as good for society.