EXTRACT: Howard Zinn is here. Dominick Dunne and Tom Wolfe, too. Ernest Hemingway and Barbara Ehrenreich and Dr Who and Beowulf: All here, and all free. Barnes and Noble may be endangered and the Borders across the street closed months ago, but The People’s Library at Liberty Square is open for business and thriving.That a lending library would spring up fully operational on day one of an occupation makes sense when you consider that the exchange of ideas is paramount here, at a new crossroads of the world. Just as occupiers young and old mingle with Africans, Jews, Algonquins and Latinas, de Tocqueville rubs elbows with Nicholas Evans and Noam Chomsky... OCCUPIED WALL STREET JOURNAL(read more)
PEN: OCCUPIED BY TRANSLATION
OCCUPY WALL STREET SITE
The NEW YORKER on the OCCUPATION'S JOURNAL
However...a step backwards for book swaps?
"It was clear from what we saw at sanitation [when items had been cleared away along with the occupation] that our books had been treated as trash," said Occupy librarian Michele Hardesty, speaking to reporters near a table filled with most of the recovered books, including a ruined copy of "A People's History of the United States," by Howard Zinn, and less damaged volumes of "The Coming Anarchy" by Robert Kaplan, and "Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution," by Kolya Abramsky.
The pile of filthy, mangled books also contained at least two Bibles, and "The Essence of Buddhism," by John Walters... WALL STREET JOURNAL: BOOKS DESTROYED in RAID (read more)
THE FULL BACK STORY: WALL STREET JOURNAL: ORIGIN of the PROTEST
THE COMPOST: INDEX and LINKS section
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