OWS protesters to city: We want $47,000 for books damaged in Zuccotti Park police raids
Read more….The bookworms of Occupy Wall Street have slapped the city with some hefty library fines.
The police raid on Zuccotti Park destroyed or damaged 2,800 books that had been donated to the protest movement’s “People’s Library,” a new lawsuit charges.
“You don’t nuke books,” said civil rights lawyer Norman Siegel as he filed the lawsuit in Manhattan Federal Court Thursday on behalf of four Occupy Wall Streets librarians.
