Night with a Martini

This is my blog about my experience and involvement in the Occupy Wall Street movement – one of the most important movements my generation has seen so far. As there is a lack of consistent, comprehensive U.S. media coverage of the movement --and many people get their news from one source -- my blog will serve as (what I hope to be) a comprehensive reading list of coverage from various sites as well as my own personal, photos, thoughts, and musings on the movement. Enjoy!
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June 16th, 2012 at 2:49PM
OWS protesters to city: We want $47,000 for books damaged in Zuccotti Park police raids

libraryjawn:

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.

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