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After the settlement of our lawsuit against New York City and Bloomberg for the destruction of the library, we donated the funds to the groups listed in this post: peopleslibrary.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/wra…
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The People's Library
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The People's Library
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The People’s Library is the collective, public, open library of the Occupy Wall Street leaderless resistance movement.
Liberty Plaza, New York, NY Katılım Ekim 2011
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If you owe back rent debt to Equity Residential or *any* corporate landlord in the country, you can now go to backrentdebt.org and begin a debt-dispute process. We just created a new, free, first-of-its-kind tool to help tenants and debtors fight back.
The Debt Collective 🟥@StrikeDebt
Just Now: A group former tenants who all owe crushing amounts of rent debt —from $200 to over $50,000—just announced themselves on debt-strike. They will refuse to pay their unjust debts to Equity Residential, the 5th largest corporate landlord in the United States.
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We just built a NEW tech tool that *any current or former tenant* in the entire country can use for free — it will generate a legal letter for you that reports to collections agencies, credit bureaus and regulatory agencies.
Go to reportmylandlord.org to fight back.
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Occupy Wall Street was correct. About it all.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
The top 10% now hold 67.4% of all the wealth in the US. The bottom 50% hold 2.5%.
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Hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies, to other ways of being. And even imagine some real grounds for hope.
― Ursula K. Le Guin, 2014
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Ellul and Mumford were prolific writers, each produced many big books.
Start here:
Ellul - The Presence of the Kingdom
Mumford - Art and Technics
Those are two shorter, more accessible books, that still give a sense of their main ideas.
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It’s really important for people to understand that pretty much all of Kaczynski’s predictions about the technological future were cribbed directly from Jacques Ellul and Lewis Mumford.
Kaczynski wasn’t right. Ellul and Mumford were right. Go read them not him.
Matt@themattmic
The Unabomber was right. In his 1995 manifesto, Ted Kaczynski made 7 chilling predictions about technology's future. Everyone dismissed him as insane. But today, even Elon Musk says he was right about everything 🧵:
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Ask your libraries to order The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory. All royalties will be donated to Gaza.
Dr Di 'The Peasantist' (Ella/She/Hi) 👩🌾👨🏾🌾@DIANA_VAL
Happy bunny with new shiny toy 😍 @insurgenthought
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Donald Trump’s war on books is a threat to democracy across the world, writes Richard Ovenden, head of Oxford University’s libraries. The US war on libraries is being exported. A key message from US librarians is to be prepared and to be organised. observer.co.uk/news/internati…
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Every library in Gaza has been destroyed (the majority, including the Central Archives, home to records of 150 yrs) or damaged. Some of these had been destroyed in yrs past and rebuilt. Israel's assault on Palestinian culture and literature is not new and not exclusive to Gaza:
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It’s really important to remember that there were many critics in the 90s/00s (and earlier) who were warning people not to fall for the “age of universal knowledge” techno-utopian hype.
They were called Luddites for warning that we would wind up exactly where we have wound up.
Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙♀️@SketchesbyBoze
It’s crazy how in the 2000s we thought the internet was ushering in an age of universal knowledge. Fast-forward twenty years and most people don’t know how to read. Short-form video killed the text-based internet, and the reading of texts is the only reliable way to learn.
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“I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities.” - Lewis Mumford.
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In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing
About the dark times.
- Brecht
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Our libraries give us hope for our vision of a socialist future
As socialists, we believe everyone should have what they need to live a dignified life — this includes access to knowledge & resources free of cost — what our library system already provides
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As @EricKlinenberg wrote in Palaces for the People:
"The library really is a palace. It bestows nobility on people who otherwise couldn't afford a shred of it. People need to have nobility and dignity in their lives & you know, they need other people to recognize it in them too”
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Pew research center has found that >90% of U.S. Americans find libraries “very” important to their community & >2/3 of those 16+ said closing their branch would have “a major impact on their community”
A 2019 Gallup poll showed Americans visited libraries more than the movies
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Bloomberg bought his own elections just like this. He then built a police state by stopping and searching millions of innocent people, ran an anti-Muslim spying program, trashed our library, and destroyed the Occupy kitchen that was feeding people for free.
#DontRankCuomo
AdImpact Politics@AdImpact_Pol
#NYPol: Bloomberg pours more cash into Cuomo super PAC, bringing his total contribution to $8.3M hubs.li/Q03s-ZgX0
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Solidarity with everyone resisting fascism.
Abolish ICE.
End the wars.
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Trans people have always existed. We are the storytellers, the healers, the ones who refuse to be erased, and the ones with a bright vision of the future. Our history is a compass, our love is a map, and together, we are navigating toward liberation.
erininthemorning.com/p/the-most-leg…
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New Weekly Series! Duty to Disobey: A History of Military Resistance
With increasing threats to use the military for immoral/illegal orders, resistance has a vital role. #Servicemembers facing moral conflict aren't alone. Resources: bit.ly/MilOptions
#military #veterans
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