Occupy Vancouver People's Library
Drop off and Donate at:
UBC Sprouts! Friday's
at the SUB
Spartacus Books! Hastings
Co-op Books! on the Drive
Little Sisters!at Davie
and the Dharma Lab!!!!
Maya Angelou: Wouldn’t Take Nothing For My Journey Now
"You make it worth while, bibliophile!"- Shake-it-peers
[edit] Essays
In Spain, last week police violently attacked a demonstration of teenage students. 24 hours later they came back with books. Don't fuck with the librarians.
Yo! Yo!
The "new barbarians" will shake the very foundations of the empire with a creativity of a new society in the makings. They are the new historical subjects, now emerging side by side with those, who in the bowels of the existing society, mobilize and struggle for a different social order.
"In the Wake of the Affluent Society: An Exploration of Post Development p.123 by Serge Latouche who is a Brazilian Sociologist.
and ....
…we had been so wiped out by our visions of love and universal truth that we were blinded to the real nature of the death culture and we just couldn’t believe it when Babylon refused to melt away in the face of the colossal wave of good feeling we had let loose on Amerika. …This wasn’t quite what we expected, and it knocked most of us right off our feet, and we still haven’t recovered from the shock of finding out that the world wasn’t going to change just because that was the best thing for it. ~ John Sinclair, “Liberation Music,” June-July 1970 as quoted for the Occupy Wall Street Library.
