Special Collections

MSU  Libraries

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East Lansing, MI 48824

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URL: http://specialcollections.lib.msu.edu

There are no restrictions on the use of this collection.

The  Occupy Wall Street Collection will be open and available for use in the Special Collections Reading Room.

The collection includes pictures, posters, bumperstickers, t-shirt, newspapers, and articles from and about the Occupy Wall Street movement, both the national and various cities around Michigan.

The collection is by no means a comprehensive collection but a representational one of the various elements of the movement.

Occupy Wall Street is a people-powered movement that began on September 17, 2011 in Liberty Square in Manhattan’s Financial District, and has spread to over 100 cities in the United States and actions in over 1,500 cities globally. #ows is fighting back against the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations over the democratic process, and the role of Wall Street in creating an economic collapse that has caused the greatest recession in generations. The movement is inspired by popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, and aims to fight back against the richest 1% of people that are writing the rules of an unfair global economy that is foreclosing on our future.

From the occupywallst.org website

Occupy Wall Street Library

The People’s Library is the collective, public, open library of the Occupy Wall Street leaderless resistance movement.

There are links to books, blogs, their library catalog, and much more. The site is attempting to be an inclusive repository of OWS materials.

OWS is using The Library Thing to create a catalogy of the OWS Library Books/Book Suggestions. It can be found at http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=OWSLibrary&sort=stampREV. If the cover option is selected, rows of the front of the books appear as a collage of books of imprtance to people in the OWS Movement.