the brave new world of occupy wall street {amy goodman}

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http://www.nationofchange.org/brave-new-world-occupy-wall-street-1321453305

We got word just after 1 a.m. Tues­day that New York City po­lice were raid­ing the Oc­cupy Wall Street en­camp­ment. I raced down with the “Democ­racy Now!” news team to Zuc­cotti Park, re­named Lib­erty Square. Hun­dreds of riot po­lice had al­ready sur­rounded the area. As they ripped down the tents, city san­i­ta­tion work­ers were throw­ing the pro­test­ers’ be­long­ings into dump trucks. Be­yond the bar­ri­cades, back in the heart of the park, 200 to 300 peo­ple locked arms, re­fus­ing to cede the space they had oc­cu­pied for al­most two months. They were being hand­cuffed and ar­rested, one by one.

The few of us mem­bers of the press who man­aged to get through all the po­lice lines were sent to a des­ig­nated area across the street from Zuc­cotti Park. As our cam­eras started rolling, they placed two po­lice buses in front of us, block­ing our view. My col­leagues and I man­aged to slip be­tween them and into the park, climb­ing over the trashed mounds of tents, tarps and sleep­ing bags. The po­lice had al­most suc­ceeded in en­forc­ing a com­plete media black­out of the de­struc­tion.

We saw a bro­ken book­case in one pile. Deeper in the park, I spot­ted a sin­gle book on the ground. It was marked “OWSL,” for Oc­cupy Wall Street Li­brary, also known as the Peo­ple’s Li­brary, one of the key in­sti­tu­tions that had sprung up in the or­ganic democ­racy of the move­ment. By the lat­est count, it had ac­cu­mu­lated 5,000 do­nated books. The one I found, amidst the de­bris of democ­racy that was being hauled off to the dump, was “Brave New World Re­vis­ited,” by Al­dous Hux­ley.

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