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Comment by Kathleen Sweeney on November 19, 2011 at 9:20am

You know, it's funny but the Guy Fawkes masks scare me a little bit and I can't exactly figure out why...maybe it's the idea of lost identity, lost individuality which is what the hacker group "Anonymous" is going for...but whenever I saw people with those masks at the site it left me unsettled.... What really intrigued me was the humanness, the multiplicity of people, the multicultural, multi-age, multi-circumstance make-up of those visiting, dialoguing about democracy, performing, drumming, making t-shirt slogans, engaging with, and sleeping in Liberty Park...masks would hide all of that! But yes, V for Vendetta is definitely being evoked....luckily we haven't hit dystopia...it's far more hopeful than that...

Comment by S. Ramos O'Briant on November 19, 2011 at 9:09am

Watched V for Vendetta for the first time.Peeps in Guy Fawkes masks take to the streets for liberty. OWS parallels.

Comment by Celine Keating on November 19, 2011 at 8:14am

You put that so beautifully  -- how the books symbolize the ideas, thoughtfulness, and poetics of the movement -- exactly what I was trying to get at -- thank you !

Comment by Kathleen Sweeney on November 19, 2011 at 8:04am

Celine, I'm so glad you were a part of the book circulation onsite...I had thought about donating a book after the fact...how wonderful that you participated even if it was short-lived...I am interested in how the books symbolize the core ideas, the thoughtfulness of this movement, the poetics of it....and that cannot be destroyed...the projections onto the building on Thursday prove this is so in a haunting wow-factor way....

Comment by Celine Keating on November 19, 2011 at 6:54am

Thanks for the post and the videos!  I was so deeply upset when I learned what happened to the library.  Early in the occupy movement I went down to the site to show support.  I had been thinking of baking cookies, but when I learned there was a library, I was really tickled.  I brought copies of my own novel (Layla) to donate to the library, because its theme/story is about a young woman's gradual awakening to activism.  I loved knowing my novel was circulating among the protestors; this was for me a perfect coming together of my own ideals and my writing. What a stark contrast of the nonviolence of the protesters and their respect for books, with the harsh tactics and disregard of the library by the police!