While some of the Occupy Wall Street protesters have been able to retrieve the property they “abandoned” in Zuccotti Park during last week’s raid, many of the items that were supposed to be transported to the Sanitation Department’s Midtown storage depot weren’t, or were damaged in the process. Most notably, the People’s Library has only retrieved 1,099 books out of the total collection of about 4,000, and only 800 are still usable. At noon today, civil rights attorney Norman Siegel will join the president of the NYC Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild Gideon Oliver and members of the People’s Library for a press conference at 260 Madison Ave. to address the city for destroying or losing thousands of books. [ more › ]

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Press Conference Addresses City’s Destruction Of Occupy Wall Street’s Library