Mick Jones contributed his personal collection for this exhibition at the Subway Gallery in London. in March 2012...
The rock 'n Roll Public Library page, with more pix, here
Sabotage Times article
The Clash blog
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Rock & Roll Public Library
The rock 'n Roll Public Library page, with more pix, here
Sabotage Times article
The Clash blog
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Vandalism and barbarism continues
This piece by Maggie Gee was first published on Thursday (in The Guardian) and pops up in The Week in Books in today's issue.
Midnight Library raid (read the whole thing)
On Monday morning, between 2am and 3am, when most people were asleep, Brent council sent in a team to remove thousands of books in cardboard boxes from London's Kensal Rise library, which local people, ably backed by household-name writers such as Philip Pullman and Zadie Smith, have been fighting to keep open since November 2010. [...]
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However, the library service has never stopped operating. On the day of the closure, after one round of our expensive legal battle was lost on 13 October 2011, we opened our own Kensal Rise Pop-Up Library within the library's perimeter wall.
Apologies for use of excerpts without permission.
Midnight Library raid (read the whole thing)
On Monday morning, between 2am and 3am, when most people were asleep, Brent council sent in a team to remove thousands of books in cardboard boxes from London's Kensal Rise library, which local people, ably backed by household-name writers such as Philip Pullman and Zadie Smith, have been fighting to keep open since November 2010. [...]
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| The Kensal Rise pop-up library. Photograph: David Levene |
However, the library service has never stopped operating. On the day of the closure, after one round of our expensive legal battle was lost on 13 October 2011, we opened our own Kensal Rise Pop-Up Library within the library's perimeter wall.
Apologies for use of excerpts without permission.
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