Series II: Ephemera, Realia, and Protest Materials, 2011-2014, inclusive; 2011-2012, bulk

Materials in this series include ephemera such as stickers, fabric protest signs, buttons, and bookmarks; and posters related to the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement and May Day. The protest materials include fliers and informational handouts from OWS events; and affiliated events including May Day, Occupy National Gathering, and Occupy Guitarmy. Some protest materials are not directed at specific events, but rather focus on topics such as Black Lives Matter, student debt forgiveness, universal healthcare, the antiwar movement, and environmentalism. The realia included in this series consists of, but are not limited to: a broken cash box, laptop, books, and Kindle e-reader – all of which were used in the library and retained in the collection, despite their broken state, to document the destruction of the library by the NYPD in November 2011.