Friday 31 January 2014

Demonstration against library busting book dumping Oxford College 3.30pm today

The pop up library before destruction
There will be a demonstration outside Kensal Rise Library at 3.30pm this afternoon following this morning's dawn raid by Cluttons, estate managers to All Souls College, which saw the pop up library destroyed and books dumped  on the pavement.

Meanwhile Meg Howarth has sent the following message to John Vickers, Warden of All Souls College:

Dear Sir John,

Link below FYI - staggering news of which you may not yet be aware:


Someone must have ordered Cluttons to send in the security guards to destroy the Kensal Rise pop-up library early this morning - unless your property agent of generations chose to act on its own initiative. 

An Islington resident, I contacted All Souls originally on 29 May 2012 in the immediate wake of that morning's shameful - and shameless - 3am raid that stripped the fine college-owned Kensal Rise Library building of its books and Mark Twain commemorative plaque. Clearly someone has learnt from that shameless tactic.

With dismay and regret that such behaviour could be carried out in the name of the once-prestigious All Souls College.




Sincerely,

Meg Howarth
Muhammed Butt, Brent Council leader, tweeted:
  9m
Dismayed at destruction of pop-up. I've written to All Souls & has been working w/ campaigners at site..

He added that he was arranging for storage of the books.

3 comments:

Meg Howarth said...

What happened to the books that were stripped from the library in Brent Council's dawn raid? Where are they now?

Meg Howarth said...

What happened to the books that were stripped from the library in the notorious dawn raid of 29 May 2012, ordered by Brent Council? Where are they now?

Anonymous said...

SPIV-CULTURE'S INEVITABLE CULMINATION: THATCHER>BLAIR>MANDELSON>OSBORNE-CAMERON'S NEXT-SUITED, HAIR-GELLED SCUM-CHILDREN CHUCKING BOOKS INTO THE GUTTER.