Oakland Activists Liberate Shuttered Library
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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 2012-08-15 16:00
An abandoned historic building was unveiled on the morning of August 13th as the Victor Martinez Community Library. The building was one of seven library branch casualties of budget cuts in the late seventies. The building then served as home to the Emiliano Zapata Street Academy until 1988. Since then, it has mostly sat empty. The building has been renamed after recently deceased author, Victor Martinez, who overcame life of hard agricultural work in the Central Valley to become a successful writer. On the first day of the re-opening, donations of books poured in and area children helped to start a community garden in a side lot. Occupy Oakland sponsored a pot luck dinner before a speak-out in the evening.