Abandoned library occupied in Oakland

01/11

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The newly occupied and re-named Victor Martinez People's library in Oakland. The library has been closed for years and has now been occupied by local activists.

02/11

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Two signs on a window of the newly occupied and re-named Victor Martinez People's library in Oakland. The library has been closed for years and has now been occupied by local activists.

03/11

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The Victor Martinez People's Library was in a Carnegie Library which had been closed in the late seventies.

04/11

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Poetry and journals including 'Anarchy' in the Victor Martinez People's Library.

05/11

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The children's book section of the newly occupied Victor Martinez People's library in Oakland. The library has been closed for years and has now been occupied by local activists.

06/11

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A list of needs for the Victor Martinez People's Library. Late that evening, the occupied library was raided by Oakland police.

07/11

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A community board outside the Victor Martinez People's Library, an occupied Carnegie Library which had been closed in the late seventies.

08/11

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A flyer on Victor Martinez, a San Francisco writer who died in 2011. The occupied People's Library was named after him.

09/11

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The Victor Martinez People's Library was in a Carnegie Library which had been closed in the late seventies.

10/11

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Fiction in the newly occupied Victor Martinez People's Library in Oakland.

11/11

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The grand opening of the newly occupied and named Victor Martinez People's Library in Oakland.

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One of four Carnegie Libraries in Oakland, closed since the late seventies, was occupied by local activists. Hundreds of donated books are on the shelves of the Victor Martinez People's Library. Later that evening, the library was raided by police.