In New York City, Occupy Wall Street protesters are calling on the city to replace thousands of books lost in the eviction of the protest encampment earlier this month. In a press conference held last week, civil rights attorney Norman Siegel revealed that property taken in the raid filled 26 sanitation trucks, and nearly 80 percent of the roughly 4,000 books housed in the so-called Peoples’ Library were either destroyed or never returned.

Norman Siegel, civil rights attorney: “You see before you, on this table, the condition of some of the books that were returned: damaged, not usable. Not a pretty site. The Bloomberg administration needs to replace every single book that’s missing or damaged, that’s not usable—together, about 3,161 books.”