Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
'We need Libraries' single released as Sex Pistols artist joins libraries campaign
We've been lucky with our libraries here in Haringey. They've survived the cuts, if not unscathed, then at least intact. (We've been particularly lucky in Harringay where HoL successfully led a campaign to have our local library renamed as Stroud Green & Harringay Library).
However elsewhere things are gloomy. To add to the voices of dissent about library closures, the 'We need Libraries' single was released on Sunday. Its timing coincides with National Libraries Day on 4th February.
It was written in order to highlight the many closures and cuts planned in the libraries in the UK and abroad.
You can how your support by downloading it from itunes or Amazon.
Also geting involved in the campaign is the artist behind the Sex Pistols' infamous God Save The Queen record sleeve.
Jamie Reid, who has also been involved in the Occupy anti-capitalism campaign, is focussing his efforts on helping Kensal Rise library in Brent.
He said libraries were an important element of his life when he was a child: "What's being done to people's education with cuts left, right and centre, they are starting to see it's the fault of banks and politicians. Everyone should have access to libraries, books and education, it's terrible.
He has designed prints with the slogans "Education is a birthright!" and "Free the books/ books for free/ save Kensal Rise library" and put them on display during the Moods of Norway art exhibition at the Paul Stolper Gallery in LA.
He has also donated 200 of the limited-edition prints to protesters in Kensal Rise, who plan to sell them to raise money for the campaign.
The prints will be sold for £30 each at the Masons Arms in Kensal Green on February 3, to mark National Libraries Day on February 4, where there will be performances of the "anthem", We Need Libraries, including a rendition by the group One Man And His Beard.The posters will also go on sale at the Paul Stolper Gallery in Bloomsbury.
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