Historian fundraising to publish book on Occupy Christchurch

Christchurch activist Byron Clark is fundraising to record an oral history of the Occupy movement in the city.

“We don’t know exactly how much the Occupy movement will change the world, but Time named ‘The Protester’ as their person of the year in 2011, and museums in the US are building collections of ‘Occupy artefacts’ decades from now people will be wondering what was going on locally, and without a project like this the historical record will be sparse”.

Clark is raising money though the online ‘crowd funding’ website PledgeMe which allows users to pledge money toward the project.

“I’m going to interview as many participants in the movement as I can, so that every story, every point of view can be recorded.”

If the fundraising is successful a book will be published that will be donated to libraries in the city, so that a history of Occupy Christchurch is available to anyone.

The project is at https://www.pledgeme.co.nz/Crowd/Details/313

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