Coming spring 2025: Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers

🔗 https://alastore.ala.org/oryrlib

#LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions #AngeloMoreno #KellyMcElroy #MeredithKahn #EmilyDrabinski #ALA #AmericanLibraryAssociation

Top #librarian calls '#Marxist #lesbian' #tweet #backlash '#regrettable'

#Fascist #GOP #lawmakers in several states have called for #Unconstitutionally #defunding the #AmericanLibraryAssociation because of #EmilyDrabinski's #identity and #political #beliefs

#Women #Lesbians #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/american-library-association-president-marxist-lesbian-rcna98254

I support #EmilyDrabinski and think she will be a great #AmericanLibraryAssociation (#ALA) president. Right now she's under a ton of fire for being a self-professed "#Marxist lesbian."

There is an open letter in support of her. It is widely circulating. It declares "Marxism is an economic philosophy not a political platform."

As a marxist and librarian myself, I will not sign anything with such a declaration.

Marxism is not just an "economic philosophy."

Yes, reordering the economic basis of society is the ultimate goal, but politics is the starting point for that. You cannot destroy private property and exploitation without organizing the class, destroying the capitalist state, and holding down the old oppressing class with force and violence. Marx was clear about this from early on:

"All revolution -- the overthrow of the existing ruling power and the dissolution of the old order -- is a political act. But without revolution, socialism cannot be made possible. It stands in need of this political act just as it stands in need of destruction and dissolution. But as soon as its organizing functions begin and its goal, its soul emerges, socialism throws its political mask aside." - Marx, 'Critical Notes on the Article "The King of Prussia and Social Reform" By a Prussian'

#libraries #librarianship #marxism #socialism

For the People: A Leftist Library Project is kicking off with two virtual events in March…
- 3/4: Toward Narrating A People's History of U.S. Public Libraries https://www.eventbrite.com/e/toward-narrating-a-peoples-history-of-us-public-libraries-tickets-534150818477
- 3/21: Essential to the Public: Libraries at the End of the World https://www.eventbrite.com/e/essential-to-the-public-libraries-at-the-end-of-the-world-tickets-536497066167

#critlib #PublicLibraries #WayneWiegand #MariameKaba #MeganRiley #EmilyDrabinski #ProjectNIA #BCRW

Libraries and Collective Power

In February the Srsly Wrong podcast featured an interview with the eventual winner of the American Library Association presidency for 2023-2024, Emily Drabinski. Libraries are obviously, heartwarmingly good, and as a centre of public good they hold the potential to be an ideal starting point for expanding the scope of public good. Emily t

https://apollolemmon.com/2022/07/20/libraries-and-collective-power/

#EmilyDrabinski #libraries #SrslyWrong #unions