Dylan Flesch

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Libraries, archives, radio and music. Digital Asset Manager at New York Public Radio. Views my own. He/him.

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Too long for a comrade card, but a great quote by Fred Moten. (Though I heard him say on a podcast that he regretted the final “stupid motherfucker.”)

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If they’re comfortable killing other people, they will eventually be comfortable killing you. You can learn that lesson the easy way or the hard way.

“Expressions of love have not generally resulted in stable or secure funding for libraries. This means that public expressions of library love are implied reminders of the distance between people's affections, and dependable material support for libraries.” muse.jhu.edu/article/879128

Project MUSE - Love Is a Lens: Locating Love in Library and Information Studiesmuse.jhu.edu

Join For the People Leftist Library Project on August 1st for an event co-hosted by Run For Something. We’ll start by covering how public libraries work and then dive into specific ways you can get involved in strengthening and transforming them. www.mobilize.us/runforsometh...

Love Is Not Enough: How We Can Strengthen & Expand Public Libraries · Run for Somethingwww.mobilize.us Most public libraries are governed by elected and appointed officials on library boards. And even if you love your public library, odds are you might be in the dark about how your local library board ...

Great news! Now we can start fighting to EXPAND funding in the next cycle and push for a way to avoid library funding being threatened in every single budget.

After month of public outcry, NYC libraries to get budget funding back — and reopen on Sundays

NYC libraries to get budget funding back — and reopen on Sundaysgothamist.com In November, the mayor's budget cuts forced libraries to close on Sundays. The issue has been a thorn in his side ever since.

“…we cannot treat these institutions as the fail-safe mechanism for public education and the social safety net on the one hand, and undercut their operations with the other.” #CareNotCuts citylimits.org/2024/06/26/o...

Opinion: Book Banners Are Going After Libraries. But So Is New York City's Mayor.citylimits.org "Efforts to censor and prohibit books are not the same as municipal negotiations about library operating budgets. But they are not entirely unrelated either. Both are clear indications of how the valu...

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A lovely zine by the Penn Libraries unionizing staff (“Collective Cardiganing”) on “busting union busting”: drive.google.com/file/d/1F36_...

Go Penn libraries staff!!! pennlibrariesunited.github.io 📚📜

PENN LIBRARIES UNITEDpennlibrariesunited.github.io The unionization effort at Penn Libraries

busting-union-busting.pdfdrive.google.com

Dropped off some books at The People’s Library outside BPL Central Library this morning and picked up a new picture book for my little one. This library shouldn’t be closed! Stop cop city and open the libraries.

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New zine from Librarians and Archivists with Palestine: Exposing Ex Libris 📚 to read online librarianswithpalestine.org/wp-content/u... to print librarianswithpalestine.org/wp-content/u... Libraries who use Clarivate, Aleph, ProQuest, EndNote, and even (sob!) Ulrich's are COMPLICIT in genocide. 🍉

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Hind's Hall arrestees are refusing the state's efforts to divide "legitimate" and "illegitimate" protests. Feels like this would fit perfectly as an example in: Five Questions for Cultivating Solidarity When Responding to Political Repression. bit.ly/cultivatesolidarity

In a show of solidarity with those facing the most extreme repression across the pro-Palestine movement, Hind's Hall arrestees who have been offered deals by the Manhattan DA have chosen not to accept them. Press conference at 4pm today:

Five Questions for Cultivating Solidarity When Responding to Political Repression — Community Justice Exchangebit.ly

Friends of Sunset Park Library are having a book sale today from 11-4pm! You can also buy a rad tote bag designed by my neighbor and fellow library friend Yukiko Izumi. $15 each, or “fill as many books as you can in one tote bag" special for $20.

Hesen Jabr was our nurse during our son’s birth and made us feel SO cared for and safe with her communication, compassion, and skill. She was fired by NYU Langone for using the word genocide. Join me in demanding NYUL apologizes to Hesen and condemns the genocide. TinyURL.com/I-Stand-With-Hesen

NYC libraries face a $58.3 million cut that could force Saturday closures, meanwhile @NYCMayor announced a $225 million Cop City. Budgets are moral documents: libraries amplify human thriving and cops amplify violence. @NYCCouncil #NoCutsToLibraries investinlibraries.org/dayofaction

Day of Action for Libraries: #NoCutsToLibraries — Invest in Librariesinvestinlibraries.org Your library and your community need your help! Our public libraries are facing a potential $58.3 million cut.

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#NYC leaders are in the process of finalizing a budget that proposes $58.3 million in cuts to library funding. On Wednesday, June 12, join us online and at our branches to send a clear, united message to City leaders: #NoCutsToLibraries! investinlibraries.org/dayofaction #Libraries 📖📚

For the People: A Leftist Library Project has a new publication detailing our understanding of the current struggles around public libraries, and sketching out the beliefs we plan to center as we build better futures. Link in the latest newsletter: librariesforthepeople.substack.com/p/for-the-pe...

For The People Newsletter Vol. XVIlibrariesforthepeople.substack.com For everyone working to strengthen and expand public libraries

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angry about book bans and attacks on libraries and want to do something about it? Minneapolis: library patrons union - librarypatronsunion.com Elsewhere: get involved with For the People - you can volunteer to do remote data work or more! www.librariesforthepeople.org

Poor people use libraries. Rich people shut them down because they don't *want* poor people to read.

For The Peoplewww.librariesforthepeople.org

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"this is a to-scale MK-84 2000lb 13ft missile. Hundreds have dropped on Gaza. One (1) would level Columbia" --from the new Columbia University Apartheid Divest encampment

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re: KOSA but also everything in “tech policy”

People assume the deanonymization and censorship are a side effect of "protecting children" rather than "protecting children" being the vehicle by which the deanonymization and censorship will be made acceptable in the court of public opinion.

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The Story Behind the Prison Books Movementprogressive.org Books weren’t allowed in prisons in the 1970s; since then, millions have been given to incarcerated people across the country.

Love this libraries shout out from Emily Bender. Much appreciation for your work as well. It’s so nice to have someone with your level of computational linguistic experience & understanding explaining how so-called AI (i.e. LLMs, mathy maths) actually work, and framing it within a bigger picture.

A shout out to librarians, libraries and library science -- and the practices of care, community and service which make up their democratizing force. buttondown.email/maiht3k/arch...

Just watched Break the Bonds and it inspired me to take a look at my retirement accounts. The default fund I am invested in via my employer-sponsored 403b is riddled with companies supporting the genocide of Palestinians and other state violence and human rights violations.

Break the Bonds!: Divest from Israel Bonds, Invest in Freedomwww.youtube.com Campaign Event & Teach-InThere has never been a more important moment to campaign to end U.S. support for the Israeli apartheid and the Israeli military’s ge...

Special event coming up at The Free Black Women's Library in Brooklyn: Envisioning Libraries Of The Future. May 29th, 30th and June 2nd. First two days are for participants aged 14-19 specifically, but Sunday, June 2nd is open to all.

Envisioning Libraries Of The Future (TFBWL Teen Event) | The Free Black Women's Librarywww.patreon.com Get more from The Free Black Women's Library on Patreon

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Coming up on June 17: Documenting Dissent: Capturing Student Protests, Navigating Disinformation, and Ethical Considerations from ASERL www.aserl.org/event/docume...

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Help the urgent need for families to reconnect by purchasing e-sims using this guide and receive thank you art from a co-op member. details: cartoonist.coop/esims4gaza

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If you are desperate for something to do right now in support of Palestine, remember this list of vetted crowdfunds to help Palestinians escape the violence of genocide.

Operation Olive Branchdocs.google.com NAVIGATION <a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/operationolivebranch">URGENT: Please support our BUYMEACOFFEE for Bahrain Medical Aid and the OOB Website build</a> <a href="https://docs.google.com/sprea...

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Last year, Mary E shared her civil literacy quiz that she assigns to her library science students with me. Here are the questions: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - If you 'care' about your local public libraries, it's helpful to know the answer to these questions imo. It's a first step.

Copy of Civic Literacy Surveydocs.google.com This is a civic literacy questionnaire by Mary Evangeliste. It is to assess your current civic literacy. You are not meant to know all the answers. Instead, if you don't know an answer look it up and ...

This is a great conversation that touches on encampments as a way to practice liberatory futures. truthout.org/audio/palest...

Palestine Solidarity Encampments Are a Rehearsal for Liberatory Self-Governancetruthout.org “The movement is not going away,” says author and University of Chicago faculty member Eman Abdelhadi.

Yesterday, a broad coalition of Simon Fraser University (SFU) students took over the school’s downtown library during the postsecondary institution’s Board of Governors (BoG) meeting to demand divestment, academic boycott. themainlander.com/2024/05/24/k...

“Free Khalida Jarrar Library:” SFU students occupy library to demand divestment, academic boycottthemainlander.com Yesterday, Simon Fraser University students took over the school’s downtown library during the institution’s Board of Governors meeting to demand divestment from complicity in Israel’s genoci…

Stream the People’s Conference for Palestine happening in Detroit today through Sunday. youtube.com/live/jlUC7vR...

People's Conference for Palestine | Opening Keynoteyoutube.com We are in an unprecedented moment in history. As we bear witness to the ongoing and brutal genocide against the Palestinian people, we are also part of build...

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This week, I talk with Palestinian author and UChicago faculty member Eman Abdelhadi and Alex, a student organizer, about what we can learn from the recent wave of student-led protests and where the movement should go from here.

Palestine Solidarity Encampments Are a Rehearsal for Liberatory Self-Governancetruthout.org “The movement is not going away,” says author and University of Chicago faculty member Eman Abdelhadi.