Joshua J. Friedman: Hooray for the New York Public Library! It's going to be open 7 days a week, thanks to the budget passed by the City Council today—and all the organizers who pushed to make this happen

Hooray for the New York Public Library! It's going to be open 7 days a week, thanks to the budget passed by the City Council today—and all the organizers who pushed to make this happen

@prisonculture.bsky.social Thank you for all your library advocacy, always!

I hope more people will join in so that the fight can be pro-active rather than reactive. We need to fight for an expansive vision. A reminder to those who do that we are hosting a conversation on August 1, open to all! 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 ...

I assumed that my local library commission was all set given where I live aaaaand turns out there are three unfilled seats 👀 looking forward to this convo!

yes please join us. These seats are so important even in 'blue' towns/cities/municipalities.

So excited for this. Trying to figure out a plan of action/organizing for myself/my kids/a youth org in support of libraries starting this fall… I’m tired of celebrating working our way back to the funding levels we already had. It’s a scam, imho! “Expansive vision” is exactly what it is time for…

Are you still in NYC? If so, I'm inviting people who are interested to a meeting on 7/27 to discuss what we can do re: NYC-based public library organizing to be much less reactive. You're invited if in town and interested.

Yes (still in NYC), and yes please (to these connections)! I’m possibly out of town on the 26th, but would come back early for this conversation on the 27th. I owe libraries SO MUCH. Fighting for them makes sense on both personal and societal levels.

Curious about this. Thank you for sharing!!

Thanks for this. Ive signed up.

We needed good news today, didn't we? So glad to see this.

Seriously

Intensely embarrassing, as an American, that this is a measurable and impressive win for our second most important city

That's a sharp knife, that "second". 🤨

I know what the real #1 is, but I thought I'd leave it vague for everyone else

Thank you, the public, for being FUCKING ANGRY about this.

Not even from NYC and I was SO HAPPY to see this. Maybe a trip to NYC is in order coming soon.

thank goodness; the library is so important to a lot of people

Now Adams will run on being the mayor who reopened the libraries.

Right after he finishing crying about how that money could have gone to more overtime for cops.

Oh I’m so glad. Way to go you guys!

great!!!!

How long until the Finest dox all the council members' families?

AMAZING 🤩🎉

Good

Sorry I'm really excited about this because I live in an area where the library closes at 6:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturdays. That means if you work at all like a normal 9-5 schedule you can't even get to the library

WOOOOOO!!!!

Great! Now send all of NYPD to Rikers (as residents), cancel their pensions, take their property via civil forfeiture, and sell their equipment and little clubhouses for parts. Use the liquidity to pay the families of all the people they’ve raped, assaulted, and murdered and cover long COVID care.

🎉

How'd they do it?

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