SRRT (Social Responsibilities Round Table)

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The Social Responsibilities Round Table works to make ALA more democratic and to establish progressive priorities not only for the Association, but also for the entire profession. Concern for human and economic rights was an important element in the founding of SRRT and remains an urgent concern today. SRRT believes that libraries and librarians must recognize and help solve social problems and inequities in order to carry out their mandate to work for the common good and bolster democracy.

Learn more about SRRT on the ALA website.

  • 1.  SRRT Endorses Free Gaza Movement's Right to Read Campaign

    Posted Jul 23, 2009 11:19 AM

    During the 2009 ALA Annual Conference, at its meeting on Saturday, July 11, 2009, the Action Council of the Social Responsibilities Round Table voted to endorse the Right to Read Campaign of the Free Gaza Movement. This campaign, initiated in partnership with Al-Aqsa University, will challenge Israel's blockade of Gaza, using boats to deliver textbooks and other educational supplies to universities throughout the occupied Gaza Strip. Other endorsers of activities of the Free Gaza Movement include Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Bishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Maguire, scholar Noam Chomsky, and British MP George Galloway.

    For more information about this campaign, see the Free Gaza Movement's website:

    http://freegaza.org/right-to-read

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  • 2.  RE: SRRT Endorses Free Gaza Movement's Right to Read Campaign

    Posted Jul 23, 2009 12:53 PM

     

     

     6/21/09  − The Progressive Librarians Guild passed a resolution to support the Right to Read Campaign in Gaza. The right to read is realized in Article 19 to include access to information, intellectual freedom, and right to communicate.  Endorsing the Right to Read Campaign is in line with the 1997 Resolution on IFLA, Human Rights and Freedom of Expression.

     

    Kathleen de la Peña McCook Librarian