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RE: Pathfinders for Making Sense of Current World Events

Posted By Rory Litwin Jul 11, 2024 05:47 PM
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Hi Deborah, Couldn't the concerns you're expressing be used against anything SRRT normally does? What SRRT activities do you support? Rory Litwin ------------------------------ Rory Litwin President Library Juice Academy ------------------------------

Learning Showcase?

Posted By Rory Litwin Apr 28, 2024 10:54 AM
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Hi..... I am wondering if LearnRT will continue organizing the Learning Showcase or a similar event for San Diego this summer. We would be interested in participating again. ------------------------------ Rory Litwin President Library Juice Academy ------------------------------

RE: FYI - Final Agenda for 2/19/24 Action Council Meeting

Posted By Rory Litwin Feb 19, 2024 12:06 PM
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Hello, I was unable to attend the meeting this morning, but I'd really like to see the recording. Was it recorded? Thank you, Rory Litwin ------------------------------ Rory Litwin President Library Juice Academy ------------------------------

RE: Zoom Link and Tentative Agenda for 2/19/24 SRRT Action Council Meeting

Posted By Rory Litwin Feb 15, 2024 08:59 PM
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What time is the meeting? -- Rory Litwin Pronouns: he, him, his P.O. Box 188784Sacramento, CA 95818Tel. (916) 905-0291 (mobile)Tel. (916) 917-5951 (house phone)Fax (916) 415-5446 The Sacramento area is the tribal land of Nisenan people of the central valley, the Foothills and Southern Maidu people ...

What is the importance of SRRT resolutions?

Posted By Rory Litwin Nov 29, 2023 11:05 AM
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Hello everyone, I am a member of Jewish Voice for Peace and a longtime SRRT member. I have no problem with the substance of the ceasefire resolution that has been discussed here, but the intensely controversial nature of the topic has me wondering some things about SRRT resolutions in general. I don't ...

RE: Current World Events Discussion Series for Library Staff & Community Members

Posted By Rory Litwin Oct 05, 2023 02:53 PM
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Ok. That sounds like it could end up being the "SRRT position" if one is decided on. I personally find it naive, though, to think that "the actual system of power relations that exists today among the major nation-states" doesn't require being pro-NATO. I don't accept that NATO is imperialist, certainly ...

RE: Current World Events Discussion Series for Library Staff & Community Members

Posted By Rory Litwin Oct 05, 2023 09:09 AM
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As long as we are sharing readings, I'd like to share what I think is an important counterpoint to the argument for appeasement. This report from Chatham House: https://www.chathamhouse.org/2023/06/how-end-russias-war-ukraine The readings Mark shared draw a moral equivalence between the West's liberal ...

RE: Reflections on the 9/18 SRRT meeting and the perennial difficulty

Posted By Rory Litwin Sep 18, 2023 02:31 PM
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Hi April, I really should clarify. There was nothing about the meeting in particular that caused that response in me. Not anything anybody said or anybody who was there. It's just the fact that it was a SRRT meeting. The culture precedes what happens in the meetings. Rory -- Rory Litwin Pronouns: he, ...

Reflections on the 9/18 SRRT meeting and the perennial difficulty

Posted By Rory Litwin Sep 18, 2023 12:46 PM
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Hello SRRT folks, When I saw the agenda for today's meeting, I noticed that something difficult happened at the in-person meeting at Annual, and it sounds the kind of thing I am familiar with from my time on SRRT Action Council years ago. I count myself as a SRRT "veteran," and I wish the word were ...

RE: Re: Proposed resolution

Posted By Rory Litwin Jun 21, 2023 10:22 AM
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Achcar is claiming that we've been in a cold war since shortly after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He does talk a lot about what is happening now, but he doesn't make any clear claims that we're entering a cold war situation now, only a claim that the situation we've been in since the Clinton ...

RE: Re: Proposed resolution

Posted By Rory Litwin Jun 19, 2023 05:35 PM
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Hi Mark, I won't be attending, so if anyone feels it would be useful to discuss this online in advance of the meeting, that seems like a good thing to do. I don't think I will have much to add beyond what I've just said, however. Rory -- Rory Litwin Pronouns: he, him, his Schedule a meeting: https ...

RE: Re: Proposed resolution

Posted By Rory Litwin Jun 19, 2023 04:10 PM
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Okay... I'll start by saying that the heart of this is in the right place, and that I think Council would agree that it is. So even if there will be a ton of skepticism coming from Council, I think there is also a desire to support peace in some way that seems appropriate for ALA to do.  Problems: ...

Russia is a fascist state

Posted By Rory Litwin Apr 08, 2023 12:03 PM
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"Expansion of NATO" did not cause this. Seeing Russian fascism clearly Using the "F-Word" because no other word will do Nick Cohen https://nickcohen.substack.com/p/seeing-russian-fascism-clearly ------------------------------ Rory Litwin President Library Juice Academy ------------- ...

Anne Applebaum on Hannah Arendt and today's populist Right

Posted By Rory Litwin May 19, 2022 08:37 AM
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Just listened to this really good episode of the Ezra Klein show, where he interviews Anne Applebaum on Hannah Arendt and her relevance today.  I'd be interested in people's thoughts on it. Opinion | Anne Applebaum on What Liberals Misunderstand About Authoritarianism Nytimes remove previ ...

A couple of old SRRT resolution

Posted By Rory Litwin Mar 24, 2022 08:50 AM
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Greetings, I watched the recording of the last SRRT meeting just now and caught Al's report on what's happening with Jenny Rogers' work at the ALA Archives. He said that we are in need of digging up SRRT resolutions from the period of 2001 to 2007 that weren't saved in the archive. That pains me a ...

RE: New article from Phyllis Bennis

Posted By Rory Litwin Feb 27, 2022 03:49 PM
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Also, Mark and Al, and others who are interested... I found this. I don't know who this group is, and I wouldn't say I agree with everything here without knowing more, but it's certainly relevant, and supports my point: https://krytyka.com/en/articles/left-or-russia-strange-case-foreign-pro-kreml ...

RE: New article from Phyllis Bennis

Posted By Rory Litwin Feb 27, 2022 03:31 PM
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Hi Mark, Ok. Criticizing US imperialism doesn't make someone a Russia apologist, unless they do it in the context of a discussion about Russia. Then it's the same kind of whataboutism that we hear from Putin constantly. I'm a fan of Varoufakis; didn't say anything about him. As for the prospect ...

RE: New article from Phyllis Bennis

Posted By Rory Litwin Feb 27, 2022 07:48 AM
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Here are a couple of links: https://prospect.org/world/strange-sympathy-far-left-putin/ https://spectatorworld.com/newsletter/the-hard-left-and-hard-right-got-putin-dead-wrong/ Among the left, some American figures who are outspoken Russia apologists: Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Jill Stein, ...

RE: New article from Phyllis Bennis

Posted By Rory Litwin Feb 26, 2022 07:38 AM
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Al, The article claims that Russia's invasion is about NATO, and that seems to be what you think as well. That is what Putin claims, among other things. Putin claims a lot of things. For instance, that Zelensky  and his government are Nazis who have been committing genocide against ethnic Russians, ...

RE: Fwd: EMERGENCY: Is the U.S. going to war with Russia over Ukraine?

Posted By Rory Litwin Jan 26, 2022 10:39 AM
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That's great to hear, except that the Code Pink announcement you just shared does advance a pro-Russia position. It views former Soviet countries joining NATO from the perspective of Russia, as though these countries belong under Russian influence. It talks about Minsk II as though it wasn't primarily ...