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RE: Democracy will die by the end of the summer

Posted By Al Kagan Apr 24, 2025 11:37 PM
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Thanks Karyn and Mads. There are degrees of democracy. There are a small number of cooperatives where workers have a lot of decision-making power, but of course most workers have little influence in their workplace. Unionized workplaces can sometimes provide some semblance of participation in decision-making. ...

Democracy will die by the end of the summer

Posted By Al Kagan Apr 24, 2025 08:47 AM
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I just watched journalist Nobel Prize winner, Maria Ressa, head of Rappler in The Philippines on Democracy Now! She just came back from the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy. She quoted Steffan Lindberg, founding director of V-DEM (Varieties of Democracy) which rates all democratic ...

RE: Fwd: From Friends of "Not In Our Name"

Posted By Al Kagan Apr 10, 2025 07:07 PM
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Sorry, here is the statement for folks who could not get to it. Al Sign the Statement March 11, 2025 Not in our name. We are Jewish professors, staff members, and students from universities across the United States. We hold various views about Israel and Palestine, politics in the Middle ...

RE: Looking for Input - What would you like to see on SRRT Welcome Email?

Posted By Al Kagan Apr 09, 2025 05:59 PM
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Here is a sample letter below from 2021. I used to update this message with the latest SRRT info and programs for each batch of new members and dropped members. When I stepped down as chair of the Membership Committee, the new chair developed a much shorter message. I am still in favor of a longer message. ...

RE: Looking for Input - What would you like to see on SRRT Welcome Email?

Posted By Al Kagan Apr 08, 2025 06:51 PM
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Some of SRRT's major victories over the course of its history, and some of the most important events over the last couple of years.

Fwd: From Friends of "Not In Our Name"

Posted By Al Kagan Apr 05, 2025 08:14 AM
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FYI in case you haven't seen this. Al Begin forwarded message: From: Al Kagan Subject: Fwd: From Friends of "Not In Our Name" Date: April 5, 2025 at 8:10:06 AM CDT To: "akagan@illinois.edu"

ICE detains another grad student at University of Minnesota

Posted By Al Kagan Mar 28, 2025 09:35 PM
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FYI Al ecommunications2.umn.edu

Rhode Island School of Design shuts down exhibit

Posted By Al Kagan Mar 28, 2025 09:59 AM
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TESSA SOLOMON, RISD Shutters Show of Pro-Palestine, Anti-Colonial Art, Artnews, March 27, 2025. Al RISD Shutters Show of Pro-Palestine, Anti-Colonial Art artnews.com

Revisionist history

Posted By Al Kagan Mar 27, 2025 08:33 PM
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FYI Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. www.whitehouse.gov Mar 27, 2025 https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth ...

Remarks from the most important Palestinian scholar in North America, or perhaps the world

Posted By Al Kagan Mar 25, 2025 11:53 AM
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Rashid Khalidi, "Does Columbia still merit the name of a university?" The Guardian, March 25, 2025. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/25/does-columbia-merit-the-name-of-university Al

RE: SRRT as the "radical caucus" of ALA -- re-envisioning SRRT

Posted By Al Kagan Mar 05, 2025 02:32 PM
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Olivia, You may not have noticed, but I try to let others speak before I say something unless the agenda item is directly related to me. This is a conscious process. However, I realize that I am involved in many of our agenda items. You may not have been in a meeting where I facilitated it, but many ...

RE: SRRT as the "radical caucus" of ALA -- re-envisioning SRRT

Posted By Al Kagan Mar 05, 2025 01:13 PM
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We can be proud of the SRRT history promoting the rights of women and marginalized communities. Right from the beginning, SRRT established a task force on Women’s Liberation and another on Gay Liberation in 1970. In 1971, SRRT made task forces on Chicanos and American Indians. The Ethnic Materials Information ...

RE: SRRT as the "radical caucus" of ALA -- re-envisioning SRRT

Posted By Al Kagan Mar 05, 2025 09:37 AM
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I think Rory has identified a major problem in this discussion. I am on the Action Council and I have no idea what the SRRT officers and programming committee have in mind about the process for this discussion. It seems to me that the listening session did not produce any concrete ideas. Therefore it ...

RE: SRRT as the "radical caucus" of ALA -- re-envisioning SRRT

Posted By Al Kagan Mar 04, 2025 06:17 PM
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Let me just say that in order to have a dialog and to make progress, people must put ideas on the table. Mark did that, and all others are welcome to do the same. I was at the listening session, and I didn’t really see any concrete ideas put forward there. It is not disrespectful to put forward a position. ...

RE: Censored and censored once again on Connect

Posted By Al Kagan Jan 29, 2025 09:13 PM
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Thanks Derek. I am passing on Tom Twiss' message below. Al Amazing! So it's even impermissible for one individual to quote another individual who endorses a boycott? More hypersensitivity on the part of ALA attorneys-which is especially pronounced when the issue of Palestine is involved. I think it ...

RE: Censored and censored once again on Connect

Posted By Al Kagan Jan 29, 2025 06:48 PM
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SRRT asked the Code of Conduct Committee to issue guidelines some months ago about what can and can't be said on Connect. So far there is total silence. I ask Cory Stevenson to report on our request for guidelines ASAP. Al Kagan

$25 million for scholarships!

Posted By Al Kagan Dec 09, 2024 10:05 PM
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FYI Al The American Library Association Receives Transformational Gift to Fund Scholarships ala.org

RE: IFC Update- SRRT Liaison Report

Posted By Al Kagan Dec 09, 2024 09:58 PM
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So it seems we need to put the Code of Conduct back on the Action Council agenda.

RE: IFC Update- SRRT Liaison Report

Posted By Al Kagan Dec 09, 2024 04:21 PM
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Thanks Lisa. I don't know what further guidance they need on the Code of Conduct. We asked for clarification on the rules. It is vague on what is permitted and what is not. Mark R's message was deleted because he referred to another organization's advocacy of a boycott. Others have not been deleted for ...

Perspective on today's ALA webinar on facing the Trump administration

Posted By Al Kagan Nov 22, 2024 02:38 PM
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Greetings friends and comrades, I just attended an ALA webinar on how ALA is planning to address the Trump Administrations threats to libraries. As one of the questions/comments at the end stated, it was a "pep talk." The speaker agreed it was a pep talk but also based on the reality. They explained ...