Mark, _EVERY_ entity within ALA should be defending Emily with a strong condemnation of North Dakota's attacks on Emily _AND_ ALA. It would be fitting for every library in the country--public, academic, special--to send postcards with a message of condemnation of North Dakota's harassment and support of ALA as the time-tested and much-trusted Guardian of our fundamental freedom to read. Just give one address and one person to whom the cards be sent.
In 2003 when Attorney General, John Ashcroft, mockingly referred to those voicing opposition to the USA PATRIOT Act as "Hysterical Librarians," ALA responded with red, white, and blue buttons reading: "Another Hysteric Librarian for Freedom."
Then several years later, another high-ranking Washington official (Vice President Dick Cheney??) called those still protesting the USA PATRIOT Act as "Radical Militant Librarians. ANA'S Office of Intellectual Freedom issued a second button, "Radical Militant Librarian: Defending Access, Defending Privacy, Defending Freedom."
We need a New Button Campaign for "Real Patriot Librarians STILL defending your Freedom to Read."
Fred Stoss, Librarian
SUNY University at Buffalo