Additions to SRRT IRTF website
Resolutions
Free Speech
2020 Resolution in Defense of the Free Speech Rights of Palestinian Rights Activists defeated
2020 Resolution Ensuring Intellectual Freedom and the Right to Peacefully Assemble at ALA Conferences and Meetings passed as amended
2022 Resolution in Defense of the Right to Engage in Political Boycotts defeated
2024 Resolution in Defense of Anti-War Protesters' Freedom of Expression and Assembly defeated
Palestinian Libraries
2021 Resolution on Damage and Destruction of Schools and Cultural Institutions in Gaza and Damage to Israeli Schools Rejected by IRC
2023-2024 Resolution Calling for an Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza 2023 SRRT resolution, defeated 2024
US Foreign Policy
2019 Resolution on CIA Recruitment at ALA Meetings defeated
2022 Resolution on Damage and Destruction of Libraries, Schools, and Other Cultural Institutions in Ukraine passed
2023 A Resolution Honoring the Life of Daniel Ellsberg passed
2023 Resolution Against the "New Cold War" No response from IRC
Whistleblowers & Mass Government Surveillance
2019 Resolution in Support of the Right to Publish Leaked Documents and for the Dismissal of Charges Against Julian Assange defeated
2022 Resolution Calling on the US Executive Branch to Drop All Charges Against Julian Assange defeated
Programs
Free Speech
2022 Libraries, Free Speech, and Anti-Boycott Laws. Tom Twiss from SRRT, Alan Leveritt, publisher of the Arkansas Times, and Luna Martinez from the Center for Constitutional Rights discussed the direct effect on free speech for libraries, and on free speech more generally, of recent anti-boycott laws.
2023 Boycott film. Produced by Just Vision, Boycott follows the stories of a news publisher in Arkansas, an attorney in Arizona, and a speech therapist in Texas, who, when forced to choose between their jobs and their political beliefs, launch legal battles that expose an attack on freedom of speech across the US.
Iran
2023 Trita Parsi on US relations with Iran. He is the Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and an expert on US-Iranian relations, Iranian foreign politics, and the geopolitics of the Middle East.
Native American Rights
2020 Native American Treaty Rights in the Time of COVID 19,
Tadd Johnson, Senior Director of American Indian Tribal Nations Relations, University of
Minnesota
Winona LaDuke, activist and Executive Director of Honor the Earth
Dallin Maybee, Assistant Director of Development, Native American Rights Fund
2022 "Paying Better Attention to Indigenous Communities": Two librarians discussed how to improve library services for Indigenous communities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbRPwKMhxZU
Karleen Delaurier-Lyle from the Xwi7xwa Library talked about providing reference and instruction services to Indigenous students and highlighted how Indigenous Knowledge is often distributed throughout a library's collection. Kael Moffat from Saint Martin's University discussed how academic libraries exist on occupied lands and how librarians can oppose settler colonial structures to better support local tribal voices.
Palestinian Libraries
2024 The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Challenging Disinformation and Efforts to Silence Debate/Discussion. Dialogue with Dr. Shira Klein of Chapman University and Dr. Sonia Boulos of Antonio de Nebrija University on misinformation and disinformation about the Palestinian Israeli conflict, attempts to silence speech on campuses, the Academics4Peace initiative and other efforts to challenge the hegemonic understanding of the conflict. LINK TO THE PROGRAM RECORDING
2024 Dialogue with Palestinian & Israeli Jewish Peace Activists: Osama Iliwat and Iris Gur from the binational organization, Combatants for Peace. Their presentations and their responses to questions from the audience of librarians and educators were powerful and moving. Iliwat, Gur and the Combatants for Peace represent the voices of reason, empathy and peaceful coexistence that give us hope in these horrifying times. LINK TO THE PROGRAM RECORDING