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RE: IRTF website updated

Posted By Mark Hudson Oct 16, 2025 11:18 AM
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Yes, thanks April! These updates are a tremendous improvement to the IRTF website! -- Mark ------------------------------ Mark Hudson Co-chair, SRRT International Responsibilities Task Force (IRTF) Pittsburgh, PA, US ------------------------------

RE: DEFENSE OF IRTF

Posted By Mark Hudson Sep 25, 2025 09:22 PM
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Thanks, Mark for this cogent defense of the work IRTF has done and continues to do, and thanks also to Pat Schuman for her eloquent defense of member-driven democracy in ALA. Many SRRT members, especially newer ones, may not be fully aware of the all the programs and resources IRTF has presented over ...

Rashid Khalidi's open letter to the acting president of Columbia University

Posted By Mark Hudson Aug 01, 2025 07:55 AM
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As librarians committed to defending intellectual freedom, academic freedom and the historical record, we should be very concerned about today's announcement by Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi that he is withdrawing his fall course on modern Middle East history because of the university's ...

Regarding the SRRT Action Council meetings at ALA Annual in Philadelphia

Posted By Mark Hudson Jul 06, 2025 08:44 AM
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Regarding the SRRT Action Council meetings at ALA Annual in Philadelphia

Posted By Mark Hudson Jul 06, 2025 08:44 AM
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Just to provide some necessary context for the current discussion about what happened at the SRRT Action Council meetings at ALA Annual in Philadelphia, attached are two documents. The first is the revised draft proposed by SRRT International Responsibilities Task Force (IRTF) members to the Resolution ...

RE: Regarding the current situation

Posted By Mark Hudson Jul 04, 2025 04:22 PM
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I think comparing the 2022 resolution on libraries in Ukraine and the 2024 one calling for a ceasefire in Gaza is rather misleading. Of course the former would be uncontroversial in ALA, given that the US government is not supporting Russia's criminal aggression against Ukraine. The 2024 Gaza ceasefire ...

RE: Draft SRRT Minutes from ALA Annual

Posted By Mark Hudson Jul 04, 2025 12:20 AM
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Also the two young library students, Amal Ahmed and Joseph Morris, walked out as well. MH

RE: Draft SRRT Minutes from ALA Annual

Posted By Mark Hudson Jul 04, 2025 12:00 AM
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Yes, thanks April for the minutes. One more thing: the list of members who walked out of AC 2 omits Katharine Phenix.

More librarians on the picket line!

Posted By Mark Hudson Jul 02, 2025 06:19 PM
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Here are a few more photos from the Librarians Stand with Hotel Workers picket line on Sunday at ALA Annual in Philly. ------------------------------ Mark Hudson Co-chair, SRRT International Responsibilities Task Force (IRTF) Pittsburgh, PA, US ------------------------------

RE: Yesterday's Action Council meeting

Posted By Mark Hudson Jul 01, 2025 07:05 AM
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I probably shouldn't be, but I'm still in shock at the way things went downhill so quickly at the two Action Council meetings. What I expected was that IRTF would propose some amendments to Tara's resolution, Tara would reject them, and AC would agree with Tara, pass the resolution as written and vote ...

Re: Librarians Stand with Hotel Workers

Posted By Mark Hudson Jun 27, 2025 11:08 AM
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FYI everyone - the starting time of the Sunday rally for hotel workers in Philly has just been changed. One hour earlier, 12 noon at Hilton Garden Inn, right next to the Convention Center. ------------------------------ Mark Hudson Co-chair, SRRT International Responsibilities Task Force (IRTF) Pittsburgh, ...

Re: Librarians Stand with Hotel Workers

Posted By Mark Hudson Jun 27, 2025 11:07 AM
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Librarians Stand with Hotel Workers

Posted By Mark Hudson Jun 25, 2025 08:17 PM
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SRRT members who will be attending ALA Annual this weekend and want to support hotel workers in Philly, please check out the message below from UNITE HERE Local 274. - Mark Hudson UNITE HERE Local 274 represents the housekeepers, bellmen, bartenders, and many other workers in a number of hotels in ...

SRRT International Responsibilities Task Force Meeting at Annual in Philadelphia

Posted By Mark Hudson Jun 16, 2025 02:34 PM
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Dear International Responsibilities Task Force members and supporters, If you're planning to be in Philadelphia for ALA Annual, please consider joining the IRTF meeting at the SRRT All Task Force Meeting & Annual Membership Meeting, to be held Friday, June 27, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the Pennsylvania Convention ...

Historian Ellen Schrecker on Trump's War Against Universities & Students

Posted By Mark Hudson Jun 10, 2025 02:50 PM
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The esteemed historian Ellen Schrecker, author of many books about the McCarthy era, Cold War politics and right-wing attacks on academic freedom, appeared on Democracy Now! recently to talk about the Trump administration's attack on universities and the clampdown on dissent, a climate of fear and censorship ...

New film about Mahmoud Khalil and the Columbia student protest movement

Posted By Mark Hudson Mar 30, 2025 12:05 PM
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There's a new film, The Encampments, about Mahmoud Khalil and the Columbia student protest movement, opening nationwide in the US in April. There was an interview Friday on Democracy Now with Munir Atalla, a producer for the film and a former film professor at Columbia; Sueda Polat, a Columbia graduate ...

SRRT International Responsibilities Task Force (IRTF) meeting Monday 3/17

Posted By Mark Hudson Mar 13, 2025 03:14 PM
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The SRRT International Responsibilities Task Force (IRTF) will be meeting next Monday, March 17 at 2 p.m. Eastern (1 p.m. Central, 12 noon Mountain, 11 a.m. Pacific). All SRRT members are invited to join and participate. Zoom meeting details: Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81883301690 ...

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

Posted By Mark Hudson Mar 06, 2025 11:39 AM
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Tara, Please stop your smear campaign. IRTF members have not engaged in any "disruptive and aggressive behavior" despite frequent insinuations from you and others in the SRRT leadership about "feedback" to that effect. As for the Community Commitment you so often invoke, you and other SRRT leaders ...

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

Posted By Mark Hudson Mar 06, 2025 12:06 AM
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Mary, I apologize for not including all IRTF participants in the drafting of the 'radical caucus' proposal. Mark R. sent me his draft of the proposal just a few days before this past Monday's Action Council meeting, and we wanted to get it to AC before the meeting and try to get some constructive feedback ...

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

Posted By Mark Hudson Mar 05, 2025 09:01 AM
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Ian, I understand your point, which was also made at the Action Council meeting. But I do not agree that the 'methods utilized white supremacy structures', nor that the accusation was unintentional. I do agree we should be discussing the content of the document. Unfortunately, the effort to discredit ...