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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 ...

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

Posted By Mark Hudson Mar 05, 2025 08:32 AM
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And just to be clear, when I say 'by any means necessary' I'm referring to the liberal-centrist weaponization of identity politics to attack and marginalize the left, which this is another fine example of (not saying identity politics are bad per se, just that they are sometimes instrumentalized in certain ...

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

Posted By Mark Hudson Mar 05, 2025 05:54 AM
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I was there too for the 'brutal email debates' that Rory describes, but more as a 'lurker' and not a frequent participant, although I was an active SRRT member, served on Action Council and regularly attended ALA conferences during that period. My recollection is that much of the rancor was caused by ...

RE: Censored and censored once again on Connect

Posted By Mark Hudson Feb 01, 2025 04:34 PM
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Karyn, I agree, one hundred percent. If librarians want to claim intellectual freedom as a core value, maybe even our most important core value, we cannot continue to avert our gaze as the First Amendment rights and academic freedom of pro-Palestine students and faculty are routinely and brutally violated ...

Trump's Executive Order Targets Pro-Palestine Students And Free Speech on Campuses

Posted By Mark Hudson Feb 01, 2025 03:54 PM
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An interview with Radhika Sainath, Senior Staff Attorney at Palestine Legal, about how Trump's executive order targeting pro-Palestine speech will impact students and faculty across the country. "[This executive order] appears to order universities to monitor and report on its own students and professors. ...

Trump Signs Order to Deport Pro-Palestine Students

Posted By Mark Hudson Jan 30, 2025 05:57 AM
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As expected, the Trump administration is launching a crackdown on students who have protested against Israel's destruction of Gaza, with an executive order authorizing the deportation of noncitizen students and a threat of "immediate action" by federal prosecutors against protestors the administration ...

RE: Nov. 4th Action Council Meeting: Agenda and Zoom Link

Posted By Mark Hudson Nov 04, 2024 07:18 AM
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Due to some family issues, I will not be able to attend today's Action Council meeting. Sorry to miss it. See everyone in December. - Mark

RE: Recording & Slides for Combating Voter Suppression: What Libraries Can Do

Posted By Mark Hudson Sep 23, 2024 03:33 PM
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Thank you, Frieda. Great presentation!

RE: Pathfinder brochure on the war in Sudan

Posted By Mark Hudson Jul 29, 2024 02:30 PM
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Thanks to Frieda and any others who worked on this. It's a very well-done pathfinder. -- Mark ------------------------------ Mark Hudson SRRT International Responsibilities Task Force co-chair Monroeville, PA, US ------------------------------

In These Times: The Crackdown on Campus Protests is Just Beginning

Posted By Mark Hudson Jun 22, 2024 02:53 PM
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As SRRT Action Council considers whether we should endorse and submit the "Resolution in Defense of Peaceful Antiwar Protest and Academic Freedom" to ALA Council in San Diego this month (or postpone any action until January 2025), I highly recommend everyone take a look at this new article from In These ...

Resolution in Defense of Anti-War Protesters' Freedom of Expression and Assembly

Posted By Mark Hudson Jun 17, 2024 02:42 PM
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The attached "Resolution in Defense of Anti-War Protesters' Freedom of Expression and Assembly" is on the agenda for the ALA Virtual Membership Meeting scheduled for tomorrow (Tuesday) at 11 pm Central (12 noon Eastern, 9 am Pacific). Please attend if you can! The deadline to register and receive ...

Resolution in Defense of Anti-War Protesters’ Freedom of Expression and Assembly

Posted By Mark Hudson Jun 17, 2024 02:41 PM
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Video recording: The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Challenging Disinformation and Efforts to Silence Debate/Discussion

Posted By Mark Hudson Jun 09, 2024 04:12 PM
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For anyone who may have missed it (or who attended and wants to share it with others), here's a link to the video recording of the May 30 SRRT-sponsored dialogue with Dr. Shira Klein of Chapman University and Dr. Sonia Boulos of Antonio de Nebrija University on misinformation and disinformation about ...

RE: ALA Core Values

Posted By Mark Hudson May 01, 2024 04:42 PM
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I think when ten past presidents of ALA "advise that we take a step back, and re-evaluate the recent replacement of 'our enduring values'", we should take that advice seriously and not thoughtlessly dismiss it as some people are doing. The pre-2024 core values (see attached) could certainly be updated ...

RE: ALA Core Values

Posted By Mark Hudson May 01, 2024 04:42 PM
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International Responsibilities Task Force (IRTF) meeting - Friday, April 12

Posted By Mark Hudson Apr 10, 2024 10:58 PM
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SRRT's International Responsibilities Task Force (IRTF) will meet on Zoom this Friday, April 12 at 3 p.m. Eastern (2 p.m. Central, 1 p.m. Mountain, 12 noon Pacific). We have three items on the agenda: 1. Recap of April 7 Dialogue with Peace Activists from Palestine and Israel (15 mins.) 2. Programming ...