For The People has created a toolkit for anyone to host a Libraries & Lemonade event to get the word out about why taking action for our public libraries is essential

#PublicLibraries #ForThePeople #LibrariesAndLemonade #DefendPublicLibraries #ProtectLibraryWorkers #LibraryFunding #NoCutsToLibraries

🔗 https://librariesforthepeople.substack.com/p/announcing-libraries-and-lemonade

@EgyptianAphorist @bookstodon

A little while before Covid, I had been doing some #Genealogy research in #StJoseph MO. When I asked the #library there for help with #newspaper lookups, they said they could not afford #Newspapers.com, because they had an extremely small budget.

In all of my time researching Genealogy, I had never run across that before.

#Missouri has enough problems #funding their #libraries. If they don't have these state funds, what more can they cut? 😥😡

The #GOP is full of vindictive fascists and liars, at every level. #Trump was never the disease, he was only the most prominent symptom of the vile and cruel sickness in the #Republican party.

Contrary to what they claim, #Republicans are not about defending #FreedomOfSpeech and the #Constitution. They simply want to be the #FourthReich.

#FormerGOP #LibraryFunding #BookBans #LibrariesMatter #LibrariesOfMastodon #BookBanning #LibrariansOfMastodon #ACLU

Missouri House gives initial approval to $45.6 billion state budget that defunds libraries

#MissouriHouse #PublicLibraries #LibraryFunding #LibraryWorkers

🔗 https://www.kcur.org/politics-elections-and-government/2023-03-29/missouri-house-gives-initial-approval-to-45-6-billion-state-budget-that-defunds-libraries

Resolution #5 - read/buy more print newspapers (slow-read-nation). Read the article "Perennial threats to library funding stunt our cities" by Oliver Roeder in the 1/6/2023 FT - it is behind a paywall, (but may be in your local library!) so I will share a report behind some of it. I often think about libraries as refuge and resource. #libraries #libraryfunding https://nycfuture.org/research/branches-to-recovery