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American Library Association president says libraries, public schools need to be 'sites of socialist organizing'
Unacceptable.
[CAMPUSREFORM.ORG] The American Library Association (ALA) president said Sept. 2 at the Socialism 2023 Conference in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
 that libraries and public schools need to be sites of socialist organizing.

Emily Drabinski, who also is an associate professor at Queens College, got in line at the microphone and introduced herself as a librarian during the question-and-answer part of a session called "Freedom to Learn: Black And Asian American Solidarity Against Attacks on Antiracist Education," according to undercover journalist Karlyn Borysenko.

"I just want to say thank you for bringing up libraries and classroom libraries, but also school libraries of all kinds, public libraries and high educational libraries who have been under attack in similar ways," Drabinski said, according to an audio recording captured and posted by Borysenko.

"I think your point that public education needs to be a site of socialist organizing," Drabinski added. "I think libraries really do too ... I haven’t seen that working in libraries. But I think there’s real opportunity here to both connect with happening in public education, what’s happening in libraries, but also we need some help in the libraries. We need to be on the agenda of socialist organizing."

The panel’s presenters, Wayne Au and Jesse Hagopian, had discussed how to incorporate Critical Race Theory (CRT) into the classroom, calling it "runaway pedagogy," according to Borysenko.

Boryseko told Campus Reform she has watched several webinars where Drabinski skirts around the issue of calling libraries "a site of socialist organizing."

"She’s very smart about what she says publicly, and so to hear her to come right out and lay her agenda on the table is surprising, but not surprising within the context," Borysenko told Campus Reform.

"In that environment, she was surrounded by socialist activists," Borysenko told Campus Reform. "She was surrounded by her people, and she didn’t know she was being recorded. For her to say something like that in that type of environment makes complete sense because she thought she was going to have friends that weren’t going to release it to the media. But it was still pretty shocking to me to hear her so blatantly say that she does want libraries to be ’a site of socialist organizing.’"

Several state libraries in Montana, Texas, Missouri, a local library in Midland, Texas, and another local library in Campbell County, Wyoming, announced this summer that they have left the ALA, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported.

Lawmakers in at least nine other states — Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota and Wyoming — demand similar action, the AP reported.
Posted by: Fred 2023-10-12
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