[Libs-Or] Kelly Hayes on Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment

[Anna Skinner]

Of interest, from today's Movement Memos podcast
<https://organizingmythoughts.org/why-libraries-matter-in-a-fascist-moment/>
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*“A lot of people in power view knowledge as dangerous,” says organizer
Mariame Kaba. In this episode of Movement Memos, Kelly Hayes speaks with
Kaba and organizers Alison Macrina and Katie Clark about why public
libraries matter, not just as places to borrow books, but as vital public
infrastructure. They discuss libraries as spaces where people can gather
without spending money, learn together, and build the kind of shared
intellectual life that authoritarianism seeks to destroy. The conversation
explores book bans, censorship, austerity, AI, political education, and the
bipartisan defunding of public goods, while making a powerful case for
libraries as sites of struggle, possibility, and collective survival.*

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Anna Skinner
factwrangler at gmail.com
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