<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,tahoma,helvetica,freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Someone on a list I'm on recently posted that they were hesitant to renew their ALA membership because of the recent ALA Press release scandal. You can read about it on Librarian in Black here: <a href="http://librarianinblack.net/librarianinblack/alastatements/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(125,24,30)">http://librarianinblack.net/librarianinblack/alastatements/</a></span><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">. The person who posted asked the group what they thought about renewing their ALA memberships. </span></span></span><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></span></div><div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:12.800000190734863px">I'm not a member of the ALA, but I work with them on issues concerning Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. I'm on the ALA EDI implementation Work Group and I try to represent marginalized people who can't afford membership or conference participation (among other things). </div></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">For the rest of my response, please see my blog post on this subject: </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><a href="https://lowriderlibrarian.blogspot.com/2017/02/to-ala-or-not-ala.html">https://lowriderlibrarian.blogspot.com/2017/02/to-ala-or-not-ala.html</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Respectfully, </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Max Macias <br></span><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>The ideas expressed in these emails in no way represent any organization's viewpoints, or opinions. The opinions, ideas and reflections are my own personal intellectual property.<br><div><br><br><br><br><a href="http://lowriderlibrarian.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://lowriderlibrarian.blogspot.com/</a><br><br><br>Twitter feed:<br><a href="http://twitter.com/REFORMAnet" target="_blank"></a><br><a href="http://twitter.com/maxmacias" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/maxmacias</a><br></div></div></div>
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