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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">>Honestly, the two places I consider sanctuary against everything political is my church and the library. My church has disappointed me on that
point, but I >can make sure that the library will always be a sanctuary for people to not have to deal with this crap. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">>Why do we even need to take a side? How about this: We say we are hopeful that we as librarians will be able to have a good relationship with
the new >administration. End of subject, we all go on with our lives. I am tired of TV, the 'news', entertainers and clothing shops thinking that their political opinion is >important to me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this post over the last 12 hours. I’ve been thinking about how to respectfully and succinctly share my thoughts about it.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">On the political nature of libraries.
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">In this time of rising, by disturbing magnitudes, racism, islamophobia, arabphobia, refugeephobia, immigrantphobia – that libraries welcome
<b><u>everyone</u></b> – (we even have such a statement as you walk into Valley Library here at OSU) means that we are political.
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">In this time of a speeding up of the de-sciencing of public discourse, that libraries are on the front lines of protecting, & standing up for, the free
exchange of valid and reliable information means that we are political. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">On the nature of privilege.
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">I am white settler class, and I’m highly educated. I pass and I can, more easily than others, check out of politics and forget what is happening around
me. Regretfully, I have used my passability to check out. But I move about in communities that are targeted by this administration (and were targeted by the previous one too), and they/we are afraid, so, really I can’t check out. Further, my friends and I
need to know what companies & businesses have stood up to protect their/our rights, their/our freedoms, their/our very safety, what companies have remained silent (and thus complicit) and what companies and businesses have actively worked against their/our
rights, freedoms and safety. We have a right to make a choice about who gets our money and who does not. (Note, I use two pronouns because of my passability).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">“Numbers have life; they’re not just symbols on paper.” ~Shakuntala Devi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">From: </span>
</b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">Libs-Or <libs-or-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us> on behalf of c wacker <wackt55@yahoo.com><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>c wacker <wackt55@yahoo.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 6:12 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Max Macias <max.macias@gmail.com>, libs-or <libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us>, "REFORMANet@googlegroups.com" <REFORMANet@googlegroups.com>, "uwmosaic@u.washington.edu" <UWMOSAIC@u.washington.edu>, "tf-edi@lists.ala.org" <tf-edi@lists.ala.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Libs-Or] To ALA or Not...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Honestly, the two places I consider sanctuary against everything political is my church and the library. My church has disappointed me on that
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Why do we even need to take a side? How about this: We say we are hopeful that we as librarians will be able to have a good relationship with
the new administration. End of subject, we all go on with our lives. I am tired of TV, the 'news', entertainers and clothing shops thinking that their political opinion is important to me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">On Sunday, February 12, 2017 6:36 AM, Max Macias <max.macias@gmail.com> wrote:</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333">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"><span style="color:#7D181E;text-decoration:none">http://librarianinblack.net/librarianinblack/alastatements/</span></a>. The
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