<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><span id="m_-1392149368415773956gmail-docs-internal-guid-79a03b51-7fff-a16b-05a0-800db8181741"><br><span style="border:none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:179px;height:65px"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/jRKMwLCw0FyVWTbogAYOG7LVSK__VanZlxTYO2Ax5GfnLuZBDleQX5shZKVIGFlA4J7BPO-k3V53HC8YCdcaEYSt5vLl9yRKL6jKjx3WXOcYgAvrdPLVxNhUVwW_pF6A26LQz-uz" width="179" height="65" style="margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px"></span><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions Intellectual Freedom News - JANUARY 2021</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">First Amendment:  Protests, Censorship, & Freedom of the Press</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/capitol-insurrection-visual-timeline/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How one of America’s ugliest days unraveled inside and outside the Capitol</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(204,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Washington Post</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://www.gq.com/story/wednesday-capitol-attack-summary" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How the Attack on the Capitol Happened, From Planning to Siege to Arrests</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(204,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- GQ</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/jan/06/day-crisis-us-capitol-fact-checked/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A day of crisis at the US Capitol, fact-checked</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(204,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Politifact</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2021/01/protest-set-for-oregon-capitol-as-trump-stages-dc-rally-lawmakers-convene-to-confirm-electoral-college-vote.html" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Unlawful assembly declared at Oregon Capitol as pro-Trump mob storms U.S. Congress</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Oregon Live</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-01-24/us-police-weigh-officer-discipline-after-rally-capitol-riot" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">US Police Weigh Officer Discipline After Rally, Capitol Riot</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - US News & World Report</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2021/01/ala-condemns-violence-capitol-hill-calls-advocacy" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ALA condemns violence on Capitol Hill, calls for advocacy</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - ALA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://www.njla.org/assets/docs/NJLA%20Statement%20about%20010621.pdf" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">New Jersey Library Association Statement Following January 6, 2021 the Attack on Congress</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  -</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> New Jersey Library Association</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/technology/apple-google-parler.html?smid=em-share" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler, an App That Drew Trump Supporters</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - New York Times</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-business-jack-dorsey-843c3e5fb72c0cfb89c1fd1132a525d8" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Twitter CEO defends Trump ban, warns of dangerous precedent</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  - </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Associated Press</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tech-companies-cut-off-parler-kiss-of-death-online-home-far-right-extremists/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tech companies cutting off Parler could be a "kiss of death" for online home of far-right extremists</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- CBS News</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/opinion/trump-lies-free-speech.html" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Opinion:  Have Trump's Lies. Wrecked Free Speech?</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - New York Times </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/why-the-first-amendment-cant-protect-trump-on-twitter-or-save-parler/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Why the First Amendment can't protect Trump on Twitter or save Parler</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- CNET</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/intellectual+freedom/FMfcgxwKkbrQdTtGzVPGBKpkdcjXcgCS?projector=1&messagePartId=0.1" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">January 2020 Tuesday Topic: Booksellers, The First Amendment, and Controversial Texts</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- OLA Intellectual Freedom Committee </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=24322" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Are Anti-Racism Book Challenges On The Rise? </span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - American Library Association</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/12/22227049/amazon-the-turner-diaries-q-anon-purge-removal-capitol-attack" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Amazon pulls white supremacist novel The Turner Diaries alongside QAnon purge</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- The Verge</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/books/2021/01/powells-responds-to-protests-over-right-wing-agitator-andy-ngos-book-we-carry-a-lot-of-books-we-find-abhorrent.html" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Powell’s responds to protests over right-wing agitator Andy Ngo’s book: ‘We carry a lot of books we find abhorrent’</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - Oregon Live</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://pen.org/the-covid-19-pandemic-devastating-toll-on-journalism/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Devastating Toll on Journalism</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">PEN America</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://pen.org/press-release/pen-america-publishes-first-ever-guide-for-artists-at-risk/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">PEN America Publishes First-Ever Guide for Artists at Risk</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">PEN America</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/30/press-media-freedom-2020-journalists-covid-19-pandemic/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Coronavirus Crackdown on the Media Made 2020 a Terrible Year for Press Freedom and Journalists Worldwide</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Foreign Policy</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/slideshow/best-photos-of-2020-world-protests/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rising Up in Protest: A Year in Photos</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> -</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Foreign Policy</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Privacy</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/us/politics/us-russia-hacking.html" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hacking 'Likely' Came From Russia, US Says in Belated Statement</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - New York Times</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22189727/2020-pandemic-ruined-digital-privacy" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How the Covid-19 Pandemic affected our Privacy in 2020</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - Vox</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/whatsapp-privacy-policy-update-alternative-secure-chat-apps-signal-telegram-1560084" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WhatsApp Alternatives Signal, Telegram Grow in Popularity after App Updates Privacy Policy</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - Newsweek</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/10/these-6-browser-extensions-will-immediately-improve-your-privacy-online/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">These 6 browser extensions will protect your privacy online</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - Tech Crunch</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Diversity</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://ala.unikron.com/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ALA 2021 Youth Media Awards</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - ALA Youth Media Awards</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://ailanet.org/readnative21/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Read Native Challenge 2021</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  - American Indian Library Association</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://risefeministbooks.wordpress.com/current-book-list/?fbclid=IwAR0xnUAWiR9K3kuDIYXuH4O3j3hT-mhvefAfWPyunMoYkxPqbQLpP94iFBc" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2021 Rise: A Feminist Book Project List</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - Rise: A Feminist Book Project for Ages 0-18 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2021/01/07/trump-diversity-training-ban-labor-department-suspends-executive-order/6586373002/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Donald Trump executive order banning diversity training suspended by Labor Departmen</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">t - USA Today</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/diversity-washing-greenwashing-george-floyd-corporations-black-lives-matter-2021-1" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">7 months after George Floyd’s death, corporations are still ‘diversity washing’ instead of making actual change</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">s - Business Insider</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://knowledgequest.aasl.org/aasl-ala-and-48-state-level-school-library-associations-post-letter-to-president-elect-biden/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">AASL, ALA, and 48 state-level school library associations post letter to President-Elect Biden</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - Knowledge Quest</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2021/01/08/what-do-dress-codes-in-the-workplace-signal-about.html" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What do dress codes in the workplace signal about diversity and inclusion</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">? - Nashville Business Journal</span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Access & Net Neutrality</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/hongkong-security-website/hong-kong-protest-related-website-says-users-access-blocked-idUSL4N2JL02J" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hong Kong protest-related website says user’s access blocked </span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Reuters</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://www.consumerreports.org/broadband-access/covid-19-relief-package-will-help-families-in-need-of-internet-access/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Covid-19 relief package will help families in need of internet access</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - Consumer Reports</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/12/29/948866982/a-quiet-and-unsettling-pandemic-toll-students-whove-fallen-off-the-grid" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A Quiet and ‘Unsettling’ Pandemic Toll: Students Who’ve Fallen Off the Grid</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - NPR</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2021/01/04/defending-fifth-freedom-information-access-prisons/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Defending the Fifth Freedom</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - American Libraries Magazine</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/6/22216843/georgia-runoff-net-neutrality-fcc-jon-ossoff-raphael-warnock-democrats-senate" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Democrats victory in Georgia Senate runoff could save net neutrality</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - The Verge</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/comcast-data-cap-blasted-by-lawmakers-as-it-expands-into-12-more-states/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Comcast data cap blasted by lawmakers as it expands into 12 more states</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> -  Ars Technica</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Media Literacy:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2020/12/ala-releases-free-practitioners-guide-webinar-series-adult-media-literacy" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ALA releases free practitioners' guide, webinar series on adult media literacy education</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  - American Library Association</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://multcolib.org/blog/20201117/news-fake-news-and-alternative-facts-%E2%80%8Btips-evaluating-information" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">News, fake news and "alternative facts": tips for evaluating information</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  - Multnomah County Library </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Poynter's International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN)</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - Poynter </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://medialiteracynow.org/resources-for-teachers/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Media Literacy Now - Resources for Educators and Parents</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - Medialiteracynow.org  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://www.lynda.com/Higher-Education-tutorials/Information-Literacy/368046-2.html?org=multcolib.org" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Information Literacy</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - Lynda.com</span></p><br><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">--</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is a monthly roundup of Intellectual Freedom News compiled by the Multnomah County Library Intellectual Freedom Committee.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We welcome suggestions of articles to include at </span><a href="mailto:lib.ifc@multco.us" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">lib.ifc@multco.us</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.  </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In general, submissions should follow the following criteria: (1) News articles; (2) Published in the relevant month; (3) Prioritize issues of either local relevance or national interest.</span></p></span><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Ekatrina Sotomayor (she/her/hers)</div><div dir="ltr">Access Services Assistant<br><div>Holgate Library</div><div>My schedule is Wednesday/ Thursday/ Sunday</div><div><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font color="#000000"><b><img src="https://multco.us/sites/default/files/styles/small/public/AllAreWelcome_email-signature_PRIDE_ENGLISH.jpg" width="96" height="65"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></b></font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Multnomah County operates on the ancestral homelands of the</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Multnomah, Mollala, Kathlamet, Chinook, Clackamas, Tualatin Kalapuya and many other Indigenous Nations. These Nations have become the </span><a href="https://www.grandronde.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#0b5394">Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde</font></span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, the </span><a href="http://ctsi.nsn.us/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#0b5394">Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians</font></span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, as well as the </span><a href="http://www.chinooknation.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#0b5394">Chinook Nation</font></span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and </span><a href="https://www.cowlitz.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#0b5394">Cowlitz Nation</font></span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> in Washington State.</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Land acknowledgements recognize and honor the enduring relationship that Indigenous People have with their traditional homelands. The effects of settler colonization are still felt today and land acknowledgements are a small step down the path towards repair, reconciliation, and cultural revitalization. </span></i></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<img  width="72" height="22" src="https://multco.us/sites/all/themes/multco/logo.png"><font style="font-size: 11px;">This email was encrypted for your privacy and security</font>