Blogs

UPDATE:The new version of the flyer (in English and Spanish) is posted here.

Prisoners’ Right to Read: A New Interpretation to the Library Bill of Rights
Adopted June 29, 2010, by the ALA Council.

Youth Alert! Save the Dates & Maybe Save a Life from Being Taken by the NYPD

Saturday, July 17th & Sunday, July 18th
1:00pm - 4:00pm SHARP!
Maysles Cinema
343 Malcolm X Boulevard/Lenox Avenue (bet. 127th & 128th Streets)
Panthershepcat@aol.com (212) 654-5008 (212) 582-6050
Free Admission For All (13-23) Aged Youth
$10.00 Suggested Donation For Adults
(No one turned away for the lack of funds)

We have moved to a new server. Please let us know if you discover anything funky: nyc@radicalreference.info.

May 24, 2010
Brecht Forum
451 West Street (between Bank & Bethune)
7:30pm
$6-10 sliding scale, no one turned away for inability to pay

Featuring presentations by Julia Weist, Public Library of American Public Library Deaccession and Andrew Beccone, Reanimation Library with a group discussion afterward, moderated by Emily Drabinski.

I'm really excited to start a new collective in Texas!

I am a religious scroogle user, a program that sits on top of Google allowing your searches to go unrecorded and unobserved by Google.

Reforma has put together a toolkit for librarians for responding to anti immigrant sentiments. Find it HERE.

I thought Rad Reffies may be interested in this event:

ASIST @ Pratt is proud to present Copy/Right(?):
A Saturday Symposium, slated to take place on Saturday, May 1,
2010 at 1:00 PM in Room 609 at
the Pratt Manhattan Campus (144 West 14th Street on the
6th floor).
All are welcome; attendees not affiliated with Pratt must RSVP
to asist@pratt.edu by Thursday, April
29 in order to gain security clearance.

Radical Reference presents a second evening about how community history is documented and celebrated, with the Lesbian Herstory Archives and the Lower East Side Squatter-Homesteader Archive Project. Archivists and activists will present parts of their collections and discuss how their work keeps the struggle alive.