We also need good folks on library boards! Figure out who your library board member(s) are and take appropriate action. Depending on your capacity and interest, you could even run for a library board member seat! librariesforthepeople.substack.com/p/for-the-pe... - ThreadSky

hcodymiller.bsky.social • 44 days ago

We also need good folks on library boards! Figure out who your library board member(s) are and take appropriate action. Depending on your capacity and interest, you could even run for a library board member seat!

https://librariesforthepeople.substack.com/p/for-the-people-newsletter-vol-xxi?r=iw9zm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true

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hcodymiller.bsky.social•44 days ago

The folks who are working around the clock to take away our rights have understood the important of local power for decades. Theocratic fascist Ralph Reed said, “I would rather have a thousand school board members than one president and no school board members" back in 1996, for instance.

hcodymiller.bsky.social•44 days ago

These are just two items of possible things to do. There are lots more! Whatever action could look for you, do it. No action step is too small; all action steps will help build a better world.

hcodymiller.bsky.social•44 days ago

As Carlos Maza reminds us, "In a world that is indifferent to human suffering, giving a shit about what happens to other people is the only true act of rebellion."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJaE_BvLK6U

hcodymiller.bsky.social•44 days ago

One more thing! If people need a toolkit to show up to school board meetings, here's a good one:

https://uniteagainstbookbans.org/guide-to-attending-library-and-school-board-meetings/

mightybattlecat.bsky.social•43 days ago

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becklo.com•43 days ago

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datenar.bsky.social•43 days ago

📌 library and school board meetings

sambooklove.bsky.social•43 days ago

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ainsleybee.bsky.social•43 days ago

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hcodymiller.bsky.social•44 days ago

One more one more thing! Here's a great example of how winning local power makes a material difference in people's lives. Dauphin County activists organized and won a criminal justice reform majority. That majority did this:

https://boltsmag.org/jail-debt-and-pay-to-stay-in-dauphin-county-pennsylvania/

chaosgreml.in•43 days ago

If I may: please also remember to understand where your relative risks exists in the spectrum of your community.

If you exist closer to the stereotypical norm (single cishet able bodied white man), please be willing to take on more personal risk than those of us who already exist at the fringes.

hcodymiller.bsky.social•43 days ago

An important part of solidarity:

https://bsky.app/profile/chaosgreml.in/post/3lg4vu5cuak2k

missmimimee.bsky.social•43 days ago

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gilescrouch.bsky.social•43 days ago

Newt Gingrich took Reaganism and amped up the far-right, wrapped in the envangelicals with the prosperity gospel over 30 years ago. And here we are.

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