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FTP's June newsletter offers an update on our 12 week library trustee and board member cohort which ended in April. It was a terrific group of people. We're excited about what they are and will do to support public libraries: open.substack.com/pub/librarie...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

As NYWFP works to consolidate support around its slate of candidates, we're proud to rank @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social #1 🥳 To give voters clear guidance, we're ranking a full slate of 5 candidates. When we unite, we can defeat Cuomo & elect a mayor who fights for us. Let's get this done!

submitted 12 days ago • 24 comments

Dr. Abby Emerson and her two children testified in support of NYC PLAN's demand to increase NYC Public Libraries budget to 0.5% of the city's operating budget. citymeetings.nyc/meetings/new... - Thanks to Abby, Melody and Felix for representing!!!

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Babies can only have milk. They can’t even have water. Since Israel is banning all aid including baby formula, these babies will die. And since Israel is also starving everyone in Gaza, moms can’t nurse their babies either. They’re just watching their babies die as they die to.

submitted 23 days ago • 12 comments

I hear us talking about quality schools and strong libraries, investments in public infrastructure that serves everyone, protections for trans people because we're not monsters. The extreme right produced this script and the Cuomos of the world are amplifying that regressive project. DO NOT RANK.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

It’s important to know how your civic services are governed and funded and championed — and that’s (part of) what were discussing today!

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

Join NYC Public Library Action Network for our 1st People's Assembly on Saturday. Lunch will be available at 1 pm and the program kicks off at 1:30 pm - nyclibraryassembly.eventbrite.com.

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

come sound off, learn, and dream about libraries on may 17th in brooklyn! www.eventbrite.com/e/nyc-public...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Next week NYC's Committee on Finance is meeting with the Cultural Affairs, Libraries, and International Intergroup Relations Committee. This is a key moment during budget creation with city council voting next month. Below is info on how to testify and ask them to commit 0.5% for libraries.

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

Wanna reduce crime? Open more libraries. "we find within the nearby proximity of the library; there is a substantial reduction in frequency of burglaries, vandalism, robberies, fraud, and assaults." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

submitted 31 days ago • 13 comments

Griffin’s babysitter is doing a prison book drive! Come through.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Quite a few of you participated in making #WinterKits this winter. It was wonderful to see. I was particularly thrilled to see people making new connections with their local branch public libraries through this. Well, you can also make Spring/Summer Kits too! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 33 days ago • 8 comments

Join NYCPLAN.org for the NYC Public Library People’s Assembly next Saturday, May 17th from 1:30–5:30pm at Greenpoint Reformed Church in Brooklyn. We’ll have lunch available starting at 1:00pm! NYCLibraryAssembly.eventbrite.com

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Absolutely begging libs to stop spreading these absurd "ICE agents are really militia members" conspiracy theories. It makes you look profoundly stupid, and it's a really great way to avoid confronting the reality of American policing. This is what cops are. This is what cops do. Accept it.

submitted 34 days ago • 29 comments

There’s so much defensive work needed right now, but I also think the moment is ripe for abolitionists to also go on offense locally—ICE is an extension/form of policing, we have to make connections on the need to eliminate police capacity to round people up in the first place!!!

submitted 34 days ago • 6 comments

one thing about Abolish ICE in this moment is people can see how it’s not going to happen through Congress, but through people’s own ongoing actions, whether that’s legal remedies to free people from detention, coming together to monitor ICE arrests and activity—delegitimizing ICE day in and day out

submitted 33 days ago • 37 comments

Carla Hayden was president of the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social when ours was one of few organized voices opposed to the USA PATRIOT Act. Librarians have been fired all across the federal government, gutting not just ours but the world’s intellectual infrastructure. Devastating.

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

Are you coming to Philadelphia this summer for ALA Annual? Do you want to meet fellow library workers? Learn how to build solidarity? Learn how to fight for (& win) better working conditions? And why organizing & collective bargaining are the tools we need now? Join us: forms.gle/yaWvzcFa9NiC...

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

The Salt Lake City Public Library is home to the first union of public library workers in Utah. AFSCME Local 1004 welcomes the new union. www.afscme.org/blog/salt-la...

submitted 36 days ago • 7 comments

NYC Public Library Action Network (NYC PLAN) has a newsletter now! You can subscribe here: nycplan.eo.page/gf4fb - We just sent out our first issue this week.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Hey @bradlander.bsky.social — I appreciate the commitments here: landerfornyc.com/libraries. But I don’t see a specific amount New Yorkers can hold you to. As Comptroller, you know the numbers—will you commit to at least 0.5% of the city’s expense budget for public libraries every year if elected?

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

@bradlander.bsky.social During the recent DC37 mayoral forum, you sang “Eight Days a Week” when asked if you support universal 7-day library service. But library workers say that’s not realistic without serious structural investment: many branches can’t even sustain 6-day service.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Eagerly awaiting @bradlander.bsky.social & @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social’s responses to NYC PLAN’s demand of all mayoral candidates: If elected, will you commit 0.5% of the annual expense budget to public libraries in every financial plan released by your administration? nycplan.org/candidates-s...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

If you're a library worker, a local journalist or just a curious resident, which I am all three, hit me up about this project we're building. We're piloting the Library Newsroom in Sunset Park but you can do it, too!

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

Another Library Newsroom meeting tonight — so heartening to hear how everyday folks navigate local bureaucracy, tap local contacts to investigate their stories (when will the rec center re-open?!), and to watch them translate their neighborhood identity into a graphic design

submitted 36 days ago • 4 comments

Tonight I attended a Library Newsroom workshop at the Sunset Park branch of the Bklyn Public Library: maybe 50 people (?), aged 15 to 80 (?), gathered with professional journalist moderators for their seventh of X sessions to build a hyper-local information ecosystem

submitted 72 days ago • 5 comments

LibraryPAC has issued its first endorsements. We need pro-library electeds as much as we ever have. NYC is lucky to have three mayoral candidates who fit that bill: @bradlander.bsky.social , @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social , and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. librarypac.nyc/endorsements

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Democrats offering an exciting alternative to Trump by calling for cuts to regulations.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Great, so Senate Democrats can come out refreshed with the hot new battle plan of trying to be watered-down polite Republicans then blaming progressives and the left when this fails to rally the Dem base, fails to pick up swing voters, and gets laughed at by GOP voters.

submitted 37 days ago • 73 comments

FTP's May Newsletter is out and I am happy to say that it provides a comprehensive update of our data project. Gratitude to the hundreds of volunteers who were involved in collecting data & to @dylanflesch.bsky.social for his amazing work leading and coordinating. open.substack.com/pub/librarie...

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments