The Right Wing War on Libraries

As part of this podcast’s dedication to sparking controversial, attention-getting discourse, we have a new piping hot take for you here today: libraries are good. But in this country, libraries are under attack by a small but zealous movement among the far-right.

Links:

• America’s Culture Warriors Are Going After Librarians 

• USA Freedom Act: Before Snowden, Librarians Were Anti-Surveillance Heroes 

• The Strain of Censorship on Public Libraries 

• State of America’s Libraries Report 2022 

• Only library in Michigan town to close after voters defund it for refusing to ban LGBTQ books 

• Banned in the USA: the Growing Movement to Censor Books in Schools 

• The artificial growth of hate speech 

• What does ‘woke’ mean? Whatever Ron DeSantis wants. 

• Books Unbanned 

• The Great Places Erased by Suburbia (the Third Place) 

• A Room of Their Own: How Anti-Trans Feminists Are Complicit in Christian Right Anti-Trans Advocacy 

• Eric Adams cuts library budget 

• ALA office for intellectual freedom 

• ALA get involved
  Unite Against Book Bans 

• #FReadom 

• Customers get mad when you hand them flowers 

• Eric's website 

• Eric’s Substack 

• The Killing of Hypatia 

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