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Dylan Flesch@dylanflesch.bsky.social |
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Libraries, archives, radio and music. Digital Asset Manager at New York Public Radio. Views my own. He/him.
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Dylan Flesch
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“Expressions of love have not generally resulted in stable or secure funding for libraries. This means that public expressions of library love are implied reminders of the distance between people's affections, and dependable material support for libraries.” muse.jhu.edu/article/879128
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Dylan Flesch
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Join For the People Leftist Library Project on August 1st for an event co-hosted by Run For Something. We’ll start by covering how public libraries work and then dive into specific ways you can get involved in strengthening and transforming them. www.mobilize.us/runforsometh...
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Dylan Flesch
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From the article: “As part of the 11th hour negotiations, the Adams administration also agreed to provide $43 million annually for the libraries in future years, according to the sources.”
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Dylan Flesch
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Great news! Now we can start fighting to EXPAND funding in the next cycle and push for a way to avoid library funding being threatened in every single budget.
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Dylan Flesch
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“…we cannot treat these institutions as the fail-safe mechanism for public education and the social safety net on the one hand, and undercut their operations with the other.” #CareNotCuts
citylimits.org/2024/06/26/o...
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Shannon K. Supple
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A lovely zine by the Penn Libraries unionizing staff (“Collective Cardiganing”) on “busting union busting”:
drive.google.com/file/d/1F36_...
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Dylan Flesch
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Dropped off some books at The People’s Library outside BPL Central Library this morning and picked up a new picture book for my little one. This library shouldn’t be closed! Stop cop city and open the libraries.
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Dylan Flesch
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There’s a registration link for the event here: airtable.com/appHdMXM83mq....
This was emailed to the friends of the library group I’m in with encouragement to “share the rally details with your friends, family, and anyone interested in saving our libraries.”
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Jenna Freedman
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New zine from Librarians and Archivists with Palestine: Exposing Ex Libris 📚
to read online librarianswithpalestine.org/wp-content/u...
to print librarianswithpalestine.org/wp-content/u...
Libraries who use Clarivate, Aleph, ProQuest, EndNote, and even (sob!) Ulrich's are COMPLICIT in genocide. 🍉
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Dylan Flesch
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Hind's Hall arrestees are refusing the state's efforts to divide "legitimate" and "illegitimate" protests. Feels like this would fit perfectly as an example in: Five Questions for Cultivating Solidarity When Responding to Political Repression. bit.ly/cultivatesolidarity
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Dylan Flesch
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Friends of Sunset Park Library are having a book sale today from 11-4pm! You can also buy a rad tote bag designed by my neighbor and fellow library friend Yukiko Izumi. $15 each, or “fill as many books as you can in one tote bag" special for $20.
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Dylan Flesch
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You can read about what happened here: amp.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...
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Dylan Flesch
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Previous link opens a template email. There’s also a protest today at NYU Langone’s Tisch hospital at 3:00pm. www.instagram.com/p/C8DopvIt4O8/
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Dylan Flesch
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Hesen Jabr was our nurse during our son’s birth and made us feel SO cared for and safe with her communication, compassion, and skill. She was fired by NYU Langone for using the word genocide. Join me in demanding NYUL apologizes to Hesen and condemns the genocide. TinyURL.com/I-Stand-With-Hesen
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Dylan Flesch
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NYC libraries face a $58.3 million cut that could force Saturday closures, meanwhile @NYCMayor announced a $225 million Cop City. Budgets are moral documents: libraries amplify human thriving and cops amplify violence. @NYCCouncil #NoCutsToLibraries investinlibraries.org/dayofaction
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Randi Mason
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#NYC leaders are in the process of finalizing a budget that proposes $58.3 million in cuts to library funding.
On Wednesday, June 12, join us online and at our branches to send a clear, united message to City leaders: #NoCutsToLibraries!
investinlibraries.org/dayofaction #Libraries 📖📚
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Dylan Flesch
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For the People: A Leftist Library Project has a new publication detailing our understanding of the current struggles around public libraries, and sketching out the beliefs we plan to center as we build better futures. Link in the latest newsletter: librariesforthepeople.substack.com/p/for-the-pe...
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UyenThi Tran Myhre
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angry about book bans and attacks on libraries and want to do something about it?
Minneapolis: library patrons union - librarypatronsunion.com
Elsewhere: get involved with For the People - you can volunteer to do remote data work or more! www.librariesforthepeople.org
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jon ben-menachem
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"this is a to-scale MK-84 2000lb 13ft missile. Hundreds have dropped on Gaza. One (1) would level Columbia" --from the new Columbia University Apartheid Divest encampment
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Melissa Gira Grant
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re: KOSA but also everything in “tech policy”
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Victoria Law
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progressive.org/latest/the-s...
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Dylan Flesch
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Love this libraries shout out from Emily Bender. Much appreciation for your work as well. It’s so nice to have someone with your level of computational linguistic experience & understanding explaining how so-called AI (i.e. LLMs, mathy maths) actually work, and framing it within a bigger picture.
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Dylan Flesch
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This morning, with some helpful guidance from here investigate.afsc.org/invest, I switched my new contributions and existing balance into new funds that only have 2 divestment targets (rather than 75). These funds are still full of shitty companies, but less bad and fewer than what I had before.
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Dylan Flesch
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Takeaway from this research so far is that of the 29 fund options made available to me by my employer (NYPR) for my 403b investments, every single option includes at least one company that is supporting state violence and committing human rights violations, but some are much worse than others.
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Dylan Flesch
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Using investigate.afsc.org I was able to figure out that the default fund my retirement money is in has 75 divestment targets including Boeing, Caterpillar, Elbit, First International Bank of Israel, Israel Discount Bank, Lockheed Martin, and Palantir.
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Dylan Flesch
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Just watched Break the Bonds and it inspired me to take a look at my retirement accounts. The default fund I am invested in via my employer-sponsored 403b is riddled with companies supporting the genocide of Palestinians and other state violence and human rights violations.
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Dylan Flesch
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Special event coming up at The Free Black Women's Library in Brooklyn: Envisioning Libraries Of The Future. May 29th, 30th and June 2nd. First two days are for participants aged 14-19 specifically, but Sunday, June 2nd is open to all.
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we here®️
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Coming up on June 17: Documenting Dissent: Capturing Student Protests, Navigating Disinformation, and Ethical Considerations from ASERL www.aserl.org/event/docume...
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Cartoonist Cooperative
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Help the urgent need for families to reconnect by purchasing e-sims using this guide and receive thank you art from a co-op member.
details: cartoonist.coop/esims4gaza
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Puff the Magic Hater
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If you are desperate for something to do right now in support of Palestine, remember this list of vetted crowdfunds to help Palestinians escape the violence of genocide.
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Prisonculture
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Last year, Mary E shared her civil literacy quiz that she assigns to her library science students with me. Here are the questions: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - If you 'care' about your local public libraries, it's helpful to know the answer to these questions imo. It's a first step.
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Dylan Flesch
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Reminds me of M. E. O'Brien’s “insurgent social reproduction.” How the camp is a model for a future that doesn’t rely on a benevolent state and moves towards an abundance of care rather than squeezing care into (and out of) the restrictive box of private households/nuclear families.
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Dylan Flesch
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This is a great conversation that touches on encampments as a way to practice liberatory futures.
truthout.org/audio/palest...
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Dylan Flesch
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Yesterday, a broad coalition of Simon Fraser University (SFU) students took over the school’s downtown library during the postsecondary institution’s Board of Governors (BoG) meeting to demand divestment, academic boycott.
themainlander.com/2024/05/24/k...
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Dylan Flesch
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Stream the People’s Conference for Palestine happening in Detroit today through Sunday. youtube.com/live/jlUC7vR...
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Dylan Flesch
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I would love to join for this meet up!
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Puff the Magic Hater
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This week, I talk with Palestinian author and UChicago faculty member Eman Abdelhadi and Alex, a student organizer, about what we can learn from the recent wave of student-led protests and where the movement should go from here.
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Dylan Flesch
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Thank YOU!
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Dylan Flesch
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What can we learn from each other and how can we best show up for each other?
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Dylan Flesch
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(*i.e. working against attacks framed as book bans, which are really just thinly veiled efforts to delegitimize and abandon the public library entirely and enforce a fascist vision of who belongs in our communities.)
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Dylan Flesch
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Love this takeaway from #ComstockCon. Comstock’s resurgence has implications for such a broad constituency. Fighting for reproductive justice? Fighting against borders? Fighting for free expression and public libraries*?
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Dylan Flesch
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I really appreciate your work and would love to chat sometime! You can reach me at dylanflesch at gmail dot com.
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Dylan Flesch
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5/ You can submit written testimony to demand increased library funding for the next 72 hours here: council.nyc.gov/testify/
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Dylan Flesch
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4/ “…Her spirit guides me to not only fight the current proposed cuts, but to call for the end of the mayor’s all too frequent practice of putting our libraries on the chopping block.”
Watch the recording here: www.youtube.com/live/Q03DM-o...
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Dylan Flesch
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3/ Also great to hear from David S Pecoraro who is the President of the Friends of Rosedale Library and “…the son of the late Sheila Pecoraro who led the sit-in at the Rosedale branch to keep it open during the fiscal crisis of the 1970s…”
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Dylan Flesch
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2/ “…Libraries amplify that potential in every neighborhood of the city. Please continue to invest in that amplification and help library workers do their work safely with the resources required to do it.”
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Dylan Flesch
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1/ Lauren Comito of Urban Librarians Unite gave great testimony on NYC library funding today: “We know from decades of trying that austerity never results in growth. We know that growth comes from investment and that the sheer human potential of the people of New York City is worth investing in...
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Dylan Flesch
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Thank you for the pointer!
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fka augmentedballot, library craftsperson
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San Diego passed an ordinance in 2002 to set the library budget at 6% of city’s general fund. Has never been met and the requirement is waived every year.
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Dylan Flesch
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Thank you for this. I appreciate hearing how this kind of approach has gone elsewhere. I want to try something, because reactive “restore the cut” campaigns are not enough. Any pointers for alternate approaches would be very welcomed.
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