Librarians, community patrons and tots staged lively “People’s Library Hours” protests in front of three branch libraries on January 23. They demanded full funding for city libraries and recall of all laid off librarians. [Source]
I don’t need to explain to you why, as a bookworm, teacher, socialist and lover of democracy, I idealize libraries to the point of it being almost fetish-like.
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