ALA Midwinter
Boston, January 2005
Tom Twiss
- Social
Responsibilities Round Table Newsletter, No. 150/151, June 2005,
p. 17.
At our ALA Midwinter meeting,
the International Responsibilities Task Force
planned the program we will cosponsor with theProgressive Librarians
Guild at ALA Annual, Destabilization, Disinformation, and Librarians
from Chile, to Cuba, to Venezuela. This program will be held on
Saturday, June 25, from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Attorney Eva Golinger will
discuss U.S. attempts to remove Venezuela's President Chavez from
power; SRRT member Ann Sparanese will talk about U.S. destabilization
and disinformation campaigns and how librarians can respond; and
SRRT member Al Kagan will show a Power- Point presentation on libraries
under Pinochet by Chilean librarian, Clara Budnik.
We also discussed the Resolution on the Connection between the Iraq War
and Libraries and agreed to recommend that SRRT Action Council resubmit
this resolution to ALA Council this summer. Currently, the petition/
resolution can be found at <http://libr.org/irtf/resolutions/iraqpetition.html.>
Finally, we reaffirmed plans to move the IRTF website to <http://libr/org>; and we discussed plans
to add additional Alternative Resources pages to the site in the near
future.
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