Attacks on Public & Democracy

Librarians around the country are being threatened and even attacked for doing their job and providing books on a wide variety of topics.  County and state governments are defunding libraries when the library staff defends their book choices in the name of freedom.  Fascists and other right-wingers respond by destroying books, intimidating library patrons and otherwise endangering library workers and the first amendment.  Schoolteachers are facing similar situations as right wing zealots under the flag of religion force their reactionary politics on school boards around the country.

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Tennessee offers a chilling example

It's white identity politics.

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