ALA President Emily Drabinski "Libraries need to a site of socialist organizing"

ALA President Emily Drabinski "Public Education needs to be a site of Socialist Organizing, I think libraries do too"

From the largest socialist conference in the country, Socialism 2023 on September 2, 2023 in a session called Freedom to Learn: Black And Asian American Solidarity Against Attacks on Antiracist Education.

"I just want to say thank you for bringing up libraries, and classroom libraries, but also school libraries of all kind, public libraries and higher education library who have been under attack in similar ways. I think your point that public education needs to be a site of socialist organizing, I think libraries really do too. I haven't seen that, working in libraries, but I think there’s a real opportunity here to both connect with what’s happening in public education, what’s happening in libraries, but also we need some help with libraries. We need to be on the agenda of socialist organizing."