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Library-saving for socialites
Submitted by Hannah Miller on Sat, 12/13/2008 - 2:26pm.
1. Next Saturday there's a dance party for the libraries. It's called Bibliodiscotheque! Now we're talkin'. It's at the National Mechanics Bar at 22 S. 3rd Street. It's FREE but donations are requested. Go look at www.libraryfriends.info.
2. This weekend is the Friends of the Free Library FORTY PERCENT off everything in the store sale. It's the best used bookstore in the galaxy. It's called the Book Corner, on 20th Street just behind the Central Branch.
All the money goes to the Friends of the FL! And if this year has proved one thing, it's that the Free Library needs friends now more than ever...http://www.libraryfriends.info/book-corner/
3. Philly for Change will be having cell phone banks to encourage our own membership to get involved. Please come.
4-8 p.m, Sunday, December 14 and 5:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, December 17
both at Leroy's Showcase Lounge (upstairs), 4912 Baltimore Ave.
Rumors of the demise of City Council have been greatly exaggerated. And a benevolent dictator is still a dictator.
These are OUR libraries. Our taxes paid for them. They belong to the people of Philadelphia. And if we think our libraries are being mismanaged by people who don't understand their value and role in our communities, we have EVERY right to demand that they be managed better.
Hannah
What can we do
as citizens to hold Reardon accountable for her decisions?
Come out to the two remaining townhalls
Demand that they give real numbers for each branch closing. Kingsessing is Tuesday at 7:00.
Write City Council. Write the mayor. Tell your friends to do the same. When the trucks come to move the books, maybe civil disobedience is called for. I hear Shirley Kitchen has been saying she'd be willing to put herself in front of that truck. Maybe its time to not just joke about that.
Basically they are banking on no real political consequences and its important for our city's kids future to show them there are.
-Sean![]()
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