This is the talk that the transactivists don’t want you hear. They protested, they shouted, they tried to intimidate the Library and women organizing the event. Share this widely folks, do not let the woke totalitarians win.
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Dead Wild Roses: Meghan Murphy Speaks at the Toronto Public Library – Q&A
Click the link to see the Q&A. This is what transactivists are trying to shut down. Do you see the hate? I most certainly do not. #meghanmurphytalks https://t.co/NhnUcHHs2K — Peta (@peta_jolene) October 29, 2019 Contact your MP, get bill C-16 revoked.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: RFU statement on Meghan Murphy event at Toronto Public Library
Radical Feminists Unite is a Toronto-based organization of diverse women who work toward the preservation and advancement of the rights of women and girls. We have organized a lecture at a Toronto Public Library branch by Canadian feminist journalist Meghan Murphy, taking place on October 29th. We are not a
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Why libraries – and library users – need their librarians and other library workers to be union members
Maureen O’Reilly, president of the Toronto Public Library Workers Union, speaking in Toronto last weekend. Below: Renowned author Margaret Atwood on an Alberta union picket line, circa 2000, Doug Ford and his Brother Rob. Doug Ford? Doug Ford? Who is Doug Ford again? I think he’s Rob Ford’s brother? OK.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: One Book
Although it has been many years since I read it, I was very pleased to see that the Toronto Public Library has chosen Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 for its One Book annual community reading event. Although first published in 1953, this eerily prescient novel tells the story of a world
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Toronto Library Strike
As a lifelong user of public libraries (I can still remember the very first book I took out as a child) and one who aspires to practise critical thinking on a regular basis, I feel for the people of Toronto who are now without this invaluable resource. Despite the inability
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