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<p class="MsoNormal">We hope you’ll join MLA on March 17 at 10:00 AM as we partner with MAME to welcome John Chrastka, Executive Director of EveryLibrary, to our March Advocacy Hour! There are two sessions to choose from: Join us live at 10:00 AM or join the
afternoon replay (with live Q & A with John) at 4:30 PM. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Register for 10:00 AM: <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpde-pqT0tGNFeMhMT4-8zfgpcCErNJuv8">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Questions? Contact: <a href="mailto:MLA@milibraries.org">MLA@milibraries.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:27.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black">MLA Connect Advocacy Hour: Intellectual Freedom: When the Challenges Are Truly Political</span></b><b><span style="font-size:21.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black">For public libraries, these challenges are used to attack the library's funding, its staff, or even its existence. In school libraries, these performative and politicized challenges
seem to attack or negate the students the books represent. In order to face these unusual types of challenges, library leaders in both public and school settings need to see that these challenges are more expansive than previous intellectual freedom fights
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black">Join MLA and MAME for a discussion with EveryLibrary Executive Director John Chrastka about ways to anticipate and answer highly politicized challenges with integrity to your
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