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The American Library Association & Cuba's dictatorship
Washington Times ^

Posted on 06/19/2003 5:31:32 PM PDT by mandingo republican

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:04:02 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

The American Library Association (ALA) is under fire for inviting Cuban government librarians to its upcoming annual convention, while ignoring colleagues from independent libraries in Cuba who were recently sentenced to prison terms of up to 27 years. "After years of silence, double talk and coverups by the ALA, the current vicious attack gives the ALA no excuse for failing to take action," said Robert Kent, founder of Friends of Cuban Libraries and a librarian at the New York Public Library. Until a recent crackdown by the government of Fidel Castro, a network of independent libraries offered a variety of titles, such as George Orwell's "Animal Farm," that implicitly criticized Cuba's one-party communist government. The ALA

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TOPICS: Announcements; Cuba; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: ala; communist; cuba; cubanlibrarians; cubanlibrary; librarian; library

1 posted on 06/19/2003 5:31:33 PM PDT by mandingo republican
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To: mandingo republican
Here's a ton of info on Cuba:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/665733/posts
Fidel Castro - Cuba
various LINKS to articles | April 14, 2002
Posted on 04/14/2002 7:36 AM EDT by Cincinatus' Wife
2 posted on 06/19/2003 5:36:25 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the sunset...)
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To: Yehuda
Thanks for the link!
5 posted on 06/20/2003 8:16:16 AM PDT by backhoe
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To: mandingo republican
See also:

Pro-Castro librarians accused of shushing rivals.

6 posted on 06/20/2003 9:46:06 AM PDT by NorthernRight (Regime change in Canada - Now!)
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To: Kuleana
One of the board members, Mark Rosenzweig, is chief librarian of the Reference Center for Marxist Studies, the archive of the Communist Party USA. He is also a leading figure in the ALA's Social Responsibility Round Table, one of the most vocal factions in the ALA supporting the Castro regime.

Amazing is it not? The sworn enemies of the US (and freedom & democracy around the world) in charge of another liberal organization.

7 posted on 06/21/2003 12:28:22 PM PDT by friendly
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