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Tuesday, March 12, 2024

ALA Details Bribes to Convince Governments to Sell Out Children

In all my decades of writing about the American Library Association, I've never before seen ALA detail the bribes used in local communities to convince local officials or legislators to sell out their own interests to those of ALA in Chicago, IL.  Chicago is such a paragon of a city—not—that ALA has to bribe locals into getting their own governments to implement The Chicago Way instead of applying common sense, community standards, and the law.  

The bribery is becoming so widespread I suppose ALA feels there's no further need to hide it, so now it's essentially advertising it.  With a Marxist fist, no less.

The details are provided by a crypto ALA organization called EveryLibrary.  It is structured as a separate organization from ALA but it most certainly is not, as I detail here directly from an ALA source:

The American Library Association as a separate 501c3 cannot provide direct support to the new 501c4, and the governance will be by definition not under any control by ALA. We want to make sure that ALA members with a comprehensive understanding of ALA's s mission and advocacy goals are involved in EveryLibrary mission development, governance and ongoing work, and that the activities of the new 501c4 complement the work of the ALA Office for Library Advocacy, Chapter Relations Office and Development Office (in the area of fund raising for advocacy and public awareness).

Kleinman, Dan. “Library Boards Trained to Lie by ALA; Banned Books Wedge Issue Adopted by White House.” SafeLibraries®, June 21, 2023. https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2023/06/library-boards-trained-to-lie-by-ala.html.

Just to illustrate how deeply tied together are these two supposedly separate organizations, ALA and EveryLibrary, here is FOIA evidence that librarians who defy their own administrations to report things directly to organizations seeking to maximize exposure of children to inappropriate material will report them to ALA/EveryLibrary: "Have we reported our challenges to ala or everylibrary?  Just curious."  "Yes," is the response.  This is from St. Tammany Parish Library in Louisiana:


So ALA (via its EveryLibrary organization) details the bribes used in local communities in a series of EveryLibrary posts on X.  Note the use of the Marxist fist for this "fund raising for advocacy and public awareness," pictured top right.

Here is the text of those posts followed by graphics:

Nearly 100 communities have launched campaigns against book bans on http://fightforthefirst.org

Over 70,000 Americans have signed their petitions

They've rallied thousands of Americans into action

They've won in communities across the country

Launch your campaign today!

We'll support your campaign against book bans with:  

1)  Up to $1k in funding 

2) Pro-bono consulting 

3) Digital tools like http://fundlibraries.org

4) Media attention 

5) Training and resources for the skills and knowledge that you need to win.  

And more!



And here's EveryLibrary saying something similar almost a year ago, only without spelling it out, other than "email and organize":


Well will you look at that.  The EveryLibrary 990 for 2023 states it CREATED and funded 18 LOCAL library ALLIANCES, spending $1611 on average for each one, so I guess the "alliance" ALA "created" is with ALA against the "locals":
  • $28,999 - "Created and supported 18 local library Alliances to conduct public education and outreach about the First Amendment in Libraries, along with research into book bans."
And ALA got directly involved in political matters, only through its EveryLibrary crypto subgroup so as not to upset the IRS apple cart, this time averaging $5200 per library:
  • $52,000 - "Provided direct support to 10 public library ballot measure campaigns through financial contributions consulting, and advising."
And just to sink the hook with ALA propaganda, ALA via EveryLibrary spent a chuck of change writing false documentation:
  • $12,479 - "Wrote, published, and syndicated numerous public education and informational articles about libraries, librarians, and current events."
Sounds like a boondoggle to me.  A whistleblower sent me EveryLibrary documentation and it is false line by line and exactly the same message as ALA, as I detail here:


What a coincidence, the 990 Schedule B list of contributors is, "RESTRICTED," emphasis in original.  What a coincidence.  Ditto for total contributions.  The free speech people are suddenly silent.

One group, "Citizens for Patmos Library," let alone that it should be called "Chicago for Patmos Library," got a whopping $25,000, per the EveryLibrary 990, Schedule I:
  • $25,000 - "To fund the work of Citizens for Patmos Library in supporting the Patmos Public Library levy on the November 8, 2022 ballot.  The Citizens for Patmos Library is a registered local ballot committee dedicated to passing the November 8, 2022 levy election for the Patmos Library.  Michigan Registration ID - 96365"
Look at this, especially people in Wyoming and New Jersey:
  • "Other Programs included grants to sponsor regional library conferences, revenue from supporting a Wyoming Statewide Campaign and consulting on a candidate questionnaire for New Jersey Association of School Librarians, program expenses for staff time allocated to various smaller programs."
Various odds and sods from the EveryLibrary 990, Schedule O, showing the infrastructure brought to bear on local communities by the local entities created, funded, and supported by the ALA:
  • "Payment to Megan O'Conner for internship stipend $500, payments to Tiffany Wilson for social media management $1,650, payments to Megan Blair for services as the Policy and Advocacy Strategist $11,800, Payments to Martha McGehee for Editorial and social media Management $23,832, payment to Charity Lounsbery for internship stipend $500, payments to Century Plant for article writing $1,000, payment to Megan Mullen for article writing $1,100, Payments to Joyce Johnson for database cleanup $5,651, payment to William Engquist for article writing $100, payments to Tasslyn Magnusson for services as a policy specialist in censorship issues $10,948, payments to Paula Younger for article writing $840, payment to Joseph Wimberly for services as Digital Coordinator $1,120, payment to Harry Brake for article writing $200, payment to Chloe Santiago for Capstone Project stipend $500, payments to Sophie Brookover for Campaign Training Standardization $5,000, payments to Kosi Harris for media relations $11,250, payment to Kevin Moore for article writing $1,600"
I have seen ALA bribe communities before, $1000 here (Wisconsin), $5000 there (Texas), I've just never seen it so out in the open before.  

Here's the Wisconsin example, uncovered only during a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and never revealed by ALA or the library or the local acolyte.  In my opinion it's a bribe since money changed hands to sway governmental decisions and the public was never informed.  Only luck and a little bragging uncovered the truth.  It says, in an email from a local acolyte to a public library that was defending ALA policy regarding children's exposure to inappropriate material, "We got good news on Friday that West Bend Parents for Free Speech received a grant of $1,000 for our expenses from the Freedom to Read Foundation," and the FTRF is another part of ALA:


"I sent an email to Kristin yesterday asking her to track down my $30 check (room deposit) and put it towards the summer reading program fund.  I also put a post our website forum asking people to donate (funds or prizes) for the program."  

Do you see how ALA, libraries, and certain local citizens collude with each other to convince people to choose The Chicago Way over any wishes of local citizenry?  "Kristin," by the way, left her librarian job to join ALA to use her experience in pushing The Chicago Way and training others to do the same.  What a small world.  She has since left ALA. 

Here's the $5,000 Texas example (hyperlinks in original, archived if needed, emphasis in original):
Grants 
The FTRF Board authorized a $5,000 grant to HP Kids – a group of concerned parents and community members in Highland Park, Texas, who have been advocating against censorship efforts in the public school system.  See more about the group on their Facebook page.  ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom has been working to support the community members’ efforts in a number of ways, including writing a letter to the school board opposing a move to use ALA’s annual list of Top Ten most frequently challenged books as a guide to restricting books, and providing advice and logistical support.

You know, if ALA is bribing local acolytes with money to affect local political issues, shouldn't the public be able to obtain Freedom of Information Act requests from ALA, FTRF, EveryLibrary even if they aren't government bodies?  It's Sunshine Week, so I'm asking.  Anyone know?  All this money is being spent to sway public law.  Isn't the public entitled to see this?

Nowadays the method of bribery (but not the bribes themselves) is out in the open, and its detailed.  Money.  Consulting.  Online fundraising tools.  Media attention.  Training and resources "that you need to win."  And by "win," ALA means the community loses.  All free.  

It's all a fake facade, all astroturf.  "Nearly 100 communities have launched campaigns against book bans."  Click on the links in the ALA/EveryLibrary tweets to see if your own community has been corrupted with ALA bribery.  Mine has.

I've written about this astroturfing before.  See:


Here's more on ALA astroturfing, from "Report to Council and Executive Board," by Keith Michael Fiels, Executive Director of ALA, December 11, 2014, page 1 (hyperlinks omitted):
Pro-Privacy Library Letters Let Loose on Congress 
As the “lame duck” Congress opened in mid-November, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid surprised his colleagues by immediately maneuvering procedurally to bring the ALA-backed USA FREEDOM Act to the Senate floor for debate and, it was hoped, an “up or down” vote.  The Office of Government Relations immediately crafted and emailed an alert to more than 110,000 librarians and library supporters linked to ALA’s Legislative Action Center from where pre-drafted letters of support to individual recipients’ Members of Congress in both chambers could quickly and easily be sent.  The email alert was “clicked” open by more than 13% of all recipients, 2,000 of whom generated a total of 7,000 letters to Congress virtually overnight.  While Senator Reid’s attempt to move USA FREEDOM failed to garner the necessary 60 votes, the campaign showed the capacity of library supporters to respond quickly to legislative opportunities. 
So if you are a school board member or a county or parish board member or a state legislator or governor and a local group supports keeping school children exposed to educationally unsuitable and pervasively vulgar material that violates common sense, community standards, and the law, there's a very good chance that local group is just ALA itself astroturfing.  It's as if ALA flew in from Chicago and told you what to do, only they got local acolytes to do the talking, yelling, bullying, and especially the community organizing.

Such groups and their threats of lawsuits (I've been in three) and demands for acceptance of The Chicago Way (they lost and one is still ongoing) can be safely ignored just as equally as if ALA's own leadership from Chicago, Illinois, strolled into your community and demanded you follow their Chicago Way "Library Bill of Rights" that makes it age discrimination to keep anything from anyone, especially children, because that's what ALA has wanted for over 50 years.

Now that you know the above, you can easily tell local groups astroturfing for ALA and taking bribes to sell out children to take their Marxist fist-funded phoniness and, well, you can just ignore them as easily as you can ignore the Chicago Way from ALA.


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Friday, December 15, 2023

Tennessee Walking Horses - TN Parents Astroturfed by ALA Use High Stepping Lies to Overwhelm Rutherford County Library Board; It's an ALA Pattern Nationwide

American Library Association [ALA] creates, funds, fund raises for, and advertises local groups to appear as if they were grassroots.  This is called astroturfing as in fake grass.  In reality, local groups just do what ALA wants.  

In Tennessee, like Tennessee Walking Horses, parents are trained to high step ALA's lie that children have a First Amendment right to anything whatsoever, such as books that guide children how to meet a man for a night using the Grindr app.  They explicitly rely on ALA's "Library Bill of Rights" that makes it age discrimination to keep anything from children, although in all other areas of society children are given limited access, like tattoos, voting, drinking, driving, video games, music, etc.  Then, as trained by ALA such as with Unite Against Book Bans, they claim people oppose homosexuality, not that children are receiving CSAM from public libraries. 

So, in Tennessee, there's the "Rutherford County Library Alliance."  It is an ALA astroturfed organization.  Here's where the astroturfing is documented, and when reading EveryLibrary (and its Fight For the First), know that's just a crypto ALA organization created by and working closely with ALA to do what ALA cannot do directly.  See: Rutherford County Library Alliance.  One of its members, for example, is "TM,"—notice how membership is hidden.  TM is Tasslyn Magnusson, pictured below.  She has her "Book Censorship Database by Dr. Tasslyn Magnusson" prominently displayed at EveryLibrary, with her name even in the URL itself: www.everylibraryinstitute.org/book_censorship_database_magnusson

So it's astroturfed.  Faked grass roots.  Created by ALA.  With one of its own members as a member of a local astroturfed organization, someone who helped create the web site, "Support Teachers CRT Toolkit."  

Is this person's views even known?  Do they represent the local community in Tennessee?  ALA features her in a blog post.  Look what she says, because she's targeting parents groups who oppose the indoctrination of school children by librarians and teachers and decries "censorship":

Tasslyn Magnusson is an educator and a member of children’s literacy organizations who has worked to create the website CRT Toolkit to support educators, parents, and community members who are concerned about misrepresentations and attempts at unjust censorship. 

She said that when googling Critical Race Theory, she found “fear-based ‘toolkits’ for parents to get active at their school boards and in their kids’ classrooms created by organizations with names like Heritage Action for America and Citizens for Renewing America.  And they were very much NOT trying to support educators and books and stories that represented all of American history and diverse stories.  I was astonished by the instructions and detail these toolkits gave to parents—and appalled by the disinformation throughout the kits.”

“I decided if I needed tools—other parents and community members might need them too.”


She's got tools, alright.  And she's turned them against local communities by appearing AS A MEMBER of that local community.  She doesn't like "Heritage Action for America" nor "Citizens for Renewing America," but she's okay with being a member of "Rutherford County Library Alliance."  She's no Tennessee Walking Horse, she's an ALA stalking horse.

As I go on, know this: many "parents" groups around the nation pressuring libraries to keep children exposed to inappropriate material are actually astroturfed creations of ALA, the very out-of-state organization exposing children to harm.  It's an ALA pattern nationwide.  Is your library getting a lot of out-of-towners pressuring your library board into what the community supposedly opposes?  Good chance it's an ALA astroturf mob.  Sort of like when school librarian Martha Hickson handed out trademarked logos of ALA in a New Jersey school board meeting, but I digress. 


Supporter Angela Frederick, an area representative for the Tennessee Association of School Librarians [TASL], writes on Facebook in support of the astroturfed parent group to get them to get out huge numbers, and the books she's talking about that the library removed are "Gender Queer," "Flamer," (detailed above in a post by Asra Nomani to give an example of what a school librarian is defending and how it and books like it are promoted by any means necessary, including as a substitute Bible for being sworn in on a school board—it also illustrates how political activists like someone from Media Matters for America will get on boards simply to promote political agendas, similar to what ALA astroturfed groups are doing to pressure boards) "Let’s Talk About It," and "This Book is Gay," books that promote kink and pedophilia:

TN Public Library Supporters:

I am writing today to let you know of a situation currently affecting the Rutherford County Library System. 

Several books were removed from the collection by the RCLS Library Board back in August.  The steering committee of the Rutherford County Commission met in November and stated that the library board had sought their help in ensuring that the library staff didn't purchase any other objectionable materials using taxpayer funds.  The steering committee directed the library board to come up with a plan to prevent these purchases, and stated that if such a plan was not acceptable to them, they would pull county funding from RCLS. 

Currently Rutherford County funds 60% of RCLS's budget, so no county funding will essentially close the libraries.  This would obviously be a travesty for the residents of Rutherford County. 

If you are a resident of Rutherford County, please contact the steering committee and let them know how a defunded public library would affect our community.  You can copy and paste these addresses to contact them directly:  (district8@rutherfordcountytn.gov, district13@rutherfordcountytn.gov, jbeverly@rutherfordcountytn.gov, district18@rutherfordcountytn.gov, district7@rutherfordcountytn.gov, craigharris@rutherfordcountytn.gov, district3@rutherfordcountytn.gov)  

Another way to help is to attend the next meetings of both the library board and the steering committee.  The library board will have a specially called meeting on Monday, December 18th at 5:00 p.m. at the Rutherford County Courthouse.  The next steering committee meeting is on Monday, January 8th at 5:30 p.m. at the Historic County Courthouse Commission Chamber.  We need all the attention we can get on these two meetings. 

Helpful links:
Interview with Rutherford County Library Alliance members: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zisf2MWKcLk&t=29s

Thank you,
Angela Frederick
TASL Member
[Ed: TASL Area Representative, Buffalo River Region, term ends 2024]
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Angela Frederick
angela.frederick@gmail.com

See that?  "The steering committee directed the library board to come up with a plan to prevent these purchases, and stated that if such a plan was not acceptable to them, they would pull county funding from RCLS."  That's a double standard, meaning a lie.  Librarians brag about pulling funding from libraries in states that adopt the "Right to Read Act" that explicitly makes ALA's "Library Bill of Rights" into state law without any discussion of its radical 60s roots.  They are gleeful about that.  See: "To Fight So-called Book Bans, Some States are Threatening to Withhold Funding," All Things Considered, NPR, 14 December 2023.

But here a library is going to pull funding if the librarians keep buying CSAM, and suddenly this ALA astroturf group led by a CRT Toolkit creator from out-of-state is crying about a denial of rights.  Double standard.  

The whole astroturf published on Facebook was about "defunding" the library because CSAM was removed and they feign fear more will be removed.  They want people to write to the board.  They want people to attend the meetings.  "We need all the attention we can get on these two meetings."  

But it's not locals who want this.  It's ALA!  ALA is using an astroturf group they created, funded, and gave publicity!  

So if Tennessee wants to see Tennessee Walking Horses putting on a show after being trained by ALA with direction to make excuses for CSAM by claiming children have a First Amendment right to that, then go watch the circus in action.  Do go, to support the board against the ALA's astroturfed group.  But the board should stay on course and serve common sense, community standards, and the law, and not some Marxist-led group of librarians from Chicago, Illinois, who created a local group to pressure and bully the board.  

So now the board knows the truth.  Now we know Rutherford County Library Alliance is a stalking horse for American Library Association, being used to obtain a temporary advantage so that out-of-state ALA can target what it really wants: children in Murfreesboro, TN.

And this kind of circus set up by ALA is happening in community after community, set up by ALA.  Everyone, not just Tennessee, should learn about and ignore/defeat the ALA astroturfed acolytes.

I'll be sending this to the email addresses I learned from the astroturfers.

By the way, here's ALA targeting children, because if a board allows an ALA astroturf group to pressure it, it might as well see what ALA wants—children:




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