Memory of the World

Uni presses & commercial presses maliciously taking down online libraries, unis & their libraries & presses standing by while free info advocates are hounded, leftist presses hoarding knowledge, the ebooks crisis, book bans & the end of the public library: tinyurl.com/3hf539r3

10/ Let us be clear: Aaron Swartz and @ZLibrary, @monoskop, @memoryofworld, @scihub & other so-called "pirate" libraries are important sites of civil disobedience & history will always be on their side. The recent #OSTP memo from @POTUS doesn't go far enough. Remember Swartz.

@Cow_Palace there was some dusk of everything going on so we had to take a rest and read a bit... library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/6548cbb…

come back to us, @memoryofworld

Join us on our Virtual Archive Tour as part of @antiuniversity 8th Sept 6-7pm We will be showing you highlights from our collections including the Wapping Dispute, abolitionist struggles, campaigns around health provision and more! Sign up here: bhq.nu/bl

"If you can make all the bread that the world needs by baking one loaf and pressing a button, what is the moral case for ever charging more than a starving person can afford to pay? If bread were digital, hunger would be preventable. Bread isn't but knowledge is." - Eben Moglen

We are the library. reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/…

we keep standing in solidarity with library genesis and science hub. ...keep water the flowers & clean the volcanoes! custodians.online

those institutions betrayed the values, hope & vision for the better society. and that as a consequence creates disappointment, despair and cynicism.

institutions were born in struggles. in order to exist they had to offer to all of us commitment, vision & mission for better society. w/o that they are empty.

Announcing new library of little known works of comics that explore its critical and expressive potential, address conditions of its production and materiality of publishing. Now counting 77 works from the 1930s through today, assembled by Ilan Manouach monoskop.org/Conceptual_com…

All our books are available as PDFs for free. All scholarship should be open to the public. That's it. That's the subtweet.

Whichever librarian managed to get not just the "The Twits" but also "Betrayed"; "Resistance" and "Fahrenheit 451" in the shot behind Johnson has my admiration.