[Mpls] Fw: Samantha Smart runs for Minneapolis Library Board!

[Dorie Rae Gallagher]

From: Samantha Smart 
 
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 9:18 AM
Subject: Samantha Smart runs for Minneapolis Library Board!

I am very excited to let you all know that today I am declaring my candidacy for the Minneapolis Library Board!  I am going to wage a vigorous and creative campaign because I feel strongly that the continued existence of our public libraries is in great danger - from "budget cuts" issued by a conservative Republican administration, an unwillingness on the part of our elected Minneapolis officials to allocate sufficient funding to keep our libraries open, and elitism within the ranks of the Board itself that refuses to be accountable to to regular library user - in particular poor people, working class folk, children and elders.

The library is our most important point of access to the knowledge we need to transform our own consciousness and understanding of systematic oppression and exploitation, and our collective transformation of the world.  I am a passionate defender of not only keeping libraries open but expanding their pivotal role in bringing communities together.  You, too, can help my campaign by:

1) Telling your friends and neighbors
2) Arranging other endorsements
3) Donating much-needed funds
4) Passing out literature
5) Contributing your own brilliant ideas!   My new Campaign email address is
smartlibraries2005 at earthlink.net

I am forwarding this message for Samantha and would like to comment...Samantha worked very hard in the Nokomis area for our library and our schools. 
She will work as hard for all communities in the Minneapolis area representing the voices usually not heard.
  
Dorie Rae Gallagher
Nokomis