Jamie Loftus

Our answer is often no. It would be so different that it wouldn't be necessary. So we'd have prevention of the entire situation. That's one of the things that libraries offer, is prevention of the entire situation, making vast swaths of the carceral state unnecessary.

Our answer is often no. It would be so different that it wouldn't be necessary. So we'd have prevention of the entire situation. That's one of the things that libraries offer, is prevention of the entire situation, making vast swaths of the carceral state unnecessary.

Our answer is often no. It would be so different that it wouldn't be necessary. So we'd have prevention of the entire situation. That's one of the things that libraries offer, is prevention of the entire situation, making vast swaths of the carceral state unnecessary.

So there's a conscious choice there, especially when money is being taken out of the balance sheets of a city government from the libraries and put into the cops, of this carceral choice of saying, we'd rather everyone's life is shit so we can throw them in jail than everyone have a nice life and no one would have to go to jail.

So there's a conscious choice there, especially when money is being taken out of the balance sheets of a city government from the libraries and put into the cops, of this carceral choice of saying, we'd rather everyone's life is shit so we can throw them in jail than everyone have a nice life and no one would have to go to jail.

So there's a conscious choice there, especially when money is being taken out of the balance sheets of a city government from the libraries and put into the cops, of this carceral choice of saying, we'd rather everyone's life is shit so we can throw them in jail than everyone have a nice life and no one would have to go to jail.

I think there's a couple models, and it depends upon how far down the revelation you go. So the example you gave of Spain, we have contemporary with that and slightly more recent versions of that in the U.S. So the workman's circle, now the worker's circle, they funded really wonderful cultural programs, including libraries.

I think there's a couple models, and it depends upon how far down the revelation you go. So the example you gave of Spain, we have contemporary with that and slightly more recent versions of that in the U.S. So the workman's circle, now the worker's circle, they funded really wonderful cultural programs, including libraries.

I think there's a couple models, and it depends upon how far down the revelation you go. So the example you gave of Spain, we have contemporary with that and slightly more recent versions of that in the U.S. So the workman's circle, now the worker's circle, they funded really wonderful cultural programs, including libraries.

Unions often had libraries, especially back when they used to have more buildings. I'm part of my union, and aside from just being where I work, we don't necessarily have a building per se. So those things have always existed, especially in like the workmen circle in ethnic communities who were trying to preserve a culture. And that's something that fit into 20th century capitalism.

Unions often had libraries, especially back when they used to have more buildings. I'm part of my union, and aside from just being where I work, we don't necessarily have a building per se. So those things have always existed, especially in like the workmen circle in ethnic communities who were trying to preserve a culture. And that's something that fit into 20th century capitalism.

Unions often had libraries, especially back when they used to have more buildings. I'm part of my union, and aside from just being where I work, we don't necessarily have a building per se. So those things have always existed, especially in like the workmen circle in ethnic communities who were trying to preserve a culture. And that's something that fit into 20th century capitalism.

And so if we go farther than the revolution, I read a really great pamphlet recently from the 70s, actually, that was from the UK. And it kind of discussed libraries, you know, if we make it through the revolution a little bit as being operated under a syndicalist model. Yeah. Where...

And so if we go farther than the revolution, I read a really great pamphlet recently from the 70s, actually, that was from the UK. And it kind of discussed libraries, you know, if we make it through the revolution a little bit as being operated under a syndicalist model. Yeah. Where...

And so if we go farther than the revolution, I read a really great pamphlet recently from the 70s, actually, that was from the UK. And it kind of discussed libraries, you know, if we make it through the revolution a little bit as being operated under a syndicalist model. Yeah. Where...

Workers and patrons, which is what we call them now, there wouldn't be quite that split then, would be able to govern and run these libraries. There was a really great diagram. So there's definitely been ideas for a long time about what this could look like.

Workers and patrons, which is what we call them now, there wouldn't be quite that split then, would be able to govern and run these libraries. There was a really great diagram. So there's definitely been ideas for a long time about what this could look like.

Workers and patrons, which is what we call them now, there wouldn't be quite that split then, would be able to govern and run these libraries. There was a really great diagram. So there's definitely been ideas for a long time about what this could look like.

I honestly can't tell. You know, I think that people... It's hard to say now, right? Because we do have the funding there. It's just, will it actually happen? Will the thing happen that... has already been allocated.

I honestly can't tell. You know, I think that people... It's hard to say now, right? Because we do have the funding there. It's just, will it actually happen? Will the thing happen that... has already been allocated.