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:

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.

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: https://t.co/Oz77aJcED0

"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. https://t.co/c1hCRexFoy

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

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

institutions, losing its missions, are responsible for the shift where the new struggle happens but also for the doubts in revisiting *why* we struggle again.

if you move the hope, vision & emancipatory politics from the institution the struggle and emancipatory politics will happen outside of the institution.

public library (e.g.) kept the hope and vision that all people are equal and, at least, every member of society will get free access to knowledge. to freedom.

for the elites, institutions with their missions were reminder that a better society is much better deal than the guillotine. struggles never end.

for the ones who struggled, institutions and their missions kept the hope and vision that struggle is over and better society is possible. struggles never end.

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 https://t.co/4shkgFQTx2

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.

This is the time for us custodians, being dogs, humans or cyborgs, with our names, nicknames and pseudonyms, to raise our voices.