[aisle] I am angry
BROOKE NELSON
bnelson at ep309.org
Mon Sep 20 15:36:03 CDT 2021
I think it's problematic because the request is coming from Locallabs, AKA
Locality Labs, AKA Metric Media (PBS did a decent clip/article here
<https://news.wttw.com/2020/10/20/how-partisan-agendas-are-driving-some-local-news-websites-illinois>).
All of my titles, like most, are public and on our website to search, so
I'm not sure why this request is necessary.
And I guess I'm angry because I can assume where this is going, based on
the recent situation in Pennsylvania.
On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 3:31 PM Kathleen Kerner via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
> My colleagues and I were asked what , if any materials, we had by Kendi
> or DiAngelo. I'm guessing this FOIA request was made to many districts. I
> don't know where ours came from, but it is a legal request as far as I can
> tell. Not sure why an information request is "problematic". Everyone has
> the right to ask questions about government agencies.
>
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 3:19 PM BROOKE NELSON via AISLE <
> aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> Hi BrianTrust,
>>
>> Please talk me down. I just got this request from my Sup. I looked up the
>> company and it is hugely problematic. Has anyone else gotten this? (See
>> below)
>>
>> *I am writing to you on behalf of LocalLabs which is an online
>> publication that reports on and informs the public about local government
>> activities. If you are not the FOIA officer please forward it to
>> the FOIA officer or reply to this email with the correct FOIA contact.*
>>
>> *Pursuant to the Illinois Freedom of Information Act, I
>> am requesting electronic records (preferably non-PDF such as CSV, Excel) of
>> the following:*
>>
>> - *A list of all materials in your district that fall under the 1619
>> project. *
>>
>> *For reference, the 1619 project contains works with the following titles
>> and authors: "America Wasn't a Democracy Until Black Americans Made It
>> One", essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones*
>>
>> - *"American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the
>> Plantation", essay by Matthew Desmond*
>> - *"How False Beliefs in Physical Racial Difference Still Live in
>> Medicine Today", essay by Linda Villarosa*
>> - *"What the Reactionary Politics of 2019 Owe to the Politics of
>> Slavery", essay by Jamelle Bouie*
>> - *"Why Is Everyone Always Stealing Black Music?", essay by Wesley
>> Morris*
>> - *"How Segregation Caused Your Traffic Jam", essay by Kevin Kruse*
>> - *"Why Doesn't America Have Universal Healthcare? One Word: Race",
>> essay by Jeneen Interlandi*
>> - *"Why American Prisons Owe Their Cruelty to Slavery", essay by
>> Bryan Stevenson*
>> - *"The Barbaric History of Sugar in America", essay by Khalil Gibran
>> Muhammad*
>> - *"How America's Vast Racial Wealth Gap Grew: By Plunder", essay by
>> Trymaine Lee*
>> - *"Their Ancestors Were Enslaved by Law. Now They're Lawyers", photo
>> essay by Djeneba Aduayom, with text from Nikole Hannah-Jones and Wadzanai
>> Mhute*
>> - *"A New Literary Timeline of African-American History", a
>> collection of original poems and stories*
>> - *Clint Smith on the Middle Passage*
>> - *Yusef Komunyakaa on Crispus Attucks*
>> - *Eve L. Ewing on Phillis Wheatley*
>> - *Reginald Dwayne Betts on the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793*
>> - *Barry Jenkins on Gabriel's Rebellion*
>> - *Jesmyn Ward on the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves*
>> - *Tyehimba Jess on Black Seminoles*
>> - *Darryl Pinckney on the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863*
>> - *ZZ Packer on the New Orleans massacre of 1866*
>> - *Yaa Gyasi on the Tuskegee syphilis experiment*
>> - *Jacqueline Woodson on Sgt. Isaac Woodard*
>> - *Joshua Bennett on the Black Panther Party*
>> - *Lynn Nottage on the birth of hip-hop*
>> - *Kiese Laymon on the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s “rainbow coalition”
>> speech*
>> - *Clint Smith on the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina*
>>
>>
>> - *A list of all books written by authors Ibram X. Kendi (aka Henry
>> Rogers) or Robin DiAngelo that are used in curriculum or libraries in your
>> school district.*
>>
>>
>> --
>> Brooke Nelson
>> Library Media Specialist
>> East Peoria Community High School
>> 309.694.8338
>>
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Brooke Nelson
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East Peoria Community High School
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