[aisle] I am angry
Tiffany Ouellette
ouellette-tiffany at wc235.k12.il.us
Mon Sep 20 16:03:49 CDT 2021
My super made it sound like all Illinois libraries should have received the
request.
On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 4:01 PM Kathryn Green via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
> We too received this request. Mine came from the superintendent. Exact
> same titles and authors. I looked them all up in titlewave. Most didn’t
> exist in any format.
>
> What I didn’t do, since it wasn’t requested, was check our databases many
> are adult essays written by and for adults. All are very recent.
>
> Kathryn Green
> District Librarian
> OCUSD #220 Oregon, Illinois
>
> On 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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*Mrs. Tiffany Ouellette*
*(Pronouns: She/Her/Hers)*
*West Central High School English Teacher & District Librarian*
Social Media Intern Coordinator, Class Sponsor, Student Council Advisor
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