Alan Wylie (@wylie_alan) 's Twitter Profile
Alan Wylie

@wylie_alan

A Library Worker, Campaigner, Trade Unionist & Socialist. Exiled Glaswegian. #savelibraries

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calendar_today27-02-2012 23:43:51

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What’s the point of libraries? magazine.unison.org.uk/2024/03/19/wha… New research by UNISON - UK's largest union shows the devastating impact of austerity, localism & privatisation on Public Libraries & Library Workers. Since 2010 a drop of 1,376 libraries directly run by councils or closed #savelibraries

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If you need advice, support and/or someone to speak at your lobby/protest against library cuts & closures then please get in touch ✊ #savelibraries

Rashmi Sirdeshpande (Updates) (@rashmiwriting) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Reading is transformative so I’m 100% behind a National Year of Reading but instead of shaming parents/carers (ā€œput our phones down and pick up a bookā€) let’s focus on access and choice for children. That includes reversing library closures and funding cuts.

Alan Wylie (@wylie_alan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I spoke against the proposed cuts to their library which if go through will leave the service with no professional staff and no stock budget, an absolute disgrace. Trades Union Congress UNISON - UK's largest union CILIP

Hourly Hack (@hackernewsagent) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A Virginia public library successfully fought off a takeover by a private equity group, rallying community support against censorship and funding cuts. This highlights the importance of public institutions over profit-driven motives. Check it out here: lithub.com/a-virginia-pub…

A Virginia public library successfully fought off a takeover by a private equity group, rallying community support against censorship and funding cuts. This highlights the importance of public institutions over profit-driven motives. 

Check it out here:
lithub.com/a-virginia-pub…
Cat (@cloudbustingcat) 's Twitter Profile Photo

JazineGames Please support your local library, please defend your local library against budget cuts, please stand for your local librarians when government threathens their jobs. Libraries loan out free stuff to you, but they also put food on the table for countless librarians' families !

Ewan Gibbs (@ewangibbs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I saw plenty of people saying it was inappropriate and outwith the traditions of miners’ galas for the Big Meeting in Durham to have invited a Palestinian speaker. Here’s the 1987 Scottish Miners’ Gala poster, themed around opposing Apartheid in South Africa with an ANC speaker.

I saw plenty of people saying it was inappropriate and outwith the traditions of miners’ galas for the Big Meeting in Durham to have invited a Palestinian speaker.

Here’s the 1987 Scottish Miners’ Gala poster, themed around opposing Apartheid in South Africa with an ANC speaker.
Past Tense (@_pasttense_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Today! Radical History Faction outing: A free radical history drift Around Lincoln’s Inn Fields Meet outside John Soanes’ Museum WC2A 3BP 2pm. FEATURING mantraps, mumpers, boghouses & pig’s meat!

Today!

Radical History Faction outing: 
A free radical history drift
Around Lincoln’s Inn Fields

Meet outside John Soanes’ Museum
WC2A 3BP 
2pm. 

FEATURING 
mantraps, mumpers, boghouses & pig’s meat!
Sharon Graham (@unitesharon) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Unite will call out bad employers regardless of the colour of their rosette. Angela Rayner has had every opportunity to intervene and resolve this dispute but has instead backed a rogue council that has peddled lies and smeared its workers fighting huge pay cuts. BBC Breakfast

Cllr Martin Brooks OBE šŸ‡µšŸ‡ø (@martinibrooks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Good to see #Harborne business owners speaking out against library cuts & closures by Bham City Council. In the past Preet Kaur Gill MP and Richard Parker have spoken up in support of local centres - let’s see what they have to say now. birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-…

Arab Islamic Book History (@bookhist) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Gaza’s Libraries: A Chronicle of Erasure Book by book, shelf by shelf—centuries of Gaza’s memory are being reduced to ash. 🧵Scroll down for a devastating inventory of destruction: each post documents a library or museum erased:

Gaza’s Libraries: A Chronicle of Erasure 

Book by book, shelf by shelf—centuries of Gaza’s memory are being reduced to ash.

🧵Scroll down for a devastating inventory of destruction: each post documents a library or museum erased:
lindsay littleson (@ljlittleson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you take away the librarian, you don’t have a library. Please sign and share to save Glasgow’s school librarians. chng.it/pZNmzZgM9p

IlkleyCleanRiver (@cleanilkley) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The privatised water model has failed and a shift to public ownership is required for these reasons: 1. All bill payers money is used for water services. We are not servicing eye watering debt of between 21-50% of bills. Surplus funds are reinvested. #peoplescommission

Alan Wylie (@wylie_alan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Loads of Jewish people on today’s #FreePalestine march, it definitely wasn’t a no-go zone or ā€œfull of fearā€ šŸ¤”

The Peel (@peelinstitute) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We're celebrating Community Centre Week 2025! We had a wonderful start to the week with a befriending lunch to encourage anyone over 60 who might be a little nervous or shy, to join our Adult Social Club. CommunityCentreWeek

We're celebrating Community Centre Week 2025!

We had a wonderful start to the week with a befriending lunch to encourage anyone over 60 who might be a little nervous or shy, to join our Adult Social Club.
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