Salinas, California Pop 150,000 no libraries come Spring 05

[ISUGRADIA]

The continuing conservative agenda: keep them dumb and ignorant. Reminds me how an especially annoying Iowa radio right winger called libraries "welfare bookstores" once.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2004/12/28/Arts/steinbecklibraries041228.html

"SALINAS, CALIF. - The cash-strapped hometown of author John Steinbeck will close down its library system, including a branch named after the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men, starting in early 2005.

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"A large number of Salinas's 150,000 residents are poor farmworkers and immigrants who regularly visit the three branches - The John Steinbeck Library, The Cesar Chavez Library and The El Gabilan Library - for books as well as for other resources, including citizenship information, literacy courses, English-as-a-second language material, after-school programs and to access the internet."

[Be Brave]

1. Everyone left behind...

...except rich repugs?

[MountainLaurel]

2. Another Repuke effort

To keep the poor and disadvantaged from trying to access information -- the key to everything.

:cry: