Who are we? We are NYC librarians opposed to police in libraries. Here is a comic listing some of our values. We are reposting our comic listing our values with alt text, since images without alt text are inaccessible to many people. Value 1: No cops in libraries, for any reason.
Value #2: we stand in solidarity with teachers and education workers pushing for schools to divest from police.
Value #3: we ask our institutions to reckon with the effects of policing in libraries and confront white supremacy past and present in libraries.
Value #4: we ask that library workers confront our internal biases and kill the cop in our heads.