Robert Kent of Friends of Cuban Libraries writes to say that we'll get a chance today to see Andrei Codrescu's historic takedown of the morally supine American Library Association.
A tape of Andrei Codrescu's sensational January speech at the ALA midwinter conference will be broadcast on Saturday, Feb. 18, at 5:45 P.M. (Eastern Time) on C-SPAN2, on the BookTV program. We hope you will inform your readers of this historic broadcast.The first segment of the speech is about other matters, but in the second
half Andrei tears into the ALA for failing to defend Cuba's independent librarians from persecution. Even better, it is said, is Andrei's post-speech dialogue with a stunned and (for once in his life) semi-speechless Michael Gorman.Andrei's presentation marks what may be a turning point in ALA history (as noted by the 75% of respondents in the AL Direct poll who voted to condemn the Castro regime). Airing times may differ in other time zones, so viewers should check their local listings.
My DVR is set. Kudos again to essential C-SPAN and Book TV.
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Posted by Alan at February 18, 2006 08:01 AM