Truthout – “Su Casa Liberation Library is part of a flourishing anarchist library scene that includes the Tamarack Library in Oakland, California; Legacy Library on Chicago’s South Side; and the mobile Free Society People’s Library (FSPL) in Portland, Oregon. These autonomous libraries build on the values of the traditional public library — connecting people to resources, promoting access to information — while offering collections and programming tightly linked to the political and social movements they support.“People are looking for alternatives to the state,” Garrett Felber, an organizer with the Free Society People’s Library, told Truthout. “We don’t deal with censorship and bureaucracy; we have the nimbleness to just go from a phone call to a program.” Even with robust commitments to intellectual freedom, public libraries operate in political contexts that inevitably include compromise. The group Libraries and Archivists with Palestine has documented the extensive censorship of materials related to Palestinian struggles for freedom. The gaps left in collections by these public compromises are filled by the Free Society People’s Library. “I wanted to create a library where liberatory ideas are everywhere,” said Felber. Every book in the FSPL mobile library speaks to visions of collective liberation, no need to hunt among the stacks…”