Over at Book Riot, this unbelievable piece of news:

> HB 777 was introduced March 25 by Representative Kellee Dickerson, who helped fund the Louisiana Freedom Caucus. The bill would criminalize library workers and libraries for joining the American Library Association.
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> The American Library Association (ALA) is the largest and oldest professional organization for library workers in the nation. It was founded in 1876, and this Twitter thread is a fantastic resource on the history and purpose of the organization. **[Read more](https://bookriot.com/louisiana-hb-777/)**

Seriously, you can’t make this stuff up. Looks like I’ll have to go pay dues to ALA simply to help support them. I encourage you to do the same.

I wholeheartedly agree with the **[American Library Association’s (ALA) Freedom to Read statement](https://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/freedomreadstatement)**. Here is an excerpt:

> We believe rather that what people read is deeply important; that ideas can be dangerous; but that the suppression of ideas is fatal to a democratic society. Freedom itself is a dangerous way of life, but it is ours.