- Broken Promises: The House GOP Breaks Several Of Its Own Pledges On First Day In Power
- [Think Progress - Tanya Somanader]
[This article is a link-o-rama. -L]
- At Toronto’s Human Library You Check Out People, Not Books
- [GOOD - Theo Schell-Lambert]
For 30 minutes each, visitors could “check out” and glean stories from volunteers, who were selected for their compelling backgrounds. “We heard about the idea in 2009 when other libraries from around the world began having ‘Living Libraries,’” says Anne Marie Aikins of the TPL. The Library saw it as tool for engaging community and sharing information—and diverse Toronto seemed, says Aikins, “perfectly suited” for this sort of program.
The contents of their canon proved that point. "Books" on the shelf ranged from a Buddhist monk to a quadriplegic journalist to a gang member-turned-doctor to a formerly homeless businessman (apparently, the curators’ tastes skewed to realist epics over comedies of manners)…
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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