Des Moines Abolitionist Lending Library

a community-based lending library in Des Moines, IA for sharing and borrowing radical and abolitionist literature.

[Des Moines Abolitionist Lending Library @DSM_ALL]

Here is our current catalog of available books: https://t.co/MO1b6yYHFI

Here is the form to request a book: https://t.co/v64jKdPZZ0

Please send us a DM if you are willing to make a book that you own available to the community!

[Des Moines Public Library @dmpl]

Tuesday, June 15 at 7:00 PM, join Andrew Rollins, and scholar Reynaldo Anderson as they talk about the Des Moines chapter of the Black Panther Party, the significance of "The Black Revolution," and its lessons for us today.

Register to attend: https://t.co/F9uRFtuojV

[Des Moines Abolitionist Lending Library @DSM_ALL]

If you can please come out today and show our community's solidarity with the people of Palestine in their struggle for freedom.

[Central Iowa DSA @DSM_DSA]

Politicians in Iowa are toured around Israel by AIPAC to build support for the occupation. Occupation speakers tour Iowa. Our state legislature bans all dealings with companies that supports BDS. The fight to free Palestine is right where you are. See you tomorrow 🇵🇸

[Des Moines Abolitionist Lending Library @DSM_ALL]

Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

(Also available from the Abolitionist Lending Library but currently on loan)

[Des Moines Abolitionist Lending Library @DSM_ALL]

A thread of Palestinian history and literature available from @dmpl.

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

[Des Moines Abolitionist Lending Library @DSM_ALL]

This Is Not A Border: Reportage and Reflection from the Palestinian Festival of Literature edited by Ahdaf Soueif and Omar Robert Hamilton

[Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks]

FREE ebook:

Palestine: A Socialist Introduction

https://t.co/eu7tsFi9NI

[Des Moines Abolitionist Lending Library @DSM_ALL]

We stand in solidarity with all Palestinians who are fighting for their lives and we recognize that their struggle is inextricably bound up with the struggles we are engaged in here in the heartland of empire. Palestine must and will be free, from the river to the sea.

[Des Moines Abolitionist Lending Library @DSM_ALL]

The settler colonial violence that we are seeing in Jerusalem today, including the desecration of one of Islam's holiest sites, has direct links, both material and ideological, to the power structures we suffer under here at home.

[Des Moines Abolitionist Lending Library @DSM_ALL]

Politicians visit Israel on state-sponsored sightseeing trips, businesses sell products manufactured on illegally settled land, and law enforcement agencies attend trainings on crowd control and urban warfare hosted by the IDF. https://t.co/y6d1KT3J6B

[Central Iowa DSA @DSM_DSA]

On March 30th of 2018, Israeli Defense Force soldiers shot 773 Palestinian protesters who approached a fence, leaving at least 15 dead.

This week, a delegation of prominent @iowademocrats return from another political trip to Israel provided by @AIPAC.

A thread.

[Des Moines Public Library @dmpl]

One week from today we are having our first outdoor event 🎉 !

On April 30, join us at Birdland Park from 4 PM to 6 PM for Día del Niño. There will be a virtual storywalk, candy, library learning bags, and police and fire cars 🚔 🚒 to see. https://t.co/yT5mN0JB9u

[Des Moines Abolitionist Lending Library @DSM_ALL]

Some new books we just added to our library! Feel free to send a request if you're interested in borrowing any of these books!

[Alex Vitale @avitale]

We have decided to make The End of Policing ebook free to download. If you thing this verdict isn't enough, check out what we could do instead.

[Des Moines Abolitionist Lending Library @DSM_ALL]

This book is excellent! We have a copy in our library but if you prefer ebooks you can download a free copy at the link below!

[UNC Press @UNC_Press]

In the spirit of publishing scholarship on the southern organizing tradition, and with the author's full support, we are making Robin D. G. Kelley's "Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression" freely available: https://t.co/F7KiNKwBmx
#BAmazonUnion #UnionYES

[Des Moines Abolitionist Lending Library @DSM_ALL]

We've got three copies of this great book available to borrow today thanks to a generous donation! Send us a request if you're interested in participating in this discussion!

[Central Iowa DSA @DSM_DSA]

Book Discussion April 25th - 11am!

Everyone's welcome to talk about Mariame Kaba's new "We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice"

You can request a copy from @dmpl, @DSM_ALL or DM us. Also available for purchase from @haymarketbooks