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The ImagineIf Libraries trustees decided to segregate a children’s book on antiracism during Banned Books Week. We’re not kidding. Click here to read more.

Love Lives Here discovered that a website supporting school board candidates in Montana is connected to a political action committee that is trying to force partisan agendas into nonpartisan institutions like school boards and library boards. Click to read more.

Library trustees and staff had a long meeting on March 10. Three trustees seem intent on pushing forward to give themselves the power to remove books, but there’s still hope. Please click to read and take a few minutes to write a welcoming email to Ashley Cummins, the new director for ImagineIF LIbraries!

Annie Bukacek, who brought division to the health board, has resigned. However, the pro-militia activists that she has been associated with are still trying to pressure the health board to hire a health officer who believes in anti-mask and anti-vaccine conspiracies instead of public health expertise that will protect county residents.

Emails and texts requested by the Flathead Beacon show that three ImagineIF library trustees were planning how they could remove two LGBTQ+ books from the library collection before a book challenge was filed.

We will not have an in-person celebration of the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King this year. Please click here for access to recordings of past events and action items you can take for the 2022 King Holiday.

We’ve got a few action items for this weekend! Help us resist extremism in the Flathead by writing emails to your local school board and the board that’s responsible for continuing education for law enforcement officers in Montana.

We’re getting down to the last few bills in the 2021 Montana Legislature! Please write and email so we have a chance of getting a few more wins!

Here are action items for the Montana Legislature this week! Please tell Governor Gianforte NO on HB 112 and SB 280, and then contact your legislators on voting rights, access to reproductive care, and Indigenous sovereignty.

Lots of bills with the potential to increase discrimination are in the works this week! Please contact your legislators and tell them NO to anti-LGBTQ bills, NO to bills that undermine Indigenous sovereignty, and YES to legislation that supports solutions to the MMIW crisis!