At 451 degrees Fahrenheit paper books go to spontaneous combustion. What would a world without books, Ray Bradbury was asked in 1953, assuming a future where the written word would have deserved the condemnation by a government despotic and illiberal. Today, February 5, 2011, one day in the distant future envisioned by Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451, Great Britain is mobilized in an effort to keep open its libraries, launching the National Library Action Day.
The ax will hit government cuts short more than 450 public libraries across the country, threatening even the work of more than one thousand employees in the sector. In some regions the situation is particularly dramatic in danger of closing 20 of 43 libraries in Oxfordshire, and only in the mythical Isle of Wight as many as 9 out of 11.
Peacefully, dozens of citizens organized read-ins, shared reading sessions. It's another way to call the employment of those public spaces that have only wrong to make a more civilized nation. The protest must pass on the message if you try to make his small, quiet part of the resistance against the barbarism of the spending cuts to culture.
In the first line, the writer Philpp Pullman (author of The Golden Compass fantasy and others) used words which are worth repeating: "Let peace in the libraries are too valuable to be destroyed. I love them for what they have been able to give me, as a child, as a student, as an adult. Their presence in our community reminds us that there is something beyond greed and profit.
" Perhaps the Culture Minister Jeremy Hunt will not want to hear appeal to stop the reasons for the profit, and avoid wiping out the 451 libraries. I just wonder, sincerely hope a positive response from all sides and if this destruction, which will be dealt to a country poor in some writers with the lightness of a scissor kick to public expenditure had been proposed in Italy, we would have at least the same moral strength to rebel? 
The ax will hit government cuts short more than 450 public libraries across the country, threatening even the work of more than one thousand employees in the sector. In some regions the situation is particularly dramatic in danger of closing 20 of 43 libraries in Oxfordshire, and only in the mythical Isle of Wight as many as 9 out of 11.
Peacefully, dozens of citizens organized read-ins, shared reading sessions. It's another way to call the employment of those public spaces that have only wrong to make a more civilized nation. The protest must pass on the message if you try to make his small, quiet part of the resistance against the barbarism of the spending cuts to culture.
In the first line, the writer Philpp Pullman (author of The Golden Compass fantasy and others) used words which are worth repeating: "Let peace in the libraries are too valuable to be destroyed. I love them for what they have been able to give me, as a child, as a student, as an adult. Their presence in our community reminds us that there is something beyond greed and profit.
" Perhaps the Culture Minister Jeremy Hunt will not want to hear appeal to stop the reasons for the profit, and avoid wiping out the 451 libraries. I just wonder, sincerely hope a positive response from all sides and if this destruction, which will be dealt to a country poor in some writers with the lightness of a scissor kick to public expenditure had been proposed in Italy, we would have at least the same moral strength to rebel?
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