{"id":138599,"date":"2023-11-01T13:30:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T19:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/?p=138599"},"modified":"2023-11-10T10:19:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T16:19:57","slug":"social-justice-distribution-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/social-justice-distribution-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Justice Distribution Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Scott Butki Requests Your Social Justice Related Books<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What:<\/strong> I&#8217;d like your books for a project I&#8217;m calling Social Justice Book Distribution<br \/><br \/><strong>When:<\/strong> Bring books on Sundays. We&#8217;ll have a special bin for it<br \/><br \/><strong>Why:<\/strong> Instead of just circulating social justice books around the church and social justice circles I&#8217;ve<br \/>started a project to use a little free library at Spicewoods Park to distribute those books, along with others. The library currently includes books by former First UU ministers Erin Walters and Susan Yarborough.<br \/><br \/><strong>Who:<\/strong> Me, who lives in North Austin, plus I&#8217;m in the process of recruiting ambassadors, folks, especially those from other areas of town, to help circulate and distribute books to other little free libraries.<br \/><br \/><strong>How:<\/strong> The books you give me will not just go into the hands of the little free library but I&#8217;ve also given some to\u00a0 the church, to LGBT advocacy groups, to Jim Rigbys church (I&#8217;m going to see if he wants he or his church to join the project) and just to LGBT folks who want to see something beautiful (that got the books banned): LGBT representation in books for kids and YA.<br \/><br \/><strong>What else:<\/strong> The project exploded last Friday when I attended an event by a banned books project who, excited by my project scope, gave me all their books, and my collection grew from 20 books to more than 150. I gave away about 50 on Sunday at church.<br \/><br \/>I&#8217;m transitioning the project from a Scott Project &#8211; I was calling myself the Johnny Appleseed of Social Justice Books &#8211; to a Church Social Action Council event project.<br \/><br \/>Email me at\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"mailto:sbutki@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sbutki@gmail.com<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for more information, for questions or to learn about what it would mean to be an ambassador.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Butki Requests Your Social Justice Related Books \u00a0 What: I&#8217;d like your books for a project I&#8217;m calling Social Justice Book Distribution When: Bring books on Sundays. We&#8217;ll have a special bin for it Why: Instead of just circulating social justice books around the church and social justice circles I&#8217;vestarted a project to use&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138599"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138664,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138599\/revisions\/138664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}