In a little more than 12 hours the community meetings will be done and we will finally know 'the list' of branch libraries that are at risk of closure in the Boston Public Library system. That is when the real work begins; that is when we stop having to fight rumors and start to fight plans.

We will need everybody for this fight: all 26 branches, all 500+ workers, all 500,000+ citizens.

We will develop our plan of action at 6:30 P.M. on Wednesday, April 7th, during our Community Stakeholder Meeting at the Cathedral of St. Paul's - 138 Tremont St. Boston, MA.

The meeting will feature union leaders, religious leaders, and community members talking about the Boston Public Library that WE want to see. Ms. Sarah-Ann Shaw will chair the event. We will talk about OUR vision for a better library system. We will vote on OUR plan for the Boston Public Library's future and present this plan on April 9th to the trustees and later to our city councillors.

Over the past month, 2,100 people have said "NO" to the library's vision on Facebook, thousands of others have said "NO" by attending meetings and rallies, sending letters and e-mails, staying informed and speaking out. For all of our action, for all of our speaking out, we have gotten the same response over and over again from the library. They continue to consider closing our branches and laying off our neighbors. Tomorrow we stop taking their word for how our library should change and start speaking our own.

Join us tomorrow when we form OUR plan for the Boston Public Library and finally start working toward what WE want for our neighborhoods, not what others want for us. We need you there, please join us.

On Thursday, please write to feedback@bpl.org & jmcglone@bpl.org telling the Trustees to pick the 0 closures option.