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There's an event at the library I walk to. I don't know if I can move fast enough to get there on time. I'm going to try though.
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Fight Book Bans - Libraries for the Peoplehttps://www.librariesforthepeople.org...
Unite Against Book Bans
uniteagainstbookbans.org/toolkit/
Anti-censorship groups
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Florida Freedom to Read Project
www.fftrp.org/
Report censorship
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Banned Books Book Club
www.bannedbooksbookclub.com/
National Library Week Action Guidehttps://www.webelieveineducation.org/...
I visit the library almost every day and read banned and challenged books.
Sign the NLW Love Letter
https://www.webelieveineducation.org/...
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Rohan Satija, a Texas high school student, wrote for PBS about what young people can do to fight book bans. He shares how the library was a safe haven for him when he first moved to Texas and was being bullied for his accent and how reading books with diverse representation helped him to feel like he belonged. He started a nonprofit called the Let’s Learn Foundation, whose “Donate Diverse” program has donated over 5,000 diverse books to underprivileged students. He urges students to attend school board and library board meetings to make their voices heard in order to fight back against book bans.-Literary Riot editor Danika
https://www.letslearninc.org/
Join the National Campaign Against Book Bans!https://www.fightforthefirst.org/grou...
Are you interested in joining the fight against book bans?
This group will allow you to learn from other leaders from around the country who are fighting against book bans and get the training and support you need to win your campaign.
Let's coordinate our campaigns, share resources, communicate across the country, and work together to win the fight against book banning!
Project 2025 ToolkitProject 2025, the people who want to ban books and censor education, the ones pushing Prager U and school vouchers, White, Christian, Nationalist viewpoints. They want to dismantle the public education system and privatize education to push their world view on the next generations.
Red, Wine and Blue explains more
https://redwine.blue/wp-content/uploa...
Spread the word, host a gathering
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z...
Explain Project 2025 to your guests
https://redwine.blue/wp-content/uploa...
Spread the word on social media
https://social.redwine.blue/toolkit/b...
Organize a book drive for Banned Books Week to distribute to Little Free Libraries. Share the love on social media.https://littlefreelibrary.org/about/b...
Share a banned book in a Little Free Library, snap a photo, and post it on social media with #bannedbooksweek. Don’t forget to tag Little Free Library!
Choose a book to share from our Bookshop.org Banned and Challenged Books list.
Download the LFL mobile app. If you are a steward who shares banned books, turn on the Banned Books indicator for your library.
If you are a patron, select the Banned Books indicator to find book-sharing boxes near you that champion this issue.
Show your support for Banned Books Week with the social media graphics in the toolkit below! Want to show your support all year long? You can proudly display our “This Little Free Library Shares Banned Books” sign, downloadable library window sign, or “I share banned books” graphic.
Donate to Little Free Library to help make all books — including banned books — accessible to everyone
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Take action to help defend books from censorship and to stand up for library staff, educators, writers, publishers, booksellers, and readers!
Counter Moms for Liberty in DCNATIONAL
August 31, 2024 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM ET
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St NW, Washington, DC 20001
Red Wine and Blue is going to be in D.C. Labor Day weekend – want to join us? Moms for Liberty will be holding their annual summit where they double down on hate and extremism. We cannot and will not let Moms for Liberty speak for us. This is why we’ll be joining partner organizations to host a Celebration of Reading. We’ll stand with authors, educators, and other advocates for honest and accurate education. And we’ll have fun while doing it! Join us for live performances, volunteer opportunities, and plenty of family-friendly activities plus a Happy Hour just for Red Wine & Blue members. Let’s turn out in big numbers to show that we are the majority!
https://secure.everyaction.com/Zno9Ne...
For children's librarians and parents Banned Books Storytime
You can sing the “Banned Book Song for Young Readers” by YouTube’s “Pancake Librarian” or have kids join in on former American Library Association’s president Tracie D. Hall’s chant: “Free people read freely!”
https://www.slj.com/story/banned-book...
Discuss banned books with your kidsFive Great Banned Books and How to Discuss Them With Your Kids
https://parade.com/books/best-reads/b...
Fight for the FirstStart a campaign against book bans and censorship in your community
https://www.fightforthefirst.org/
Any campaign launched on Fight For The First will receive pro-bono consulting, up to $1,000 in digital ad support, indirect funding, and access to a national network of campaigners from EveryLibrary.
Fund Libraries
Bringing Libraries and their Communities together like never before
Contribute to a Campaign or Build Your Own!
https://www.fundlibraries.org/
EveryLibrary will support your fundraising campaign with data, emails, and a social media reach of one million Americans per week.
Save School Libraries
Start a campaign, sign a petition
https://www.saveschoollibrarians.org/...
Pledge to Vote for Libraries
Take a moment and add your name to the growing list of library supporters in the United States.
https://action.everylibrary.org/?utm_...
EveryLibrary also provides pro-bono digital platforms for state-wide campaigns supporting libraries at:
Texas Freedom to Read
https://www.txftrp.org/
the Florida Freedom to Read Project
https://www.fftrp.org/
Delaware Library Champions
https://www.delawarelibrarychampions....
Right to Read North Dakota
https://www.righttoreadnd.org/
and many more.
We'll support your work every step of the way with pro-bono consulting, funding, and other resources.
If your library is going to the voters, we can provide pro-bono support to local ballot committees. To date, this work has helped over 150 communities secure over 3 billion dollars in stable library funding.
Sign petitions from EveryLibraryPETITION: Support the Right to Read in DOD K-12 schools
School information specialists, who fill the roles of librarians, have been directed to review books for indications of what an executive order called “gender ideology” or “discriminatory equity ideology."
Books that could fit those categories will be placed off-limits to students.
Schools have also been told they can’t host celebrations or events for Black History Month and other cultural observances.
https://action.everylibrary.org/dodsc...
PETITION: Save Libraries. Stop Project 2025!
The report is also filled with fabricated allegations of criminal conduct by librarians, publishers, authors, and educators and argues in favor of criminal charges and incarceration.
This is not an empty threat.
Dozens of states have already enacted or attempted to enact legislation to arrest librarians.
We need Americans like you, who care about freedom, to sign and share this petition.
https://action.everylibrary.org/proje...
PETITION: Don't Ban Books in the United States
Proposed censorship measures in several states could deny your right to read some books in our Nation's libraries and lead to librarians facing criminal charges for the books on the shelves.
https://action.everylibrary.org/banne...
PETITION: Don't Abolish the Department of Education
This bill is a poorly veiled disguise for doing what so many local groups have tried to do in the past several years—controlling educational curricula in public schools and libraries, including banning books and materials that contain views and perspectives they disagree with.
https://action.everylibrary.org/sb_53...
Want To Help Teens Protect The Freedom to Read? Libraries, Apply for Books Unbanned Programming Funding NowBrooklyn Public Library's Books Unbanned is offering funding for libraries to develop teen programming around the freedom to read.
Encourage your library to apply!
Libraries nationwide are invited to apply for one-time funds to launch programming for teens and young adults related to the freedom to read. A total of $50,000 in funding will be given out, ranging from $1,000 to $10,000. Any US library is eligible to apply and receive funding, but special consideration will be given to small and rural libraries, where funding and support for such efforts are often more difficult to attain. Libraries in communities experiencing significant challenges with access to books in libraries will also receive special consideration.
The Books Unbanned Programming Funding will also provide libraries with support from the Books Unbanned team, helping them develop and implement ideas to empower young people as leaders not only in supporting the freedom to read, but also in library advocacy and their communities more broadly. Funding recipients will have access to an immense toolkit of ideas and resources to ensure success.*
https://booksunbanned.com/funding
*Not able or interested in applying for funding but still seeking to help empower young (and not so young!) people in your community when it comes to the freedom to read and library advocacy? Keep your eyes peeled. The Books Unbanned team will be unveiling a robust, adaptable, and free toolkit for anyone interested in learning and teaching about these topics soon
https://booksunbanned.com/#resources
Not everyone in Florida is a lost cause. A family friend sent me a link to this bookstore, The Lynx"The Lynx is a new general-interest bookstore in Gainesville, Florida with an emphasis on books that are currently challenged or banned in Florida, as well as those by BIPOC authors, LGBTQ+ authors, and Florida authors."
https://thelynxbooks.com/
They take donations so they can give new banned books out to the community.
Keep tabs on the Massachusetts anti-book ban bill and learn how you can get engaged with its passage with the Massachusetts Freedom to Read coalition.https://www.massfreedomtoread.org/new...
In New Mexico, write directly to your senators and Reps. to tell them to support the anti-book ban legislation.
And thank Senator Pope, Senator Sedillo-Lopez and Rep. Kathleen Cates for introducing the legislation.
Join Grandparents and Allies for Truth (the opposition to Moms for Liberty) and write letters in support of the freedom to read
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1vvzn...
Several authors and literary advocates are working on the ground in Pennsylvania to ensure the state enshrines the right to read. If you’re in Pennsylvania, you can find out more and get involved through the Education Law Center and PA WINS.
https://www.elc-pa.org/
https://pawins.org/
or email Regina Dickens at solutions4teams@msn.com.
For the past two summers, teachers rallied across the country at historic sites to speak out against anti-history education bills and to make public their pledge to teach the truth. The teacher-led rallies received national media attention, providing a valuable counter narrative to the oversized coverage of the well-funded anti-CRT movement.
Once again, we invite educators, students, parents, and community members to rally across the country and pledge to #TeachTruth and defend LGBTQ+ rights on June 10, 2023.
We invite people to participate from all over the United States. You can plan a virtual event or gathering at a historic site. From our freedom to vote, to our children’s freedom to learn, to everyone’s freedom from gun violence, certain politicians want to overturn the will of the people and block the policies we need for our students, families, and communities to thrive. By coming together, we can rewrite the rules to ensure safe, affirming, and welcoming schools and the freedom to learn for our children — across race, place, and gender identities — no exceptions.
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/te...
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