“The history, all the subject matter that they want to ban, it’s happening in the world. We cannot live in a bubble, put blinders on like it’s not happening…we’re not hiding anything from our young people.” — Ruby Bridges motherjones.com/politics/2024/… #UniteAgainstBookBans
“The most startling part was when all my classroom sets of ‘Anne Frank’ were thrown into dumpsters to make room for a divisive DEI race-based curriculum platform.”
Chaya Raichik Ron Coleman Dov Hikind Jewhadi™
#UniteAgainstBookBans #BannedBooks #tlchat #alaac24 #librarians
Sometimes #librarians think they are special. Well, at least the gr**mers have each other for support. #tlchat #FReadom #UniteAgainstBookBans #ThatLibrarian
🗳️ Today's the African American Policy Forum's #FreedomToLearn National Day of Action! We must use our votes to make informed decisions demanding our legislators protect the #RightToRead . Take our pledge to be an informed, registered & ready voter: uniteagainstbookbans.org/vote/ #UniteAgainstBookBans
This book by Lucas Miles “Woke Jesus”will be the next book #librarians will ban from #libraries while they #UniteAgainstBookBans at #alaac24 to ensure children are s*xualized in schools by school librarians like Martha Hickson + Amanda Jones: Defender of Libraries & Wonder. #parenting #moms #dads
Providing kids with access to books in which they can see themselves improves their mental health, academic achievement, and future opportunities.
Discover how youth are Empowered by Reading in our report: uniteagainstbookbans.org/#white-paper #UniteAgainstBookBans
📣 Want to raise awareness about the unprecedented rise in book bans across the US? Host a banned book reading, teach-in, or meeting on the #FreedomToLearn National Day of Action on 5/3 & rally your community to #UniteAgainstBookBans . Info: freedomtolearn.net African American Policy Forum
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#tlchat #alaac24 #UniteAgainstBookBans Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ The Based Librarian
Join me and @NYPL to #UniteAgainstBookBans ! Find out how you can help protect the freedom to read and support access to books for all: nypl.org/booksforall
Thank you for standing up for #IntellectualFreedom for students, authors, and publishers. Working together we will protect students' right to read. #UniteAgainstBookBans #aasl
It’s not just mothers who will protect their children, but fathers too, even other people’s children!
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#parenting #moms #dads
This is a win 4students, educators & the books' authors: Ellen Hopkins(People Kill People); Colleen Hoover (It Ends With Us);George M Johnson Garçon (All Boys Aren’t Blue); julia scheeres (Jesus Land: A Memoir); Elana K. Arnold (Red Hood) #UniteAgainstBookBans #IntellectualFreedom #aasl
More on the #FreedomToLearn campaign: 'It was designed to expand our freedom to learn... It was designed to make sure that if they are teaching history ‒ history includes everybody's story.” Black Mommy Activist, PhD🎙 African American Policy Forum usatoday.com/story/news/nat… #UniteAgainstBookBans
🗳️ Do you believe that the freedom to read and learn is essential to a functioning democracy?
Take the #UniteAgainstBookBans voter pledge and sign on to be an informed, registered, and ready voter ⬇️ uniteagainstbookbans.org/we-condemn-thr… African American Policy Forum Missouri Equity Education Partnership ALA OIF #FreedomToLearn
TONIGHT 5/2! Join our partner African American Policy Forum for a virtual #FreedomToLearn rally to uplift the need to proactively defend our freedom and right to learn. Register here: bit.ly/F2L_ROAD2NDOA24 #UniteAgainstBookBans
The Freedom to Read Foundation Freedom to Read Foundation, Iowa Library Association, and American Association of School Librarians AASL joined to submit an Amicus Brief Supporting Students, Publishers, and Authors Challenging Iowa Book Ban Legislation. #UniteAgainstBookBans ftrf.org/page/Litigation