Book bans are threatening American democracy. Here’s how to fight back.

8/15/22
 
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from The Washington Post,
8/9/22:

It starts with organizing locally, where the greatest threats exist.

Almost every day we see a new story about conservatives attempting to stigmatize or outright remove a growing list of books from school or public libraries. A few examples from this latest front in America’s endless and exhausting culture war:

In southwest Florida, Collier County public schools slapped a warning sticker on 110 books — including the literary classics “Beloved,” by Toni Morrison, and “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” by Maya Angelou.

In Utah’s largest school district, officials yanked more than 50 books, many about gender and gay issues, from library shelves recently after parents complained they were unsuitable. (“We’ve not had a book burning or anything,” a district spokesman told the Salt Lake Tribune, noting that some books could be returned after further consideration. “But we are being proactive with the ones we’ve heard concerns about.”)

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