Dear MoveOn member,
Just days after a Tennessee school board banned "Maus," a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, from being taught in schools—a church in the state held a book burning.1 Footage from the event shows hundreds of people gleefully tossing books deemed "demonic" into the fire.2
Across the country, book bans have risen dramatically over the past year, led by far-right politicians intent on stopping kids from learning about race, sexual orientation, gender identity, different cultures, or even just an unbiased history of our country.
It is a blatant, despicable attack on our freedoms and an attempt to control the minds of our kids.
We cannot, and will not, let it happen.
MoveOn has launched a full-scale campaign to stop book bans, bans on the teaching of race in America, and other attempts by the right wing to take over our schools. To help spread the word, we've just printed a big batch of these "I Read Banned Books" stickers and bookmarks, and we're giving them away for free while supplies last.
Just click here or on the image below to order your free sticker and bookmark!
Attempts by school boards and other lawmakers to ban books are reaching numbers not seen in decades. According to the American Library Association, there were at least 330 attempts to ban books last fall, a number they reported as "unprecedented."3
Make no mistake: These are attempts by Republicans to wage a white supremacist culture war and march our country closer toward authoritarianism.
They will not win.
As we have done in the past, our grassroots, people-powered movement will fight back, and together we will succeed.
Thanks for all you do.
–Kelly, David, Stephen, Anne, and the rest of the team
Sources:
1. "Tennessee pastor burns 'witchcraft' 'Harry Potter,' 'Twilight' books," The Hill, February 7, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/160338?t=5&akid=317185%2E53570607%2Eun-Z38
2. Ibid.
3. "Book Ban Efforts Spread Across the U.S.," The New York Times, February 8, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/160273?t=7&akid=317185%2E53570607%2Eun-Z38
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