Community Rallies After Alaska School Board Bans Books
"Banning books from schools based on ‘controversial’ content rather misses the point of both education and literature." More
Tennessee’s Parental Oversight of Public Libraries Act Would Censor Books, Jail Librarians
“This bill would empower a small group of people to act as morality police for entire communities and would punish libraries and librarians who act to safeguard the fundamental… More
Not Surprised But Appalled: Readers and Writers Speak Out Against Missouri Book Banning Bill
Lawmakers in Missouri have proposed a bill that would legalize arbitrary book bans and potentially land librarians in prison for sharing banned books with children. The news quickly picked… More
Proposed Book Banning Bill in Missouri Could Imprison Librarians
(New York, NY) – A bill proposed in Missouri this month represents a transparent, shameful attempt to legalize book banning in public libraries within the state, PEN America said… More
Literature Locked Up: How Prison Book Restriction Policies Constitute the Nation’s Largest Book Ban
Literature Locked Up: How Prison Book Restriction Policies Constitute the Nation’s Largest Book Ban details book banning in American prisons. More
PEN America Urges Illinois Prison Officials to Reverse ‘Troubling’ Decision to Remove 200+ Books in a Prison Library
"The fact that these removed books deal primarily with contemporary racial issues is, unfortunately, not a surprise to us,” said James Tager, Deputy Director of Free Expression Research and… More
DARE: Press Freedoms and the Case Against Julian Assange, Explained
Assange's arrest and the charge he faces (conspiracy to hack a government computer) generate debate about and divisions over the implications for press... More
DARE: State Department Bars Press Corps from Pompeo Briefing, Won’t Release List of Attendees
State Department excludes its press corps from a briefing call with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and says it won't distribute a transcript or list of... More
DARE: Fake Editions of Washington Post Falsely Claim Trump Steps down
Fake editions of the Washington Post, falsely claiming that President Trump had stepped down, distributed in D.C. on Wednesday. Franciscan University of... More
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Political rhetoric from Trump & the US AG is trickling down, bolstering federal prosecutorial efforts to build a national police power and to impose extreme penalties on protesters. Penalties for First Amendment activity have risen since Trump took office. https://www.npr.org/2020/09/27/917424823/critics-say-federal-prosecutors-are-pushing-the-envelope-with-protest-charges
