🏆 Exciting update in our fight against TX HB900 AKA the Reader Act: The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the preliminary injunction, declaring HB900 unconstitutional! Freedom to Read Foundation AASL joined an amicus brief in the case. Help support our work: bit.ly/47I7Hk8

Happy #GivingTuesday ! We're honored to have the support of our friends at Choose Your Own Adventure - 20% of today's sales support our work defending the First Amendment & the right to read. #FreePeopleReadFreely cyoa.com

We are honored to support the #righttoread this #GivingTuesday ! 20% of today's sales will be donated to the Freedom to Read Foundation Freedom to Read Foundation , a non-profit legal and educational organization affiliated with the American Library Association American Library Association that protects and defends…

Book challenges are at an all time high. Libraries are facing defunding. Library workers are being harassed. One or two people are deciding what books are available for a community. Help us defend the right to read on #GivingTuesday . #FreePeopleReadFreely bit.ly/3N5uQWh

Freedom to Read Foundation and AASL filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to uphold a lower court decision that struck key provisions of HB 900, Texas’s controversial book rating law. bit.ly/49NCbU5

Our friends at Humanoids & Humble Bundle Bundle have assembled amazing comics to support our work defending the First Amendment - name your price, read great books, fight censorship, & support FTRF! Ends Saturday! #FreePeopleReadFreely bit.ly/3usZIcI

The government has NO business interfering with the decisions of parents, families, and minors about what library books to read and how they may access them. Read the Oct. 17 letter we sent to Huntington Beach City Council with First Amendment Coalition & ACLU SoCal.
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TODAY: Join Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚 @booklist_ala UniteAgainstBookBans for the online premiere of Ibram X. Kendi's moving #ALAAC23 Rally for the Right to Read keynote! 2pm ET w/Tracie D. Hall & One World's Chris Jackson. #BannedBooksWeek #LetFreedomRead bit.ly/3LM3hR6

Starting in 30 minutes: Don't miss John Green @MikeCurato TXFReadomFighters Becky Calzada & #BannedBooksWeek Youth Honorary Chair Da'Taeveyon Daniels for Authors and Advocates on Fighting Book Bans! bit.ly/3F3d95l

Book bans are on the rise in America. We're joining Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚 Little Free Library® PEN America for #TheBannedWagon , which is stopping in communities affected by censorship. TODAY, 3-6pm CT: Nashville TN's the bookshop! bit.ly/46hZun8 #BannedBooksWeek #LetFreedomRead

Don't miss #TheBannedWagon ! The tour kicks off 1pm today at Charis Books and offers 12 books that are being challenged and banned.

We're proud to co-sponsor w/Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚 Little Free Library® PEN America

#BannedBooksWeek #LetFreedomRead

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“To allow a group of people or any individual, no matter how powerful or loud, to become the decision-maker about what books we can read or whether libraries exist, is to place all of our rights and liberties in jeopardy.” FTRF Director Deborah Caldwell-Stone

Good news from Texas! Judge grants preliminary injunction against Reader Act, finding 'that this law violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment.” We joined AASL to file an amicus brief in the suit. bit.ly/3PrxMwO

We're delighted to sponsor an ALA eLearning webinar w/ U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights about how book bans may violate federal law and violate student rights. Free for Freedom to Read Foundation American Library Association members! 9/26 2pm CDT. Limited space, sign up soon! elearning.ala.org/local/catalog/…

Very good news from Texas!

Executive Director of CALS Nate Coulter does a great job of explaining why the lawsuit to challenge portions of Arkansas 372 was necessary.
Freedom to Read Foundation was a plaintiff in the case.
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Freedom to Read Foundation has joined an amicus brief in support of the publishers, booksellers and authors challenging a Texas school book censorship law.

We are proud to stand with the students of Texas and fight to protect their right to read, inquire and gain new understanding of themselves and the world around them through books.
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It's #IntellectualFreedomFriday ! Here is a photo of Gordon Conable, Pres of the Freedom to Read Foundation, receiving the IFRT's State and Regional Intellectual Freedom Achievement Award on behalf of the FTRF at the 1994 ALA Annual Conference.

Executive Director of CALS Nate Coulter does a great job of explaining why the lawsuit to challenge portions of Arkansas 372 was necessary.
Freedom to Read Foundation was a plaintiff in the case.
abcnews.go.com/US/library-chi…