Intellectual Freedom News 9/6/2024
Highlights
- Filmmaker Ava Duvernay to Lead Banned Books Week As Honorary Chair | Banned Books Week
- We All Belong: A Change in Season Brings Inspiration and Action | American Libraries
- Censorship Throughout the Centuries | American Libraries
- Little Free Library Partners with ALA, PEN America on Banned Books Map | Publishers Weekly
- Accepting Applications for 2025 Class of ALA Emerging Leaders – Last Week to Apply | ALA
Censorship
- Moms for Liberty goes to war with New York school over five library books | Independent (NY)
- Florida School District Bans BL Manga Sasaki and Miyano for Depictions of “Inappropriate” Relationship | Anime Corner (FL)
- Huntington Beach says it will fight bill that prohibits public libraries from banning books | LAist (CA)
- Disinvited: Amid Censorship, Schools Abruptly Cancel Author Visits | School Library Journal
- Utah conservatives celebrate public school book bans at Capitol, call on authors to repent | Salt Lake Tribune (UT)
- School Board On Long, Hard Road To Censorship | Daily News-Record (VA)
- Request for Reversal of Tillamook School Board Decision to Remove Book | Tillamook County Pioneer (OR)
- Former teacher’s lawsuit over ‘Gender Queer’ police investigation goes on | Berkshire Eagle (MA)
- Moms for Liberty Lehighton Area School District Board Member Wants to Restrict Access to LGBTQ+ Books | Bucks County Beacon (PA)
- South Carolina mom who challenged 93 books in a single day is now running for school board | Post and Courier (SC)
- The Library Board has proposed changes to the library again. Here’s what they are. | Corpus Christi Caller Times (TX)
- Commission freezes funding to library amid board appointments | News Courier (AL)
Privacy & Cybersecurity
- Surveillance Education Tracks the Rise of Spying Technology in Schools | Teen Vogue
- Your Car Is No Longer a Sanctuary—It’s a Surveillance Tool | Opinion | Newsweek
First Amendment & Civil Rights
- The country’s largest publishers sue Florida over school book bans | Washington Post (FL)
- Judge weighs school board ‘privilege’ in book fight | WFTV (FL)
- Immigrant Advocates Call on Massachusetts AG to Probe Enrollment Discrimination | 74
- Federal judge blocks Ohio ban on foreign donations to ballot campaigns | Columbus Dispatch (OH)
- Denying rights to migrants ends up eroding the civil liberties of Americans | Hill
- Fired Gillette Librarian Wants To Use Texas Ruling For LGBTQ Discrimination Suit | Cowboy State Daily (WY)
- The First Amendment Doesn’t Create a Right to Bribery | Brennan Center for Justice
- We marched peacefully for racial justice in Texas — And were sentenced to jail | ACLU (TX)
- The First Amendment Is an Arms Control Agreement | Reason
- The Growing Threat of State Domestic Terrorism Laws to the First Amendment | Just Security
Academic Freedom & Student Speech
- We’re education researchers, and we stand with the education justice movement | K12Dive
- Explainer: Texas’ DEI ban is in full effect. Here’s how it impacts colleges, universities | Houston Landing (TX)
- American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana files lawsuit against Indiana University | WFFT (IN)
- After diversity pushback, some faculty feel left in dark at North Carolina’s flagship university | Washington Post (NC)
- A stunning reversal on academic boycotts is all about Israel | Hill
- Faculty, Florida state university chancellor spar over new antisemitism rule | Tampa Bay Times (FL)
Legislation
- Kentucky AG issues advisory on proposed school ballot amendment | WLWT (KY)
- Freedom to Read Act awaits Governor’s signature to become law | KEYT (CA)
- How a proposed California law could end book bans in public libraries | California Public Radio
- Multiple bills filed to address ongoing state library controversy in 2025 legislative session | 1819 News (AL)
- Maryland’s Freedom to Read Act protects librarians from book ban retaliation | CBS News (MD)
State & Local Governance
- Governor appoints ex-school board member recalled over book ban push to Nebraska’s library board | AP (NE)
- Urban League president condemns Gov. Landry’s Critical Race Theory order | KALB (LA)
Social Media
- Brazil starts blocking social media platform X amid a dispute with Elon Musk | NPR
- How Brazil’s Experiment Fighting Fake News Led to a Ban on X | New York Times
- Musk and Durov are facing the revenge of the regulators | Washington Post
Copyright
- Second Circuit Decision Limiting Book Lending Harms Libraries, Public | Public Knowledge
Disinformation & Media Literacy
- Left-Wing Misinformation Is Having a Moment | New York Times
- Russia ramps up its information war against Ukraine, aiming to weaken Western support | Hill
- Activists Charged With Pushing Russian Propaganda Go on Trial in Florida | New York Times
International
- How China’s internet police went from targeting bloggers to their followers | Guardian (China)
- New Russian-style law censors mentioning LGBTQ+ in the Bulgarian school system | Global Voices (Bulgaria)
- Public libraries in ‘crisis’ as councils cut services | BBC (UK)
Around the Web
- Moms for Liberty is raising money to put Glenn Beck’s teen fiction book in school libraries | Media Matters
- ‘A Wave That’s on the Decline?’ Trump to Talk to Parents Leading the Culture Wars. | New York Times
- Stephen King Reacts As Florida Bans 23 of His Books | Newsweek
- CUSD School Board Candidate Fitzhugh Lee Talks Books and Budget | Coronado Times
- County Libraries to Display Titles Banned in Other States During Banned Books Week | Times of San Diego
- Torres: Trying to get why school board removed book that doesn’t violate the law. | Florida Today
- Black studies curriculum coming to New York City public schools this year | WABC
- At Jackson Freedom School, Students Rallied for the ‘Right to Read,’ Defying Book Bans | Mississippi Free Press
- From School Librarian to Activist: ‘The Hate Level and the Vitriol Is Unreal’ | New York Times
- Book Bans And School Vouchers: Key Issues To Watch This School Year | Reform Austin
- Donald Trump’s Incredible ‘Transgender Thing’ | Atlantic
- We’re All Responsible for Protecting Public Libraries | Yes! Magazine
- Project 2025 offers dystopian view of America | ACLU
- Serving Justice: On stage and in the courthouse, these queens prove drag is not a crime. | Yes! Magazine
ALA News
- Cultivating kindness and wellbeing in libraries
- Core Webinar Series: Build Your Personal Website With Quarto
- Core extends free webinar registration for LIS students and faculty
- 948,000 and Counting: Free Webinar on Public Service Loan Forgiveness
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