MY POV
IF YOU'RE NOT OUTRAGED, YOU'RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION! |
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LINKS YOU WANT
TO KNOW ABOUT:
ACLU Alliance for Justice Americans United for Separation of Church & State Amnesty International The Bush Watch The Center for Responsive Politics Citizen Access Project Earthjustice Extreme Ashcroft FAIR The Funny Times Jim Hightower Media Whores Michael Moore MoveOn Natural Resources Defense Council The Onion People for the American Way Save America Save ROE The Sustainability Institute This Modern World U.S. Green Building Council Witness World Press Review |
CENSORSHIP
Do you object to being told what you can read, see, hear or think? Support these organizations against censorship: The National Coalition Against Censorship The Electronic Frontier Foundation People for the American Way Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. "The mission of the CBLDF is more critical than ever. For example: Right now the Fund is fighting on behalf of Jesus Castillo, a manager of a comics shop in Dallas, Texas facing six months in jail (!) and a $4,000.00 fine on obscenity charges, just for selling an adult comic book to an adult. This is an outrage! It doesn't matter to the prosecution that this violates all of our rights for free speech, nor that much racier material is on sale a few doors down at the local drugstore and bookstore. They're not interested in taking on the real problems they just want to bully the easy target. We have to stand together on these things, and give the CBLDF the resources to pounce on these cases with the best First Amendment attorneys possible." Posted by CBLDF board member, Chris Staros on 18 Sept. 2002 The Most Frequently Challenged Books for 2001 Harry Potter series, by J.K. Rowling Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Alice series, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Go Ask Alice by Anonymous Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause Source: The American Library Association Information was compiled from challenges reported to the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom. And here is an excellent educational website for kids on how to deal with censorship: kidspeakonling.org |
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