Coalition Links and Other Miscellany

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Coalition Links and Other Miscellany

1aspirit
Edited: Jun 24, 2021, 12:05 pm

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2MarthaJeanne
Sep 19, 2020, 2:09 pm

Do we really need this twice?

https://www.librarything.com/topic/324508

3aspirit
Jun 24, 2021, 11:46 am

>2 MarthaJeanne: No, we don't. I also didn't need the duplicate thread on Ignore, completely hiding the problem from me but not all of you.

Hmm. Let's see if I can turn this thread into something useful using administrative powers.

4aspirit
Jun 24, 2021, 12:33 pm

We don't have the following sites listed anywhere else in the group, as far as I saw from searching. These organizations watch through the year for book banning and address other issues involving censorship as needed. They might be of interest to group members.

The Banned Book Week Coalition

Sponsors


American Booksellers Association
https://www.bookweb.org/

American Library Association
https://www.ala.org/

Association of University Presses
https://aupresses.org/

Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
http://cbldf.org/

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
https://www.thefire.org/

Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF)
https://www.ftrf.org/

Index on Censorship
https://www.indexoncensorship.org/

National Council of Teachers of English
https://ncte.org/

People for the American Way Foundation
https://www.pfaw.org/

Contributors

American Society of Journalists and Authors
https://asja.org/

The Authors Guild
https://www.authorsguild.org/

PEN America
https://pen.org/

Project Censored
https://www.projectcensored.org/