So many choice quotes in this article – unfortunately, you can't make this stuff up: “The row even spread to this year's Fourth of July parade, which included
I think it's fair to say that the majority of the battles around Freedom of Expression are taking place in schools these days. “The Diary of Anne Frank”
It's February which means Freedom to Read Week is coming at the end of the month. Every year, I try to do a few posts during that week
I missed the end of Banned Books Week but meant to post this story – not just because it does a pretty good job of capturing the importance
Banned Book Week which is held during the last week of September is the US equivalent of Canada's Freedom to Read Week which is held during the last
My classmate, Lauralee, who has a history of drawing great stick figure art recently outdid herself with the FTRW poster she made for her library. Very cool! (I'm
I started the week talking about a discussion the librarians at RPL were having about the issue of patrons viewing pornography on the public access computers. Although this
Reddit recently had a question posted asking their community to submit the most offensive joke(s) they knew. There's some pretty disturbing material here and if you doubt the
A great documentary I'd highly recommend…
Here's an article about FTRW that appeared in Xtra.ca (“Where Queers Conspire”). They asked various Canadian literary types and free speech proponents to give their thoughts on some
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