Dear John,

An increasingly dangerous authoritarian movement is sweeping our country, undermining public education, dishonoring Americans, and harming children by denying them an honest analysis of America’s past and open conversations about the present.

Increasingly, laws like Florida’s “Stop WOKE Act” and the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” legislation are whitewashing history, restricting discussions, and resulting in books being banned across the country.

Laws that require educators to teach distorted versions of history and refrain from open and factual dialogues endanger democracy and ignore the connection between human dignity and the rule of law.

This dangerous and alarming reality has prompted today's urgent Call to Action and signature request. In this Call to Action, we urge our leaders at the federal, state, and local levels to affirm five principals in order to safeguard our democracy, protect our educational system, and reject authoritarianism.

As lawyers — and as Americans — we cannot bury out heads in the sand. We cannot pretend this dangerous extremism will extinguish itself. We must work together to dismantle laws that dishonor our true history, harm young people, and put teachers at risk.

Please read and sign our Call to Action today and urge your family, friends and colleagues to do the same: [link removed]

We thank you for your attention to this important matter.


Lawyers Defending American Democracy
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Boston, MA 02210
United States
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