This can't wait, ACLU Supporter: The school year just began, and we need your help to combat an unprecedented, coordinated effort to ban books. Though censorship is nothing new, the current push to ban books is stronger than ever before. Book bans have increased 40% over the last year, which is a record high. Librarians have removed thousands of books from the shelves, mostly titles by and about people with marginalized identities. The ACLU has a 100-year legacy of winning free speech cases, and we're continuing the fight today by taking book bans to court. But to fund our nationwide network of attorneys and advocates, we need 1,330 First Amendment advocates to donate before our fundraising deadline on Friday.
Book bans reached a fever pitch in 2022. Here's the crisis we're facing:
The ACLU is uniquely prepared to respond to school censorship, and we're fighting back through litigation, including two ongoing cases in Missouri, one case in Virginia, a successful suit against Florida's so-called "Stop WOKE" Act, and more. But if we're going to keep up with this onslaught of school censorship, we need grassroots advocates like you to donate before our fundraising deadline on Friday at midnight.
Thanks for helping us defend free speech in schools and protecting all of our rights, Leah Watson |
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