Dear MoveOn member, 

Last week—just days after a Tennessee school board banned "Maus," a
Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, from being
taught in schools—a church in the state held a book burning.^1 Footage
from the event shows hundreds of people gleefully tossing books deemed
"demonic" into the fire.^2

Across the country, book bans have risen dramatically over the past year,
led by far-right politicians intent on stopping kids from learning about
race, sexual orientation, gender identity, different cultures, or even
just an unbiased history of our country.

It is a blatant, despicable attack on our freedoms and an attempt to
control the minds of our kids.

We cannot, and will not, let it happen.

MoveOn has launched a full-scale campaign to stop book bans, bans on the
teaching of race in America, and other attempts by the right wing to take
over our schools. To help spread the word, we've just printed a big batch
of these "I Read Banned Books" stickers and bookmarks, and we're giving
them away for free while supplies last.

[ [link removed] ]Just click here or on the image below to order your free sticker and
bookmark!

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Attempts by school boards and other lawmakers to ban books are reaching
numbers not seen in decades. According to the American Library
Association, there were at least 330 attempts to ban books last fall, a
number they reported as "unprecedented."^3

Make no mistake: These are attempts by Republicans to wage a white
supremacist culture war and march our country closer toward
authoritarianism.

They will not win.

As we have done in the past, our grassroots, people-powered movement will
fight back, and together we will succeed.

[ [link removed] ]Help spread the message by ordering your free "I Read Banned Books"
sticker and bookmark now. Place the sticker somewhere visible, and use
your bookmark to keep your place in your banned book!

Thanks for all you do.

–Kelly, David, Stephen, Anne, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. "Tennessee pastor burns 'witchcraft' 'Harry Potter,' 'Twilight' books,"
The Hill, February 7, 2022
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2. Ibid.

3. "Book Ban Efforts Spread Across the U.S.," The New York Times, February
8, 2022
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