#book ban

[commiepinkofag]

‘Weeding’

Uncovering the Cover-up: How Republican Pennridge School Board Directors Secretly Banned Books

Darren Laustsen | May 28, 2024

Pennridge School District engaged in a massive two-year cover-up of a secret book-banning campaign initiated by two sitting Republican school board directors hellbent on unilaterally purging books without any due process, community input, oversight, or accountability.  According to a sworn Attestation from new Superintendent Angelo Berrios, Ricki Chaikin and Jordan Blomgren ordered school staff to remove books from the library that they had unilaterally deemed were inappropriate. More so, during legal battles over a Right-to-Know request, Pennridge’s law firm, Eckert Seamans, fought to circumvent the state’s Open Records laws and conceal book removals from the public. The scheme involved illegally-doctored public records, the concealment of book removals under fake student accounts, and the eventual disposal of targeted books under the false pretense of librarian “weeding.” …

[politijohn]

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Cue the world’s smallest violin

[dk-thrive]

In my time teaching it soon became clear that becoming a good writer would not be enough. We needed more writers, and I had a responsibility to help them as a reader, to be an active audience for the stories they wanted to tell, or as a teacher, so that they could learn to tell them better, to reach deeper into their own truth in the same way that brought me euphoria, and reach into the hearts of readers and set them on fire, as Mary had been set on fire since college: by words on a page.

― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message (One World, October 1, 2024)

[prole-log]

[cabinyote]

There's a "reason" why Shatter Me is now on the banned book(s) list.

[whitesinhistory]

Always remember oppressors never take a day off.

While we are focused on….

- Israel committing genocide and being antisemitic against the people of Palestine.

- Israel being antisemitic against Jews against genocide and war. “Not in my name!”

- The silent genocide in Congo and Sudan.

Our governments continue forward chipping away at the rights of their citizens.

Keep an eye on your local government & elections. Sometimes they start small and spread to like cancer.

Look at Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. It feels like they are competing to see who can be the worst.

Remember U.S. lobbyists (christian, conservative, and republican) go out of their way to help construct other countries' anti-LGBTQ+ coalitions and policies/laws.

History in real-time is being rewritten.

Jews across the world and their allies are saying they are anti-war, against Israel’s apartheid state, against Israel’s genocide, condemn Hamas’ attack on Oct 7, condemn Israel’s attack on April 1st, and want a ceasefire. A ceasefire for the exchange hostages taken by Israel and hostages taken by Hamas, but news media, propaganda rags, companies, and government officials are spewing lies about them. Twisting their stands.

[commiepinkofag]

Teachers with Pride Still Have to Hide

Gay schoolteachers wearing masks at parade, June 28, 1986

In this image, Seattle schoolteachers participating in the Gay Freedom Day parade through the Capitol Hill neighborhood hold a banner reading "Teachers with Pride Still Have to Hide," and wear masks to protest the discrimination they have felt. An estimated 10,000 people participated in the event, which is part of Seattle's annual Gay Pride Week.

[ 📷 Jennifer Werner-Jones / Seattle Post-Intelligencer ]

oh, how times have changed!

[leylyslevi]

Them banning the giver makes so much sense if you pay attention to what he’s planning

[old-habits-die-screaming]

you know what? book ban. yes. you are on a

BOOK BAN

[imkeepinit]