BRING IT!: BANNED BOOKS READ-IN CELEBRATING MULTICULTURAL LITERATURE

Join us for a WLA Special Event, BRING IT!: BANNED BOOKS READ-IN CELEBRATING MULTICULTURAL LITERATURE.

KI Convention Center - Rotunda
333 Main Street, Green Bay, WI
Thursday, October 24, 2013, 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.

What will you bring to the fight against censorship? Bring your voice and your favorite banned work of multicultural literature! Bring It: Banned Books Read-In is a celebration of intellectual freedom and literature reflecting the diversity of our communities.

The read-in will include the presentation of the 2013 WLA/WEMTA Intellectual Freedom Award to the Appleton Area School District and School Board. Join us in recognizing their dedication to upholding the principles of intellectual freedom.

Come and learn about Libros Milwaukee, an underground library centered on Mexican American expression, perspective, and history. The underground library seeks to eliminate barriers of access and provide a welcoming environment where community members of all ages, races, and ethnicities can access Mexican American cultural works and Ethnic Studies literature.  Donations to Libros Milwaukee will be accepted at the event.

** Sponsored by EMIERT and IFRT**

Let's rethink Columbus

Image source: http://www.rethinkingschools.org/ProdDetails.asp?ID=094296120X

Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years, edited by Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson, was published in Milwaukee, WI as a classroom and community tool to discuss the problems with glorifying Columbus' "discovery" of the Americas and gives voice to the many silenced voices and stories "that help explain how this has become such a profoundly unequal world, but also how people have constantly sought greater justice."

Learn more about the banning (or boxing) of this particular book that was part of the dismantled Tucson Unified School District's Mexican American Studies program.

• https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/06 
• http://rethinkingschoolsblog.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/rethinking-columbus-banned-in-tucson/