Banned Books WeekSeptember 29–October 6, 2007
Free People Read Freely ®
How can you celebrate?
Here are my five favorite ways:
2. Organize your own Banned Books Read-Out! at your school, public library, or favorite bookstore.
3. Write or call your representatives and let them know you want them to protect your freedom to read and your privacy.
4. WEAR a T-shirt with a clever anti-censorship message. The Washington Coalition Against Censorship has developed five different designs available in various colors and sizes. All profits support public education efforts by the Coalition.
5. GIVE away a banned book! Parents and students from the Goochland High School in Goochland, Virginia, were offered free copies of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot after the school board banned it. The bookstore, Volume I, created a front window display featuring Salem’s Lot and twenty other banned books. The Richmond Times-Dispatch published a photograph of the display and interviewed the bookstore owner. In the first week, twenty-two copies were given away.
