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Freedom to Read Foundation Plans Virtual Program on Intellectual Freedom

Freedom to Read Foundation Presents a Virtual President’s Program: 

Continuing the Conversation: Intellectual Freedom and Social Justice

3:00 p.m. Eastern, 2:00 p.m. Central, 1:00 p.m. Mountain, 12:00 p.m. Pacific

90 minutes

Please register here.

Freedom to Read Foundation and National Associations of Librarians of Color leaders will share how our organizations are responding to challenges to intellectual freedom and the right to access information. A significant number of the challenges in the past two years have been to works by or about persons of color. Through this conversation we will identify ways our organizations can support one another in fighting censorship. 

Through Education, Litigation, and Advocacy, the Freedom to Read Foundation works to protect First Amendment rights. A commitment to social justice is fundamental to the work of the Foundation. Learn more here.

Panelists include:

Sukrit Goswami, President of the Freedom to Read Foundation

Alison Waukau, President of the American Indian Library Association (AILA)

Amy Breslin, Member at Large, Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA)

Nichelle Hayes, President of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA)

Ray Pun, Immediate Past President of the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA)

Loida Garcia-Febo, International Relations Committee Chair, REFORMA—The National Association to Promote Library & Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking

Press release archive: ftrf.org/news