In den USA wird heute der Flaggentag gefeiert.

Das "Star sprangled banner" besteht aus 7 roten und 6 weißen Streifen, die die Gründungsstaaten repräsentieren, und einer blauen Fläche mit 50 weißen Sternen, die die Bundesstaaten der USA repräsentieren.

Würden die Amerikaner*innen die Menschenrechte und Demokratie doch nur so verehren wie ein bedrucktes Stück Stoff ...

#transrightsarehumanrights #protectqueerkids
#freethebooks

#JumpyHatDieTage

Remember #AmandaGorman, the young poet who became famous after reciting during Biden’s inauguration? She got banned in a county in Florida after ONE parent presented a complaint.

#freethebooks

This is the poem http://contentmanager.med.uvm.edu/docs/the_hill_we_climb/vccyf-documents/the_hill_we_climb.pdf?sfvrsn=44a33335_2

This is Amanda Gorman’s Instagram post about the situation https://www.instagram.com/p/CsmfbFWypgC/?igshid=MmJiY2I4NDBkZg==

@neilhimself

Some days I wonder if the only reason the US fought Germany in WW II was to find out how to make a Hitler. They've certainly been practicing a lot lately.

I will happily support #freethebooks (One day, if I'm lucky, one of my books will be on a list like that.)

Quite an honour, really. If you're annoying silly people, you're doing something right. :)

RT @PENamerica
14 books—including Toni Morrison’s Beloved—have been banned from Spotsylvania School Libraries in #Virginia by a superintendent who insists the books he is banning are not being banned. #BannedBooks #FreeTheBooks #FreedomToRead https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/14-books-being-removed-from-spotsylvania-school-libraries/3317248/?_osource=db_npd_nbc_wrc_twt_shr

#FreeTheBooks
https://pen.org/issue/free-the-books/

penamerica on TikTok

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMY97MvVs/

>“Books bridge divides between people. Book bans create them.” @jodipicoultbooks explains the colossal problem that got 20 of her books banned in Martin County, Florida. #jodipicoult #bookban #florida #freethebooks

When DeSantis gets the GOP nomination, his Dem opponent should be running ads just with these pictures, day after day after day
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RT @jonfreadom
Yet another media specialist shows empty classroom shelves in Duval, FL. The district insists books are not banned, and DeSantis says his laws had nothing to do with it.
Media specialists were told to "err on the side of caution." They are. #FreeTheBooks
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-…
https://twitter.com/jonfreadom/status/1627311096397803523

RT @FLFreedomRead
Yesterday we logged almost 200 challenges- about 150 of those resulted in immediate removals.

This is a picture of all the books removed from one HS library, in one day, in one District, due to the objections of one man.

This is not freedom. #FreeTheBooks

Speaking of the Book Ban in #Florida schools and public libraries, is there a list of the banned books someplace?

Maybe we can make an effort to make them available online in some digital form.

(Before they also ban the internet, reading, writing, and using stoves on Saturday in Florida, of course.)

#ThinkingOutLoud #FreeTheBooks 📚 📚 📚 🔥

@mcopelov
#freethebooks
I'm German and I feel historically the very bad taste of this insane propaganda. NAZI "Bücherverbrennung" has been the very symbol of establishing fascist manic behaviour. These ultra rightists always act out of panicked fear used and reinforced towards blind hate by the would-be dictators. It's so important that society teaches self-reflectiveness on every level. We need more psychology or psychological know-how to move out of reach of fascism.

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“Florida Freedom to Read Project
@FLFreedomRead
Yesterday we logged almost 200 challenges- about 150 of those resulted in immediate removals.
This is a picture of all the books removed from one HS library, in one day, in one District, due to the objections of one man.
This is not freedom. #FreeTheBooks”

(If you want, you can edit the post, delete the picture, reattach it and add the text to it.)

RT @FLFreedomRead@twitter.com

Yesterday we logged almost 200 challenges- about 150 of those resulted in immediate removals.

This is a picture of all the books removed from one HS library, in one day, in one District, due to the objections of one man.

This is not freedom. #FreeTheBooks

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FLFreedomRead/status/1620457139272814593

Imagine being the crod who objects to Native Son? Or any of these.

RT @FLFreedomRead@twitter.com

Yesterday we logged almost 200 challenges- about 150 of those resulted in immediate removals.

This is a picture of all the books removed from one HS library, in one day, in one District, due to the objections of one man.

This is not freedom. #FreeTheBooks

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FLFreedomRead/status/1620457139272814593

Imagine being the crod who objects to Native Son? Or any of these.
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RT @FLFreedomRead
Yesterday we logged almost 200 challenges- about 150 of those resulted in immediate removals.

This is a picture of all the books removed from one HS library, in one day, in one District, due to the objections of one man.

This is not freedom. #FreeTheBooks
https://twitter.com/FLFreedomRead/status/1620457139272814593

RT @FLFreedomRead
Yesterday we logged almost 200 challenges- about 150 of those resulted in immediate removals.

This is a picture of all the books removed from one HS library, in one day, in one District, due to the objections of one man.

This is not freedom. #FreeTheBooks

From @FLFreedomRead over on Twitter:

Yesterday we logged almost 200 challenges- about 150 of those resulted in immediate removals.

This is a picture of all the books removed from one HS library, in one day, in one District, due to the objections of one man.

This is not freedom. #FreeTheBooks

RT @jonfreadom
It's sad but true. "A huge number of the bans we’ve seen would not have happened if school districts insisted that people filing petitions spelled authors’ names and book titles correctly” 😜 #FreeTheBooks https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/24/us-book-bans-streak-of-extremism

RT @jonfreadom@twitter.com

Wow. Clay County School district in FL appears to have pressured media specialists to "weed" challenged books -- as a way to BAN 'em!
52 "weeded" books incl James Baldwin, @ChimamandaReal@twitter.com Yaa Gyasi, @Writer_DG@twitter.com. #FreeTheBooks

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jonfreadom/status/1602327237512011779

RT @jonfreadom@twitter.com

Read more here on the background to the ongoing banning in Escambia, which is continuing to place barriers between students and books, all at the whims of a person who would file THIS kind of objection to THIS Wilma Rudolph biography. #FreeTheBooks
https://www.pnj.com/story/news/local/escambia-county/2022/10/04/escambia-county-banned-books-over-100-books-reviewed-ban/8166391001/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jonfreadom/status/1599817303977512960