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>> on booktv, a discussion about such a big challenge because of race, ethnic state, challenge our preference of their care areas. the panel is part of a literary movement this week. -- banned books this week. [inaudible conversations] >> hi, everyone. thank you for coming out tonight. as you can see them as a can see a massive herd these are cameras from c-span, booktv. very happy to have been hearing very happy to have this discussion here powell.

if you want to keep up, we have events nearly every other night. that's a great upcoming stuff in the month about cabrera. you can pick this at the information desk. we are excited to host this event for a band books week. it is moderated by candice morgan right here. the coordinator to celebrate the freedom to read and oregon sponsored by the oregon library association ends at the aclu of oregon. authors do have boats if you would like to have a book signed, they would be happy to sign up for you. as a bunch of the cart right back there after the talk in there at the time time for audience q&a as well. as you heard, please wait for

the microphone should come your way would make it to the audience q&a said that it will be heard on the tv when it airs. thanks again for coming out. please welcome candice morgan. [applause] >> well, thank you. in addition to the various people that celebrate the freedom to read and oregon is the state library's intellectual freedom clearinghouse for the only state in the union has such an element, which they do all kinds of information to provide challenges in free speech and also a list of books that are challenged in oregon. so i want to thank powell for letting us have this event here in the cnn and chris pine who is not here come the director of the american booksellers for

free expression and he's the one that arranged for this to go in there at three or four other locations in the country also doing this particular kind of a program. so i want to start out. i'll put some questions to our speakers here and as you heard them will have questions than answers once we get there. the band books week was started in teammate to. that year there was a big increase in the number of books being challenged and many of them were also being banned. the american library association in a number of other organizations formed a coalition to be able to have this. i want to name them all. the american booksellers for free expression. the american library association. the association of american university presses. the authors guild, combat book

legal defense fund whom are represented here. the freedom to read foundation, the national conference of teachers of english and people for the american foundation. another thing i'm sure you're all aware but sometimes we need to point out that it's not about books. in 1982 was about books. now we have e-books. we have movies in the library. we had dvds. we have a variety of different things and we include those and all of what we are talking about when we are talking about challenges. one of the things to remember -- i should say if you are library that participates and celebrates the freedom to read and oregon,

the little buttons that say i agreed band books. if you happen to be in the school library, not a school libraries do. but if you're ever in a location import than he does to those buttons, you should tell them to contact the aclu of oregon will add them to the list. the aclu of oregon pays for those. so with no further ado, i will start with the question. if you reach -- introduce yourself first. >> hello. i am the author of low riders space and the writers to the center said beard, two graphic novels for kids and the kids science book called bugs before time about giant prehistoric insects. i worked my whole life is a librarian but i'm not here representing an particular

library but i may add some information for the library site to the discussion. >> and cory. i write novels centers for adults and last year a graphic novel for middle grade readers. i am a recovering library worker and a recovering bookstore worker. i also do part-time work for the electronic frontier foundation, which does civil liberties work on privacy and surveillance in free expression online. i mention that because a month ago we brought a suit to repeal a particularly pernicious last century internet law and we are asking the court to invalidate on the basis of its violations of the first amendment. >> by name is jonathan hill. i was the illustrator for the book americas, which is a graphic novel about a book banning in a small town and i'm

also a teacher. i teach comics. >> and charles brownstein can executive director of the comic book legal defense fund investor share of the banned books week coalition. i also write nonfiction about comics in the most recent pieces are the one -- [inaudible] >> i forgot to mention i'm a retired librarian, so we have good representation on this. the first question is why you said that we call it the end books week even though a majority of challenged materials are not removed from collections ? >> i guess i can drop the opening pitch i'm not one. it all comes from the same matrix of a 10 day to pass judgment on content for other

people. it all begins with this particular vote, magazines, movies, whatever. i don't think anybody should have the right to see it. there is a path to censorship that kathy can walk us there is a librarian more effect to the lake that begins with the challenge can go through the media attack group of the local media and save local media and save the libraries putting filtering to the hands of kids. it all kind of comes out of the same matrix are by no better than the other people in my community in a way that shuts down the ability to make their own decisions about what is right for them in their household. >> i think it is unabashedly about having an accessible catchy name for things. we call the click rate, but that means you may something i don't agree with sound interesting. there's a reason we have names

for things and then we have further detail about this things. we have had lancet articles >-greater-than-sign express the nuance because otherwise we wouldn't call it the band books week -- books that we think they are not very good at their jobs or they fail to ban them. recall a banned books week because it sits on a. >> anybody else has something to say to that? >> can't follow that up. >> i agree. >> what is each of yours personal experience with challenged or banned books? >> you should go first. >> well, like so many of the stories that begins in florida. i wrote a novel in 2008 called little brother that's about kids

who after a terrorist attack in san francisco find themselves interrogated by the department of homeland security. they then emerged from a multi-day interrogation to discover their city has become a kind of police state and that everyone they know seems to have gone along with it because after terrible disasters you seek daddy figures who will reassure you with their authority. they decide this is good enough for an adult on network out of hacked xbox is to get around ths or the then they built a guerrilla army in the san francisco restore the bill of rights to americas. an ambitious 17-year-old. i bought this book could expand moderately well received. it was read in lots of places, taught at west point, taught at the nsa and there is a school in pensacola called washington high ironically where every summer they have a one book once close summer read program where all

the kids are given an optional assignment. an extra credit assignment to read a book that discusses schoolwide in the autumn. the library and head of the english department came together to plan this. they went through the normal channels to do so in like a week before school let out, the principal decided to cancel the summer reading program rather than have his kids read the book, which he hadn't read, but he had read reviews of it and decided that he might get into trouble with the parents. the fact that a bunch of them when the military than the fact they teach at west point seems like a weird misplaced concern. the teacher and a librarian went back to them and that you're not allowed to do this. we have a process in the school district are challenging books and it doesn't go like this on the principle you'll do what i say. our process has ruled lot of

women to it. so my publisher arranged to send them 200 copies over the summer given out for free on day one. the book is a download so you can get it for free on line. kids who downloaded the book e-mailed them to me said cryptographically signed them and give them back to men and monograph, the company that does t-shirts and posters that have the entire text of a book on them arranged in a kind of weird high-resolution ascii art of scenes from the book sent them huge poster sized with those for the library in english department of the book. i heard from him as soon heard from all descendents of the summer or like i never do this extra credit. but i figure the principal if he doesn't want me to read this book, i really want to know what's in it. and that was meant to record a

video for them about the book for the summer read and it said i recorded a ditty about how disappointing it was the process wasn't being followed and it is a bit of press and stuff. the thing that was really difficult and disturbing was that the english teacher faced disciplinary hearings that could have been fired. she's not unionized via charles put me in touch with the national coalition against censorship and the mct, the national coalition committee conference teachers of english works to help her keep her job and in the end the superintendent exonerated her and told the he had done wrong. i did a video conference with a student in the autumn, but it was an ap english class and this is a school and a really poor district in the english teacher librarian, the reason they chose not book as they felt they were like readers would be excited about it now is exactly the group that wasn't in this video

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