[aisle] 🚨Call Your Rep🚨 - Protect the Freedom to Read

[Legislation Advocacy AISLE]

 This bill  has one of those titles that belies the real intent of the
makers to control how materials are selected in our schools going way
beyond any sensible policies.already in place. The National Education
Association has also alerted their membership to oppose this bill.

:Lou Ann Jacobs
AISLE Legislation Advocacy Function Representative
Legislation at aisled.org

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From: ALA Public Policy & Advocacy Office <imanager at alawash.org>
Date: Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 8:06 AM
Subject: 🚨Call Your Rep🚨 - Protect the Freedom to Read
To: Lou Ann Jacobs <Legislation at aisled.org>


The House may bolster book banning this week!
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Hello Lou!

This week, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on a dangerous bill
that would pave the way to more censorship in school libraries. *Please
call your Representative today and ask them to vote NO.*

Call My Rep Now!
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The bill is H.R. 5, the so-called “Parents Bill of Rights Act.” While the
title might sound good, librarians know not to judge a book by its cover.

H.R. 5 would open the door to more book bans targeting local school
libraries. Specifically, it would require schools that receive federal
funding to give parents a list of books in their child’s school library and
create a process for parents to view them on request.

*Obviously, parents should be able to know what is in their kid’s school
library. And they already can.* This is already standard local practice,
and if a parent wants to know more about the school library, they can just
ask. We don’t need a federal regulation for this.

But if it became law – especially *now*, in a climate of unprecedented
censorship efforts targeting libraries and schools – *H.R. 5 would be
weaponized by the people who want to ban even more books*.
Tell My Rep to Vote NO on H.R. 5
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Let’s be clear: even if the House passes H.R. 5, it’s expected to go right
into the shredder in the Senate. Nonetheless, Representatives need to know
that *any time legislation threatens to expand censorship, library
advocates will stand up to oppose it. *

*Please call your Rep. TODAY* – it only takes two minutes and we provide
suggested talking points.

ALA Public Policy & Advocacy Team

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