Children's Book Authors Are Fighting Back Against Censorship and Book Bans
Right-wing attempts to ban books dealing with race, gender identity and sexuality are meeting resistance.
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Right-wing attempts to ban books dealing with race, gender identity and sexuality are meeting resistance.
Party. how are you fighting that battle? how can the national democratic party help? >> well, we have our campaign called book ban busters, and what that is is it's a website where we have a interactive map with -- showing all the book bans across the country. it's in 44 states, by the way. and this is sponsored by our group red, wine and blue. so we have that. what we do with this website is we invite the moms across the country to join us for trainings. we have our troublemaker trainings that we have every thursday evening, and we also have other opportunities for them to get together and le...
These troublemaker trainings is about getting folks to go to those school board meetings, even run for school board so that they are a part of that process. do i have that right? >> that is absolutely correct. we want ladies to get involved in their communities because these are things that are important to them. they trust their teachers and they trust, you know, for them to create curriculum and to choose books for students that are appropriate for their age levels. it is really just not appropriate for right-wing groups out of washington, d.c., led by steve bannon to be choosing the reading...