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Sarah Huckabee Sanders targeted in lawsuit over book ban: report
"Why most young voters will never vote Republican
[...]8.) You are banning books, defunding libraries, barring subject matter, and whitewashing history even more in a fascistic attempt to keep them ignorant of the systemic racism that this nation was literally founded upon and continues to this day in every action your party takes."
Related: Amanda Gorman ‘gutted’ after Florida school bans Biden inauguration poem
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According to PEN America, 565 books were banned in Florida .. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hTs_PB7KuTMBtNMESFEGuK-0abzhNxVv4tgpI5-iKe8/edit#gid=1397437044 .. schools in the 2021-22 school year.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders says all are welcome in Arkansas… as long as they're cis, hetero & Republican
Story by Queerty • May 6
[...]Not only is Arkansas the fourth poorest state in the nation with a mounting affordable housing crisis and massive food insecurity, but since taking office in January, Sanders has signed several different laws controlling people’s behavior–from banning books and the gender-neutral term “Latinx”, to policing what bathrooms trans and nonbinary people can use, to restricting teachers from talking about race, sexual orientation, or gender identity in the classroom. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=171852849
Gideon Rubin
June 2, 2023, 3:23 PM ET
Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Saul Loeb/AFP)
A coalition of Arkansas book enthusiasts is suing the state and its Republican governor over a restrictive new law that threatens librarians with jail time for making banned books available to minors, The Daily Beast reports .. https://www.thedailybeast.com/librarians-sue-over-sarah-huckabee-sanders-arkansas-book-ban .
The law would “subject librarians and booksellers to criminal charges if they provide 'harmful' materials to minors,” according to The Associated Press .. https://apnews.com/article/libraries-books-bans-bookstores-arkansas-ec67cd68395d1eb22fb311baecf203ce .
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders in March signed Arkansas Act 372 into law. The measure is expected to go into effect Aug. 1.
The Arkansas Library Association and the Central Arkansas Library System are among the groups who filed the lawsuit jointly on Friday.
Critics say the law is extreme and unenforceable.
Arkansas Library Association President Carol Coffey is among those who have assailed the controversial measure.
“Library workers across Arkansas are rightly concerned that the overly broad edicts of Act 372 will prevent them from serving their patrons as they have always done, by providing a wide variety of materials to fill their information needs, and perhaps more importantly, materials that allow each child to see themselves in the books in their library,” Coffey said in a statement.
“The primary mission of the Arkansas Library Association is to support libraries and library workers and to defend intellectual freedom. We join in this lawsuit because it is the best way for us to fulfill our mission.”
The lawsuit alleges the new law violates the state’s constitution’s 1st and 14th amendment protections.
The Arkansas law follows a national trend.
Attempts to ban or restrict access to books at public libraries set a record in 2022 with more than 1,200 such challenges, according to the American Library Association, more than double of what was seen the previous year.
“I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Deborah Caldwell-Stone of the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom.
“The last two years have been exhausting, frightening, outrage inducing.”
https://www.rawstory.com/sarah-huckabee-sanders-2660819413/#cxrecs_s
"Why most young voters will never vote Republican
[...]8.) You are banning books, defunding libraries, barring subject matter, and whitewashing history even more in a fascistic attempt to keep them ignorant of the systemic racism that this nation was literally founded upon and continues to this day in every action your party takes."
Related: Amanda Gorman ‘gutted’ after Florida school bans Biden inauguration poem
[...]
According to PEN America, 565 books were banned in Florida .. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hTs_PB7KuTMBtNMESFEGuK-0abzhNxVv4tgpI5-iKe8/edit#gid=1397437044 .. schools in the 2021-22 school year.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=171993765
Sarah Huckabee Sanders says all are welcome in Arkansas… as long as they're cis, hetero & Republican
Story by Queerty • May 6
[...]Not only is Arkansas the fourth poorest state in the nation with a mounting affordable housing crisis and massive food insecurity, but since taking office in January, Sanders has signed several different laws controlling people’s behavior–from banning books and the gender-neutral term “Latinx”, to policing what bathrooms trans and nonbinary people can use, to restricting teachers from talking about race, sexual orientation, or gender identity in the classroom. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=171852849
Gideon Rubin
June 2, 2023, 3:23 PM ET
Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Saul Loeb/AFP)
A coalition of Arkansas book enthusiasts is suing the state and its Republican governor over a restrictive new law that threatens librarians with jail time for making banned books available to minors, The Daily Beast reports .. https://www.thedailybeast.com/librarians-sue-over-sarah-huckabee-sanders-arkansas-book-ban .
The law would “subject librarians and booksellers to criminal charges if they provide 'harmful' materials to minors,” according to The Associated Press .. https://apnews.com/article/libraries-books-bans-bookstores-arkansas-ec67cd68395d1eb22fb311baecf203ce .
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders in March signed Arkansas Act 372 into law. The measure is expected to go into effect Aug. 1.
The Arkansas Library Association and the Central Arkansas Library System are among the groups who filed the lawsuit jointly on Friday.
Critics say the law is extreme and unenforceable.
Arkansas Library Association President Carol Coffey is among those who have assailed the controversial measure.
“Library workers across Arkansas are rightly concerned that the overly broad edicts of Act 372 will prevent them from serving their patrons as they have always done, by providing a wide variety of materials to fill their information needs, and perhaps more importantly, materials that allow each child to see themselves in the books in their library,” Coffey said in a statement.
“The primary mission of the Arkansas Library Association is to support libraries and library workers and to defend intellectual freedom. We join in this lawsuit because it is the best way for us to fulfill our mission.”
The lawsuit alleges the new law violates the state’s constitution’s 1st and 14th amendment protections.
The Arkansas law follows a national trend.
Attempts to ban or restrict access to books at public libraries set a record in 2022 with more than 1,200 such challenges, according to the American Library Association, more than double of what was seen the previous year.
“I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Deborah Caldwell-Stone of the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom.
“The last two years have been exhausting, frightening, outrage inducing.”
https://www.rawstory.com/sarah-huckabee-sanders-2660819413/#cxrecs_s
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