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34 Ways to Fight Censorship
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Read banned books.
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Give your friends banned books to read.
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Check out this list of frequently challenged children's books to read to your kids.
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Suggest a banned book to your book club as your next read.
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Save this list of children's books about police violence and read them all.
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Follow authors of banned books on social media.
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Attend local school board meetings.
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Submit materials requests to your local library for banned books not already in the collection.
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Apply or run for a position on your library's board of trustees.
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Add banned books to a Little Free Library near you.
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Start a conversation about the importance of LGBTQIA+ stories.
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Write a letter to an author whose book has been banned thanking them for what they've written.
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Report censorship to the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom and the National Coalition Against Censorship.
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Visit the Book Challenge Resource Center available from the National Coalition Against Censorship.
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Prepare for and respond to book challenges using tools available from the American Library Association.
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Sign this petition opposing book bans in the United States.
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Join the Freedom to Read Foundation.
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Join the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Support Books to Prisoners, and check out the many resources available on their site, including these banned books lists.
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Sign up for Book Riot's Literary Activism newsletter.
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Follow and support Authors Against Book Bans. If you're an author, join.
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Join the American Library Association's Unite Against Book Bans campaign.
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Join Red Wine and Blue's Book Ban Busters campaign.
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Get inspired by what banned author Dave Eggers is doing to fight book bans.
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Use book resumes from Unite Against Book Bans to defend banned books.
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Attend a PEN Across America event near you in defense of free expression.
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Join The Authors Guild's national letter writing campaign against book banning.
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Vote.
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Use this incredible CRT toolkit to learn why Critical Race Theory (CRT) is such a contentious topic and how you can help educators.
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Read this article from the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund on how comics and graphic novels can help you raise a reader.
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Subscribe to Prison Legal News, a monthly magazine published by the Human Rights Defense Center dedicated to reporting on issues related to prisoners' rights.
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Subscribe to Index on Censorship Magazine.
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Learn about the history of book banning from literacy historian Harvey Graff.
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Educate yourself with Fighting for the First Amendment: Anti-book banning, a free on-demand webinar series from EveryLibrary Institute.