<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div><div class="yiv1173425138MsoNormal yiv1173425138yui_3_2_0_22_1347906300585103 yiv1173425138yui_3_2_0_37_1347997362511158" align="center" style="text-align: left;font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent; "><b class="yiv1173425138yui_3_2_0_22_1347906300585167 yiv1173425138yui_3_2_0_37_1347997362511160">Please forward this to people who might be interested! Thanks -</b></div><div class="yiv1173425138MsoNormal yiv1173425138yui_3_2_0_22_1347906300585103 yiv1173425138yui_3_2_0_37_1347997362511158" align="center" style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; "><b class="yiv1173425138yui_3_2_0_22_1347906300585167
yiv1173425138yui_3_2_0_37_1347997362511160"><br></b></div><div class="yiv1173425138MsoNormal yiv1173425138yui_3_2_0_22_1347906300585103 yiv1173425138yui_3_2_0_37_1347997362511158" align="center" style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; "><b class="yiv1173425138yui_3_2_0_22_1347906300585167 yiv1173425138yui_3_2_0_37_1347997362511160">Freedom to Read: Ethnic Studies Under Fire</b></div><div class="yiv1173425138MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; "><b class="yiv1173425138yui_3_2_0_22_1347906300585171
yiv1173425138yui_3_2_0_37_1347997362511166"><span class="" id="lw_1349884485_0">Thursday, October 18 at 7:00pm</span> at the <span class="yiv1173425138yshortcuts yiv1173425138cs4-visible" id="yiv1173425138lw_1347902700_1" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); ">Urbana Free Library</span></b></div><div class="yiv1173425138MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; "><b><span class="yiv1173425138yui_3_2_0_22_1347906300585175 yiv1173425138yui_3_2_0_37_1347997362511172">A special program for <span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1349884485_1" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); ">Banned Books Week</span></span></b><br></div><div
class="yiv1173425138MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; "><b> </b></div><div class="yiv1173425138MsoNormal" style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><span class="yiv1173425138yui_3_2_0_22_1347906300585179 yiv1173425138yui_3_2_0_37_1347997362511180"><span>Last year Arizona passed controversial legislation which essentially outlawed the Mexican American Studies program in the <span class="yiv1173425138yshortcuts yiv1173425138cs4-visible" id="yiv1173425138lw_1347551471_3" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); "><span class="yiv1173425138yshortcuts yiv1173425138cs4-visible" id="yiv1173425138lw_1347902700_2" style="cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color:
rgb(54, 99, 136); "><span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1349884485_2" style="cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); ">Tucson Unified School District</span></span></span>. In January while classes were in session, seven books (including <span style="font-style: italic; ">Re-Thinking Columbus</span> and <span style="font-style: italic; ">Chicano! The History of the Mexican Civil Rights Movement</span>) were "cleared from all classrooms, boxed up and sent to the Textbook Depository for storage,” and teachers in the MAS courses were reassigned and instructed by district administrators to refrain from using books in which “race, ethnicity and oppression are central themes.”<br><br>Intense debate and public protest followed. Prominent writers, teachers, librarians and activists for intellectual freedom say the case highlights issues of censorship,
discrimination, multicultural education, and the targeting of immigrants.</span> <span>As part of this special program for Banned Books Week we will host three guests –<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Debbie Reese – Publisher of American Indians in Children's Literature </span>and author of articles published in library and education journals, Debbie studies racism and stereotypes in literature for young people. An activist scholar and blogger, she played a key role in calling attention to what happened in Tucson.</span> <span><br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Barbara Jones – Barbara Jones is the Director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association, and the Executive Director of the Freedom to Read</span> Foundation. For her entire library career she has focused on free speech issues as her specialty. She is currently working with several library systems in the United States on
the issue of immigrant privacy rights and the role of librarians in supporting those rights.</span> <span><br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Francisco Baires - Community Programs Director at the University YMCA at the University of Illinois, (where he works with Champaign Urbana Immigration Forum, and is the Director of La Linea Help Line and Advisor to La Colectiva</span>, a University of Illinois student organization). Francisco moved to Illinois from Tucson, Arizona, where he was deeply involved in this issue.</span></span></div><div><span class="yiv1173425138yui_3_2_0_22_1347906300585179 yiv1173425138yui_3_2_0_37_1347997362511180"><span><br></span></span></div></div> </div></body></html>