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Librarians unite to combat book banning, defending intellectual freedom on democracy's frontlines amid unprecedented censorship in Texas, Florida, and beyond.
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00:00I think as librarians, we never imagined what's happening right now could happen.
00:09I'm doing a criminal investigation into some of your staff.
00:11There's been an allegation of books that were in conflict of the penal code.
00:18We have librarians who are misunderstanding what is healthy and good for children.
00:24It didn't dawn on us that we would come under attack.
00:30There was a list of 850 books.
00:33We were just told, get rid of them.
00:37It's the transgender, LGBTQ, and the sexuality.
00:40That's what the governor has said that he will prosecute for, and that's what we're pulling out.
00:45I just said no.
00:48We were afraid. We were told not to tweet.
00:51They came after me, and they came after our library, they came after our library board.
00:56It feels like I'm living in a dystopian novel.
00:59If you would have asked me 10 years ago if I was going to have security concerns at a librarian conference, I would have been like, you're nuts.
01:08This is about rights.
01:10You do not get to pick our reading material.
01:13It is ours.
01:16I fear that we're going to see teachers in handcuffs.
01:18This can't be America.
01:20No, this can't be America.
01:23I don't know what's going to happen next.
01:27People say comfort to be America.
01:28Not cause he behavior of a 물-ond you may be keeping track of.
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01:33This has some kind of fun yet.
01:37We have a choice.
01:39We should continue to change this in mind.
01:42Thisér산 Paragon ci iPhone, and we are the ones we can win.
01:45Hope this year, go to America.
01:48We are all born into the 21st century.
01:49We put the new world into the 20th century.
01:53Next year, we need the former president.
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