Sep 25, 2024 - Virtual Webinar - Book Bans: Challenges, Solutions, and Democracy
In 2023, anti-book activists targeted 4,240 unique titles for censorship, which represents a 65% increase over the previous year’s number. It’s the highest number of titles targeted for censorship in the more than 20 years that the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom has been tracking book ban efforts.
As part of Banned Books Week 2024, we invite you to join us Wednesday, September 25, 2024 from 3:00 – 4:00 pm ET/12:00 – 1:00 pm PT for an hour-long webinar exploring what is behind these book bans and how we can stand together in the fight against censorship.
Our presenters include: Sarah Lamdan, Deputy Director at American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. Before joining ALA, Sarah was an attorney and Professor of Law at CUNY School of Law and a librarian in various academic and private law libraries. Allison Lee, PEN America’s Los Angeles Director. Before joining PEN America, Allison was the Chief Development Officer for TIME’S UP, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting gender equity and ending sexual violence in the workplace. Our moderator will be Rabba Rori Picker Neiss, Senior Vice President for Strategic Community Relations at the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. Before joining JCPA, Rori served as Executive Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of St. Louis.
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Sep 26, 2024 - Washington, DC and Virtual - Antisemitism, Democracy, and the Struggle for an Inclusive America
Antisemitism does not only threaten the Jewish community – it jeopardizes the rights and safety of countless other communities as well as our fundamental democratic norms and values. As democracy is undermined, antisemitism and broader hate and extremism flourish.
At this critical moment for democracy and our country, Yolanda Savage-Narva, Vice President of Racial Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, Communities of Belonging for the Union for Reform Judaism, moderates a conversation about the inextricable link between Jewish safety and our democratic freedoms with Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland’s 8th Congressional District and the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability in the 118th Congress; Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs; and Maya Wiley, President and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.
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