[Libs-Or] April 2021 Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions: Intellectual Freedom News
Ekatrina Sotomayor
ekatrinas at multco.us
Mon May 3 18:12:38 PDT 2021
Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions: Intellectual Freedom News - APRIL 2021
Censorship
ALA’s Top Ten Most Challenged Books of 2020
<https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=25384> - ALA
Library Workers Who Saved the Day from Censorship
<https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=25413> - ALA Intellectual Freedom Blog
Activist accuses climate conference organizers of censorship
<https://apnews.com/article/berlin-europe-john-kerry-censorship-7f41d775dec90cd9fa6e2809f75fb62a>
- AP Wire
Exclusive: Jason Reynolds to serve as inaugural Honorary Chair of Banned
Books Week
<https://ew.com/books/jason-reynolds-banned-books-week-20201/?utm_campaign=entertainmentweekly_entertainmentweekly&utm_content=new&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_term=60759702264a2b0001cc96f1>
- Entertainment Weekly
Maryland Bill Would Ban Hate Symbols In Public Schools
<https://www.wboc.com/story/43577716/maryland-bill-would-ban-hate-symbols-in-public-schools>
- WBOC
Senate passes bill banning teaching of critical race theory in Idaho schools
<https://idahonews.com/news/local/senate-passes-bill-banning-teaching-of-critical-race-theory-in-idaho-schools>
- Idaho News
Throwing the Baby Out with the Bath Water: Challenges to Call Me Max and
Equity Book Bundles in Murray School District - Intellectual Freedom Blog
<https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=25476> - Intellectual Freedom Blog
Midland libraries remove Pride displays after community complains
<https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Midland-libraries-remove-Pride-displays-after-16112120.php>
- Midland Reporter-Telegram
Battle Over School Reading Lists Continues in Suburban Austin
<https://bookandfilmglobe.com/education/battle-over-school-reading-lists-continues-in-suburban-austin/>
- Book & Film Globe
NCAC Applauds Simon & Schuster For Rejecting Petition Demanding Former
Trump Associates Not Be Published
<https://ncac.org/news/simon-schuster-petition-publisher> - National
Coalition Against Censorship
Artist Dread Scott Censored by Instagram for "Hate Speech"
<https://ncac.org/news/dread-scott-censored-instagram> - National Coalition
Against Censorship
First Amendment
First Circuit Upholds First Amendment Right to Secretly Audio Record the
Police
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/first-circuit-upholds-first-amendment-right-secretly-audio-record-police>
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
Prof who refused to use transgender student's preferred pronouns can pursue
suit, 6th Circuit rules
<https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/prof-who-refused-to-use-transgender-students-preferred-pronouns-can-pursue-suit-6th-circuit-rules>
- American Bar Association Journal
Trump Judge: Professor Has a First Amendment Right to Misgender a Trans
Student in the Classroom
<https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/amul-thapar-meriwether-trump-transgender-first-amendment.html>
- Slate
Evanston independent bookstore sues Amazon, book publishers for unfair
business practices
<https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/evanston/ct-evr-evanston-bookstore-amazon-lawsuit-tl-0408-20210330-3dwuzlhddrfg3bwrsv7hqiydta-story.html>
- Chicago Tribune
Justice Thomas suggests tech platforms qualify as 'common carriers'
<https://www.rcfp.org/justice-thomas-knight-v-trump/> - Reporters
Committee for Freedom of the Press
States Consider Bills That Threaten Protest Rights
<https://ncac.org/news/legislation-protest-limits> - National Coalition
Against Censorship
Privacy
Adventures of an eResources Librarian - Thinking About and Teaching Privacy
Every Day, Part One
<https://chooseprivacyeveryday.org/adventures-of-an-eresources-librarian-thinking-about-and-teaching-privacy-every-day-part-one/>
- Choose Privacy Every Day
A Beginner's Guide to Reading Privacy Policies
<https://bbbprograms.org/media-center/blog-details/insights/2021/04/15/beginner's-guide-to-privacy-policies>
- Better Business Bureau
The unsettling surveillance of anti-Asian racism
<https://www.theverge.com/22359080/anti-asian-racism-attacks-surveillance-policing>
- The Verge
How Your Car Became a Surveillance Weapon
<https://www.natlawreview.com/article/how-your-car-became-surveillance-weapon>
- National Law Review
Addressing the Alarming Systems of Surveillance Built By Library Vendors
<https://sparcopen.org/news/2021/addressing-the-alarming-systems-of-surveillance-built-by-library-vendors/>
-
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
Tell Congress: Support the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/tell-congress-support-fourth-amendment-not-sale-act>
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
'High-Surveillance' Schools Lead to More Suspensions, Lower Achievement
<https://www.edweek.org/leadership/high-surveillance-schools-lead-to-more-suspensions-lower-achievement/2021/04>
- Education Week
Diversity
Native Children's and YA Writing Intensive
<https://diversebooks.org/programs/native-writing-intensive/?mc_cid=d3440c6e21&mc_eid=1526b6cb31>
- We Need Diverse Books
Why CEOs resist addressing diversity, equity and inclusion
<https://www.hartfordbusiness.com/article/why-ceos-resist-addressing-diversity-equity-and-inclusion>
- Hartford Business Journal
7-year-old girl traumatized after White school staff member cuts her hair
<https://theblackwallsttimes.com/2021/04/16/7-year-old-girl-traumatized-after-white-school-staff-member-cuts-her-hair/>
- Black Wall Street Times
North Idaho library board candidates claim they were asked by Republicans
about views on LGBTQ community, censorship
<https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/208/north-idaho-library-board-candidates-republican-views-lgbtq-community-censorship/277-197976eb-b982-41e5-ace6-436784ecbc09>
- KTVB
From the mouths of babes: Books about kids with disabilities, written by
kids for kids, making their way into home libraries
<https://www.mcall.com/news/education/mc-nws-diverse-library-disabilities-mikaylas-voice-lehigh-valley-reads-20210412-ckcd5rn2nfhuncts7thbw77vdu-story.html>
- The Morning Call
The New York Public Library Spotlights Asian American and Pacific Islander
Authors and Voices With Reading Recommendations For AAPI Heritage Month
<https://patch.com/new-york/new-york-city/new-york-public-library-spotlights-asian-american-pacific-islander-authors>
- New York Public Library
Access & Net Neutrality
As States Expand Vaccines, Prisoners Still Lack Access
<https://apnews.com/article/prisoners-lack-access-coronavirus-vaccine-f342f6da7cec724c4543efe9635efb8a>
-
AP News
Broadband For All: Inside Biden’s $100 billion Plan to Improve Internet
Access
<https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2021/04/03/biden-infrastructure-plan-100-billion-broadband-internet-proposal/7074754002/>
- USA Today
How Libraries Are Expanding Internet Access
<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-25/how-libraries-are-expanding-internet-access>
- Bloomberg
Libraries Are Key Tools For People Getting Out Of Prison, Even During A
Pandemic
<https://www.mainepublic.org/npr-news/2021-03-28/libraries-are-key-tools-for-people-getting-out-of-prison-even-during-a-pandemic>
- Maine Public Radio
Net Neutrality Flare-Up
<https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-tech/2021/03/29/net-neutrality-flare-up-794321>
- Politico
AT&T Is Not Happy About California’s Net Neutrality Law
<https://gizmodo.com/at-t-is-not-happy-about-californias-net-neutrality-law-1846499124>
- Gizmodo
How Broadband Access Advances Systemic Equality
<https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/how-broadband-access-hinders-systemic-equality-and-deepens-the-digital-divide/>
- ACLU
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Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions is a monthly roundup of Intellectual
Freedom News compiled by the Multnomah County Library Intellectual Freedom
Committee.
We welcome suggestions of articles to include at lib.ifc at multco.us. In
general, submissions should follow the following criteria: (1) News
articles; (2) Published in the relevant month; (3) Prioritize issues of
either local relevance or national interest.
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