Mass. Coalition Speaks Up for Right to Read
Members of the newly launched Mass Freedom to Read Coalition will testify at the Massachusetts State House in Boston, Mass., on Tuesday, July 22 at 1 p.m. in defense of Freedom to Read bills H.3591, H.3594, H.3598, and S.2328.
The Massachusetts authors, booksellers, educators, illustrators, librarians, and publishers of the coalition will speak to how essential the right to read is to their capacity to freely publish, share, write, and sell books. They will be joined by supporters from the Massachusetts Library Association, Massachusetts Authors Against Book Bans, American Booksellers For Free Expression, and others.
If the bills pass, Massachusetts would join a growing number of states using proactive legislation to protect intellectual freedom, fight censorship, and defend access to diverse books and ideas in schools and libraries amid nationwide book bans, most recently Rhode Island.
