Banned Book Week

Banned Book Week: Sept. 27-Oct. 4, 2008. http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedbooksweek.cfm

Read a banned book today!

Song: "Ministry of Love" by Eurythmics, from the album 1984 (For the Love of Big Brother).

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• ALA
• book
• ban
• censorship
• banning
• challenge
• library
• 1984
• Farenheit
• 451

[Rhonda9]

Great video.

[GiddyGonkette]

Thanks- it is a subject I'm pretty passionate about.

[ericsk16]

Great Video. I don't understand who would ban a book. Its not right. People who go out and say "I have the right to tell you what you can and cannot read" are really arrogant and is an infrigment of the first amendment.

[htomsirveaux42]

you know the bible has just about everything these books have, yet they don't try to ban that...

[Nanteos]

No book should ever be banned. It is an American's God-given right to write or buy whatever literature we choose.

[WEGAVEHIMHELL]

BANNING BOOKS IS DUMB

[WEGAVEHIMHELL]

WTF really olives ocean how wrong can it be?LOL the choclate war is banned?WOW!!!!Well DUH a tango makes three!!!!!!Come on people my mom would let me read these and she is pretty strict and im 11 (going to sixth grade)

[WEGAVEHIMHELL]

LOL the teaching kids sex book is banned!!!!!!LOL why? They have many books like that. I must say the perks of being a wall flower sounds like a fucking awesome book.I know why the caged bird sings is a classic and high schools assign there students to read it.WHAT IS WRONG WITH TTYL!!!???I wanna read the color purple it sounds good.Huckleberry finn is in my last year elementary class and our teacher wouldnt let us read the twilight saga in there.The golden compass is a kids book.

[catchup1999]

Well I have an answer to that question, nobody's going to decide what my children read. (Except for if they find my copy of The Satanic Verses, then I'll just keep that from them until they're a little older, just because they're a bit too young for that one and get scared easily whenever the devil is mentioned, I really don't know why, though.) Nice vid, very well put together, and I enjoyed the music! :)

[MiyazakiSensei]

I find it odd that people would want to ban Huck Finn for racism, when racism was it's satirical intention. I hope those why try to ban this book actually understand the USAGE of this book...

[Obsessionoftheweek]

the choclate war was boring but i dont remember it being explicit

[dahwang12]

Great Video! *****

[librarydamon]

I love that the OIF has started to do this each year. It is an invaluable teaching tool!