Bookmans launches our annual, month-long campaign to highlight threats to your First Amendment rights. Censorship limits your options - protect your freedom to choose. Read, watch, play, and listen to what you want.
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Check out posters from the past five years of Fight Censorship.
September is here and that means we're putting the fight against censorship front and center with our annual Fight Censorship campaign. All month long, our website and each of our stores will feature dynamic content and displays filled with challenged, banned, and censored media. Our goal? To raise awareness and provide information about the dangers of censorship and its threat to your freedoms.
It is no one's right but your own to determine what you, or your children, can read, watch, play, and listen to.
We've long celebrated the American Library Association's Banned Books Week with in-store displays and events, but books are not the only material subject to censorship. The effort to suppress comes from all sides, whether it's controversial music lyrics, violence in video games, or sex in movies - just to name a few. Censors justify their motives by deeming what is morally, politically, and spiritually acceptable for the rest of us.
Banning and censoring controversial material is never the answer; honest, open dialogue about that material is.
Censorship is about subtleties. It's about limiting your options and access to information and ideas; it's about treading on your right to think, judge, and decide for yourself. Censorship takes choice from your hands. This is the month to remember that the ideas we love and the ideas we hate are all equal. Bookmans believes it is our duty to protect those ideas and be a bastion of the First Amendment. We owe our customers the ability to access the books, movies, music, and video games they want, free of judgment or difficulty.
If we, as a media store, can't defend your freedom of choice, who will?
This month, we invite you to read, listen, watch, play, think, and decide for yourself - and to FIGHT CENSORSHIP.
Anyway, let's think for ourselves and show that there's more than one way to judge a situation. Have you heard Linkin Park's Hands Held High? It's worth listening to--about the war. I'm going to check out that audio link from Scott now.
http://www.rawilsonfans.com/downloads/BurnedBooks.mp3
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