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The ALA & Cuban Book Burning
Special Documentary Report: Upated January 15, 2007 |
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For one-and-a-half YEARS
the American Library
Association's Office of
Intellectual Freedom (OIF) has
ignored the clear evidence of book buring in Cuba. This page, made by
librarians and human rights activists, outlines this travesty of
library principles.
1. This document, "Books Known to Have Been Burned In Cuba, in 2003," lays out the facts on the books burned in Cuba, and the silence of OIF officials when asked to address this issue. This is the longer complete documentation of this 18-month effort to get the ALA's Office of Intellectual Freedom to respond to this violation of the Library Bill of Rights and the rights of Cuban readers. Freadom members have provided the OIF with everything they have asked for, but still they won't acknowledge the crime. More than 1 year
ago OIF officials promised that they were "discussing" the documents we
provided them.
We keep asking, "Are you going to answer, folks?" 2. The copies of American newspaper articles and editorials which Mr. Don Wood himself asked for -- but which he and his colleagues at the ALA's OIF now ignore? Mr. Wood asked for these as proof, so why is he still not updating the ALA's book-burning page? Or, explaining why he thinks Amnesty International and the Organization of American States is wrong, and that these reports of book burning from Cuba are not valid? 4. Comments of Ray Bradbury on Cuban Book Burning 5. Special Freadom High School Reading and Human Rights Activity: Porque Incineration 6. ALA's Book-Burning Page, where news of Castro's documented repression is not welcome. 7. Freadom's new Bibliography on Book Burning 8. Nat Hentoff on Book Burning and the ALA 9. Andrei Codrescu on "The shameful silence on Cuba by America's librarians" |