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Burned:
Orwell

M.L.King, Jr.  
Paya
Franqui             


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Burned:
Infante

John Paul II
Human  Rights Watch


AUTHORS & LIBRARIANS SAY "READ A BURNED BOOK"
International Reading and Human Rights Campaign Launched
**Press Release 1/23/07**

Statement of Support From Gisela Delgado Sablon, in Havana,
Executive Director of the Independent Library Project of Cuba

Famous Authors & Librarians Supporting
the Read A Burned Book Campaign


Martin Luther King, Jr., Burned in Cuba
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Cuba and the ALA?

It has taken 18 months for the Intellectual Freedom officials at ALA to respond to questions about book burning in Cuba? How long to they need to discuss before they acknowledge the court-ordered torching of thousands of books and the destruction of library collections?
See FREADOMs Extensive Report
and documentation of this scandalous disregard for library values.
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Release the Prisoner's of Conscience


After author Andrei Codrescu's Keynote discussion in January of 2006, 60% of ALA members polled said the ALA should call for the release of jailed dissident librarians in Cuba.  So, why won't they?

Read FREADOM's report on the list of groups and individuals
who call for the release of Cuba's independent librarians.
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 2006 New Orleans ALA Meeting
2006 Background Documentation & Press Kit

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