| Porque Incineration: Book Burning in Cuba |
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Signatories of The
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undersigned authors and librarians, endorse the "Read A
Burned Book" campaign, and we urge freedom-loving people around the world to read the books which tyrants burn. We especially urge young people in all lands to read and discuss the books which were ordered "incinerated" by judges subservient to Fidel Castro in 2003. The paper of books written by Guillermo Cabrera Infante, George Orwell, Martin Luther King, Jr., Carlos Franqui, Vaclav Havel, Oswaldo Paya, Pope John Paul II and many others may have been burned, but their words have flown like birds to the minds of those who yearn to be free. Tyranny in any nation cannot long survive, nor easily arise, when the people demand to freely read. We look forward to the day when the people of a truly-independent Cuba will thrive in a land where books are not burned, independent libraries are not destroyed, and journalists are not jailed. |
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Franqui, Cuban
Revolutionary, Author Family
Portrait with Fidel, Founder and Senior Editor of Carta de Cuba. Gisela Delgado Sablon, Executive Director of Independent Library Project of Cuba, Member of Damas de Blanco, a group of prisonser's wives
awarded the 2005 Sakharov Prize by the European Parliament.
Amb. Armando Valladares, Poet and Author of Against All Hope, former prisoner of conscience in Cuba and US Ambassdor to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. Prof.
Carlos Eire,
Yale;
Author Waiting For Snow in
Havana, Winner of National Book Award Yvonne Conde, Author, Operation Pedro Pan, and La Sabiduria de
los Nuestros. Beth Hill, Asst. Professor, University of Idaho, Librarian & American Library Association (ALA) Council member Andrea M. Morrison, Associate Librarian, Indiana University Bloomington, ALA Council member, and author Ellen Zyroff, Ph.D., Principal Librarian, San Diego County Library, ALA Member; ALA Councilor (2003-06) Sandy Berman, Maverick Library Author and Honorary Lifetime member of American Library Association Norma Montero, 10 Years at Jose Marti National Library, Havana; Manager, Huntington Park Library, CA. Rochelle Hartman, Librarian/Blogger, La Crosse, WI Bozena Bednarek-Michalska, Information Specialist, Nicolaus Copernicus University Library, Torun, Poland Piotr Bierczynski, Librarian, Regional and Municipal Public Library, Lodz, Poland. Piotr Marcinkowski, Research Departmengt, University Library, Poznan, Poland. Ewa Bąkowska, Head of Reference Services, Jagiellonian University Library, Cracow, Poland. Olga Karman, Author of the memoir, Scatter My Ashes Over Havana Jaime Suchlicki, Professor, University of Miami David Landau, Editor & Publisher, Pureplay Press, Author of "Death is Not Always The Winner." Dolores M. Koch, Translator and book lover, New York City Dr. Steve Marquardt, So. Dakota State U. Dean of Libraries Emeritus, Recipient of the Butler Human Rights Award for 2006, and Co-Chair FREADOM Susan Matveyeva, Ph.D., MLIS, Asst. Professor & Catalog Librarian, Wichita State University Libraries Lance McGrath, Librarian and Professor, Northwest Nazarene University, Idaho Mindy Kittay, Deputy Directory/Systems Librarian Garfield County Public Library District, CO Jim Heckel, Library Director, Great Falls, Montana Kathleen Daley, Director, Thomaston Public Library, Maine Susan Flaherty, Librarian, Portland, ME Kevin J. Gallagher, Director, Middletown Thrall Library, NY Susan Tertell, former Chief of Central Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, MN (retired) Steve Fesenmaier, ALA and SRRT member, co-founder, WV Intl. Film Festival, 2006 West Virginia History Hero Robert Kent, Co-Chair Friends of Cuban Libraries Wojciech Siemaszkiewicz, Former Solidarity activist; Librarian Radames Suarez, Spanish Language Collections/Cultural Arts Librarian, NY, ALA Member Michael Nellis, Human Rights advocate, civil libertarian, citizen, journalist, author Werner A. Lind, Assistant Director, Easley Library, Bluefield College ,VA Mark Wetmore, Initiated 1st US public library sponsorship of a Cuban independent library, in Vermillion, SD, in 2004 Walter Skold, Poet, Librarian, and Co-Chair of FREADOM, Freeport, Maine Elaine Anderson, Librarian, Theology Student, Fonthill, ON Stephen Denney, Library Assistant, U.C. Berkeley, CA Iván Acosta, Playwright, Filmmaker. Founder of the Cuban Cultural Center in NYC Iraida Iturralde, Poet, President of the Cuban Cultural Center of NY Maria Angelica Martin, Professor Rowan University, Writer, NJ USA Prof. Roland Armando Alum, Ethnologist [NJ, USA] Jacilyn Spuhler, Local History Librarian-Archivist, Eagle Valley Library District, Colorado Stacie Fowler, Teen librarian, Scottsdale Public Library System, Arizona Jeanne Bogino, Reference Librarian, Southern Vermont College, Bennington, VT Trisha Kometer, Reference Librarian, Providence, RI ALA Member Gaetano Abbondanza, Public Services Librarian, Glendora, CA Becky Ames, Simpson Memorial Library, Carmel, ME M. Decker, Librarian, Glendale, CA Jennifer C. Dooley, San Jose State University SLIS student Bruce Pomerantz, Librarian, Minnesota State Library Catherine Creedon, Librarian and writer, Sag Harbor, NY Amy Cianciulli, Reference librarian, New York Elizabeth Scott, College Archivist, St. Michael's College, Colchester, VT. Katherine L. Telford, MLIS Graduate student at the University of RI. Gayle Jernigan Rogers, LMS, St. Jude Educational Institute in Montgomery, Alabama Magdalena Szkowron, MLIS student, Poland Marlena Lange, Librarian, Middletown, NY Cheryl Isbister, Library Degree Program, Maine Christina Koenig, MLIS student at Wayne State University in Detroit Day Breitag, Writer, Pierre, SD Glen E. DeVore, Jr. I love books and I oppose censorship and dictators (right or left) (From this point we are adding names
as they come in, regardless of affiliation)
Annette Birdsall, Youth Services Consultant, Finger Lakes Library System, Ithaca, NY Allen B. Veaner, Library History Round Table Member and Life Member of ALA. Wesley A. Doak, former Oregon State Librarian, Retired Claire Poynter, Chair of Children's Services Division, Michigan Library Association Deborah Motley, Teen Librarian, Orion Township, MI Elaine Steinberg, Librarian, Louisville, Kentucky Teri Lesesne, educator (MLIS professor) and reader Gloria Garretson, Sumrall, Mississippi Rachel Gould, Youth Services Librarian, Watertown, MA Gary Yessin, Law School Librarian & Lawyer, Orlando Florida Patricia Parker, Writer & Prison Activist Matthew Reames, Librarian, Madison, WI Andrew Teeple, Head of Technical Services, Lake County Public Library, Merrillville, Indiana
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