Click on the poster above to go to the Freedom to Read website. Freedom to Read Week is this week, February 25th to March 3rd, 2007, and this year's slogan is "Celebrate your choices, contemplate your challenges." This is the 23rd year that Freedom to Read Week has been celebrated.
What Freedom to Read Week aims to do is increase awareness of censorship of books, magazines, and other reading materials in Canada. Censorship occurs when anyone but the justice system attempts to enforce limits on what a person can or cannot read. Furthermore, included in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is this statement: “Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms . . . thought, belief, opinion and expression.”
For more information, check out the Freedom to Read website and any of the following sites:
The Canadian Library Association (CLA) Statement on Intellectual Freedom.
The 100 Most Challenged Books of 1990-2000 (American Library Association).
Book Bannings and Burnings timeline.
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