[Kip Currier: The American Library Association's (ALA) Banned Books Week was last month. It's an annual event, started in 1982 by the late Judith Krug, a staunch intellectual freedom advocate, to raise awareness of the importance of intellectual freedom and efforts by some to ban books.
The theme for this year's event is "Banning Books Silences Stories". This Des Moines Register article and video about a man who videotaped himself burning several LGBTQ-themed books owned by a public library in Iowa is a tangible example of attempts to silence the stories of others.
Watch this 3 minute 2012 Banned Books Week video by veteran journalist Bill Moyers for a still-relevant response regarding, as Moyers puts it, "self-deputized vigilantes".]
"The Orange City Public Library said it's
exploring legal options after a northwest Iowa man rented and then
publicly burned several children's books Friday.
The second
annual OC Pride kicked off Friday with a story time for kids, a
schedule shows. About an hour before the event, Paul Dorr started a live
Facebook video, in which he stood near the Prairie Winds Event Center.
The 27-minute video ends with Dorr throwing at least four books with
LGBTQ themes that he claimed he rented from the public library into a
burning trash can."
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