can love who you want to love, that is going to be joe biden s america. let s talk about the fact that this fool wanted to tell us about black jobs. let s be clear. donald trump does not understand black culture. what he is doing is playing in our faces and he has got people he wants to sit up there and throw out his little tokens and be like, hey, look at my little black friend. that is essentially what he does. at the end of the day, i need people to choose themselves. if everyone is saying, the economy is number one, please y tell me why you would vote for donald trump when he refused to answer any economic question. he has no plan come he never has had a plan, and the only plan he plans to follow is the manifesto that has been laid out in project 2025, that believes that the ei is the end of us. that means people like me, people of color, women, that is a problem for them. they want to excommunicate us. they are trying to give the keys over to the white supremacist, as we
Of traditional libraries. Hosted by zocalo public square. This is about an hour and ten minutes. Thank you. [ applause ] i feel like i should behave somehow. There is a slight stigma. Ill try to behave. You havent so far. [ laughter ] part of why were here is to celebrate this library and this is coinciding with that. I wanted to start sort of soft and fuzzy before i really try to go antilibrary on these people. You what . I told them i warned them, beforehand i hate libraries and so one of the striking things ive been talking to people for weeks preparing for this, people have really wonderful memory, childhood memories of libraries in particular and when they first got the favorite moments. Could we start i have to introduce you, my goodness. To my left, susan hill dredge is the former director of the institute of museum and library services. A president alley appointed Senate Confirmed position. Shes currently a professor of practice at the university of Washington Information Schoo
So that would be heard on the tv please welcome candace morgan. [applause] edition to those people who celebrate the est. Library squaring house the only state in the union that has such an element and collect the list of bookseller challenge an organ i will think powells and also cnn and also chris of the american and booksellers that arranged for this and other locations in the country so to each of these several pleasant questions and then to of questions and answers. Of the increase of those that were in challenged so the American Library association in for them to have this with the american booksellers from Free Expression the association of american publishers fear an American University press , Legal Defense fund the freedom to Read Foundation the National Conference and people for the american foundation. So this is not just about books. So now we have movie is and we have spee3 books and dvd is and a variety of Different Things that we include those from what we talk about ch
Michael hasnt been challenged, fingers crossed but one thing i should say, its about the three characters that customize their car, it gets customized by outer space and it is written in spanglish and i noticed on good reads weve gotten comments from teachers very irate that the spanish isnt correct. So one of the things that theyre saying in effect is that we dont want the spanish spoken that we live to kids, they want sort of a perfected, not stylized but almost strict spanish almost. And its interesting because where we are connecting, where the book is super popular is texas, california, the southwest, right where spanglish exists so in the spanish people , some people read it and if you dont know what spanglish is then it doesnt make sense to you so , but i wanted to bring that up because theres also a lot of passive censorship, not passive but almost unknown censorship. Librarians just choosing not to buy books and thats another thing i will notice if im at assigning and its say
Hello. Hi, everyone. Thanks for coming out tonight. As you can see and as you heard, these are cameras from cspan be, booktv. Very happy to have them here, were very happy to have this discussion here at powells. If you want to keep up with whos coming to powells, we have events nearly every night, lots of really great, outstanding stuff coming up especially in the month of october. You can look on powells. Com, our event calendars can be found around the store as well, and be you can pick those up at the information desk. Tonight were excited to host this event for banned books week. Its going to be moderated by Candace Morgan right here. Shes the coordinator of celebrate the freedom to read in oregon. And this is sponsored by the Oregon Library association and the Oregon Association of School Libraries intellectual Freedom Committee and the aclu of oregon. These authors do have books. If you would like to have a book signed, they would be very happy to sign it for you. Theres a bunch