A Call to Action in Michigan

We as Writers for Democratic Action understand that the 2024 election is one of the most critical elections in the history of our state, our nation, and the world. The urgent defense of democracy falls to the American people, and to each of us as informed voters of Michigan, who must vote in numbers never seen before. Please join us in protecting representative government with the most powerful tool we still have: the VOTE.

We, as Michigan Writers for Democratic Action, understand BOOK BANNING to be a strategy of authoritarian governments to restrict personal freedoms, a strategy preliminary to what we witnessed in totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century. We are grateful to partner with Michigan bookstores and libraries in their efforts to provide access to titles that have been banned across our state. “To allow a group of people or any individual, no matter how powerful or loud, to become the decision-maker about what books we can read or whether libraries exist is to place all of our rights and liberties in jeopardy” (Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom).

Let us act now, while we can, to protect our democracy, our books, and our right to read what we choose!

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