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LeVar Burton & MoveOn Drop “Read Banned Books” Exclusive Shirt for National Banned Book Week

October 12, 2023 Read, MoveOn, LeVar, Shirt, EXCLUSIVE, Burton, drop, Week, National, books, Book, Banned0 comment

Proceeds from the shirt, as worn by LeVar Burton, Ariana DeBose, Margaret Atwood, Maia Kobabe, W. Kamau Bell, Josh Malina, and Ann Patchett , Adina Porter, Baratunde Thurston, available at LeVarSaysRead.com will fund ongoing efforts to distribute free banned books and fight censorship. Washington, D.C. – Today MoveOn Political Action and LeVar Burton announced the release of a new original T-shirt for sale in support of their collaboration fighting book bans at the start of National Banned Book Week. The limited-edition Read Banned Books shirt features the likeness of the lifetime literacy champion LeVar Burton and is for sale here. The shirt will fund MoveOn’s Banned Bookmobile and…

GQ on LeVar Burton’s & MoveOn’s “Read Banned Books” Exclusive Shirt for National Banned Book Week

October 8, 2023 LeVar, Burton’s, Shirt, EXCLUSIVE, Week, National, books, Book, Banned, Read, MoveOn’s0 comment

“What they’re trying to do offends me at the root of who I am and what I’m about.” LeVar Burton, Rosario Dawson, Andy Cohen, Rita Moreno, Ariana DeBose, Margaret Atwood, Maia Kobabe, W. Kamau Bell, Amber Tamblyn, Josh Malina, Ann Patchett, Anthony Rapp, Jason Collins, Manny Fidel, Adina Porter, Franchesca Ramsey, Baratunde Thurston, Tess Gattsuto, Jessica Burbank, Akilah Hughes, Alimi Ballard, Travon Free, Piper Perabo, Alysia Reiner, Chris Mosier, Lea Thompson, Angie Thomas, and Internet Today Washington, D.C. – As reported in GQ today, MoveOn Political Action and LeVar Burton released a new original T-shirt for sale in support of their collaboration fighting book bans for National Banned Book Week. The limited-edition Read Banned Books shirt features the likeness…

Banned Bookmobile Recap on the Road: Best Moments of Our Tour Through Ohio, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida

August 13, 2023 Ohio, Bookmobile, Best, road, Florida, Moments, Tennessee, Georgia, through, tour, Banned, Recap0 comment

Our Banned Bookmobile tour stop in Atlanta, Georgia. This July, MoveOn members and book lovers came out in droves to support our mission to give away banned books and fight back against book bans across the nation. Whether you joined us or rooted us on from afar, here’s a “Recap on the Road” of our first-ever Banned Bookmobile tour! On our tour, we traveled across 10 states, 14 stops, and distributed thousands of books, bookmarks, T-shirts, and buttons for free. We stopped at local bookstores along the tour to…

MoveOn’s Banned Bookmobile Ran Out of Books in Just 10 Minutes

July 28, 2023 just, books, Minutes, Banned, Bookmobile, MoveOn’s0 comment

MoveOn’s Banned Bookmobile had its first look at NEA’s annual convention in Orlando, Florida, on July 5, and it was a hit! So much so that we gave all of our banned books away before the event was even over. That’s right—we ran out of books to give away in just ten minutes. Keeping up the momentum, we kicked off our official Banned Bookmobile tour in Chicago the following week. We chose to jump-start our tour in Chicago to celebrate Illinois enacting the nation’s first ban on book bans—a proactive…

Huge Crowds Greet MoveOn Banned Bookmobile at Chicago Tour Kickoff

July 16, 2023 crowds, MoveOn, Bookmobile, Chicago, Huge, kickoff, tour, Banned, Greet0 comment

Chicago, I.L. – Yesterday, MoveOn Political Action’s first Banned Bookmobile multistate tour officially launched in Chicago, with nearly 100 attendees and MoveOn distributing hundreds of books during the event. Illinois Senator Laura Murphy and Representative Anne Stava-Murray discussed the new first-in-the-nation law they championed in the legislature to prohibit the banning of books in public libraries. National Education Association President Becky Pringle, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, and MoveOn Executive Director Rahna Epting came to Chicago to promote their organizations’ efforts to hold Ron DeSantis and his MAGA…

MoveOn Launches “Banned Bookmobile” Tour Distributing Banned Books & Highlighting DeSantis’s Bans and MAGA Extremism

July 8, 2023 Bookmobile, Distributing, extremism, Highlighting, launches, books, tour, Banned, bans, MAGA, MoveOn, DeSantis’s0 comment

Washington, D.C. – As reported in Politico today, MoveOn Political Action announced the launch of its first “Banned Bookmobile” multistate tour to sound alarms on Governor Ron DeSantis’s censorship and the rising wave of GOP book bans across the country. The Banned Bookmobile will distribute some of the most frequently banned books as it makes its way through multiple states. The initial bookmobile tour will stop through several communities that have been significantly impacted by MAGA book bans, as well as early primary and battleground states to target DeSantis along his…