Librotraficante Caravan: Cathy Arellano reads "End of an Affair"
Channel: Bryan Parras
Date: 2012-03-29

LIBROTRAFICANTEs SMUGGLED 1,000 BOOKS, worth $20,000, TO ARIZONA, 
Launching 4 Underground Libraries in the Process. Phase II begins today.

Arizona Legislators, THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING.


HOUSTON (March 23, 2012) - The Librotraficante Caravan, merely a post in twitter verse two months ago, attracted crowds of more than 500 attendees to the El Paso and Albuquerque Banned Book Bash readings and delivered a payload of 1,000 books, about $20,000 worth of mind-altering prose, to newly established Underground Libraries in four cities -- Houston, San Antonio, Albuquerque and Tucson.  


The magic bus full of love letters in the form of books destined for the students of Tucson rang in the Latino Renaissance as Latinos as well as non-Latinos united to preserve Freedom of Speech, and to defy the Censorship created by Arizona House Bill 2281 which  PROHIBITED the Mexican American Studies program in the Tucson Unified School District. 

"This is only the beginning," said, Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante, "Arizona legislators need to know the whole world is watching. This is just the first chapter in a future book about this Civil Rights Movement that some regime will want to ban some day just as the book CHICANO, about the Mexican American Civil Rights movement of the 60s, is now prohibited. Evidently every 60 years despots try to destroy the American Dream. We did not let them before, and we won't let them now. Freedom of Speech is at stake for all Americans. We beseech people from all walks of life to unite to defy the Censorship imposed by Arizona's Draconian laws. Right now, you are deciding what side of history you are on. There is a ban in Tucson. If you enforce the Double Speak that denies there is a ban, you are on the wrong side of history. Let Freedom ring. Phase II of the Librotraficante Movement begins today."