At first glance, it appears that the Bible, Little Red Riding Hood and Webster's Dictionary have almost nothing in common, except for the fact that in some point in time, they have all been banned from public reading. Representatives from Amnesty International and the American Civil Liberties Union set up an information table Wednesday outside Willard Building to promote Banned Books Week. From Sept. 23 until tomorrow, students are encouraged to fight unlawful censorship by reading a banned book.
Students can visit the information table today.
Censorship of all kinds is a large area of concern for members of both the ACLU and Amnesty. But people all over the world, except in America, are killed or tortured for it. Publishers, authors and people of religious faith who read books of their religion are among those most commonly persecuted in countries such as China, Russia and Iran, Grane said. The long-term goals of the ACLU and Amnesty, however, go beyond promoting Banned Books Week. Countless other current human rights issues take the main focus of both groups.