USA: "A Conversation with Toni Morrison" Launches NCAC's New Free Speech Leadership Council

 

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From: National Coalition Against Censorship [mailto:sarah@ncac.org]
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 1:06 AM
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Subject: A Conversation with Toni Morrison

Launching the Free Speech Leadership Council Joan Bertin (NCAC Executive Director), Toni Morrison, Fran Lebowitz "A Conversation with Toni Morrison" Launches NCAC's New Free Speech Leadership Council The Free Speech Leadership Council gathered together for the first time on June 3, 2009 to take part in "A Conversation with Toni Morrison."  Jane Friedman, Chair of the Council, hosted the event in her Manhattan home. The Leadership Council's inaugural event featured two of the most fitting and auspicious guests.  Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison and author Fran Lebowitz discussed censorship and the power of literature with an audience of about 50 friends and supporters. Toni Morrison's novels are frequent targets of censorship, and she is editor of HarperStudio's recently-released Burn This Book. In her remarks, Morrison drew from her introduction to this collection of essays on the power of the word.  Writers, she says, are dangers to authoritarianism.  To erase or hide their art is to take away not only what makes people wise, but also what makes us human. For more information about the event and the Leadership Council, please click here. To see more photos from this event, please click here. To see videos of Toni Morrison, Fran Lebowitz, and Judy Blume, click here.   Get Involved Want to help fight censorship? Your support of NCAC helps us defend freedom of thought, inquiry and expression. Spread the word. Forward this email to friends and family, and have them sign up for censorship updates from NCAC. Join us online. Get daily takes on current censorship stories on our blog, bite-size censorship bits on Twitter, and network socially on Facebook.

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