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3/5/2025
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Media Advisory: Sponsors, advocates to call for passage of Freedom to Read Act
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STATE HOUSE — Rep. David Morales and Sen. Mark McKenney will be joined by the Rhode Island Library Association, the American Library Association, the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island and local authors and advocates at a State House event tomorrow calling for the passage of the Freedom to Read Act (2025-H 5726, 2025-S 0238) to protect libraries from partisan or doctrinal book-banning efforts and affirm the free speech rights of authors, publishers and readers in Rhode Island.
The event is scheduled tomorrow, Thursday, March 6, at 3 p.m. in the State Library on the second floor of the State House. Those scheduled to speak include:
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Senator McKenney (D-Dist. 30, Warwick)
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Representative Morales (D-Dist. 8, Providence)
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Beatrice Pulliam, president of the Rhode Island Library Association
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Rosie Stewart, senior manager for public policy at Penguin Random House
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Rabbi Jeffery Goldwasser of Temple Sinai Cranston, representing the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island
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Cheryl Space, co-chair of RILA Legislative Action Committee
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Aaron Coutu-Jones, director of the Warwick Public Library
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Cathy G. Johnson, a Rhode Island-based author
For more information, contact:
Tristan Grau, Publicist
State House Room B20
Providence, RI 02903
401.222.4935
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