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This programme contains
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I never imagined what's happening
right now could ever happen.

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It didn't dawn on us that
we would come under attack.

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Do you like people?

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Have you a real love
of books and learning?

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the vocation of a librarian.

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We just...

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..never imagined
we would be in the forefront.

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We're not supposed to
necessarily be seen and felt.

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We're stewards of the space,
stewards of the resources.

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Now I think we've moved
into the vanguard.

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We have to be out in front
telling the story.

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It's about us.

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Texas Republicans are launching
an investigation

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into what types of books
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specifically ones that pertain
to race and sexuality.

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In a letter to
the Texas Education Agency,

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lawmakers pointed to Texas districts
that recently removed books

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from classrooms
after parent complaints.

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Matt Krause of Fort Worth

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sent this list of 850 books

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to a number of public school
districts.

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There is no information on
who helped Representative Krause

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compile the list.

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We were right there in
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so we felt like everything
that we did was being watched.

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It's not just 850 books
which we've all fixated on.

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He says and "any other books".

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I'm just immediately angry
because it's so obvious

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and authors of colour,

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and books about race,
and books about sex education.

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He is asking districts to
remove these and any other books

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that might embarrass
or shame someone...

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What struck me was, one,
there was a list of 850 books.

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He wanted to know
if school districts had them,

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how much money
had been spent on them.

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REPORTER: The list includes titles
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of the KKK, and another about
desegregation in schools.

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There are also books
about gender identity,

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the LGBTQ  community
and the history of Roe v Wade.

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I didn't even think,

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would entertain this.

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I remember looking at it,
thinking...

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..they're singling us out again.

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A couple of days later,
our governor doubled down

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and sent a letter to the Texas
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asking them to do something about
"pornography" in our libraries.

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I'm calling for
the immediate removal

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of this very graphic,
pornographic material

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from our libraries and our schools,
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so that parents have the assurance
that their children

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will not be exposed to it.

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I remember seeing
Governor Abbott's letter

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and my district
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I realised school librarians

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could be criminalised
for selecting books

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and making them available
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All books, Ulysses.

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I wonder what they say in all
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Politicians are playing
a very dangerous game

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when they try to make
school libraries

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battlegrounds
for their political war,

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because the only people that
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This space, these resources,

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that are supposed to be
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..the world, to stories, to ideas.

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There it is.

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See it?

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Something they're seeing in there.

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There's an A.
Yep, that's an A right there.

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I sure would like to know what
they're saying in there, though.

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Every letter is different from...

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Well, ladies and gentlemen, here
we are at Granbury High School.

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the first day of school.

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kids are dressed up,
parents are excited,

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especially new moms and dads
taking that walk for the first time

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with those five-year-olds into
kindergarten. It's a great feeling.

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I need to have a conversation
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We were called into a meeting
and told

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anything that is sexually explicit
that could meet the penal code,

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you are responsible for
in your library.

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"Just the Krause list?",

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and got the evil eye.

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We spent the rest of the afternoon
in that meeting going through our

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catalogues and trying to figure out
what we have and what we don't have.

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I was sitting in the library
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came in with this big cart,
and they went up to librarians

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and they started saying,
"Where are the books?

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"We need to get these things
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We were just told,
"Get rid of them. Get rid of them.

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Getting them off the shelves,
putting them on carts,

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putting them wherever,

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going through books
and just chucking them.

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They had no room downtown.

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The offices were full of books.

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When you have to go through
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what are you going to do?

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To me, as a librarian,
that was trauma.

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I went to the campus of a librarian
I particularly feared for

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Was very careful to let me know,
"What I'm about to show you

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"is behind three locks,
so I feel like it's safe."

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The librarian unlocks each of those
and we get to the cabinets

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and open the cabinets.

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Harmless books.

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I just started putting them
on the carts and I said, "No."

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Every book that was on that shelf
felt like a student

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that we were saying, "We've got
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back here in the dark."

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Now we'll come to order.

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Mr Reed Harris, you wrote a book,
and at the time you wrote this book,

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did you feel that marriage
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of our civilisation as antiquated
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You put an implication on it and
you feature this particular point

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out of the book, which of course
is quite out of context,

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does not give a proper impression
of the book as a whole.

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The American public doesn't get an
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Well, then, let's continue
to read your own writing.

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If we would go back in history
to McCarthyism,

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it felt like that happened to them,

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it wouldn't happen to us,
it wouldn't happen now.

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..because those who went
before you worked...

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..to give to us today
standing here...

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..this pride.

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Don't join the book burners.

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Don't think you're going
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that they ever existed.

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Don't be afraid to go in your
library and read every book.

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We do have a code of ethics...

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..around intellectual freedom...

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..around privacy,
around representation

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and a diversity of perspectives
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Those are all part of our code.

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I couldn't remove a book
because it has ideas we don't like.

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Can't we look at this from
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it's not unreasonable

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to ask you to take out
just this one book.

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If you can control the library,
you can control the community

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because if you can control
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got it. You've got everything.

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Of course you're coming after
school librarians first.

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Of course you are.

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That was my office.

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Erm, where is it?

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These are two books that
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and I would not remove them.

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Now, they asked us to put
these behind the counter

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so that they weren't available
unless you knew they were here.

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Now they've separated all of
the pluses from the regular books.

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They were all integrated before,
but now they have separated them.

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But also, we went out of our way
to get Christian books

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just for this group,
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so we got two series down here
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who were more Christian-based,
could have their books, too.

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I have to show you
our children's library.

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You know,
that's where our porn lives!

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SHE LAUGHS

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A Day In The Life Of Marlon Bundo.
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It's a story about a bunny rabbit.

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He meets another male bunny.

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So, the bunnies end up
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They don't know that's here.

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Because they're just
looking on their list.

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that they may not like,
but they're here.

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This is the actual rules
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"In no case should any book
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"because of race or nationality,

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I followed these rules
and I got fired for it.

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That's me
when I was in the US Army.

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When we take our oath to protect
the country, it doesn't stop there.

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You protect the Constitution
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from attacks,
both external and internal.

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Did you know this book existed?

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Everybody's afraid to say what
these people are acting like,

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but if you read history,
you know what they are acting like.

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and moral corruption,

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"yes to decency and morality
and family and state.

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"You do well to commit to the flames
the evil spirit of the past.

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"This is a strong, great
and symbolic deed."

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were not just the Jewish authors,

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they were the LGBTQ .

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They were those authors
that they burned.

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Start throwing it in there!
Start throwing it in there!

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Start throwing it in there!
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Burn it! Burn it! Burn it!

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HORN BLARES

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Hallelujah! Woo!

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ALL: I pledge allegiance to thee,
Texas,

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one state under God,

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one and indivisible.

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points on behalf of the district.

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As you know,

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Texas education is the
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which essentially makes
Governor Abbott our CEO.

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I want to start this out simple.

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and the school board

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is to not only protect
the students in this district,

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but to make them feel like they
have a place in this community.

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But I've got to tell you,
from what I've seen so far,

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DOORBELL

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Hiya, guys. Come on in.

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We've all read Fahrenheit
our freshman year,

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and we talk about the scariness
of book banning.

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Literally on the windows
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there are freshman students'

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drawings about Fahrenheit 451.

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Look, these are all novels...

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..all about people
that never existed.

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The people that read them, it makes
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ways that can never really be.

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So we must burn the books, Montag.

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All the books.

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And seeing that and knowing what
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it feels like...

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It's blatant that
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We have books in the library
that are pretty heavy

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and have sexual assault,
like A Clockwork Orange, even,

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and that wasn't pulled, so...

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Had I not picked this book up,

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I don't think I would
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If it's a cis, straight, white male
or female, well, it's no issue,

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but as soon as you've got any
kind of diversity, red flag.

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A gay person, a brown person,
cut it out.

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LAUGHTER

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Yeah.

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form the following likely reasons
for inclusion.

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60% because of LGBTQ .

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8% because of race and racism.

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13% because of sexual education -

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something that is not taught
in all Texas schools.

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Wake up to the reality
that we are all different

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and we should all embrace each
other with love, not blatant hate.

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I'm simply going to say that
no government, and public school

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is an extension of government,
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and banned information
from its public,

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and been remembered in history
as the good guys.

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Let's not misrepresent things.
We're not taking Shakespeare

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or Hemingway off the shelves,
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every socially, culturally
or religiously diverse book

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and pulling them. That's absurd.

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And the people that are
saying that are gaslighters,

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and it's designed
to incite division.

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Can you help me?

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help me. I need to pass these out.

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Maybe somebody else to help Karen.

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You can give them to the board.
Definitely she needs help.

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I've brought you some excerpts
of books.

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I pray you really are able
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from going in this school.

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These people put sexually explicit
content into your libraries.

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Get ready for truth and transparency
from an ocean of liberal tears.

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Let's talk about
Superintendent Dr Jeremy Glenn

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in the library books.

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And it's not just his position. It's
the position of the school board,

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it's the position
of this community at large.

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Bottom line, this is about
removing pornographic,

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materials from school libraries.

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I want you to know this.
Tonight I'm going to go home

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and I'm going to get a great
night's sleep because, unlike you,

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I've actually read
what's in those books,

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removed from our shelves

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and we've made the right decision
for kids.

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APPLAUSE

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I taught for about five years.

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I've taught in
a private school setting,

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and I've taught sixth grade
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I've taught third grade
general education,

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so all the core classes.

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My concern was that
there might have been stuff

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that they just didn't
know was there,

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that they just weren't aware,
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They didn't know where to look.

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And, at first, I didn't know
where to look.

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I had gone to a Moms for Liberty
event

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where we had a preview
to a documentary.

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You are teaching children
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you're teaching transgender issues,

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and children are mouldable
and influenced by that.

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In my humble opinion, it will be
worse before it gets better.

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My kids go to the schools here,

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my family's kids go
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my friends' kids go
to the schools here.

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It was disheartening to think
that was actually happening

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in my hometown.

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We first really encountered the
Moms for Liberty organisations

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during Covid, as they really
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and unmask children,

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and that's when we started to hear
about their parental rights.

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Some of us moms out here
have really struggled...

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Have children that have really
struggled with wearing a mask.

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they turned to the books.

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The things that Moms for Liberty
is fighting against

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is pornography in school,
teaching young children

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scientific ideologies that have...
Non-scientific ideologies.

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We could almost see a preview
of what was to come

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and this playbook emerged.

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We were afraid.
We were told not to tweet,

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we were told not to
put things on Facebook.

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They came after me

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they came after our library board.

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We were called evil specialist
instead of media specialist.

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I know they're going to fire me,
I know they're making a case

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to fire me, I know it's coming,
but I'm not going to shut up.

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You continue to speak out,
you will be on the chopping block,

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you will lose your job.

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"We have guns. When can we start
killing liberals?"

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When could they start hunting us.

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Hold the line against
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and their damn paedo fans!

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We had to bring in law enforcement
to meetings.

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This white truck pulled up
behind us

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and the guy rolled down his window
and he yelled at me,

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he said, "We're coming
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We're going to keep coming so hard,
the only thing these woke-tards

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have got to figure out is whether

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it's on their face, back, butt or
thighs.

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Woo!

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A Florida school district
has pulled 176 books

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the new state education reform law

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championed by Governor Ron DeSantis.

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We are going to make sure that
parents have a seat at the table

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and that we protect...
erm, protect their rights.

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Under Florida's HB 1467 Law,

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of pornography

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or certain race-based teachings.

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Violating parts of the law
could lead teachers

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to be charged with a felony.

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Librarians are pulling books without
anyone challenging them.

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were told, "By Friday at 3pm,

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"you will either cover with paper,

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"turn them to the walls,
or take your books home."

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They thought they were erring
on the side of caution.

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But the kids were
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texted their parents and said,
"Everyone's crying,

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"everyone's upset. We need our
books. We want our books."

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They wrote emails to the principal,

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saying,
"Please, don't take away our books."

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is taking care of children.

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Elizabeth Ann Seton was the
patron saint of teachers.

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I do not believe
that Scripture is there

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for us to use as a weapon,
or to make our political points.

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as to our founding fathers.

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Their biggest fear was
that we'd become a theocracy.

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They did not want
to be governed by a king,

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and they did not want
to be governed by a god.

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They wanted freedom.

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of kids

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that books have saved their lives.

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That's why, to me, I see this as
the civil rights fight of our time.

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And they're not banning
just any books.

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They're banning the best books.

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CHEERING

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We fight the woke
in the legislature.

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We fight the woke in the schools.

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We fight the woke
in the corporations.

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We will never,
ever surrender to the woke mob.

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CHEERING

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We've got, down here,

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The Librarian Of Auschwitz
some people are challenging.

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Or Flamer,
which is actually a really good one.

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And, of course, Handmaid's Tale.

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I had been at the school
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It had been a dream job for
the first seven of those nine years.

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The governor says this
is child pornography.

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In June, one of the Moms For Liberty
in our area had posted a video about

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the second book in the A
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and she tagged all of the schools
that had the book in their library.

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So then the district decided to just
quietly pull the books

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from the shelves and delete them.

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And I happened to notice a few
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I was very concerned that this
was kind of getting out of hand.

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So I went to the
school board meeting.

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Hi. Good evening.
My name is Julie Miller,

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my address is on file,
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I know, we're kind of seen
as the bad guy.

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Um, so I just wanted to give you
guys just a moment of

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hearing straight from one of us who
are boots-on-the-ground to let you

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know, like, a little bit about us.

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and daughter of a minister, as well.

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It was at that same meeting
where Bruce Friedman showed up.

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ARCHIVE: This year, at least
102 books have been banned

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in Clay County, Florida.

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They were removed
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thanks in large part to this single
conservative activist.

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I represent
No Left Turn in Education,

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00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,776
that's the Florida chapter.
I also run the New York chapter.

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00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:43,816
Also a member of Moms For Liberty.

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00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:48,736
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after that meeting talking to him,

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and it was a, you know, pleasant...

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00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,816
..weird, but pleasant conversation.

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Um, and the next thing I know

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is Bruce essentially said
in an article,

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"I'm going to clean up the libraries
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"Anyone who gets in my way,

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00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:07,136
"I'm going to run over them
like a dead body."

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00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,856
And it was just like, "First of all,
who runs over a dead body?

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"Like, what does that even mean?"

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00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,080
But very, like, triggering language.

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writing my name on challenge forms.

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00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:23,176
"Talk to Julie Miller.

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00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:26,776
"Julie Miller has this one.
Surprise, surprise.

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"Disgusting."

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00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:30,520
It was like, "What is going on?!"

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MUSICIANS PLAY UPBEAT MUSIC

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Julie was very helpful

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the books that have been banned,
the books that have been removed.

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♪ Get ready Get ready

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♪ For the miracle... ♪

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To attempt to take black history

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and take a lot of our stories away
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is one of the most evil things
I think a person can do.

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ARCHIVE: When it comes to the number
of banned books

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at schools, Florida leads the
nation, and Clay County

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00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:15,800
is number one in the state.

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"good ol' boy" frontiers
in North Florida.

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If you ride through Clay County,

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00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:33,776
most of the streets are named
after slave owners.

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00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:37,296
And so that symbolism
and that ideology,

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it gives them opportunity

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in government positions,

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superintendents, school boards,

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city managers, all of that.

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These are some of the books

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Stamped.

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Anybody ever seen the movie,
Color Purple? Yes.

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00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:09,656
Do you care whether books
that are written by

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African-Americans, or books like...?

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This book was banned!

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00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:21,576
As a kid, like, going to a
predominantly white school,

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I was always questioning,

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00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:28,856
like, hair, skin colour.

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I feel like this,
New Kid, Hair Love,

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00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,496
I feel like
that would have made me feel

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a little bit more comfortable
in my own skin.

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What's dangerous
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is it's being led by people

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who say they love God.

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And I call for the fire of God,
and the glory of God,

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and the fear of the Lord to fall on
Clay County, Florida,

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in the name of Jesus.

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SCATTERED APPLAUSE

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I do not wish the fire of God
to fall on you all.

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That's not the God I serve.

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00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:18,456
I'm a lot of things.

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I'm a pastor. I'm a father.

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00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,680
And most of all,
I'm a strong black man.

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But when you start talking about
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00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:28,736
and African-American history,

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I got a problem with that,

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because right now,
we are an embarrassment...

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00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:37,640
..in the state of Florida.

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00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:42,616
We got the list of, "These books
are to be removed immediately,

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00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:44,440
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00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:51,216
I wrote an email back
and just asked, like,

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"Could you please provide us with
the reason

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00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:58,256
"why each of these books
is being removed?"

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00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:00,256
Some months have went by.

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00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:03,976
I asked someone about Julie
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00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,960
That one thing that I dreaded
the most, had happened.

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I lost my job.

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I was removed from my library

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00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:15,960
for asking questions.

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00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:21,336
They're going to say it's because I
was refusing to follow directives.

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00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:23,056
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00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:26,440
It's really just
because I kept pushing back.

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00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:34,736
I sat there for three hours.

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00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,576
I wasn't giving up,
I wasn't budging.

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00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,320
I don't care how long it was.
They were going to hear me that day.

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00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:43,696
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00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,856
we move into school board member
comments, I did have a question from

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the audience. Um, it's from...

497
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,896
Yeah, the reason I came back,
because I saw

498
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:57,376
one of you all's media specialist
in Clay County was removed.

499
00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:58,760
<font color="

500
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,216
Don't do...
Don't do people like that

501
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:05,296
when they have a different view.

502
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,216
It's not fair.

503
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:11,936
If anybody has to be responsible for
this cabal who are leading

504
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:15,936
the United States in books
that are not on the shelf,

505
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:17,240
<font color="

506
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,160
Shame on you.
Shame, shame, shame on you.

507
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:27,216
Moms For liberty are
making a lot of ground.

508
00:34:27,240 --> 00:34:30,456
Very smart young ladies.

509
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:32,936
I call it wicked genius.

510
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:37,680
It's a genius
that pertains to oppressing people.

511
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:42,440
<font color="

512
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:48,336
It just happened so, like, quietly,

513
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:51,440
and... it's like, "You're dismissed."

514
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:55,120
And it's all politically motivated,
right?

515
00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,816
But I met the young man outside,

516
00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:02,840
and I said,
"How you doing, brother?"

517
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:09,280
<font color="

518
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:12,760
This can't be America.

519
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,000
No, this can't be America.

520
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:31,656
It feels like I'm living
in a dystopian novel right now.

521
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:34,096
Like, if you would have
asked me ten years ago

522
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,616
if I was going to have,
<font color="

523
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:38,176
at a librarian conference,

524
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,080
I'd have been like,
"You're nuts!"

525
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,736
This is the highest
number of attempted book bans

526
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:49,696
since we began compiling these lists
20 years ago.

527
00:35:49,720 --> 00:35:51,376
And I hate that censorship

528
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,080
<font color="
but it is a reality.

529
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:59,096
Sometimes librarians are relocated
to other buildings or grade levels,

530
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:01,256
and sometimes librarians

531
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:04,320
are outright fired
for defending intellectual freedom.

532
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:08,176
And then there are the cases
<font color="

533
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:12,216
for their physical safety
and for those of their families.

534
00:36:12,240 --> 00:36:15,840
One librarian had her tyres slashed
during a library board meeting.

535
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,776
We understand what's
going on right now

536
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:23,056
on a very real and personal level
<font color="

537
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:26,096
Um, but I know that, as librarians,

538
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:31,736
we continue to remember
and focus on our professionalism

539
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:33,216
and the work that we do.

540
00:36:33,240 --> 00:36:36,416
We want to make sure
that we are reinforcing to you

541
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:42,160
that even in the darkest
<font color="

542
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:49,576
We want to talk about a book-banning
controversy under way

543
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:51,256
in Island Trees, New York.

544
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:54,056
ARCHIVE: For six years, The Naked
Ape, Slaughterhouse-Five,

545
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:57,696
and seven other books, labelled by
<font color="

546
00:36:57,720 --> 00:37:01,096
or obscene, have been banned from
Island Trees library shelves.

547
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:03,816
Steven Pico, you were one of the
students to bring action,

548
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:07,496
were you not? We filed suit because
we believe that every American,

549
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:08,696
<font color="

550
00:37:08,720 --> 00:37:11,256
has the right to be exposed to
a diversity of viewpoints

551
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,496
and gain a number
of perspectives on life.

552
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:15,616
The Supreme Court
today sharply curbed

553
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:19,040
the authority of local school boards
<font color="

554
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:26,216
For laypeople,
this is the Roe v Wade of libraries.

555
00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:27,696
When the cross lists came back,

556
00:37:27,720 --> 00:37:30,576
when Granbury boxed up
hundreds of books,

557
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:34,176
they were infringing on
what Pico established.

558
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:37,736
<font color="
because of a disagreement with

559
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:39,720
the ideas that are in the book.

560
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:44,296
We're highly trained in the
selection of

561
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,856
age-appropriate material.
Most of us have

562
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:49,560
library and information science
master's degrees.

563
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,656
<font color="
We take courses on it.

564
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,776
The thing that truly concerns us is
when an individual,

565
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:00,056
whether it be a parent
or a non-parent,

566
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,256
or a single group within
the society,

567
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:03,736
tries to determine what is correct

568
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:07,256
<font color="
but other children, as well.

569
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:08,720
That is what we fight.

570
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:22,216
When I was growing up,
we had one road here,

571
00:38:22,240 --> 00:38:25,320
and if you were black,
you lived on that one road.

572
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:31,336
In our parish, we have the highest
<font color="

573
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:33,840
Aryan Nation,
those type of groups.

574
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:40,456
I'm not going to say my parents
are white Christian nationalists,

575
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:42,736
but when I started being targeted,

576
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:45,096
they didn't speak to me
for a week.

577
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,040
<font color="

578
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:51,720
There we go. Turned it.

579
00:38:54,720 --> 00:38:56,536
All right.

580
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:59,016
For 40 years,
I've been wanting to build a cannon.

581
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:01,176
See, it rolls real easy.

582
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,280
It's called a
Confederate mountain rifle.

583
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:07,096
It's an exact replica of what
<font color="

584
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:08,520
back to the Civil War.

585
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:17,976
You know, I've done a lot
of family history and research.

586
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,136
My ancestors listed slaves
as property,

587
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:23,136
and I'm not proud of that.

588
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:24,856
It's uncomfortable.

589
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:26,536
But I think sometimes we have
<font color="

590
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:27,936
and face that fact.

591
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:31,000
Why would you want
to embarrass white kids, or...?

592
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:35,136
It's like she said,
that's the past,

593
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:36,776
and we can't change that.

594
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:38,576
What you don't want to do

595
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:41,976
is teach your kids
<font color="

596
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,696
Because then, when they grow up,
we won't have a country.

597
00:39:44,720 --> 00:39:45,936
I love my country,

598
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:48,296
but I think we have to acknowledge
that we're not perfect.

599
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:51,296
Don't teach only

600
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:54,720
the bad, the bad, the bad,
<font color="

601
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:00,176
ARCHIVE: While the rest of us were
in lockdown,

602
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:02,776
Live Oak Middle School librarian
Amanda Jones

603
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:05,216
and her students
were travelling the world.

604
00:40:05,240 --> 00:40:07,336
I decided if they couldn't go out
<font color="

605
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:09,016
I was going to bring the world
to them.

606
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:13,496
She was awarded the 2021 National
School Librarian of the Year.

607
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,256
And I hope to use it
as a platform to advocate

608
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:18,400
for school libraries across
the country.

609
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:24,056
<font color="
Livingston Parish Library Board

610
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:26,376
"meeting on Tuesday, July 19th.

611
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:28,856
"Why is she fighting
so hard to keep sexually erotic

612
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,360
"and pornographic material
in the kids' section?"

613
00:40:32,720 --> 00:40:34,656
The reason why I got targeted
<font color="

614
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:38,680
because I spoke at our public
library board meeting, as a parent.

615
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,616
"If a middle school teacher
is promoting pornography

616
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:44,176
"and erotic content to kids,

617
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:46,600
"I don't care
what kind of pedigree she has."

618
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:50,640
<font color="
and erotica to children.

619
00:40:52,240 --> 00:40:55,416
Our local representative came
for a photo op

620
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:57,656
when I got National School Librarian
of the Year.

621
00:40:57,680 --> 00:40:59,656
She was there for that photo op.

622
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:03,440
Two years later,
<font color="

623
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:08,616
Jones was the subject
of harsh memes,

624
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:10,536
comments and threats.

625
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:13,520
Police couldn't determine
who was threatening her.

626
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:20,976
I have made it very well known
that I travel with a weapon,

627
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:22,456
multiple weapons,

628
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,056
<font color="
all around our home.

629
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:28,576
I have escape routes wherever I go,
in my head, and I...

630
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:29,936
I get my groceries delivered.

631
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:32,000
I don't go in public
in my community.

632
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:37,496
Because the things they say online
are so horrible,

633
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:38,816
<font color="

634
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:41,576
that I should be killed, and I'm...

635
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:42,976
I shouldn't be alive.

636
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,360
And that's sad.
This is just my life now.

637
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:52,136
I don't think any of us imagined
when we started out

638
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:54,816
that one day our lives
might be at risk.

639
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:57,456
<font color="

640
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:00,896
Just got some background information
about our county DA.

641
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:03,376
And who in Texas would want to be

642
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:08,480
the first district attorney to try
to prosecute a school librarian?

643
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:12,536
That was an existential moment
for me.

644
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:14,896
<font color="
on the "wanted" poster,

645
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,960
and my friends being taken away
in handcuffs.

646
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:22,336
You are obsolete,
Mr Wordsworth. A lie!

647
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:25,576
No man is obsolete.
You're a librarian,

648
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:27,096
Mr Wordsworth!

649
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:29,736
<font color="

650
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:32,256
And if I speak one thought aloud,

651
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:35,800
that thought lives, even after
I'm shovelled into my grave!

652
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:38,896
You waste our time, Mr Wordsworth,

653
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:40,800
and you're not worth the waste.

654
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:44,400
How do you find,
ladies and gentlemen?

655
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:50,216
<font color="
Obsolete. Obsolete.

656
00:42:50,240 --> 00:42:51,680
I concur.

657
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:10,056
When I was first attacked,
back in 2021,

658
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:14,856
a student, who was
not a library regular previously,

659
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:18,656
started showing up in the first
<font color="

660
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:22,320
every day, during lunchtime,
and would just roam the stacks.

661
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:28,136
And I'd go out and I'd say,
"Can I help you find anything?"

662
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:30,776
And he would say, "No,"
and I would leave it at that.

663
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:32,840
I don't want to, you know,
<font color="

664
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:37,456
After two weeks of this, every day,
I see the kid emerge from

665
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:41,080
the stacks holding
Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison.

666
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:57,480
I read the book, myself, and loved
it.

667
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:00,696
And I was kind of dumbfounded

668
00:44:00,720 --> 00:44:03,576
because it was
<font color="

669
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:05,376
It wasn't on many people's radar.

670
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:07,616
And of all the 20,000 books
in the library,

671
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:09,176
he emerges with that one?

672
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:11,256
I said, "How'd you learn about it?"

673
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:13,496
And he said, "My parents sent me...

674
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:15,256
"My parents told me about it

675
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:18,696
<font color="
for it in the library."

676
00:44:18,720 --> 00:44:20,240
24 hours later...

677
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:23,496
..that student's mother

678
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:26,136
was standing in front of
the Board of Education...

679
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:29,416
Martha Hickson, our school
librarian, remarked to my son

680
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:33,696
<font color="
quote, "I love that book."

681
00:44:33,720 --> 00:44:37,216
..and calling me a pornographer,
paedophile, and groomer of children.

682
00:44:37,240 --> 00:44:40,576
This amounts to an effort
to groom our kids,

683
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:42,696
to make them more willing
to participate

684
00:44:42,720 --> 00:44:45,496
<font color="
in these books.

685
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:49,080
It grooms them to accept the
inappropriate advances of an adult.

686
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:52,696
My principal was in that room.

687
00:44:52,720 --> 00:44:56,376
The assistant superintendent was
in that room.

688
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:58,696
But they sat there in silence.

689
00:44:58,720 --> 00:45:01,496
<font color="
really painful part.

690
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:04,640
They have maintained that silence
for three years.

691
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:20,480
Being a librarian,
I started researching.

692
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:26,200
I was watching Texas and Florida,
both very carefully.

693
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:31,696
I felt like that's sort of
<font color="

694
00:45:31,720 --> 00:45:33,680
of what could be coming up here.

695
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:38,416
This started in Llano, Texas.

696
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:40,376
About a week later,

697
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:43,576
a woman in Virginia saw
the Llano challenge

698
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:45,816
and picked up some of that language.

699
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:49,616
Both of these books
include paedophilia.

700
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:53,336
<font color="
This... Do not interrupt my time!

701
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:56,056
And then, about two weeks later,

702
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:58,416
the same claim showed up
at our board meeting,

703
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:00,960
and that suggested to me
something was afoot.

704
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,000
And I said,
"I don't think this is organic.

705
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:07,496
<font color="

706
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:09,416
"This is organised."

707
00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:13,256
DRUMMING, CHATTER, WHISTLING

708
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:16,136
ARCHIVE: Moms For Liberty are having
their town hall here tonight

709
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:17,360
on the Upper East Side.

710
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:20,976
Welcome, New York.
We are thrilled to be here.

711
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,096
<font color="
for joining us tonight.

712
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:24,256
CHEERING, APPLAUSE

713
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:27,096
It seems like there's a lot
of misconceptions out there about

714
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:28,736
who we are and what we do.

715
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:31,456
We were founded in 2021
by Tiffany Justice and I.

716
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:33,736
We're both former
<font color="

717
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:36,056
What is Moms For Liberty? The New
Yorker calls them

718
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:38,736
"the right-wing mothers fuelling the
school board wars."

719
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:40,896
No-one's going to fight
for any issue like a parent.

720
00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:43,256
We're not in it for the money.
<font color="

721
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:44,376
We love our children,

722
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:47,336
and we're willing to do anything
to protect their future.

723
00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:48,377
What money?!

724
00:46:48,401 --> 00:46:49,416
LAUGHTER

725
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:52,336
Now, they'll tell you that their
funding for these

726
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:56,600
national conferences comes from
<font color="

727
00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:01,336
You don't get Ron DeSantis to
show up at your conference,

728
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:03,776
Donald Trump to show up
at your conference,

729
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:06,016
just from selling T-shirts.

730
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:09,416
But this grassroots group
is registered as a 501(c).

731
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:11,936
<font color="
to disclose their donors.

732
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:15,456
But we do know that their PAC
received a $50,000 donation

733
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:17,456
this year from Julie Fancelli,

734
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:21,096
the largest single donor to the
January 6th Stop the Steal rally

735
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:23,336
that led to the
<font color="

736
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:25,976
We asked Moms For Liberty
who else is among their donors,

737
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:28,416
and they did not respond
with any specific names.

738
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:32,576
What ideology are the children
being indoctrinated into?

739
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:34,976
I think parents fears' are realised.

740
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:38,136
<font color="
where sexual discussions

741
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:41,216
are happening with their children
at younger and younger ages.

742
00:47:41,240 --> 00:47:44,336
And Tango Makes Three
has been challenged

743
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:46,016
in at least 32 states.

744
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:47,896
It's about two male penguins
who care

745
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:49,656
<font color="

746
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:54,256
The book has been labelled a tool
for so-called grooming.

747
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:56,736
Maurice Sendak's
In the Night Kitchen.

748
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:57,880
They drew pants.

749
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:02,776
You're getting to the point
of talking about

750
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:05,536
a period is sexually explicit.

751
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:08,920
<font color="
is considered to be inappropriate.

752
00:48:10,240 --> 00:48:12,936
There are some Facebook moms' group

753
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:17,560
that said
that pandas symbolised something...

754
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:22,000
The graphic novel of
The Diary Of Anne Frank.

755
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:27,120
Yep,
<font color="

756
00:48:29,240 --> 00:48:31,376
And Maus,

757
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:36,520
which has to do with mouse nudity
in a concentration camp.

758
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:39,616
When they go after the books,

759
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:43,256
what they're really going
after is those kids

760
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:44,936
that come into my library

761
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:48,160
for a safe space,
<font color="

762
00:48:54,120 --> 00:48:56,216
Part of the ethics of our
profession,

763
00:48:56,240 --> 00:49:01,336
to support the First Amendment,
and to fight censorship.

764
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:03,200
That's what I've been trained to do.

765
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:13,536
The North Hunterdon-Voorhees
Regional High School District

766
00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:15,016
<font color="

767
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:17,960
Tuesday, January 30th is
now called to order.

768
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:23,520
If I were a younger person,
I may have left by now.

769
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:28,736
But I believe firmly
in what's right,

770
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:32,376
and then I also believe firmly
in my students.

771
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:35,176
<font color="
or someone at school,

772
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:37,656
"You are a vile and disgusting
C-word

773
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:39,296
"and a danger to young people",

774
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:42,896
I could and should be escorted out
of this building by the police.

775
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:45,016
This is the exact language
<font color="

776
00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:47,256
to our school librarian by a group

777
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:49,456
led by the spouse of someone on
the board.

778
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:51,056
If you want to get rid of

779
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:53,136
and censor books,
you are no different

780
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:55,096
than fascist, for every

781
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:58,696
fascist movement began
<font color="

782
00:49:58,720 --> 00:50:01,496
If you're here to ban books with
gay characters,

783
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:04,016
you might as well be here to start
the Fourth Reich.

784
00:50:04,040 --> 00:50:05,376
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

785
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:07,856
Board, do you want him out for
<font color="

786
00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:10,096
You guys cursed
at my fucking children

787
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:13,040
at your fucking book
banning meeting. You guys cursed...

788
00:50:14,240 --> 00:50:16,936
Out! Out! Out!

789
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:18,360
<font color="

790
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:38,720
The book itself,
Queerfully And Wonderfully Made...

791
00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:42,616
..that's going against
the scripture.

792
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:44,856
It's, "Fearfully
and wonderfully made",

793
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:46,256
and that's what we are.

794
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:50,696
I can go through the whole chapter
<font color="

795
00:50:50,720 --> 00:50:55,496
This book is considered nonfiction,
and it is including Christianity.

796
00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:57,176
The Bible doesn't support this,

797
00:50:57,200 --> 00:51:00,576
so that already debunks
the nonfiction status of this book.

798
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:03,016
So we're talking
about pornography here.

799
00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:05,456
<font color="
I am also

800
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:07,760
transfeminine,
and I am a queer person.

801
00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:10,696
I don't think y'all understand

802
00:51:10,720 --> 00:51:13,176
what it's like to grow up in
an environment like this,

803
00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:14,576
where even your family members

804
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:18,096
are constantly telling you
<font color="

805
00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:22,176
Books like this say,
"Hey, you are loved.

806
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:27,496
"There is a community
that will be there for you."

807
00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:30,056
Sorry, my anxiety is running very
high because I can tell

808
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:32,856
that y'all very
much misunderstand us.

809
00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:35,280
<font color="
STUTTERING

810
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:38,200
Thank you.

811
00:51:50,240 --> 00:51:52,400
Hello. My name is Amanda Jones.

812
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:54,816
The great thing about books is

813
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:57,720
that we all have different ways
that we interpret them.

814
00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:02,536
I read this book
and I interpret it

815
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:05,760
<font color="
and acceptance.

816
00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:09,176
It was written by pastors

817
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:13,816
and mental health professionals
for Christians.

818
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:17,056
This book is not in
the children's picture book section.

819
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:20,376
It is in the teen nonfiction section

820
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:24,136
where it belongs,
<font color="

821
00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:26,456
Monitor your own children.

822
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:29,776
Don't let your children read it
if you don't want to.

823
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:32,536
No-one's forcing you
to check it out.

824
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:35,896
LGBTQ youth who report having
at least one accepting adult

825
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:39,496
<font color="
attempt suicide.

826
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:42,240
Some kids don't have those adults
in their life.

827
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:47,696
I have lost over 12 students

828
00:52:47,720 --> 00:52:49,536
who were ostracised

829
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:52,256
because they were
made to feel less than

830
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:55,376
in this parish.
<font color="

831
00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:57,656
even though I'm not from
that community,

832
00:52:57,680 --> 00:53:01,656
from the hate that's coming
from some people in this room.

833
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:03,416
It would be easy to move this book

834
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:06,536
and placate a few people
for the sake of bypassing drama.

835
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:07,840
<font color="

836
00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:12,360
But sometimes doing what's easy
is not what's right.

837
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:17,240
SMATTERING OF APPLAUSE

838
00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:22,136
The board would like to
protect children

839
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:24,816
from inappropriate material
and would prefer to remove

840
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:28,280
the challenged materials while
<font color="

841
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:35,856
I'll be damned
if we're going to lose another kid

842
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:39,320
because of something our community
has done to make them feel less.

843
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:43,616
I've had former students reach out

844
00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:46,936
to me that have told me books
have saved them.

845
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:50,336
<font color="
up and killed themselves

846
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:53,880
because they were ostracised
in our community for who they are.

847
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:57,376
And if I was silent,

848
00:53:57,400 --> 00:53:59,736
my silence would be my compliance.

849
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:02,216
And I am not going to be complicit

850
00:54:02,240 --> 00:54:06,336
in the death of children,
<font color="

851
00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:08,296
The hurtful feelings, or...

852
00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:10,640
I'm not going to participate in that
any more.

853
00:54:11,720 --> 00:54:15,136
Because even though I didn't
actively participate in it before,

854
00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:17,416
I was silent and I saw stuff.

855
00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:19,736
But I'm not going to do
that any more.

856
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:21,736
<font color="
so...

857
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:23,936
This is my strong-willed child
and I thought,

858
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:27,080
"Mm-mm, she's not going to lay
down and take this."

859
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:46,176
Our district was doing an
OK job before this.

860
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:49,976
Was it perfect? No. They were doing
<font color="

861
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:51,576
And they were watching out
for our kids,

862
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:54,256
and they were trying to keep their
own personal politics out

863
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:55,576
of the decision-making.

864
00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:57,336
But that's not
what we're doing any more.

865
00:54:57,360 --> 00:54:59,536
Now it's all the culture
<font color="

866
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:01,536
are just right smack dab right here

867
00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:04,576
in the middle of my kids'
school district.

868
00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:05,856
After more than a year

869
00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:09,416
of controversy,
Keller ISD voted to ban books

870
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:10,896
about gender identity.

871
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:14,776
<font color="
to thee, Texas.

872
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:16,760
One state under God...

873
00:55:28,160 --> 00:55:30,016
Hi. I'm Laney.

874
00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:32,896
I'm a mum of four kids
in Keller ISD.

875
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:35,336
As soon as our new Patriot Mobile
school board was elected,

876
00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:37,056
<font color="

877
00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:39,696
all the parent district
and community input.

878
00:55:39,720 --> 00:55:42,416
Since then, you've created
a hateful, contradictory,

879
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:46,656
nonsensical, and unconstitutional
book-banning rubric.

880
00:55:46,680 --> 00:55:48,736
You are also passing
a policy tonight

881
00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:50,256
<font color="

882
00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:52,456
and fire every employee
in the district,

883
00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:54,896
all the way down to
the cafeteria workers.

884
00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:57,736
You don't trust your admin.
You don't trust your principals.

885
00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:00,296
You don't trust your teachers.
<font color="

886
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:02,376
You're coming for teachers
and librarians.

887
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:04,280
You've made it clear,
and they know it.

888
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:08,896
We have a movement within America
that has decided

889
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:10,256
that school boards are now

890
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:12,160
where they want to push
<font color="

891
00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:21,496
Patriot Mobile, they aren't
just a wireless provider,

892
00:56:21,520 --> 00:56:23,376
they are a political movement.

893
00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:27,056
Up to 5% of every Patriot Mobile
phone bill goes directly

894
00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:29,976
to supporting Patriot Mobile's
political action committee.

895
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:33,616
<font color="
companies that share our values.

896
00:56:33,640 --> 00:56:36,816
I'm looking at Glenn over here from
Patriot Mobile.

897
00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:38,136
We know that Patriot Mobile,

898
00:56:38,160 --> 00:56:40,096
they admitted to coming into our
communities

899
00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:41,896
and interviewing people and finding

900
00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:44,496
<font color="
best represent their interests,

901
00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:45,576
and that's who they backed

902
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:47,520
with the hundreds of thousands of
dollars.

903
00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:50,816
It wasn't until we started getting

904
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:53,960
these mailers
that we realised what was happening.

905
00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:57,816
<font color="
nine, ten flyers

906
00:56:57,840 --> 00:56:59,336
these people are getting,

907
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:01,376
covered with images of crying
children

908
00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:03,616
and saying they've been exposed
to porn in school,

909
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:07,016
and your kid is being made
to feel guilty for being white.

910
00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:10,056
<font color="
that are just simply untrue.

911
00:57:10,080 --> 00:57:13,296
Then we started sharing them online,
and we found out

912
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:15,376
the school
districts neighbouring ours had

913
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:20,216
the exact same flyers paid
for by the exact same PAC,

914
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:21,456
<font color="

915
00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:24,736
the candidates in ours swapped
with theirs.

916
00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:28,296
And we were like, "Oh, my goodness,
this is a large-scale,

917
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:29,696
"coordinated effort

918
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:33,016
"to take over school boards across
the state of Texas."

919
00:57:33,040 --> 00:57:36,016
<font color="
boards, right? The school boards

920
00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:38,616
are the key that picks the lock.

921
00:57:38,640 --> 00:57:41,656
This was their blueprint,
and they succeeded.

922
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:44,736
They backed 11 candidates
in North Texas.

923
00:57:44,760 --> 00:57:46,536
All 11 candidates won.

924
00:57:46,560 --> 00:57:49,336
<font color="

925
00:57:49,360 --> 00:57:52,056
and the president, vice-president
and secretary on

926
00:57:52,080 --> 00:57:54,776
all four school boards
that they decided to fund.

927
00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:56,736
And they're going to continue
to spread it.

928
00:57:56,760 --> 00:57:58,816
We're focused on school boards here
for now,

929
00:57:58,840 --> 00:58:01,176
<font color="

930
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:03,896
as large as we can to other states
and other communities

931
00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:06,496
that are, quite frankly, wanting

932
00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:08,760
what we're doing here
in their communities.

933
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:34,216
They had that school board meeting

934
00:58:34,240 --> 00:58:38,360
<font color="
I'm sure. And... I'm sure.

935
00:58:39,680 --> 00:58:41,296
..somebody told me this morning
to go

936
00:58:41,320 --> 00:58:43,416
online and look
at the Republican Club.

937
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:47,136
They had some meeting, I guess,
last week and it was all about

938
00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:50,336
<font color="
And they had speakers come in,

939
00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:52,736
so they got them all riled
up and gave them

940
00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:56,336
all their talking points so that
they could all come to this meeting

941
00:58:56,360 --> 00:58:59,376
and completely drown
anybody else's voices out.

942
00:58:59,400 --> 00:59:02,536
That's what they did.
<font color="

943
00:59:02,560 --> 00:59:04,016
Well, you know,

944
00:59:04,040 --> 00:59:07,216
a lot of these people actually
make threats,

945
00:59:07,240 --> 00:59:10,896
you know, about having a gun and
yada, yada, yada.

946
00:59:10,920 --> 00:59:12,176
Mm-hm.

947
00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:14,360
They drive around
in trucks with...

948
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:18,896
<font color="
Yeah, Confederate flags

949
00:59:18,920 --> 00:59:22,256
and those secret organisations,
they're not secret... Oath Keepers,

950
00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:24,536
Three Percenters...
Yeah, Three Percenters...

951
00:59:24,560 --> 00:59:27,056
Yeah, you see that all the time.
<font color="

952
00:59:27,080 --> 00:59:31,736
It's just like, just so ate
up with hate

953
00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:34,920
and there's not enough
voices countering it.

954
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:38,576
..Of The United States and of this
state.

955
00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:41,656
IN UNISON: Of the United States
and of this state.

956
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:43,496
<font color="

957
00:59:43,520 --> 00:59:45,016
Congratulations. Thank you.

958
00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:46,696
APPLAUSE

959
00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:48,080
I ran on this platform.

960
00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:52,640
The porn and the grooming
and paedophiles in schools.

961
00:59:55,600 --> 00:59:57,936
I felt like it was there.

962
00:59:57,960 --> 01:00:00,496
People just didn't know
<font color="

963
01:00:00,520 --> 01:00:03,656
and I was going to find it,
dagnabbit!

964
01:00:03,680 --> 01:00:06,440
So that's what I did, you know,
that's why I ran.

965
01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:09,800
And so I did the research.

966
01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:13,056
I was expecting to find something

967
01:00:13,080 --> 01:00:16,976
that would relate to
what they were saying.

968
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:20,056
<font color="
I mean, it just...

969
01:00:20,080 --> 01:00:23,616
It didn't even come close.
It just became very apparent

970
01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:27,816
that what they were
trying to tell parents

971
01:00:27,840 --> 01:00:30,296
and what was actually happening
in our schools,

972
01:00:30,320 --> 01:00:32,360
were two completely
<font color="

973
01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:38,336
This was just complete
sexualisation of the kids.

974
01:00:38,360 --> 01:00:40,096
And it's not stopping,

975
01:00:40,120 --> 01:00:43,216
it's not going backwards,
it's moving forward.

976
01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:45,080
It's moving full steam ahead.

977
01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:48,136
Our mission on The Blue Shark Show

978
01:00:48,160 --> 01:00:51,136
was to bring transparency
<font color="

979
01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:54,936
It pains me to say that GISD,
through the inaction

980
01:00:54,960 --> 01:00:58,256
of the Board of Trustees
and the upper-level administrators,

981
01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:00,936
are grooming your children.

982
01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:02,856
The "aha" moment for me

983
01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:07,376
was a conversation I had with
<font color="

984
01:01:07,400 --> 01:01:09,536
I felt we need
to let our community know

985
01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:11,536
that it's not in the schools,

986
01:01:11,560 --> 01:01:15,776
and he told me to stop talking
to my fellow trustees.

987
01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:18,080
Just completely cut
off communication.

988
01:01:20,280 --> 01:01:22,696
Granbury races for the trustees,

989
01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:25,136
<font color="
that are up.

990
01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:27,496
If you want
more-morally-sound schools

991
01:01:27,520 --> 01:01:29,456
that don't have satanic cartoon porn

992
01:01:29,480 --> 01:01:32,216
and jihadi sympathiser material on
the library,

993
01:01:32,240 --> 01:01:34,016
this is a no-brainer.

994
01:01:34,040 --> 01:01:35,056
They wanted to flip the board.

995
01:01:35,080 --> 01:01:36,416
<font color="
the Commissioners Court.

996
01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:37,856
They want to flip the city council.

997
01:01:37,880 --> 01:01:41,656
Every level of government here
locally to get their candidates in.

998
01:01:41,680 --> 01:01:45,376
When you're trying to get people
in every level of government,

999
01:01:45,400 --> 01:01:47,640
something else is going on behind
<font color="

1000
01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:52,416
I refused to do their bidding

1001
01:01:52,440 --> 01:01:56,336
and I said, "No, I'm not doing that.
That's not right."

1002
01:01:56,360 --> 01:01:58,776
Now I'm enemy number one with them.

1003
01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:00,160
Surprise, surprise.

1004
01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:06,336
Courtney Gore, who's been an entire

1005
01:02:06,360 --> 01:02:08,696
and complete
and total disappointment.

1006
01:02:08,720 --> 01:02:12,376
<font color="
is a big word.

1007
01:02:12,400 --> 01:02:15,656
And I go back to that culture of,
do you want to do the right

1008
01:02:15,680 --> 01:02:18,456
thing and not be liked by everybody?

1009
01:02:18,480 --> 01:02:20,360
I guess Courtney's woke.

1010
01:02:21,840 --> 01:02:24,056
She woke. Courtney's woke?

1011
01:02:24,080 --> 01:02:27,216
I guess she's woke now,
<font color="

1012
01:02:27,240 --> 01:02:29,480
Courtney? Yes.

1013
01:02:31,000 --> 01:02:33,880
You can't say there's not porn
in schools, cos there is.

1014
01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:37,296
I knew I was going to get backlash,

1015
01:02:37,320 --> 01:02:40,856
but I never thought it was going
to rise to the level that it did.

1016
01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:43,096
There was a June meeting
<font color="

1017
01:02:43,120 --> 01:02:47,720
it was actually his grandfather -
came with a firearm.

1018
01:02:48,920 --> 01:02:50,456
Yeah, I've got something for you,
too.

1019
01:02:50,480 --> 01:02:51,560
You just wait.

1020
01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:56,496
I don't play by the rules any more.

1021
01:02:56,520 --> 01:02:58,480
I haven't played by the rules
since Vietnam.

1022
01:02:59,720 --> 01:03:01,736
<font color="

1023
01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:03,696
We have profile sheets

1024
01:03:03,720 --> 01:03:05,840
of Courtney Gore, which...
She's not here.

1025
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:09,576
Profile sheets. We know what you do,
we know where you live.

1026
01:03:09,600 --> 01:03:12,560
MURMURING
WOMAN: It's threatening. And wrong.

1027
01:03:14,640 --> 01:03:16,776
<font color="
came over here

1028
01:03:16,800 --> 01:03:20,016
and actually slept on
our front porch that night,

1029
01:03:20,040 --> 01:03:21,696
just to make sure we were safe.

1030
01:03:21,720 --> 01:03:24,136
I feel like by talking, that is

1031
01:03:24,160 --> 01:03:26,336
the only way I'm going to be able
to protect myself.

1032
01:03:26,360 --> 01:03:28,336
<font color="

1033
01:03:28,360 --> 01:03:32,080
And if I'm not,
that's when they get the power.

1034
01:03:40,360 --> 01:03:41,840
Last day in Granbury.

1035
01:03:43,480 --> 01:03:46,296
We're very excited to be leaving.

1036
01:03:46,320 --> 01:03:50,016
This is a place Mindy and I both
grew up in...

1037
01:03:50,040 --> 01:03:52,976
..came back to raise our kids in.

1038
01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:55,696
<font color="
Association,

1039
01:03:55,720 --> 01:03:58,496
I served on the school board.
And this place changed.

1040
01:03:58,520 --> 01:04:01,776
People more willing
to impose their religion on others,

1041
01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:05,560
discriminate against others.
We've been fighting for years.

1042
01:04:06,720 --> 01:04:09,440
<font color="

1043
01:04:10,760 --> 01:04:12,496
I have a proven conservative record,

1044
01:04:12,520 --> 01:04:15,576
always considered one of
the top conservatives in the House.

1045
01:04:15,600 --> 01:04:17,656
Before the Krause List,
there had been

1046
01:04:17,680 --> 01:04:23,880
zero parent requests to review
books, not even one.

1047
01:04:24,880 --> 01:04:26,680
<font color="

1048
01:04:27,720 --> 01:04:33,016
My Texas House rep, while
I was serving on the school board,

1049
01:04:33,040 --> 01:04:34,696
the first time he got elected,

1050
01:04:34,720 --> 01:04:37,856
we met with him as a school board
and said,

1051
01:04:37,880 --> 01:04:39,376
"Here's the things we care about

1052
01:04:39,400 --> 01:04:42,280
"in public education
<font color="

1053
01:04:43,640 --> 01:04:46,496
He told us, "Yes, yes, absolutely."

1054
01:04:46,520 --> 01:04:48,936
And when it came time to vote,

1055
01:04:48,960 --> 01:04:51,896
he voted exactly the opposite.

1056
01:04:51,920 --> 01:04:53,976
I couldn't understand why.

1057
01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:56,776
You told us you were
going to support our schools,

1058
01:04:56,800 --> 01:04:59,136
and then you voted against
<font color="

1059
01:04:59,160 --> 01:05:02,496
and, honestly, started
to bad-mouth our schools.

1060
01:05:02,520 --> 01:05:03,736
And that's truly

1061
01:05:03,760 --> 01:05:06,120
what made me start digging
into money.

1062
01:05:07,320 --> 01:05:11,376
60%, 70% of his money was coming
from one source,

1063
01:05:11,400 --> 01:05:14,200
which was a billionaire out in
<font color="

1064
01:05:44,760 --> 01:05:46,976
I did the thing
that people do, right?

1065
01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:50,096
When you discover something
is you put it on Facebook

1066
01:05:50,120 --> 01:05:52,560
or you put it on Twitter
and you talk about it.

1067
01:05:53,840 --> 01:05:58,376
Our schools are not to be used
for personal political agendas,

1068
01:05:58,400 --> 01:06:01,336
<font color="
for education,

1069
01:06:01,360 --> 01:06:03,896
not religious indoctrination.

1070
01:06:03,920 --> 01:06:05,736
Go tell your pastor.

1071
01:06:05,760 --> 01:06:08,960
Our schools are not your church.
Thank you.

1072
01:06:10,600 --> 01:06:14,936
I'm good at spreadsheets,
so I built pie charts and...

1073
01:06:14,960 --> 01:06:17,296
Yeah, I built a site to make it go.

1074
01:06:17,320 --> 01:06:19,936
<font color="

1075
01:06:19,960 --> 01:06:24,656
a former trustee of this school
board.

1076
01:06:24,680 --> 01:06:27,936
Pie chart guy for the Texas...
Right, he does pie charts...

1077
01:06:27,960 --> 01:06:31,056
..for all the state reps.
Right, for all the conservatives

1078
01:06:31,080 --> 01:06:33,616
to show where all the dark money
goes.

1079
01:06:33,640 --> 01:06:36,136
<font color="
for me to realise

1080
01:06:36,160 --> 01:06:38,680
that there was this bigger agenda
behind everything.

1081
01:06:39,800 --> 01:06:42,656
Some of the people
that are pushing this agenda believe

1082
01:06:42,680 --> 01:06:46,216
it is their duty to take over
everywhere - government,

1083
01:06:46,240 --> 01:06:49,576
<font color="
every aspect of our lives.

1084
01:06:49,600 --> 01:06:51,496
You're going to read about

1085
01:06:51,520 --> 01:06:56,736
certain verticals or structures
that the enemy is working on.

1086
01:06:56,760 --> 01:07:01,296
Satan wants to occupy the seat
of influence over the Supreme Court,

1087
01:07:01,320 --> 01:07:05,536
over the government,
<font color="

1088
01:07:05,560 --> 01:07:07,816
We're the force that is hindering

1089
01:07:07,840 --> 01:07:10,096
the devil from doing
what he wants to do.

1090
01:07:10,120 --> 01:07:16,656
God takes what the devil meant to
harm us and he turns it into good.

1091
01:07:16,680 --> 01:07:18,536
He blesses us with it.

1092
01:07:18,560 --> 01:07:20,776
Every time we're attacked at
<font color="

1093
01:07:20,800 --> 01:07:23,416
our sales just go through the roof.

1094
01:07:23,440 --> 01:07:25,256
We increase our sales.

1095
01:07:25,280 --> 01:07:27,656
And so what does increasing our
sales mean?

1096
01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:29,216
It means we can give more money back

1097
01:07:29,240 --> 01:07:33,096
to organisations
like Moms For Liberty.

1098
01:07:33,120 --> 01:07:36,136
This is a spiritual war,

1099
01:07:36,160 --> 01:07:37,536
<font color="

1100
01:07:37,560 --> 01:07:39,456
APPLAUSE

1101
01:07:39,480 --> 01:07:42,416
Is the agenda to gain power and
money?

1102
01:07:42,440 --> 01:07:46,576
Or is it to make our country
a Christian theocracy?

1103
01:07:46,600 --> 01:07:48,440
Or are they one and the same?

1104
01:07:55,880 --> 01:07:59,056
Thank you for having me. All of you.

1105
01:07:59,080 --> 01:08:02,536
I moved to Granbury in 2020, and...

1106
01:08:02,560 --> 01:08:07,056
<font color="
the reputation it had when I came.

1107
01:08:07,080 --> 01:08:09,776
The word I have on my heart
is repentance.

1108
01:08:09,800 --> 01:08:12,456
Not all of us had a hand
in what's happened here,

1109
01:08:12,480 --> 01:08:16,616
but we are the ones
who are present to solve the issues.

1110
01:08:16,640 --> 01:08:19,616
<font color="
was 600-plus pages

1111
01:08:19,640 --> 01:08:22,256
and it was a whipping,
for poor quality -

1112
01:08:22,280 --> 01:08:24,416
number one - but also sexual
content.

1113
01:08:24,440 --> 01:08:26,096
And I'm sorry to point fingers,

1114
01:08:26,120 --> 01:08:28,896
but we have librarians
who are misunderstanding

1115
01:08:28,920 --> 01:08:30,976
<font color="
for children.

1116
01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:34,616
I think you ought to have people
of good moral standards,

1117
01:08:34,640 --> 01:08:37,096
people in the community
that maybe even are voted on,

1118
01:08:37,120 --> 01:08:39,776
pastors like Paul Duncan.
He would never steer you wrong,

1119
01:08:39,800 --> 01:08:41,896
<font color="
in a safety zone with your books.

1120
01:08:41,920 --> 01:08:44,856
You don't have
to have these ultra-controversial

1121
01:08:44,880 --> 01:08:46,816
books in your library.

1122
01:08:46,840 --> 01:08:49,136
Hey, TikTok, I got a wild one for
you.

1123
01:08:49,160 --> 01:08:52,896
In 2018, I received this text from
my mom after coming out,

1124
01:08:52,920 --> 01:08:56,176
<font color="
family and eight younger siblings.

1125
01:08:56,200 --> 01:08:58,976
I came across this video
showing my mom speaking at

1126
01:08:59,000 --> 01:09:00,536
a school board meeting in Texas,

1127
01:09:00,560 --> 01:09:02,816
calling for the district to remove
books, repent,

1128
01:09:02,840 --> 01:09:06,256
and appoint a pastor to review
<font color="

1129
01:09:06,280 --> 01:09:07,816
She even filed charges

1130
01:09:07,840 --> 01:09:09,976
against librarians in Granbury,
Texas.

1131
01:09:10,000 --> 01:09:12,336
Literally, you have thousands of
books.

1132
01:09:12,360 --> 01:09:15,736
So what harm is it to let go of
some of them?

1133
01:09:15,760 --> 01:09:17,736
And that's all I have to say.

1134
01:09:17,760 --> 01:09:19,176
<font color="

1135
01:09:19,200 --> 01:09:22,000
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

1136
01:09:27,760 --> 01:09:29,936
Your kids do not go to school here.
No, they don't.

1137
01:09:29,960 --> 01:09:32,856
You're on a political agenda,
everybody knows what you're doing.

1138
01:09:32,880 --> 01:09:35,776
You're trying to get school staff
arrested.

1139
01:09:35,800 --> 01:09:38,216
<font color="
That's what you're doing.

1140
01:09:38,240 --> 01:09:39,896
And we know that's
what you're doing.

1141
01:09:39,920 --> 01:09:42,256
That's fine with me if you know it.
I'm not hiding anything.

1142
01:09:42,280 --> 01:09:44,096
I respect you...
You notice I haven't hid a thing.

1143
01:09:44,120 --> 01:09:45,736
I'm not hiding anything.

1144
01:09:45,760 --> 01:09:48,256
<font color="
sexually explicit books in the
library.

1145
01:09:48,280 --> 01:09:49,496
I'm sure you do.

1146
01:09:49,520 --> 01:09:51,856
And expose fraud. You're trying
to arrest librarians.

1147
01:09:51,880 --> 01:09:53,976
I have nothing to say to you.

1148
01:09:54,000 --> 01:09:56,496
You're trying to arrest librarians.

1149
01:09:56,520 --> 01:09:59,136
<font color="
I do not understand.

1150
01:09:59,160 --> 01:10:00,376
You're a fascist.

1151
01:10:00,400 --> 01:10:02,296
You're a fascist. Fascist?

1152
01:10:02,320 --> 01:10:05,240
Fascist. Fascist.

1153
01:10:12,280 --> 01:10:14,256
When I moved here to San Diego,

1154
01:10:14,280 --> 01:10:15,976
I got a bunch of prints.

1155
01:10:16,000 --> 01:10:18,376
My siblings from a few years back,

1156
01:10:18,400 --> 01:10:22,816
<font color="
to see them, and my partner here.

1157
01:10:22,840 --> 01:10:23,960
His name is Andrew.

1158
01:10:26,120 --> 01:10:29,856
Growing up, none of my siblings -
there's nine of us total -

1159
01:10:29,880 --> 01:10:32,840
none of us have stepped foot
in a public school.

1160
01:10:34,840 --> 01:10:36,296
Every piece of printed material

1161
01:10:36,320 --> 01:10:39,160
<font color="
was curated by my parents.

1162
01:10:41,040 --> 01:10:43,376
I'm starting...

1163
01:10:43,400 --> 01:10:46,816
..a little collection of, um, books.

1164
01:10:46,840 --> 01:10:48,416
It's off to a small start.

1165
01:10:48,440 --> 01:10:51,840
The book that started it all,
All Boys Aren't Blue.

1166
01:10:53,040 --> 01:10:54,616
Right off the bat,
this book is saying,

1167
01:10:54,640 --> 01:10:58,760
<font color="
like, be aware.

1168
01:11:03,520 --> 01:11:07,600
It all seems so much smaller
and, like, depressing.

1169
01:11:09,920 --> 01:11:12,416
I hope my siblings can
make it out unscathed,

1170
01:11:12,440 --> 01:11:14,456
and I'm worried that they're
growing up

1171
01:11:14,480 --> 01:11:18,016
in even more extreme circumstances.

1172
01:11:18,040 --> 01:11:20,640
<font color="
they're able to...

1173
01:11:21,840 --> 01:11:23,360
..find their own path as well.

1174
01:11:24,760 --> 01:11:27,816
What my parents - the people that my
parents learned from -

1175
01:11:27,840 --> 01:11:29,416
are doing is so harmful,

1176
01:11:29,440 --> 01:11:32,360
and they deserve to be put back
in their lane.

1177
01:11:38,400 --> 01:11:40,416
<font color="
My name is Weston Brown.

1178
01:11:40,440 --> 01:11:42,416
"I was born and raised in Texas
and am grateful

1179
01:11:42,440 --> 01:11:44,776
"for the opportunity
to speak here tonight.

1180
01:11:44,800 --> 01:11:46,976
"A few months ago, I saw my mom,
Monica Brown,

1181
01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:49,496
"standing at this podium calling
<font color="

1182
01:11:49,520 --> 01:11:52,320
"and asking the school to follow
the guidance of religious..."

1183
01:11:53,480 --> 01:11:55,120
Weston Brown.

1184
01:12:05,160 --> 01:12:06,896
From a young age, I was
taught to give

1185
01:12:06,920 --> 01:12:09,496
a voice to people
who were disregarded,

1186
01:12:09,520 --> 01:12:12,080
elevate the marginalised
<font color="

1187
01:12:13,280 --> 01:12:16,856
Today, I strive to be the person I
needed when I was young.

1188
01:12:16,880 --> 01:12:18,376
Someone who would stand up,

1189
01:12:18,400 --> 01:12:21,080
speak out and protect the kid
that felt alone.

1190
01:12:22,560 --> 01:12:24,496
Growing up, we read the Bible cover
to cover

1191
01:12:24,520 --> 01:12:26,240
<font color="
remember.

1192
01:12:27,280 --> 01:12:30,216
We repetitively read
graphic depictions of sex,

1193
01:12:30,240 --> 01:12:33,896
violence, genocide,
sexual assault, and incest.

1194
01:12:33,920 --> 01:12:36,296
However, topics related to dating,

1195
01:12:36,320 --> 01:12:39,576
safe sex, drugs,
alcohol or sexual identity,

1196
01:12:39,600 --> 01:12:42,400
<font color="
or too heavy to discuss.

1197
01:12:43,400 --> 01:12:45,016
I would have given anything to read

1198
01:12:45,040 --> 01:12:47,720
a book with a character
that felt the feelings I felt...

1199
01:12:49,200 --> 01:12:51,376
..asked the questions I couldn't
ask,

1200
01:12:51,400 --> 01:12:53,440
and learned the lessons
<font color="

1201
01:12:54,920 --> 01:12:57,680
It's been nearly five years
since I came out to my family.

1202
01:13:02,560 --> 01:13:05,896
I'm not allowed to join
in family celebrations or holidays,

1203
01:13:05,920 --> 01:13:09,056
or be a part of my eight younger
siblings' lives,

1204
01:13:09,080 --> 01:13:11,080
solely because I'm not straight.

1205
01:13:12,400 --> 01:13:14,136
<font color="

1206
01:13:14,160 --> 01:13:16,416
to listen to librarians,

1207
01:13:16,440 --> 01:13:19,096
educators and students.

1208
01:13:19,120 --> 01:13:21,856
Not those speaking from a religious
perspective

1209
01:13:21,880 --> 01:13:25,416
or at the bidding of a political
group.

1210
01:13:25,440 --> 01:13:27,616
If you choose
to marginalise difference

1211
01:13:27,640 --> 01:13:30,520
<font color="
you will only cause harm.

1212
01:13:31,840 --> 01:13:36,176
History will remember your decisions
and demand accountability.

1213
01:13:36,200 --> 01:13:39,520
Show the world that Granbury will
not succumb to fear...

1214
01:13:41,880 --> 01:13:43,296
..but will shine brightly,

1215
01:13:43,320 --> 01:13:45,656
leading the way
<font color="

1216
01:13:45,680 --> 01:13:46,936
Thank you for listening.

1217
01:13:46,960 --> 01:13:49,400
APPLAUSE

1218
01:13:59,080 --> 01:14:01,640
Next up, we have Monica Brown.

1219
01:14:08,520 --> 01:14:11,736
Thank you. And I knew
that was coming, what came tonight.

1220
01:14:11,760 --> 01:14:14,400
It's no surprise. Not all true.

1221
01:14:15,440 --> 01:14:16,936
But it is true that we have said no

1222
01:14:16,960 --> 01:14:21,056
<font color="
in our family,

1223
01:14:21,080 --> 01:14:23,576
whether that matters to any of you
or not.

1224
01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:24,656
This is an example.

1225
01:14:24,680 --> 01:14:27,176
You know, in the scripture
it says Adam knew Eve.

1226
01:14:27,200 --> 01:14:28,376
That's not the same

1227
01:14:28,400 --> 01:14:31,216
as saying he stuck his dick
<font color="

1228
01:14:31,240 --> 01:14:33,296
That's what you've got in your mind,
right?

1229
01:14:33,320 --> 01:14:36,776
Listen, that's what you got in your
mind...

1230
01:14:36,800 --> 01:14:40,856
That's my mom, who birthed me,

1231
01:14:40,880 --> 01:14:43,936
who raised me and fed me
and took care of me.

1232
01:14:43,960 --> 01:14:47,696
Is it some sort of
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1233
01:14:47,720 --> 01:14:49,216
Years of messaging

1234
01:14:49,240 --> 01:14:52,680
from extremist pastors
and political leaders?

1235
01:14:54,400 --> 01:14:56,216
Because when I look at my mom,
I see someone

1236
01:14:56,240 --> 01:14:58,416
who absolutely believes
what she's saying.

1237
01:14:58,440 --> 01:15:00,736
And I see someone who looks scared.

1238
01:15:00,760 --> 01:15:02,136
<font color="

1239
01:15:02,160 --> 01:15:03,560
Thank you so much.

1240
01:15:05,360 --> 01:15:06,400
OK.

1241
01:15:10,560 --> 01:15:13,096
Your mother has been involved in
this process.

1242
01:15:13,120 --> 01:15:17,456
What was it like to stand here
tonight, knowing she's here as well?

1243
01:15:17,480 --> 01:15:19,576
You know, I, in my mind, that
wasn't...

1244
01:15:19,600 --> 01:15:21,056
<font color="

1245
01:15:21,080 --> 01:15:24,256
what was top of mind for me.
I don't have a message for my family

1246
01:15:24,280 --> 01:15:26,536
or for my mom
or my dad specifically.

1247
01:15:26,560 --> 01:15:28,256
I've brought and said everything

1248
01:15:28,280 --> 01:15:31,456
that I have to say to them
in many conversations,

1249
01:15:31,480 --> 01:15:32,736
<font color="

1250
01:15:32,760 --> 01:15:34,416
And so my perspective tonight isn't

1251
01:15:34,440 --> 01:15:36,416
to try to reach through
to my parents.

1252
01:15:36,440 --> 01:15:39,176
That's a conversation that - they
have the tools they need.

1253
01:15:39,200 --> 01:15:41,496
They know what they need
to do to build the bridge.

1254
01:15:41,520 --> 01:15:43,576
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1255
01:15:43,600 --> 01:15:46,616
my plea is for librarians,
educators,

1256
01:15:46,640 --> 01:15:50,200
students, and the boards
to pay attention to what matters.

1257
01:15:52,840 --> 01:15:55,680
Monica, do you have any comments?
Mrs Monica Brown.

1258
01:16:10,720 --> 01:16:15,280
I think as librarians we recognise
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1259
01:16:16,520 --> 01:16:22,536
But the swing between these
polarising views

1260
01:16:22,560 --> 01:16:24,136
are having catastrophic effects

1261
01:16:24,160 --> 01:16:26,696
on our social structures
and our communities.

1262
01:16:26,720 --> 01:16:31,336
We are on the precipice of
some very,

1263
01:16:31,360 --> 01:16:34,056
very bad things happening
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1264
01:16:34,080 --> 01:16:36,400
I just hope and pray
that people are waking up.

1265
01:16:37,480 --> 01:16:40,216
It's gone way beyond the Krause
List, honey.

1266
01:16:40,240 --> 01:16:42,536
Way beyond the Krause List.

1267
01:16:42,560 --> 01:16:45,696
We are going
to take back our schools.

1268
01:16:45,720 --> 01:16:47,656
This is what I will do to the
<font color="

1269
01:16:47,680 --> 01:16:49,120
when I become Secretary of State.

1270
01:16:53,040 --> 01:16:56,016
Being offended is the basis
for House Bill 666.

1271
01:16:56,040 --> 01:16:59,176
They feel that this legislation
could be used to threaten schools,

1272
01:16:59,200 --> 01:17:01,216
to remove books, or face arrest,

1273
01:17:01,240 --> 01:17:04,160
just because someone
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1274
01:17:05,920 --> 01:17:09,016
Is it so hurtful to maybe
nurture morality?

1275
01:17:09,040 --> 01:17:10,456
Is that so awful to do that?

1276
01:17:10,480 --> 01:17:12,336
I think that there's going to come

1277
01:17:12,360 --> 01:17:15,976
a time in some of these books
where it crosses a criminal line.

1278
01:17:16,000 --> 01:17:18,520
It's called contributing to
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1279
01:17:28,280 --> 01:17:30,560
I had been home for three days...

1280
01:17:31,720 --> 01:17:35,856
..and in that last day I had

1281
01:17:35,880 --> 01:17:39,416
people calling me left and right.
"Are you OK? What's going on?"

1282
01:17:39,440 --> 01:17:42,000
I was like, "What are you talking
about?"

1283
01:17:47,080 --> 01:17:50,736
A Hood County constable attempted
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1284
01:17:50,760 --> 01:17:52,416
against three librarians

1285
01:17:52,440 --> 01:17:55,256
for providing students
with library books

1286
01:17:55,280 --> 01:17:57,360
the constable deemed obscene.

1287
01:17:58,560 --> 01:18:00,656
Now, I'm not one of those crazy,

1288
01:18:00,680 --> 01:18:03,520
overthrow-the-government anarchist
types.

1289
01:18:04,680 --> 01:18:07,936
But it is a legitimate
<font color="

1290
01:18:07,960 --> 01:18:12,440
What do you do when your government
doesn't follow its own rules?

1291
01:18:18,080 --> 01:18:19,376
How does a sheriff arrest

1292
01:18:19,400 --> 01:18:22,456
someone for violating
your constitutional rights?

1293
01:18:22,480 --> 01:18:24,776
I had some complainants come
in on Friday

1294
01:18:24,800 --> 01:18:27,136
<font color="

1295
01:18:27,160 --> 01:18:30,056
um, about the books. OK.

1296
01:18:30,080 --> 01:18:34,856
Do you know if they use
student aids in the libraries? Yes.

1297
01:18:34,880 --> 01:18:37,696
I was told that my library aids

1298
01:18:37,720 --> 01:18:42,296
were going to be pulled
because for every piece

1299
01:18:42,320 --> 01:18:45,016
<font color="
in the library,

1300
01:18:45,040 --> 01:18:49,040
I would be served with one felony
for every student.

1301
01:18:50,040 --> 01:18:53,256
Constable London, he was trying to
tell the librarians

1302
01:18:53,280 --> 01:18:55,056
that if minors

1303
01:18:55,080 --> 01:18:58,656
had actually put those books on
the shelves,

1304
01:18:58,680 --> 01:19:01,536
<font color="
a felony.

1305
01:19:01,560 --> 01:19:05,416
I'm doing a criminal investigation
into some of your staff.

1306
01:19:05,440 --> 01:19:07,376
Obviously, there's been an
allegation

1307
01:19:07,400 --> 01:19:12,536
of books that were in conflict
of the penal code, in the library.

1308
01:19:12,560 --> 01:19:15,576
<font color="
suspects.

1309
01:19:15,600 --> 01:19:17,256
If they're the ones
that are choosing books

1310
01:19:17,280 --> 01:19:19,256
and putting them in there, you know,

1311
01:19:19,280 --> 01:19:22,096
they're the ones that
are carrying the criminal liability.

1312
01:19:22,120 --> 01:19:24,296
Constable London was able to get

1313
01:19:24,320 --> 01:19:29,176
<font color="
that checked out those books.

1314
01:19:29,200 --> 01:19:33,320
To me as a parent,
that is extremely concerning.

1315
01:19:36,000 --> 01:19:38,976
So then I got to tell those poor
kids that they were

1316
01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:40,896
not going to be allowed
to be library aids,

1317
01:19:40,920 --> 01:19:44,056
<font color="
there's pornography in the library.

1318
01:19:44,080 --> 01:19:46,936
I'm definitely on that list.
I was in the library

1319
01:19:46,960 --> 01:19:49,856
literally every single day
of my senior year.

1320
01:19:49,880 --> 01:19:53,176
That is really, really scary. Um...

1321
01:19:53,200 --> 01:19:56,656
And that is information

1322
01:19:56,680 --> 01:20:01,696
<font color="

1323
01:20:01,720 --> 01:20:04,376
If the student was underage,

1324
01:20:04,400 --> 01:20:07,416
was he going to go after the parents
for the kids

1325
01:20:07,440 --> 01:20:08,496
checking out pornography?

1326
01:20:08,520 --> 01:20:10,656
Was he going to go
after other students

1327
01:20:10,680 --> 01:20:13,040
who may have been 18 at the time?

1328
01:20:15,640 --> 01:20:17,496
<font color="

1329
01:20:17,520 --> 01:20:20,176
to do with breaking the law
and that, I mean,

1330
01:20:20,200 --> 01:20:21,936
maybe a speeding ticket.

1331
01:20:21,960 --> 01:20:25,000
But who would have thought
child pornography?

1332
01:20:26,320 --> 01:20:29,776
I fear that we are at the point now
where...

1333
01:20:29,800 --> 01:20:32,160
..we're going to see teachers
<font color="

1334
01:20:38,840 --> 01:20:42,576
There are forces
that want to manipulate

1335
01:20:42,600 --> 01:20:46,160
and to control the dissemination
of information.

1336
01:20:47,880 --> 01:20:50,896
Some of us feel that depth

1337
01:20:50,920 --> 01:20:55,840
of responsibility
to help our communities navigate.

1338
01:20:57,200 --> 01:20:59,960
That's why we're here.
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1339
01:21:09,600 --> 01:21:12,336
I happened to come
in contact last year

1340
01:21:12,360 --> 01:21:14,736
with our state senator,
Andrew Zwicker,

1341
01:21:14,760 --> 01:21:16,656
who, after hearing my story,

1342
01:21:16,680 --> 01:21:19,120
put forth the New Jersey Freedom to
Read Act.

1343
01:21:23,440 --> 01:21:25,736
I went down to Trenton to testify

1344
01:21:25,760 --> 01:21:29,536
<font color="
in favour of the bill.

1345
01:21:29,560 --> 01:21:31,656
There is a proposed
committee substitute which

1346
01:21:31,680 --> 01:21:32,896
establishes requirements

1347
01:21:32,920 --> 01:21:36,176
for library material
in public school libraries.

1348
01:21:36,200 --> 01:21:37,976
And establishes protections

1349
01:21:38,000 --> 01:21:41,176
<font color="
and librarians.

1350
01:21:41,200 --> 01:21:42,456
Being, you know,

1351
01:21:42,480 --> 01:21:45,736
your vast experience over the years
in your role,

1352
01:21:45,760 --> 01:21:48,016
do you see a distinction
between book banning

1353
01:21:48,040 --> 01:21:50,616
and restricting access
to pornography for minors?

1354
01:21:50,640 --> 01:21:52,936
<font color="
pornography for

1355
01:21:52,960 --> 01:21:56,720
minors in a school libraries.
So there is no need to restrict it.

1356
01:21:57,880 --> 01:22:01,536
But restrictions are, however,
a form of censorship.

1357
01:22:01,560 --> 01:22:05,856
Your personal opinion
about obscenity does not make it so.

1358
01:22:05,880 --> 01:22:07,216
<font color="

1359
01:22:07,240 --> 01:22:09,976
I hold that a penis is inappropriate
for fifth grade, but thank you.

1360
01:22:10,000 --> 01:22:11,720
We can talk offline. Thank you.

1361
01:22:12,920 --> 01:22:15,016
Had I been permitted
to speak further,

1362
01:22:15,040 --> 01:22:19,080
I would have reminded her
that fifth graders HAVE penises.

1363
01:22:29,080 --> 01:22:31,496
<font color="
Texas will consider shutting

1364
01:22:31,520 --> 01:22:34,416
down its entire public
library system

1365
01:22:34,440 --> 01:22:37,696
because a federal judge ordered it
to return banned books.

1366
01:22:37,720 --> 01:22:39,376
REPORTER: This dispute ultimately
led

1367
01:22:39,400 --> 01:22:41,840
<font color="
Commissioners Court.

1368
01:22:43,000 --> 01:22:46,376
I am in favour of closing libraries
temporarily

1369
01:22:46,400 --> 01:22:50,616
until we find a solution to
the pornographic filth we do have.

1370
01:22:50,640 --> 01:22:52,936
How do we think it's OK
that the librarians

1371
01:22:52,960 --> 01:22:55,176
<font color="

1372
01:22:55,200 --> 01:22:59,536
deal that like a drug dealer to our
kids?

1373
01:22:59,560 --> 01:23:01,856
And now they're becoming
porn dealers?

1374
01:23:01,880 --> 01:23:03,920
Is that what our librarians have to
become?

1375
01:23:05,600 --> 01:23:07,736
My name is Suzette Baker.

1376
01:23:07,760 --> 01:23:11,016
I'm the former head librarian
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1377
01:23:11,040 --> 01:23:13,816
I'm also a military veteran.

1378
01:23:13,840 --> 01:23:18,016
The books that are
in the library are not pornographic.

1379
01:23:18,040 --> 01:23:19,496
None of them are.

1380
01:23:19,520 --> 01:23:24,856
I would like to know how The History
Of The KKK is pornographic.

1381
01:23:24,880 --> 01:23:27,760
How To Be An Antiracist.
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1382
01:23:29,080 --> 01:23:30,136
It's not.

1383
01:23:30,160 --> 01:23:33,856
This is about taking away rights.

1384
01:23:33,880 --> 01:23:36,456
Keep the libraries open.

1385
01:23:36,480 --> 01:23:41,656
Keep the information available to
all equally.

1386
01:23:41,680 --> 01:23:44,856
This is not a communist nation.

1387
01:23:44,880 --> 01:23:47,856
You do not get to pick our reading
material.

1388
01:23:47,880 --> 01:23:49,120
<font color="

1389
01:23:50,760 --> 01:23:52,640
So with that, I'll take a motion.

1390
01:23:58,080 --> 01:23:59,536
I'll second.

1391
01:23:59,560 --> 01:24:01,136
The library will remain open.

1392
01:24:01,160 --> 01:24:02,896
We will try this in the courts,

1393
01:24:02,920 --> 01:24:06,336
not through social media
or through news media.

1394
01:24:06,360 --> 01:24:09,816
REPORTER: Libraries in Llano will
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1395
01:24:09,840 --> 01:24:12,360
a passion-filled afternoon.

1396
01:24:13,560 --> 01:24:15,600
SHE CHUCKLES

1397
01:24:16,880 --> 01:24:19,400
Thank you. That was embarrassing...

1398
01:24:21,120 --> 01:24:22,656
It's good to know we're not alone.

1399
01:24:22,680 --> 01:24:25,120
WOMAN SOBS

1400
01:24:33,680 --> 01:24:36,320
Hey, you! How are you? Good.

1401
01:24:37,320 --> 01:24:40,696
I'm proud of you.
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1402
01:24:40,720 --> 01:24:42,576
Will you take a picture
of me beside it?

1403
01:24:42,600 --> 01:24:43,760
I do have a picture...

1404
01:24:50,160 --> 01:24:53,776
I couldn't be more delighted
to introduce Amanda Jones to you.

1405
01:24:53,800 --> 01:24:57,696
Author of That Librarian -
part memoir, part manifesto.

1406
01:24:57,720 --> 01:24:59,816
<font color="
to endure everything

1407
01:24:59,840 --> 01:25:01,496
that Amanda has had to endure,

1408
01:25:01,520 --> 01:25:03,536
and I fear that other people

1409
01:25:03,560 --> 01:25:06,776
in this room may have
had similar experiences.

1410
01:25:06,800 --> 01:25:09,816
We are so grateful
for all you do on the front lines.

1411
01:25:09,840 --> 01:25:12,240
APPLAUSE

1412
01:25:14,280 --> 01:25:15,880
<font color="

1413
01:25:17,240 --> 01:25:18,816
Oh, stay in my town? Yeah.

1414
01:25:18,840 --> 01:25:19,856
Oh, it's my town.

1415
01:25:19,880 --> 01:25:22,960
They can all go to hell. Like...
LAUGHTER

1416
01:25:27,280 --> 01:25:29,456
You my hero, you know that, right?

1417
01:25:29,480 --> 01:25:31,840
Thank you.
You're absolutely my hero.

1418
01:25:49,160 --> 01:25:50,920
<font color="
to happen next.

1419
01:25:52,160 --> 01:25:54,896
I cannot imagine us
being on a cliff.

1420
01:25:54,920 --> 01:25:57,360
That's just too much.

1421
01:26:00,280 --> 01:26:03,640
But I don't know, maybe we are
and we've gone over.

1422
01:26:09,280 --> 01:26:10,760
Our stories have power.

1423
01:26:12,920 --> 01:26:15,296
I can't stay anonymous,

1424
01:26:15,320 --> 01:26:17,360
<font color="
more.

1425
01:26:24,880 --> 01:26:27,320
I can't let them keep my story
in the dark.

1426
01:26:28,720 --> 01:26:30,416
I won't be censored.

1427
01:26:30,440 --> 01:26:34,320
Just like we can't let them keep
censoring the stories in our books.

1428
01:26:37,680 --> 01:26:41,640
What I do know is that our story
is still being written.

1429
01:26:43,760 --> 01:26:45,920
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