Please vote for Freedom to Read SXSW panel

[Ed Garcia]

Members of the RI Freedom to Read Coalition are taking our blueprint for success on the road! Please vote to select our panel at SXSW EDU 2026.

Program description:  Rhode Island soared to victory against rising censorship! Join us to uncover how librarians, authors, educators, publishers, parents, and civil liberties advocates united to pass one of the nation's most powerful Freedom to Read bills. Dive into the grassroots mobilization and strategic communications that fueled this triumph. Features experts from Authors Against Book Bans, Rhode Island Library Association, and others, moderated by Skip Dye, Chair of Penguin Random House Intellectual Freedom Taskforce. Don't miss this blueprint for action!

Follow this link to vote:  https://participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sxsw26/community-voting-edu/page/community-voting/session/1752601212027001rhab

Thank you for your help!

Ed

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Edward Garcia

Library Director

Cranston Public Library

140 Sockanosset Cross Road

Cranston, RI 02920

401.943.9080