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It’s my 1st First Amend­ment Fri­day, a day to cel­e­brate intel­lec­tual free­dom, the most impor­tant Amend­ment to the Con­sti­tu­tion, and teens’ right to read. What bet­ter way to kick it off than by shar­ing this mes­sage from our firends at Ran­dom House:

Banned Books Week is Sep­tem­ber 27 through Octo­ber 4

It’s time to cel­e­brate the free­dom to read and help increase aware­ness of cen­sor­ship issues.   And you can do it all with the attached graphic and by link­ing to our First Amend­ment Web site:http://www.randomhouse.com/banned/

We’re ask­ing you to for­ward this email to five peo­ple you know — authors, artists, blog­gers, indus­try con­tacts, friends, or fam­ily —  and ask them to post the graphic to their blog or Web site in sup­port of Banned Books Week. They can also embed this graphic onto their web page, using the code below. For more detailed instruc­tions, visit: http://www.randomhouse.com/teens/firstamendment/resources.html

We also encour­age you to check out the newly updated First Amend­ment site — it’s full of valu­able infor­ma­tion and inter­est­ing thoughts on cen­sor­ship from some of our authors.

We’re hop­ing every­one will make this year’s Banned Books Week a time to cel­e­brate the free­dom to read — and to remem­ber and remind oth­ers never to take that free­dom for granted.

The Ran­dom House First Amend­ment Com­mit­tee
Firsta­mend­ment [at] ran­dom­house [dot] com