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SUMMARY:Banned Book Week
DESCRIPTION:(http://www.bannedbooksweek.org/) September’s end marks Banned Books Week\, a celebration of the Freedom to Read\, established by the American Library Association in 1981 in response to growing attempts to ban books in public libraries across the country. First observed in 1982\, we celebrate it each year during the last week starting in September\, to remind our fellow citizens not to take for granted their freedom to read the written word. Every year bookstores and libraries across the United States celebrate Banned Books Week with displays of and readings from books that have been banned or threatened throughout history. Such works range from the Bible and Thomas Paine’s The Age of Reason to Shakespeare’s Hamlet\, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter series\, and has included books on atheism\, science\, tolerance\, social issues\, love and sex\, and philosophy. Jean-Jacques Rousseau\, Thomas Paine\, Voltaire\, Aristophanes\, Margaret Sanger\, Mary Shelley\, Ambrose Bierce\, Charles Darwin\, George Eliot\, Mark Twain and John Locke were all victims of censorship during their lifetimes and still face censorship in some sections of the world today. Banned Books Week stands as a reminder that freedom is precious\, that without constant diligence and defiance we can loose it\, even in the United States. If anything this should motivate freethinkers everywhere to read banned books\, discuss them\, and protect the rights of all Americans to read what they want\, when they want\, in libraries across the country. Banned Books Week sponsors include the …    American Booksellers Association (http://www.bookweb.org/)\,    American Booksellers Foundation of Free Expression (http://www.abffe.org/)\,    American Library Association (http://www.ala.org/) (ALA)\,     Association of American Publishers (http://www.publishers.org/)\,    American Society of Journalists and Authors (http://www.asja.org/index9.php)\, and    National Association of College Stores (http://www.csref.org/).  It is endorsed by the Library of Congress Center for the Book (http://www.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/). 
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SUMMARY:Blasphemy Day
DESCRIPTION:Secularists and freethinkers worldwide celebrate International Blasphemy Day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_Day) or “Blasphemy Rights Day” to mark the anniversary of when images of Muhammad appeared in the Denmark newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005. Conservative Muslims reacted to the drawings with worldwide protests\, riots\, embassy burnings and death threats. Formally founded in 2009 by Ronald Lindsay\, Directory of the Center of Inquiry in Ahmherst\, New York\, and promoted by the Campaign for Free Expression (http://www.centerforinquiry.net/campaign_for_free_expression)\, this secular holiday now stands as a platform for individuals freely to express criticisms of religion and religious establishments. As Ronald Lindsay said in a television interview: “… religious beliefs should be subject to examination and criticism just as political beliefs are\, but we have a taboo on religion.” “… we’re against restrictions on speech based purely on the possibility that some people might be offended\,” he also said; “Because if you go down that path there’s no end to it.” Participants have celebrated Blasphemy Day in various ways: with speeches\, art exhibitions\, feasts\, poetry\, music and song\, and by taking the Blasphemy Challenge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_Response_Squad#The_Blasphemy_Challenge). Use your imagination. Unlike most holidays\, this one even has its own Facebook page. Visit it here (http://www.facebook.com/blasphemyday).
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