The Librarians

Hosted by The Librarians

Virtual

When

Feb 7, 5:00 PM EST

Price

$15.00 USD per person

Available in

UM, US, CA

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First Amendment Under Fire: Watch Party and Live Discussion

Missed our last Right To Read rally? Join us for another online screening and conversation featuring members of our film team, trailblazing free speech leaders, and grassroots organizers fighting to defend intellectual freedom so you can be ready to activate your community members once the film is available across the U.S. on PBS Independent Lens starting February 9.

Speakers will include Academy Award nominated and Peabody Award winning Director/Producer Kim A Snyder; former Llano County Librarian and film participant, Suzette Baker; plaintiff in landmark Island Trees School District v. Pico (1982) Supreme Court Case, Steven Pico; Chairman of Intellectual Freedom Task Force, Penguin Random House, Skip Dye; National youth organizer and co-founder of Seat, Cameron Samuels; and moderated by ACLU's senior staff attorney Emerson Sykes.

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Event Participants

Emerson Sykes

ACLU Senior Staff Attorney

Kim A Snyder

Director and Producer

Suzette Baker

Librarian and Film Participant

Steven Pico

Plaintiff, Island Trees vs. Pico

Skip Dye - Penguin Random House

SVP of Digital Strategy

Cameron Samuels

Co-Founder of SEAT

About the film

The Librarians with Joyce Vance

How Censorship is Threatening Our Constitutional Rights at the Local Level

Exclusive access to a special screening and conversation hosted by Joyce Vance, former United States Attorney, professor of the practice of law at the University of Alabama school of law, and author of the "Civil Discourse" newsletter on Substack. Featuring Oscar-nominated Director/Producer Kim A Snyder alongside our courageous librarian/film participants Amanda Jones (LA) and Suzette Baker (TX), representing school and public libraries affected by the recent Fifth Circuit ruling which opened the door to a new era of book bans.

Read their TIME Op-Ed here and hear from them about:

  • How the "government speech doctrine" is being wielded in the Fifth Circuit and Florida

  • How state penal law is circumventing our First and Fourteenth amendment rights

  • How local coalitions are fighting back

  • How you can get involved in defending your local libraries

Genre

Documentary

Released

2025

Director

Kim A Snyder

Producer

Janique L Robillard, Jana Edelbaum, Maria Cuomo Cole, Kim A Snyder