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DoomsdaysCWUPDATE: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Texas</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#library</a> committee suspended, decision to reclassify <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndigenousHistory</a> book as "fiction" reversedJudd Legum Oct 23, 2024"The change to the book review process was driven by a local <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightWing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RightWing</a> group, Two Moms and Some Books. "After Popular Information's report, the reclassification of the book became national and international news, receiving coverage from MSNBC, The Austin-American Statesman, The San Antonio Current, The Texarkana Gazette, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Guardian, The Independent, and others. Two days after Popular Information's report, a coalition, including PEN America, the Writers Guild, and Penguin Random House, wrote a letter to the Montgomery County Commission demanding they reverse the decision. "On Tuesday, the Montgomery County Commission 'issued a stay' against all decisions made by the citizens' reconsideration committee since October 1, and also put all future decisions of the committee on hold. That means the book will be placed back in the non-fiction section of the county’s public libraries. In addition, the Commission created a group "to review and revise library policy,' including the role and composition of the citizens' reconsideration committee."<a href="https://popular.info/p/update-texas-library-committee-suspended" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://popular.info/p/update-texas-library-committee-suspended</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Colonization</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Censorship</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TruthAndReconciliation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TruthAndReconciliation</a> vs <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LiesAndDenial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LiesAndDenial</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WampanoagTribe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WampanoagTribe</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WampanoagNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WampanoagNation</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TexasFreedomToReadProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TexasFreedomToReadProject</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TwoMomsAndSomeBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TwoMomsAndSomeBooks</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChristianRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChristianRight</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MontgomeryCountyTexas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MontgomeryCountyTexas</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wampanog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wampanog</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChildrensBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChildrensBooks</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Librarians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Librarians</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NativeAmericans</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Texas</a> county sidelines <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/librarians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#librarians</a>, reclassifies book on abuse of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NativeAmericans</a> as "fiction"Judd Legum Oct 14, 2024"A Texas county has mandated public libraries move a well-regarded children's book documenting the mistreatment of Native Americans in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewEngland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewEngland</a> — <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Colonization</a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wampanoag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wampanoag</a> Story — from the 'non-fiction' section to 'fiction.' The decision was made after the government of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MontgomeryCountyTexas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MontgomeryCountyTexas</a>, under pressure from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightWing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RightWing</a> activists, removed librarians from the process of reviewing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChildrensBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChildrensBooks</a> and replaced them with a 'Citizens Review Committee.' Colonization and the Wampanoag Story was 'challenged' by an unknown person on September 10, 2024. The Committee responded by ordering that the book be moved to the fiction section of public libraries in Montgomery County by October 17, 2024, according to public records obtained by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TexasFreedomToReadProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TexasFreedomToReadProject</a> shared with Popular Information. "The author of Colonization and the Wampanoag Story is <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LindaCoombs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LindaCoombs</a>, a 'historian from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WampanoagTribe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WampanoagTribe</a>.' Coombs spent three decades working at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WampanoagIndigenousProgram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WampanoagIndigenousProgram</a>, an initiative to preserve the history of the Wampanoag people. The book is published by Penguin Random House, which describes the book as '[t]he true story of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndigenousNations</a> of the American Northeast, including the Wampanoag nation and others, and their history up to present day.""Colonization and the Wampanoag Story tells the real story of the brutalization of the Wampanoag people by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EuropeanSettlers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EuropeanSettlers</a>. An excerpt: "'[C]ertain ship captain began kidnapping Wampanoag men and those of other tribal nations along the coast. Sailors invited them aboard their ships under the pretense of trading, then lifted anchor and sailed away. The men were prisoners, stolen from their families and homes. "'They were taken to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/England" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#England</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Spain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Spain</a> to be sold into slavery and paraded through the streets as "novelties," something for the people of Europe to gawk at as curiosities — not as human beings. Imagine how these men must of felt when they realized their situation: they would never see their children, parents, wives, relatives or communities and homelands again. What a terrible shock for all their families when they realized their men were gone — just disappeared forever.' "This is fact, not fiction."Read more: <a href="https://popular.info/p/texas-county-sidelines-librarians" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://popular.info/p/texas-county-sidelines-librarians</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoplesDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndigenousPeoplesDay</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Colonization</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Censorship</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndigenousHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TruthAndReconciliation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TruthAndReconciliation</a> vs <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LiesAndDenial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LiesAndDenial</a>

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