FREDERICK, Maryland – Freedom of speech is at all times beneath assault and Flying Canine Brewery is at all times prepared for the battle. This September, as a part of the efforts behind Banned Books Week, the brewery’s focus is on the banning of books. For the following week, Flying Canine will have fun the numerous books which were censored, eliminated, or restricted from bookshelves for the previous century by launching a takeover of Little Free Libraries throughout Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia.
Marked with signage paying homage to a burning web page, the Little Free Libraries taken over by Flying Canine are full of titles which were banned and challenged. In every e book is a Flying Canine bookmark that proudly states, ‘I’m with the banned.’ These community-based ‘take a e book/go away a e book’ bookstalls chosen by the brewery are positioned in Frederick and Baltimore in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Alexandria and Arlington in Virginia. The 5 libraries in every location vary from residential containers to places inside retailers, museums, and bars.
“If you happen to’re offended by completely different world views and controversial concepts out of concern and ignorance, you’re the issue, not books and freedom of expression,” stated Jim Caruso, CEO of Flying Canine Brewery. “Ban censors, not books.”
Banned Books Week – created within the Nineteen Eighties as a response to the sudden surge within the variety of challenges to books in faculties, bookstores, and libraries – is an annual occasion celebrating the liberty to learn. The coalition behind the week brings collectively all these within the e book neighborhood in shared assist of the liberty to hunt and categorical concepts. The 2022 theme is ‘Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us.’ New York Occasions best-selling creator George M. Johnson will function the Honorary Chair.
Flying Canine has a protracted historical past of standing as much as censorship. When Colorado, Michigan, and most not too long ago North Carolina, violated Flying Canine’s 1st Modification rights, the brewery sued and received all 3 times. Whereas on the floor these lawsuits are about beer labels, they’re actually about defending the first Modification on the margin the place all of those battles are fought. Civil liberties aren’t misplaced in a single day, they’re chipped away at little by little except vigorously defended.
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