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Title: Teen Banned Books Reading
START DATE: 9/25/2005
START TIME: 2:00 PM
Duration: 2 Hours
Location: Oakland -- other
Location Details:
Event Topic: Government
Event Type: readings and discussion
Contact Name: Lisa Krebs
Contact Email: lkrebs@aclupgh.org
Contact Phone:
DESCRIPTION:
Teen Banned Books Reading
Sunday, September 25th
2pm
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (Main)
Teen Area—First Floor

Join us in celebrating freedom of speech with area teens reading from banned or challenged books. Also featuring guest speakers Anthony Latour (local teen expelled from school for rap lyrics he wrote at home and posted on the Internet) and ACLU speaker/CMU graduate student Alik Widge. Alik will talk about teen freedom of speech with an emphasis on new technologies like file sharing. Sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union (Greater Pittsburgh Chapter) and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. This event is free and open to the public.