Burned Books in the Media

Freadom's Cuban Burned Books campaign is the object of a really good article in the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel:

Spurred by events in South Florida, a national group is urging students to read books that have been burned in Cuba.

The organization, FREADOM, launched the project last month to bring attention to documents and books, such as the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights and George Orwell's Animal Farm, that the Cuban government has banned and set afire. The project is a takeoff on campaigns encouraging people to read banned books.

"Banning a book is the intent to kill," said Walter Skold, co-chairman of FREADOM, a group of librarians, authors and human rights activists. "Burning it is the crime of murder."

(Link courtesy of LISNews)


The article offers a great overview of the burned books controversy, so please read it all. The Freadom blog, as usual, has more on this topic.