A Call to Action in Wisconsin

We, as Wisconsin Writers for Democratic Action, understand BOOK BANNING to be a strategy of authoritarian governments to restrict personal freedoms, a strategy preliminary to what we witnessed in totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century. We are grateful to partner with Wisconsin bookstores and libraries in their efforts to provide access to titles that have been banned across our state. “To allow a group of people or any individual, no matter how powerful or loud, to become the decision-maker about what books we can read or whether libraries exist is to place all of our rights and liberties in jeopardy” (Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom).

Let us act now, while we can, to protect our democracy, our books, and our right to read what we choose!

Please consider joining WDA and our Wisconsin Chapter.

Attend an important Wisconsin WDA Chapter briefing on TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 7PM on ZOOM. Book banning is happening right here in our backyards. John Norcross, Op-Ed writer for The Wisconsin Examiner and Wisconsin Co-Chair Jacki Lyden will bring you up to speed.

We as Writers for Democratic Action understand that the 2024 election is one of the most critical elections in the history of our state, our nation, and the world. The urgent defense of democracy falls to the American people, and to each of us as informed voters of Wisconsin, who must vote in numbers never seen before. Please join us in protecting representative government with the most powerful tool we still have: the Vote.

See the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin for important information.