May 7, 2024 Banned Books

We welcomed Michael Plasha to today's show to discuss banned books and the larger issue of censorship.  Michael has a passion for reading and the power of the written word.   He spoke with great passion regarding efforts to ban books.   Coming of age in the 1960s, Michael spoke of the books he read that had been subject to banning by localities and school districts, books by authors such as Ray Bradbury to Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway to Maurice Sendak.  As a parent of four adult and two becoming adult children, he expressed the opinion that parents should be their children's guide when it came to many things, such as reading, not members of school boards or other groups, some of whom may not have read the books they propose banning.   Please listen to a full version of the show below.

Next week, on the anniversary of both the founding of the state of Israel on May 14 and Nakba on May 15, we will host a conversation about settler colonialism and its impacts on indigenous population of Palestine and in the USA.