{"id":8052,"date":"2014-01-31T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T05:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=8052"},"modified":"2014-01-30T16:38:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T21:38:25","slug":"get_in_the_ftrf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/get_in_the_ftrf\/","title":{"rendered":"Get in the FTRF!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ftrf.site-ym.com\/\">Freedom to Read Foundation<\/a> is a non-profit organization dedicated to defending the first amendment. FTRF <a href=\"https:\/\/ftrf.site-ym.com\/?page=About\">participates<\/a> in litigation, provides grants and educates the public about the importance of the First Amendment. If you&#8217;ve heard about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/11\/27\/american-library-association-mexican-american-studies_n_4352610.html\">Tucson Mexican American Studies case<\/a>, then you have heard about the work of FTRF. You can find a full outline of the FTRF&#8217;s involvement in current cases <a href=\"https:\/\/ftrf.site-ym.com\/?page=Current_Cases\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to invite you to <a href=\"https:\/\/ftrf.site-ym.com\/general\/register_member_type.asp?\">join the FTRF<\/a> to support their work, to spread the word about censorship and to defend everyone&#8217;s freedom to read. Membership is only $35 and that money helps FTRF accomplish <a href=\"https:\/\/ftrf.site-ym.com\/?page=Accomplishments\">many amazing things<\/a>, including<a href=\"https:\/\/ftrf.site-ym.com\/news\/126159\/FTRF-announces-seven-recipients-of-2013-Banned-Books-Week-event-grants.htm\"> these super fun<\/a>, Judith F. Krug Memorial Grant projects.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freedom to Read Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to defending the first amendment. FTRF participates in litigation, provides grants and educates the public about the importance of the First Amendment. If you&#8217;ve heard about the Tucson Mexican American Studies case, then you have heard about the work of FTRF. You can find a full outline of the FTRF&#8217;s involvement in current cases here. I would like to invite you to join the FTRF to support their work, to spread the word about censorship and to defend everyone&#8217;s freedom to read. Membership is only $35 and that money helps FTRF accomplish many amazing things, including these super fun, Judith F. Krug Memorial Grant projects. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[12,122,41,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards-scholarships","category-blogger-heather-acerro","category-intellectual-freedom","category-legislative-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}