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The National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance
The Activist's Alert
The NCBLA wants to make sure you are aware of ongoing challenges to literacy, libraries, literature, education, reading rights and the arts, especially as they relate to our nation's young people. We will do our best to keep you up-to-date, and we request that you please make us aware of any situation across our nation that deserves the attention of all of us as citizens. As an individual citizen in a democracy you have a great deal of power, if you take actions that reflect your beliefs and priorities. As Robert F. Kennedy stated:
"Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills - against misery, against ignorance, or injustice and violence. Yet many of the world's great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man. A young monk began the Protestant reformation, a young general extended an empire from Macedonia to the borders of the Earth, and a young woman reclaimed the territory of France. It was a young Italian explorer who discovered the New World, and 32-year-old Thomas Jefferson who proclaimed that all men are created equal. ‘Give me a place to stand,’ said Archimedes, ‘and I will move the world.’ These men moved the world, and so can we all."
For up-to-date information about critical issues, please review the NCBLA blog at: www.thencbla.blogspot.com/.