WRITERS-AT-LARGE
Injustice to one is injustice to all…
That which is united by necessity can never be divided…
Writers-at-Large,
a new California-based advocacy group, invites your participation, as a writer
of any genre, in this effort for increased literary arts awareness,
education, and funding, as well as to speak out against the rising tide of
censorship which threatens our media, public
school curricula, and public libraries. It’s
time to demand accountability for incarceration of journalists who refuse to
play ball with federal investigators. We need your help in raising consciousness
about the importance of the written word
to progressive social change, as well as
to let legislators, elected
officials, school boards, and the courts know—an injustice to one is
an injustice to all. Join former state senator, writer, activist Tom
Hayden, immediate past president of PEN USA, and best-selling author, Jonathan
Kirsch,
Gerald Nicosia, Executive Director of Center for Creative Voices in Media,
and screenwriter, Jonathan Rintels, City Lights Bookstore publishers Nancy
J. Peters
and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, former director of the California Arts Council,
Barry Hessenius, Executive Director of Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Charles
Brownstein,
poets David Meltzer, Michael Rothenberg, Jack Foley, and other endorsers, in
this effort.
There are no membership criteria, and
no membership dues. All you have to do
is show up – whether literally, or figuratively. The time
is now, the place is now; the need is now!
For more information, and to sign up
Contact: Jayne Lyn Stahl, Project
Director and Founder jayne.stahl@gmail.com
“Where they burn books, they will
also, in
the end, burn people.”
Heinrich
Heine (1821)
Writers-at-large is a proud member of
the Intersection Incubator, a program
of Intersection Center for the Arts providing
fiscal sponsorship, incubation and consultation
to artists www.theintersection.org and
is funded by the California Arts Council. |
