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WHEREAS, the freedom to read is essential to our democracy, and reading is among our
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F'”` WHEREAS, privacy is essential to the exercise of that freedom, and the right to privacy is the
uhr right to open inquiry without having the subject of one's interest examined or scrutinized by
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1E WHEREAS, the freedom to read is protected by our Constitution; and
' WHEREAS, some individuals, groups, and public authorities work to remove or limit access to
reading materials, to censor content in schools, to label "controversial"views, to distribute lists
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WHEREAS, every silencing of a heresy, every enforcement of an orthodoxy, diminishes theme
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WHEREAS, the American Library Association's Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom '111.411,,V2�.N
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I t WHEREAS, Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to choose, or the freedom to
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1- NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, I, Mayor Heidi Lueb of the City of Tigard, Oregon
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in the City of Tigard and encourage all libraries and bookstores to acquire and make available �4
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Dated this 26th day of September, 2023
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1 s. 1 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the City of ,„
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