Dru Menaker

Free expression and press freedom advocate. Keen on facts and informed debate. Prior: Chief Operating Officer @PENamerica

[Dru Menaker @drumenaker]

@Sulliview @TulaneLaw Making a no-tweets exception to send congratulations!

[PEN America @PENamerica]

PEN America mourns the death of prize-winning Ukrainian author and @PenUkraine member Victoria Amelina who was struck by a Russian missile in Kramatorsk on Tuesday and died on July 1.

https://t.co/1t8WmiHtZp #VictoriaAmelina #RIP

[Volodymyr Yermolenko @yermolenko_v]

Our dearest friend and brilliant Ukrainian writer and human rights activist Victoria Amelina passed away.. killed by a Russian missile.. since RU invasion she has been documenting RU war crimes.. now killed by one of them.. devastating…..
https://t.co/sRG2LzcRlT

[Jonathan Friedman 📚 @jonfreadom]

Fired for not removing books, Escambia superintendent told the board: “There’s something bad that exists here. There’s something toxic that exists here." @michelleinbklyn adds: "And it doesn’t exist only in Escambia, which is why this lawsuit matters."
https://t.co/wZWdGS9DGd

[PEN America @PENamerica]

🧵 @realJennyBoylan at #PENGala 2023:

"Just because you’ve banned #TheHandmaidsTale, it’s not like there won't be any more feminists. That’s not how it works..."

Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for PEN America #IStandWithTheBanned

[Dru Menaker @drumenaker]

This would be a great time to join @PENamerica and support authors, parents, and students seeking to protect the freedom to read https://t.co/UPsQg2TRrr

[PEN America @PENamerica]

PEN America v. Book Bans.

CEO @SuzanneNossel explains why we have filed a lawsuit—along with Penguin Random House and a group of authors, parents and students—to push back against “egregious book bans” that violate both the First and Fourteenth Amendments. #IStandWithTheBanned

[Dru Menaker @drumenaker]

We are defending books at @PENamerica. Joining with parents, writers, and publishers, we are fighting unconstitutional politicized censorship — and protecting the wonder of reading and learning.

[PEN America @PENamerica]

🧵PEN America Files Lawsuit against Florida School District over Unconstitutional Book Bans

Lawsuit joined by @penguinrandom, parents, and authors asserts that Escambia County School Board unlawfully removes or restricts access to books about race, racism, and LGBTQ identities.

[PEN America @PENamerica]

"These bills are not about protecting children. They are about using the power of the state to intimidate private companies and ban ideas and stories that some people find offensive or uncomfortable." @summerelopez on book banners' extreme new tactic: https://t.co/a2cESejJip

[Dru Menaker @drumenaker]

From @mstyslav9 of @AP, an ode to the importance of a free press

#WorldPressFreedomDay @PENamerica

[PEN America @PENamerica]

For #WorldPressFreedomDay, PEN America hosted an advance screening of 20 Days in Mariupol—plus a discussion with the film director @mstyslav9, PEN America CEO @SuzanneNossel, AP Executive Editor @JuliePace and the Ukraine journalists union president.

[PEN America @PENamerica]

For #WorldPressFreedomDay, PEN America hosted an advance screening of 20 Days in Mariupol—plus a discussion with the film director @mstyslav9, PEN America CEO @SuzanneNossel, AP Executive Editor @JuliePace and the Ukraine journalists union president.

[Dru Menaker @drumenaker]

We need to defend the right to read, to learn, and to teach. Join us in this crucial mission @PENamerica. We can't stand by.

[PEN America @PENamerica]

NEW: "Book bans are rising at a rapid pace in school districts around the United States, driven by new laws and regulations that limit what kinds of books children can access, according to a new report from PEN America."

Read free: https://t.co/uNXxESvD1w

[PEN America @PENamerica]

NEW: "Book bans are rising at a rapid pace in school districts around the United States, driven by new laws and regulations that limit what kinds of books children can access, according to a new report from PEN America."

Read free: https://t.co/uNXxESvD1w

[Dru Menaker @drumenaker]

#FreeEvan

#JournalismIsNotACrime

Jailed WSJ Reporter in Letter Home Says He Is ‘Not Losing Hope’ - ⁦@WSJ⁩ https://t.co/deKgRYYEtu

[Hari Kunzru @harikunzru]

Today in unforgetting: really important @PENamerica project to archive independent Russian media shut down by Putin. @novaya_gazeta and others. Well done @mashagessen @BardCollege and everyone else who has worked on this https://t.co/GKxCxb4343

[PEN America @PENamerica]

"The Llano County Library Board, like 1950s Prince Edward County and Montgomery before it, would rather take away this public good from every resident rather than allow BIPOC and queer people representation there."
https://t.co/0OQFRo3hwN #Texas #Libraries #LetAmericaRead

[Dru Menaker @drumenaker]

“For nearly two years, The Associated Press assembled puzzle pieces from across three continents to uncover the story of this boat — and the people it carried from hope to death.”

Excruciating but imperative to read. From @AP https://t.co/LnTDqKwIGT

[PEN America @PENamerica]

Digital Archive Aims to Preserve a Threatened Russian Independent Media

Partnership between PEN America, @BardCollege comes as WSJ reporter #EvanGershkovich remains imprisoned in Russia https://t.co/tUD5p8BmI9 via @WSJ

[Summer Lopez @summerelopez]

A devastating, shocking sentence for Xu Zhiyong, courageous Chinese writer and activist and @PENamerica's 2020 PEN/Barbey #FreedomToWrite Award honoree. His only "crime" has been to dream of a free, democratic China. The fight for his freedom will continue. #FreeXuZhiyong

[Public Media Journalists Association @PMJATweets]

To Twitter, regarding this new label for @NPR - This inaccurate label is a disservice to our democracy. The U.S. government has no editorial control over NPR or any of the public media outlets across the country.
https://t.co/bDnaF0ZAg6

[PEN America @PENamerica]

More Than 100 Writers from 27 Countries to be Featured in the 18th Annual @PENworldvoices Festival

Writers include John Irving, Roxane Gay, Ayad Akhtar, Reza Aslan, Marlon James, Ottessa Moshfegh, and more. https://t.co/RjsObagl8u #PENWorldVoices