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Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

“ALA said…that 72% of all book challenges [in 2024] were lodged not by the public, not by parents, but by school board members and administrators, essentially by management inside of the school system.” — @andylaties.bsky.social in @publisherswkly.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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Bookseller Andrew Laties on Championing Banned Books

We spoke with Andrew Laties, longtime activist bookseller, author, and publisher of the Rebel Bookseller imprint, about his latest title to focus on banned books, 'You’re Telling My Kids They Can’t Re...

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Andy Laties @andylaties.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Read my new book “You’re Telling My Kids They Can’t Read This Book?” — for free! It doesn’t officially come out till July 1 but I’ve posted its Google Books preview as 100% viewable. www.andrewlaties.com/youre-tellin...

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Read my book for FREE! — ANDREW LATIES

Okay, if there’s one thing I learned from my highschool underground newspaper days, it’s that giving the paper away for FREE before anyone could stop us meant people would check it out. So, that’s wha...

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Andy Laties @andylaties.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I’m performing in this show Sunday!

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Andy Laties @andylaties.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

youtu.be/QGtNyb6QJk4?... 3 Sheep and the Breathing-Challenged Shark, plus Mary Fairy Had a Little Sheep go to the Bookstore: audience participation puppetry at Book & Puppet Co

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March 8, 2025

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Andy Laties @andylaties.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Today's Fractured Fables Puppet Show: "Little Red Foxy Hood and the Big Red Hen" youtu.be/qmMsj39Ucbo

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Little Red Foxy Hood and the Big Red Hen

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Andy Laties @andylaties.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Here’s a film of our 157th Birthday Party for W.E.B. Du Bois - a community conversation that’s part of the Melba Tolliver’s WHY? Network —https://youtu.be/rNJQHrAVrgQ?si=8884hnyTOANSur0H

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W.E.B. Du Bois 157th Birthday Party with Melba Tolliver

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Andy Laties @andylaties.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Come on down to Book & Puppet and sign some Democratic Party nominating petitions!

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Andy Laties @andylaties.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Coming soon at Book & Puppet: 157th Birthday Party for W.E.B. Du Bois; An Evening with Dr. Hasshan Batts--go "Beyond The Nightmare"; Noble Quills; April in Paris mailchi.mp/bookandpuppe...

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Andy Laties @andylaties.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

My original Rebel Bookseller publisher Sander Hicks interviewed me for his podcast. youtu.be/1_aaJyqj1Qc?...

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Andy Laties: The Rebel Bookseller vs. Amazon’s Monopoly!

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Gaia Abraxas @gaiaabraxas.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

"He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody's personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.” --C. G. Jung, describing Adolf Hitler

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Andy Laties @andylaties.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Criminal speech? Susie Ravitz:

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Andy Laties @andylaties.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Come on down to join the community readaloud of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report: we will be taking turns. Here’s Melba Tolliver reading now (at Book & Puppet Co, 161 Northampton St, Easton PA)

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Andy Laties @andylaties.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

We will postpone today’s planned community read-aloud if “Don’t Think of an Elephant” by George Lakoff to next Saturday, January 25, from 2 to 6pm— because of today’s snowstorm.

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Andy Laties @andylaties.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Well I keep reading these two pages over and over again. I first encountered this book The Karma of Words by William LaFleur 25 years ago and I periodically am drawn back to it. This past few months I have been reading it and rereading it.

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Andy Laties @andylaties.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

We are hosting a community read-aloud of Jack Smith report on January 20– we will also stream this program online. Stop by to take a turn! www.eventbrite.com/e/peoples-in... www.eventbrite.com/e/peoples-in...

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People's Inauguration

Lend your voice to a community read-aloud of Special Counsel Jack Smith's REPORT ON EFFORTS TO INTERFERE WITH THE 2020 TRANSFER OF POWER

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Andy Laties @andylaties.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I made this film and posted it on FB. A few days later, I saw it had been removed from my feed! … The film: I saw a “customer” had concealed the much-banned “Gender Queer” by placing another book in front— one that was bizarrely inappropriate for censorship work. (Will Bluesky take down this post?)

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