CBLDF: Ready for War or Peace at Publishers Weekly
Calvin Reid at Publishers Weekly recently spoke to Charles Brownstein about supporting free expression in bookstores and comics shops. He divides the organization's activities into “peacetime and wartime,” and right now, he said, the CBLDF is on a war footing. Since 2004, the CBLDF has spent nearly $100,000 defending Gordon Lee, a Rome, Ga., comics retailer charged with distributing materials harmful to minors, who faces a year in jail and $1000 fine if convicted. The much-postponed case is likely to come to trial in November.
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