The Truth about Moms for Liberty

11/12/2022

Call to action! Brevard County, Florida.

08/12/2022

07/12/2022

Important Reminder!

The Brevard School Board Opaque Trio (Susin, Trent, and Wright) are trying to hide their actions by scheduling controversial policy decisions during special meetings taking place on weekdays during working hours when parents and teachers cannot attend.

If you are able, please attend and let them know how you feel about these important issues.

If you cannot attend, be sure to email the entire school board at the following addresses:

[email protected]
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01/12/2022

Call to Action! Brevard County, Florida

These are the dates of Brevard School Board meetings over the next two weeks. Please plan to show and make your voice heard about these important issues.

The Moms for Liberty board members will move forward with their plans if you do not make your voice heard!

All meetings will take place at the Brevard County Schools District Headquarters in Viera.

29/11/2022

Moms for Liberty Brevard loses another lawsuit, costing taxpayers money.

In the end, the decision could become moot as Brevard School Board member Jennifer Jenkins floated an end to the policy at last week's meeting.

23/11/2022

22/11/2022

Moms for Liberty member Michelle Beavers making ludicrous statements at a Brevard Public Schools Book Reconsideration Committee meeting.
She insists that books with s*x scenes cause "s*xual addiction" and "brain damage".
She made these statements during her public comment on a book ban she requested for the book House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas.
The committee rejected her request to outright ban the book from Brevard Public Schools, instead opting to restrict the book to high school students.

20/11/2022

https://www.newsweek.com/moms-liberty-banned-book-list-schools-1756574

The Moms for Liberty chapter in Brevard, Florida, challenged 41 books in school libraries earlier this year.

18/11/2022

An example of a book challenge by Moms for Liberty showing they actually want to ban books.

“This is an example of a book "challenge" by Moms for Liberty in Brevard County, FL. It is obvious that the goal is actually to get the book banned. The challenger, Michell Beavers, admits they she did not read the book and wants to ban it based on some s*x scenes in the book.”

17/11/2022

Call to action!

Please plan to attend the next Brevard County School Board meeting.

Tuesday, Nov 22nd at 9:00 AM

School Board member Katye Campbell (District 5) has placed the discussion of LGBTQ+ students' rights on the agenda.

Her goal is to roll back LGBTQ+ students' rights based on the State Board of Education Rule 6A-10.086.

https://www.flrules.org/gateway/ruleno.asp?id=6A-10.086

Please come make your presence known as we fight for LGBTQ+ students' rights.

New board member Megan Wright is also planning to discuss sending Brevard Public Schools' federal COVID relief funds BACK TO TALLAHASSEE!

Both of these board members are Moms for Liberty-endorsed candidates.

This is day ONE. Show up!

Come early, sign up to speak, or just sit in solidarity.

16/11/2022

Moms for Liberty's 2021 tax returns have been released. This Tweet provides an analysis and link to the forms.

“1/5 Moms for Liberty's tax forms for 2021 have been released. It is an interesting, if unsurprising, read. https://t.co/ITU4JfLZVs”

16/11/2022

https://bookriot.com/clay-county-district-schools-book-bans/

Clay County District Schools in Florida has a running list of books being challenged. Why are so many marked "weeded?"

14/11/2022

https://apnews.com/article/school-boards-politics-parents-rights-2bed4680bdedd4c866e046136630a9e8

WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative groups that sought to get hundreds of “parents’ rights” activists elected to local school boards largely fell short in last week's midterm elections, notching notable wins in some Republican strongholds but failing to gain a groundswell of support among moderat...

05/11/2022

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/11/ron-desantis-moms-for-liberty-florida-book-bans.html

The six-week investigation resulted in a 74-page report that concluded “no crime occurred.”

01/11/2022

https://pen.org/report/banned-usa-growing-movement-to-censor-books-in-schools/

“More” is the operative word for this report on school book bans, which offers the first comprehensive look at bans throughout the 2021–22 school year.

01/11/2022

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/07/the-right-wing-mothers-fuelling-the-school-board-wars

Moms for Liberty claims that teachers are indoctrinating students with dangerous ideologies. But is the group’s aim protecting kids—or scaring parents?

16/10/2022

On 10/11/22, The Florida Department of Education’s (FLDOE) Library Media Workgroup met for the third time. The Workgroup has been assigned the task of creating the online training program, mandated by 2022’s House Bill 1467. Beginning January 1, 2023, only school personnel who have completed the...

01/10/2022

Another book banning driven by a local Moms for Liberty group.

Published two and a half years ago, the book “Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi is described as an “exploration of race and racism”.

01/10/2022

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k8k7y/sarasota-school-board-proud-boys

The Proud Boys–supported slate of “anti-woke” candidates ran a successful campaign to take over the Sarasota school board.

01/10/2022

Pushed by Moms for Liberty.

Florida Republicans were asked to promise that banned books would not literally be burned. They voted that down

13/09/2022

https://www.salon.com/2022/09/12/upset-by-the-new-york-times-expos-on-hasidic-schools-thats-what-wants-for-all-american-kids/

Here's the GOP endgame: Tax-funded schools that teach religion and propaganda, but not literacy, math or history

22/08/2022

http://veronews.com/2022/08/21/toxic-politics-poisoning-our-school-board-races/?fbclid=IwAR1tDAj62xlTMzHzwOZcZcdvlrs8VpDelyk4bM8-s_jWVNB6lVvoNtTNi6Q

Anyone wondering why the Florida Constitution mandates that school board elections be nonpartisan need look no further than what’s happening in our

19/08/2022

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/08/moms-liberty-activist-wants-lgbtq-students-separated-special-classes/

She said LGBTQ students are "like for example children with autism, Down Syndrome" and should have "specialized" classes...

16/08/2022

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-llibraries-culture-war_n_62ed58cfe4b09fecea4defc3?ncid=APPLENEWS00001

There’s a long history of book-banning in the U.S. But conservative groups are emboldened like never before, and they’re taking their mission to a new level.

31/07/2022

https://buckscountybeacon.com/2022/07/astroturfing-in-central-bucks-school-district-moms-for-liberty-and-book-bans/?fbclid=IwAR1oPIx6Kf2hIFqO7RVQSaUHRdMY34AqdivXoMoqrahsay5LJAhY9m5glU0

They rallied against COVID-19 safety protocols and now they are proposing book bans and censorship. What’s next?

27/07/2022

https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/twitter-suspends-moms-for-liberty-over-tweet-criticizing-proposed-gender-transition-law-trans-transgender-california

Moms for Liberty, an advocacy group that fights for parental rights in education, was temporarily suspended from Twitter after sharing a tweet discussing a prop

27/07/2022

https://news.wfsu.org/wfsu-local-news/2022-07-19/florida-teachers-say-theyre-being-silenced-amid-the-rise-of-moms-for-liberty

WFSU Local News Florida teachers say they're being silenced amid the rise of Moms for Liberty WFSU | By Sarah Mueller Published July 19, 2022 at 3:36 PM EDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 5:12 Kerry Sheridan / WUSF Public Media Many training sessions were closed to the media on the expr...

25/07/2022

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/moms-for-liberty-locked-out-of-twitter-after-criticizing-california-gender-transition-bill/?fbclid=IwAR19OCPOuRTD9If-vW-I3U_RmY5sONG8hyVhpQq9fjCiqFO2_c4QkSo1-FA

‘My options now are to delete the tweet or appeal it. I’m not deleting the tweet,’ a Moms for Liberty co-founder told NR.

25/07/2022

Moms for Liberty agrees with Betsy Devos on her "The Federal Department of Education should not exist." remark. Betsy made the comment at the Moms for Liberty conference in Tampa, Florida - in July 2022. https://www.instagram.com/p/CgPP2YCjvAs/

22/07/2022

https://www.rawstory.com/desantis-receives-a-sword-at-moms-for-liberty-summit-and-that-wasn-t-the-strangest-or-scariest-part-by-far/

Last weekend in Tampa, about 500 members of the conservative education advocacy network Moms for Liberty gathered for their first national summit. True to the spirit of a group that has helped drive many of the most heated school board confrontations of the last two years, the summit's most headline...

20/07/2022

https://www.salon.com/2022/07/19/moms-for-liberty-joyful-warriors-in-the-fight-to-demolish-public-school/

At the Moms for Liberty summit, they gave Ron DeSantis a sword. That wasn't the strangest or scariest part by far

18/07/2022

Today, hundreds of activists gathered in Downtown Tampa to protest the first-ever Moms for Liberty national summit.

15/07/2022

Brevard School District spends precious funds defeating a frivolous Moms for Liberty lawsuit.
https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/education/2022/07/15/moms-liberty-lawsuit-brevard-school-board-speaker-policies-first-amendment-ruling/10051883002/

Judge David Baker ruled that the Brevard School Board’s policy itself didn’t violate the plaintiff’s rights to free speech or right to petition.

11/07/2022

Attention, Brevard County Voters!

DO NOT ELECT these Moms for Liberty Candidates!

They wish to destroy Public Education and replace it with private Christian-based schools.

Learn more here: https://www.facebook.com/MomsForkLiberty

To save Public Education and your child's school, please vote for:

District 1: Misty Belford - Misty Haggard-Belford

District 2: Erin Dunne - Erin Dunne for Brevard County School Board, District 2

District 5 - Kimberly Hough - Kimberly Hough for Brevard County School Board District 5

11/07/2022

Moms for Liberty founder Tiffany Justice stating that Teachers' Unions don't represent their members and should be called the "K-12 Cartel".

11/07/2022

Moms for Liberty Founder Tina Descovich stated that Teachers' Unions are leading to the "destruction of the family".

11/07/2022

Moms for Liberty calling teachers' unions "EVIL".

11/07/2022

https://dianeravitch.net/2022/07/06/peter-greene-who-are-moms-for-liberty/?fs=e&s=cl

As the culture wars heat up, the number of new “parent” groups has expanded. One is called Moms for Liberty. Peter Greene explains who they are and what they want? They say they believe in parents’…