Julianne Moore announced that it was “a big shock” to find out that the children’s book of the actress, “Freckleface Strawberry ”, One of the books that were recently banned by the Ministry of Defense under the Trump government.
On Friday, the non -profit group Pen America pointed out that both Moore’s book and No Truth without Ruth About Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the book Becoming Nicole the author Amy Ellis Nutt was banned by the Ministry of Defense after a “compliance check”.
“Just a few weeks after the Trump administration claimed, Book bans Are a “dizziness”, the same government removes books from schools that are operated by the Ministry of Defense and serve 67,000 children around the world, “Pen America wrote on social media.
Julianne Moore on Instagram:
“A memo that was sent to Schools of the Ministry of Defense and is available to the Guardian also demands that the word“ sex ”and not“ gender ”are used in school documents, prohibits email signatures with personal pronouns and indicates schools, cultural events How to celebrate the Black History Month. “
On Sunday the news of the ban reached the Oscar winner, whose first book, the semi-autobiographical children’s history Freckleface StrawberryPublished in 2007.
“It is a big shock to find out for me that my first book, ‘Freckleface Strawberry’, was banned from the Trump administration in schools that were banned by the Ministry of Defense,” wrote Moore on social media. “It is a book that I wrote for my children and other children to remind them that we all fight. But are united through our humanity and our community. “
“I grew up with a father who is Vietnam veteran and spent his career in the US Army”
Moore, who grew up as a “army gors” at various military base points, added: “I am particularly dismayed because I am a proud graduate of the Frankfurt American High School, a school of the Ministry of Defense that was once operated in Frankfurt, Germany. I grew up with a father who is Vietnam veteran and spent his career in the US Army. I couldn’t be proud of him and his service for our country. It is annoying for me to see that children like me who grow up with a parent and a school [DoD Education Activity] Visit, have no access to a book that was written by someone whose life experience is so similar. ”
The Ministry of Defense did not indicate why Freckleface Strawberry One of the books that were targeted by the Trump government was, and Moore itself could not say exactly what was “so controversial” on her book that it had to be banned.
“I am really sad and never thought that I would experience something like this in a country in which freedom of speech and freedom of expression is a constitutional right,” added Moore.