Houston: Librotraficante/Nuestra Palabra

http://www.librotraficante.com/

In partnership with Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say, in Houston, TX, Librotraficante is an underground protest group that caravans banned books into the state of Texas, where the Mexican American Studies have been cut, and organize banned Latino speakers for readings and other events aimed to fortify Latino voice in Texas. The Librotraficante blog promotes information about voting on ethnic studies in the state, and has underground libraries in Houston at the Multicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts Center; in San Antonio at the Southwest Workers Union, in Albuquerque, NM, at Los Jardines Institute, in Tucson at the John Valenzuela Youth Center, and most recently in Louisville, Kentucky.

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