Why sign the Right to Read pledge:

The Right to Read Coalition (Missouri) is a collaborative community of leaders  representing all major cities and most regions in the state. The Pledge to join the Right to Read means that we can COUNT YOU IN as one of the citizens of Missouri that supports freedom to read, access to books in libraries, and parental choice for their own students. 

You can sign anonymously and your name will be removed but you will COUNT as one of thousands of supporters from THIS area of the state. If you choose to leave your name, then you will be counted in the overall number with your name.

We collect these signatures of support from citizens and from organizations and companies. When legislation that threatens the freedom of reading in our schools or libraries, we send a message to our legislators telling them that we want them to reject that legislation and support legislation that guarantees the Right to Read. We send them the list of names and the total  numbers of people from each region so every state representative and senator knows that their citizens support the Right to Read. 

No matter if you sign WITH your name or if you want to be ANONYMOUS, your sign-on helps and is necessary to keep our legislature accountable for representating the citizens of the state.