About our Moms for Liberty news
Latest news on Moms for Liberty, an American right-wing political organization that advocates against school curriculums that mention LGBT rights, race and ethnicity, critical race theory, and discrimination.
Moms for Liberty began by campaigning against COVID-19 protections in schools, such as mask and vaccine mandates, and has also called for book bans and segregation of LGBT students. It was co-founded in Florida on January 1, 2021, by former school board members Tina Descovich and Tiffany Justice, and by then-current school board member Bridget Ziegler, who later left the group.
Moms for Liberty has ties to the Republican Party and is influential within it. It claims to have over 100,000 members and hundreds of chapters across the U.S.
The group that has been criticized for harassment, for deepening divisions among parents, for making students' education more difficult, and for being a partisan effort rather than a grassroots one. Moms for Liberty has also been labeled as a far-right extremist organization by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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