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Article 19ARTICLE 19, a human rights pioneer, defends and promotes freedom of expression and freedom of information all over the world.
Censorship Kills. It starves and it represses. It denies people access to information essenti...
Center for Socialist HistoryA non-profit corporation founded to promote research and publication in the field of the history of socialism. We strongly believe that (to paraphrase) socialists who don't know their own history are doomed to repeat all...
Connexions Information Sharing ServicesConnexions compiles and disseminates information about social and economic alternatives. Established in 1975 as an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse, Connexions compiles and publi...
Ulli DiemerComment and analysis from a libertarian perspective on topics such as censorship and freedom of speech, political correctness, double standards, identity politics, post-modernism, media bias, atheism, secularism, and arc...
Seriously Free Speech CommitteeThe SFSC is committed to free expression of views on Israel/Palestine in the face of growing intimidation, censorship and legal threats that try to silence those who criticize Israel. The SFSC opposes efforts by the CPCC...
New Releases
Author warns coalition of MPs (CPCCA) intent on criminalizing free speech on Israel/Palestine2010-09-11
Seriously Free Speech Committee
The author of a new book on antisemitism kicks off a Western Canada tour Sept. 17 to sound an alarm that a coalition of MPs (CPCCA) is intent on outlawing criticism of Israel as being antisemitic, pos...
Bloggers invited to compete for special DEUTSCHE WELLE 'free expression' prize with Reporters Without Borders2009-12-09
Reporters without Borders
Deutsche Welle, Germany#s international broadcaster, today announced the start of its sixth annual international Best of the Blogs award, The BOBs.
Connexions Archive seeks a new home2009-11-18
Connexions Information Sharing Services
The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
CPCCA report threatens Canadians democratic rights, free speech2011-07-13
Seriously Free Speech Committee
The report by Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-semitism uses the false threat of a growing anti-semitism to justify measures in fact intended to eliminate criticism of Israel but threat...
Dershowitz and Keefer "face off" in Vancouver debate this week whether Israel's critics are anti-semitic2010-09-19
Seriously Free Speech Committee
Canadian professor Michael Keefer warns that Alan Dershowitz' and coalition of Canadian MPs (CPCCA) pose threat to free speech, using baseless accusations of antisemitism to defend Israel. Keefer spe...
Free speech activist prevented from leaving Iran2009-02-19
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iranian governmentâ##s decision to ban Abdolreza Tajik, a freelance journalist and staunch free speech activist, from leaving the country.
Human Rights Council resolution on blasphemy2010-03-30
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned by a resolution condemning #defamation of religions# which the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted on 25 March.
Human rights defender held in Saudi Arabia since mid-June on charge of 'annoying others'2010-07-23
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Sheikh Mekhlef bin Dahham al-Shammari, a writer, human rights activist and social reformer who was arrested in Saudi Arab...
IFJ Condemns United States "Desperate and Dangerous" Backlash over WikiLeaks2010-12-07
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the political backlash being mounted against the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks and accused the United States of attacking free spe...
Jason Kenney’s “anti free speech” conference sponsorship to be exposed on Monday2010-11-04
Independent Jewish Voices
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is sponsoring an international conference of the ‘Inter-Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism’ (ICCA). The press conference will shed light on the threat th...
Jewish human rights group condemns U of Manitoba Student Union attack on freedom of speech2013-04-15
Independent Jewish Voices
Independent Jewish Voices responds to Israel supporters' attack on freedom of speech.
Making blasphemy an offence takes Europe back several centuries2010-01-04
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns #with the utmost firmness# a new defamation law in Ireland that establishes blasphemy as an offence punishable by a fine of up to 25,000 euros. The law took effect o...
More than 100 rights organisations urge UN to oppose defamation of religions2011-03-11
IFEX - International Freedom of Expression Exchange
More than 100 rights organisations worldwide have banded together to urge member states at the United Nations Human Rights Council session this month to renegotiate defamation of religions resolutions...
Secularist Center for Inquiry Delivers Statement to UN Opposing "Defamation of Religions" Resolution 2009-11-04
Center for Inquiry
The Center for Inquiry (CFI), a secularist think tank and NGO has delivered a statement strongly opposing the proposed "Combating the Defamation of Religions" resolution backed by the Organization o...
Sources welcomes OrangeWebsite2011-03-16
OrangeWebsite
Sources welcomes a new member: OrangeWebsite. OrangeWebsite is an Icelandic web hosting service provider. Most of our clients are foreign journalists, bloggers, leakers and publishers.
Sources welcomes the Seriously Free Speech Committee2010-10-17
Seriously Free Speech Committee
Sources welcomes a new member: the Seriously Free Speech Committee. The SFSC is committed to free expression of views on Israel/Palestine.
Thailand: Call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom2009-04-28
Reporters Without Borders joined by 31 other organisations in a call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom.
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance2009-10-22
International Freedom of Expression Exchange
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance.
Whistle blower site RCILeaks.Org wins Icelandic free-speech court battle against Canadian immigrant investor firm2012-10-04
OrangeWebsite.com
Irreverent Canadian corporate whistleblower site RCILeaks.Org, and its Icelandic internet service provider OrangeWebsite.com, have won a landmark free speech court battle in the Reykjavik District Cou...
WikiLeaks appeals for help as attacks are stepped up2010-12-07
Wikileaks
As the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks comes under mounting cyber-attacks and as hosting companies continue to withdraw their services, it is appealing to its supporters around the world to create m...
Sources Select Resources
Abortion, Infanticide, Humanity, Free SpeechMalik, Kenan
Article
2012
Abortion is right, and infanticide is wrong, because there IS a moral boundary between the fetus and the newborn.
Beyond the Sacred Malik, Kenan
Article
2012
A transcript on Malik's talk "Beyond the Sacred" at a conference on blasphemy.
Defending the right to offend, shock or disturbArticle
2009
World Press Freedom Committee
Insult laws are designed to protect politicians, government leaders and officials and state institutions, arming the state with access to resources and legal doctrines that no other citizen has.
Don't Incite CensorshipMalik, Kenan
Article
2007
Free speech for everyone but bigots is no free speech at all.
'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyoneDiemer, Ulli
Article
2009
Canadian Dimension - Volume 43, Number 1 - January/February 2009
On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on ...
Free speech for me - you shut upDiemer, Ulli
Article
2008
Ulli Diemer
The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
Free Speech in a Plural SocietyMalik, Kenan
Article
2006
The argument against free speech is really an argument in defence of particular sectional interests. And that is the best reason for rejecting restraints on speech. We can build a plural society in wh...
Free Speech Protection Act could slow 'libel tourism'Mahoney, Robert
Article
2009
Committee to Protect Journalists
Free press advocates in Britain are looking to a bill stuck in the U.S. Congress for moral support in the fight to reform England#s draconian defamation laws. The U.S. bill, the Free Speech Protection...
Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-DissidentsArticle
2008
Reporters without Borders
Advice and technical tips for the best way to launch a blog and how to get round online censorship. It includes an explanation of how to blog anonymously and contains articles by bloggers, particularl...
Here We Go AgainMalik, Kenan
Article
2012
One thing should be clear. The violence across the Muslim world in response to an American anti-Islamic film has nothing to do with that film. Yes, The Inocence of Muslims is a risibly crude diatribe ...
Human Rights Council resolution on blasphemySources News Release
Article
2010
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned by a resolution condemning #defamation of religions# which the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted on 25 March.
Human rights defender held in Saudi Arabia since mid-June on charge of 'annoying others'Sources News Release
Article
2010
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Sheikh Mekhlef bin Dahham al-Shammari, a writer, human rights activist and social reformer who was arrested in Saudi Arab...
IFJ Condemns United States "Desperate and Dangerous" Backlash over WikiLeaksSources News Release
Article
2010
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the political backlash being mounted against the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks and accused the United States of attacking free spe...
In Defense of Free SpeechIt's Easier to Blame Bad Filmmakers Than to Address Massive War Crimes
Giambrone, Joe
Article
2012
CounterPunch
The answer to speech you disagree with is … (drum roll) … MORE SPEECH.
Israel's new 'attack on freedom of speech'Cook, Jonathan
Article
2010
The National
The Israeli government and its right-wing supporters have been waging a 'McCarthyite' campaign against human-rights groups.
Making blasphemy an offence takes Europe back several centuriesSources News Release
Article
2010
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns #with the utmost firmness# a new defamation law in Ireland that establishes blasphemy as an offence punishable by a fine of up to 25,000 euros. The law took effect o...
The Making of Jericho RoadAgainst The Current vol. 132
Williams, Charles
Article
2008
Against The Current
An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
Malik, KenanConnexipedia Article
Article
Writer, lecturer and broadcaster. (Born 1962).
No platform or no democracy?Malik, Kenan
Article
1996
Rather than promoting themselves as vehicles for broadening access to discussion and debate, universities now seek to present themselves as highly regulated institutions in which students will be prot...
No Platform Won't WorkTripathi, Sali
Article
2009
Index on Censorship
It is ridiculous for anyone to think that you can defeat the BNP by silencing them. A sinister thought, when silenced, only gets wider currency in the subterranean world where everything #establishmen...
Out Lickspittle PressDoorkeepers to the House of Lies
Roberts, Paul Craig
Article
2010
CounterPunch
Today no one believes that our country’s success depends on an informed public and a free press. America’s success depends on its financial and military hegemony over the world. Any information incons...
Out of BoundsMalik, Kenan
Article
2012
Why do we talk so much about hate speech these days? Largely because hate speech has become a way of rebranding extremist ideas to stress their moral content; in other words, of rebranding obnoxious p...
PEN Canada calls for changes to human rights commission legislationArticle
2008
PEN Canada
Human rights commission legislation should be changed to ensure that commissions can no longer be used to attempt to restrict freedom of expression.
Protect the Freedom to ShockMalik, Kenan
Article
2001
Far from being the cornerstone of a diverse, plural society, the refusal to give offence shows respect neither for oneself nor for others. Respect for oneself requires self-belief, a willingness to ta...
Some Elementary Comments on The Rights of Freedom of ExpressionChomsky, Noam
Article
1980
It is precisely in the case of horrendous ideas that the right of free expression must be most vigorously defended; it is easy enough to defend free expression for those who require no such defense.
Thailand: Call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedomSources News Release
Article
2009
Reporters Without Borders joined by 31 other organisations in a call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom.
To Name The Unnameable Malik, Kenan
Article
2012
Discussing Salman Rushdie's non-appearance at the Jaipur Literature Festival.
A Tribute to Mario Savio and the FSMParker, Mike
Article
1997
Against the Current
Mario Savio was a brilliant leader because he was careful to lay out the principles and choices before you. To follow Mario was to make your own choice, to know what you were doing and take responsibi...
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intoleranceSources News Release
Article
2009
International Freedom of Expression Exchange
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance.
Unlawful DissentNew Laws Around the Globe Don’t Curb Inequity, They Undercut Social Protests and Gag Free Speech
Warnke, Brett
Article
2012
CounterPunch
The state is increasingly encroaching upon dissent as social conditions worsen.
US military taps 'sock puppets'Fake personas on social websites to manipulate and influence opinion
Fielding, Nick; Cobain, Ian; Rushe, Dominic
Article
2011
The Guardian
A new $2.76 million dollar 'counter-terrorism' initiative to create a pro-America online presence using fake online personas is underway. These interventions will not be conducted in English or on Ame...
Vietnam: Blogger's Arrest Alarms Free Speech AdvocatesArticle
2009
Asia Media Forum
Reporters Without Borders has condemned the arrest of Vietnamese pro-democracy blogger Nguyen Tien Trung on July 7 for allegedly engaging in anti-state activities.
Sources Bookshelf
Copyright's ParadoxNetanel, Neil Weinstock
Book
2008
Explores the tensions between copyright law and free speech concerns, revealing how copyright laws can impose unacceptable burdens on speech.
The Cost of Free SpeechLee, Simon
Book
1990
In the wake of the Ayatollah's "fatwah" against Salman Rushdie and in the turbulent context of terrorism in Northern Ireland, free speech really can lead to death, according to the author. This book o...
50 Ways to Fight CensorshipAnd Important Facts to Know about Censors
Marsh, Dave
Book
1991
A practical guide to generating support and publicity for freedom of speech and how to combat acts of censorship.
Free SpeechA Very Short Introduction
Warburton, Nigel
Book
2009
Covers a wide-range of controversial free-speech issues, from Holocaust denial and pornography to the status of modern copyright law. Offers a concise quide to many of the vexing issues concerning our...
Writing in an Age of SilenceParetsky, Sara
Book
2007
Sara Paretsky explores the traditions of political and literary dissent that have informed her life and work, against the unparallelled repression of free speech and thought in the USA today.
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