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  1. The Berkeley Student Revolt
    Facts and Interpretations

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
  2. Berkeley: The New Student Revolt
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
  3. Bloggers invited to compete for special DEUTSCHE WELLE “free expression” prize with Reporters Without Borders
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Deutsche Welle, Germany’s international broadcaster, today announced the start of its sixth annual international Best of the Blogs award, The BOBs.
  4. Connexions Archive seeks a new home
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
  5. 50 Ways to Fight Censorship
    And Important Facts to Know about Censors

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    A practical guide to generating support and publicity for freedom of speech and how to combat acts of censorship.
  6. Free speech activist prevented from leaving Iran
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iranian government’s decision to ban Abdolreza Tajik, a freelance journalist and staunch free speech activist, from leaving the country.
  7. Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
    Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by incorrect or harmful ideas. To achieve this safe learning environment, it will be necessary for the university authorities to cleanse the university's libraries of harmful books, to block inappropriate Internet sites, to ban guest lectures who hold improper views, and to identify and prosecute students and faculty who are guilty of thought crimes.
  8. 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 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 freedom of expression – they are for it ‘in principle’, but only so long as it isn’t used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who.
  9. Free speech for me - you shut up
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
  10. Freedom of Speech? Dubious Settlement in School Prayer Case
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  11. Human Rights Council resolution on blasphemy
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned by a resolution condemning “defamation of religions” which the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted on 25 March.
  12. Making blasphemy an offence takes Europe back several centuries
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    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 on 1 January.
  13. Radical Digressions
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2010
    Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radcial left-libertarian perspective.
  14. Right-Wing Thought Police Assault Free Speech on Campus
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2005
    he Orwellian campaign to portray the expression of views in the university that run contrary to those ruling the country as a lack of "academic freedom."
  15. SDS
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
  16. Secularist Center for Inquiry Delivers Statement to UN Opposing "Defamation of Religions" Resolution
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    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 of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
  17. Thailand: Call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders joined by 31 other organisations in a call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom.
  18. 23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance.

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