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Freedom of Speech
 Websites presented in alphabetical order First Amendment Project (FAP) 
 This group "is a nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to protecting and promoting freedom of information, expression, and petition. For nearly ten years, FAP has provided advice, educational materials, and legal representation to its core constituency of activists, journalists, and artists." The site features an overview of programs, and guidelines for accessing public records, court information, and attending government meetings. Also includes links to related sites and a blog. http://www.thefirstamendment.org Topics: Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties Last updated Oct 18, 2005 Free Expression After September 11th: An Online Index
This site "catalogs the various incidents of censorship and suppression of speech that are a direct result of the events of September 11th." Note: Contains some dead links. From the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC). http://www.ncac.org/issues/freeex911.cfm Topics: Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, September 11 & Beyond, Social Issues, Terrorism Last updated Jan 17, 2009 Free Expression Policy Project (FEPP): A Think Tank on Artistic and Intellectual Freedom
This project "provides research and analysis on difficult censorship issues, and seeks free speech-friendly solutions to the concerns that drive censorship campaigns." Features accounts of censorship attempts, press reports, court briefs, policy reports, commentaries, fact sheets, book reviews, white papers, and related links. Searchable. http://www.fepproject.org/ Topics: Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, Education, Social Issues Last updated Aug 22, 2004 Free Speech in Europe: Mixed Rules
News article from February 2006 discussing the "inconsistent rules in Europe governing free speech, tolerance, and the boundaries of public expression." The article considers that "Muslims in particular charge that hate-speech laws are implemented unfairly. Many countries, they say, do not abide anti-Semitic outbursts, but will tolerate cartoons that to many Muslims are deeply offensive." From The Christian Science Monitor. http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0208/p01s01-woeu.html Topics: Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties Last updated Oct 16, 2006 Free Speech Movement Digital Archive
A collection of searchable text documents, including leaflets, letters, statements, speeches, press releases, memoranda, reports, legal documents, trial transcripts, newspaper and journal articles, newsletters, oral histories, books, pamphlets, reports and studies, minutes of meetings, and related government documents. The site also includes a chronology (1964-1965), a searchable database of material from other protest collections, and video and audio files. From the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/FSM/ Topics: Activism, California Travel: Popular Destinations, California: Education, California: Libraries, Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, San Francisco Bay Area: Oakland, San Jose, more ... Last updated Sep 18, 2004 The Impact of the USA PATRIOT Act on Free Expression
This analysis argues that "libraries remain more important than ever to ensuring the right of every individual to hold and express opinions and to seek and receive information. ... But just as the public is exercising its right to receive information and ideas ... in order to understand the events of the day, government is threatening these very liberties." Written for the Free Expression Policy Project (FEPP) by Nancy Kranich, past president, American Library Association. http://www.fepproject.org/commentaries/patriotact.html Topics: Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, Librarianship Last updated Apr 10, 2007 National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC)
This site's publishers have "assisted artists, authors, teachers, students, librarians, readers, museum-goers, and others in opposing censorship, and nurtured a coalition of religious, labor, professional, educational and civil rights organizations united to protect the First Amendment." Resources include relevant news and other items of current interest, publications, links, activist information, and more. Searchable. http://www.ncac.org/ Topics: Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, Social Issues Last updated Jan 24, 2004 U.C. Berkeley Library Social Activism Sound Recording Project: The Free Speech Movement and Its Legacy
Collection of recordings documenting the U.C. Berkeley Free Speech Movement (1964-1965) and its legacy. Contains audio of radio and television programs, interviews, songs, speeches, and sit-ins. Includes overviews of the movement, on-site recordings, faculty and administrative responses, retrospective materials (such as a 1984 panel discussion featuring Mario Savio and Bettina Aptheker and a 1996 memorial for Mario Savio), and links to related sites. From Media Resources Center, Moffitt Library, University of California, Berkeley. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/pacificafsm.html Topics: California Travel: Popular Destinations, Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, San Francisco Bay Area: Oakland, San Jose, more ... Last updated Aug 15, 2006 |
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