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  1. Aaron Swartz and the Assault on Open Information
    Malicious Government Prosecution

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The great corporate-supported push to hide essential, publicly funded information behind private firewalls and government secrecy, represents a breathtaking breach of the basic tenets of democracy.
  2. Aaron Swartz and the Fight for Free Information
    His Blood is on the Hands of the US Government

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    It’s been just over two years since computer prodigy Aaron Swartz took his own life. He was the target of a merciless witch-hunt by the Department of Justice, ultimately choosing death over 35 years behind bars for the crime of releasing information. As someone who transformed the way we all use and love the internet, Aaron should have gotten a medal of honour, not a death sentence.
  3. Aaron Swartz and the Fight for Information Freedom
    They Can't Stop the Movement

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Aaron Swartz was a target of a deliberately vicious, sadistic government campaign in which the federal government wanted to make his pain an example to the entire progressive techie community. What's more, his death was the outcome of a policy that is a threat to human freedom.
  4. AMCTO - Association of Municipal Managers, Clerks and Treasurers of Ontario
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  5. Attorney General applies presumption of openness in Freedom of Information Act guidelines
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders today welcomed US Attorney General Eric Holderâ##s guidelines on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in which he breaks with the Bush Administrationâ##s stance of withholding information and applies a presumption of openne
  6. Banned Books
    Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  7. Barrett Brown case: 11 of 12 counts dismissed
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Reporters Without Borders greets with relief federal prosecutors' decision to drop nearly all criminal charges against Barrett Brown, a contributor to The Guardian and Vanity Fair.
  8. Be inventive and patient
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Bulgarian investigative journalist and author Alexenia Dimitrova reveals how she uses Freedom of Information laws in several countries to uncover hidden secrets of the Cold War, how the imprisonment of her father spurred her on, and the rewards of patience.
  9. Before Parliament Hill attack, RCMP got 3 warnings, reduced patrols
    Documents show Mounties reduced patrols prior to shootings, despite 3 separate warnings

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Mounties received at least three warnings of potential terrorist attacks on uniformed officers before last year's shootings on Parliament Hill, yet the RCMP wound down extra patrols around the parliamentary precinct just days before the tragedy, newly disclosed documents show.
  10. The Boy Who Could Change the World
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Remembering the brief life of Aaron Swartz: programmer, activist, entrepreneur, community builder.
  11. Canada Should 'Get Tough' on Political Crimes, Say Watchdogs
    Four needed crackdowns, starting with illegal surveillance and electoral crime.

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    A new round of Conservative Party advertisements return to a familiar tough-on-crime refrain.
  12. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  13. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  14. Challenged Books List
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
    A partial list of books subjected to censorship attempts in Canada from the early 1980s to 2003.
  15. A climate of fear endangers press freedom
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Today, the greatest threats to freedom of the press are more insidious than a generation ago because they are intended to induce a climate of fear and self-censorship through systematic violence and emblematic arrest aimed at those who would practice real, independent journalism.
  16. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  17. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
  18. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 3 - May 1979 - Immigration

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
  19. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 1 - January 1980 - Literacy/Alphabetisation

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  20. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
  21. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  22. Copyright policies threaten internet use in Panama and Colombia
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    After years of being one of the most progressive regions in the world in terms of balanced copyright policy, Latin America is unfortunately sliding into copyright maximalism, enacting increasingly restrictive copyright enforcement measures into their federal laws.
  23. Dismantling Democracy
    Stifling Debate and Dissent in Canada

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    An extensive dossier of the Harper government's attacks on democracy, debate, and dissent.
  24. Fame & Fortune Online
    Resource Type: Website
    Comprehensive listing of awards available to Canadian journalists.
  25. Fanning the flames of intolerance
    The burning of books -- an ultimate form of control and condemnation

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    A historical overview of book burnings by political and religious regimes.
  26. Federal government continues to receive failing grade on issue of free expression
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    For the third straight year, the federal government received failing grades from Canadian Journalists for Free Expression in a report card on freedom of expression in Canada.
  27. Freedom of information
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
  28. Freedom of information essential for peace in Turkey
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    At a time of alarming developments centred on the Kurdish issue, Reporters Without Borders is publishing a report exploring the relationship between this issue and media freedom in Turkey.
  29. Freedom of Information Takes Another Hit in the United States
    Keeping Americans Safe

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The United States is a land of ill-informed sheep and the home of a bunch of cowards — cowards in government who are afraid of the truth and the open debate over facts and ideas, and cowards among the broader public who willingly allow these steady encroacments on our freedom in the name of “fighting terror.”
  30. The Harper Years: Tough Times For Reporters In Canada
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    As federal elections will be held in Canada on October 19, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reviews the evolution of freedom of the press and information during Prime Minister Stephen Harper's tenure. It is not a pretty picture.
  31. How to unearth public records: a global guide
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Among the most basic building blocks of powerful investigative reporting are public records – government documents that provide bulletproof evidence of anything from a change in water quality to the ownership of a company or tract of land. In the United States, Freedom of Information laws date back nearly half a century, and although there are growing obstacles, journalists generally operate under a presumption of the right to access. In most of the world, however, Freedom of Information laws are less than two decades old.
  32. IFJ Condemns United States "Desperate and Dangerous" Backlash over WikiLeaks
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    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 speech after it put pressure on the website's host.
  33. Information Terrorists?
    The Vile Campaign Against Julian Assange and Wikileaks

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    WikiLeaks is under concerted attack from the US government. Also under attack by the US government is the whole idea of freedom of thought and of information. It needs to be clearly understood that the attacks on WikiLeaks by the US government could as easily be used against news organizations and political organizations.
  34. The internet's cyber radicals: heroes of the web changing the world
    A generation of political activists have been transformed by new tools developed on the internet.

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Internet activists speak about censorship, the democratising impact of open source technology, and the importance of oportunities for anonimity in a post 9-11 world.
  35. Iraq: News website latest target in government's legal offensive against independent media
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iraqi governmentâ##s continuing legal offensive against independent news media, which for the first time is also targeting Internet media.
  36. Monsanto and Its Promoters vs. Freedom of Information
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Next year, the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) will celebrate its 50th anniversary as one of the finest laws our Congress has ever passed. It is a vital investigative tool for exposing government and corporate wrongdoing.
  37. New wave of attacks on freedom of information
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    With the trial of former president Mohamed Morsi and major leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood under wa, Egyptian media workers are targets of attack. Freedom of information is threatened. Measures include military trials, arbitrary arrests, and abusive treatment in detention as Egyptian authorities maintain their campaign of repression.
  38. New wave of attacks on freedom of information
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    With the trial of former president Mohamed Morsi and major leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood under way, Egyptian media workers are targets of attack. Freedom of information is threatened. Measures include military trials, arbitrary arrests
  39. OrangeWebsite
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  40. PEN International celebrates rights of all citizens to access information and truth
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    A statement by Marian Botsford Fraser, Chair of the Writers in Prison Committee.
  41. Recommendations on the right to be forgotten
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    On the problems for the protection of freedom of expression and the right to information posed by the right to be removed from search engine results and, more broadly, the right to be forgotten. Privacy and freedom of expression are fundamental rights of equal value. Whenever one conflicts with the other, a balance must be reached under a judge’s authority because, as a matter of principle, one cannot be given more importance than the other.
  42. Slick Water
    Fracking and One Insider's Stand Against the World's Mot Powerful Industry

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    A story of abuses by the fossil fuel industry and governments, telling the story of fracking rhough the lens of a legal battle to expose the truth. Nikiforuk raises stark questions about the role of Big Oil in government, society's obsession with mining low-grade oil and gas formations, and the future of democracy.
  43. The Socialist Register 1981
    Volume 18: A Survey of Movements & Ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  44. Sources Select Resources
    Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers

    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.
  45. Sources welcomes OrangeWebsite
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    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.
  46. 10 years in prison for circulating information in public interest
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Jeremy Hammond, a 28-year-old WikiLeaks informant and cyber-activist linked to Anonymous, has become the fourth whistleblower to receive a long jail sentence this year in the United States.
  47. Truth in Chains
    The Arrest of Julian Assange

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Tell a truth that discomforts power, that challenges its domination over our lives, our discourse, our very thoughts, and you will be destroyed. No institution, public or private, will stand with you; the most powerful entities, public and private, will be arrayed against you, backed up by overwhelming violent force. This is where we are now. This is what we are now.
  48. The Truth Will Always Win
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    In its landmark ruling in the Pentagon Papers case, the US Supreme Court said "only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government". The swirling storm around WikiLeaks today reinforces the need to defend the right of all media to reveal the truth.
  49. WikiLeaks appeals for help as attacks are stepped up
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    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 mirror sites.
  50. Zimbabwe: One step forward, three steps back for freedom of information
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A decision by the Constitutional Court in favour of freedom of information should not overshadow the fact that three Zimbabwean news organizations have been raided by the police in the past few days.

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