- Abortion, Infanticide, Humanity, Free Speech
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Abortion is right, and infanticide is wrong, because there IS a moral boundary between the fetus and the newborn.
- Against Censorship
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1995
Some of us would rather not have customs officials and cops deciding what we can read or look at.
- Antifa in Theory and in Practice
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
In recent weeks, a totally disoriented left has been widely exhorted to unify around a masked vanguard calling itself Antifa, for anti-fascist. Hooded and dressed in black, Antifa is essentially a variation of the Black Bloc, familiar for introducing violence into peaceful demonstrations in many countries. Imported from Europe, the label Antifa sounds more political. American Antifa looks very much like a middle class wedding between Identity Politics and gang warfare.
- Apostasy, Blasphemy and Free Expression in the Age of ISIS
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The right to religion comes with a corresponding right to be free from religion.
- Arthur Topham's Political Beliefs May Just Be Illegal
The Extraordinary Trial of Arthur Topham: Part 3
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
On November 7, 2015, Arthur Topham was convicted of inciting hatred against a racial group, the Jewish people. Mr. Topham maintains a website, Radical Free Press, in which he publishes and comments upon various documents. These documents include The Elders of the Protocols of Zion, various anti-Zionist texts, and a tract entitled Germany Must Perish, first published in 1941 and then satirized by Mr. Topham as Israel Must Perish.
- AUSTRALIA: Some reflections on the Anzac Day 'cyber-lynching' of a journalist
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The right of free speech v. the rightnot to be offended. A sports commentator has been fired over things he said on twitter, things unrelated to his job.
- Author warns coalition of MPs (CPCCA) intent on criminalizing free speech on Israel/Palestine
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
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, posing a significant threat to free speech.
- Avoiding Gripes About Your Gripe (or Parody) Site
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Here's a story we hear a lot at EFF: You think BadCo, Inc. is a bad actor and you've developed a really cool site to tell the world why. Maybe just by griping about them or maybe through a bit of parody. Fast forward two weeks: you're basking in the pleasure of calling BadCo out when bam! You find out your site's been shut down.
- Battle Over Google Subpoena Threatens Critical Online Free Speech Protections
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
A high-profile battle over whether Google must respond to an unusual and dangerous subpoena raises fundamental concerns about federal free speech law and the protections it affords hosts of online content.
- Berkeley Republicans Hope More Left-Wing Riots Will Create "Pedestal" For Conservative Movement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The students hosting conservative pundit Ben Shapiro at University of California, Berkeley this week say their fingers are crossed in the hopes for a left-wing protest that could amplify his message.
- The Berkeley Student Revolt
Facts and Interpretations
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
An anthology of writings on the Berkely student revolt of 1964.
- Berkeley: The New Student Revolt
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
This story of the “free speech” uprising on the Berkeley campus of the University of California was begun in the conviction that an extraordinary event, in an historical sense, had taken place before our startled citizenry; and that it should be described for history as it was.
- Beyond the Sacred
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
A transcript on Malik's talk "Beyond the Sacred" at a conference on blasphemy.
- Big Boys Gone Bananas!*
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
First there was a film about banana workers saying the Dole Food Company had made them infertile. Then Dole attacked the filmmakers. Now it's time for a new film!
- The biggest threat to a free society is freedom of speech, says Canada’s Public Safety Minister
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Canada's "Public Safety" Minister Steven Blaney says that the Holocaust could have been prevented if only Germany hadn't suffered from an excess of freedom of speech.
- Bill C-51: A Legal Primer
Overly broad and unnecessary anti-terrorism reforms could criminalize free speech
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Bill C-51, the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2015, would expand the powers of Canada's spy agency, allowing Canadians to be arrested on mere suspicion of future criminal activity.
- Bloggers invited to compete for special DEUTSCHE WELLE 'free expression' prize with Reporters Without Borders
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Deutsche Welle, Germany#s international broadcaster, today announced the start of its sixth annual international Best of the Blogs award, The BOBs.
- 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.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website
The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- The CIA director is waging war on truth-tellers like WikiLeaks
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Mike Pompeo, in his first speech as director of the CIA, chose to declare war on free speech rather than on the United States’ actual adversaries.
- Civil Liberties in the Fight Against Fascism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1945
Fighting against an evil, like anti-Semitism or racial hatred, does not mean calling on the state to suppress the evil.
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- 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.
- Connexions Archive seeks a new home
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
- Connexions Library: Arts, Media, Culture Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on media, culture, and art.
- Connexions Library: Human Rights and Civil Liberties Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on civil liberties and human rights.
- The Cost of Free Speech
Resource Type: Book
Published: 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 offers a vigorous re-examination of our society's commitment to free speech.
- Counter Mobilization: an Effective Response to Right Wing Speech
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
As the effects of the Great Recession linger, the ruling rich are making every effort to ensure that the working class bears the brunt of the economic crunch. In this atmosphere, elements of the extreme right feel emboldened to promote their reactionary wares. From the increasing visibility of right wing websites like breitbart.com, to well-publicized speaking tours by conservative ideologues like Milo Yiannopoulos and others, to former Breitbart editor Steve Bannon attaining the status of presidential advisor – the message from the top is clear: racism, sexism and xenophobia will all be used to divide and oppress the 99%. Meanwhile, these same poisonous sentiments are used to divert attention from those actually responsible for and benefiting from the current crisis.
- CPCCA report threatens Canadians democratic rights, free speech
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
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 threaten Canadians democratic rights and free speech.
- Culture of Complaint
The Fraying of America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Propaganda-talk, euphemism, and evasion are so much a part of American usage today that they cross all party lines and ideological divides. The art of not answering the question, of cloaking unpleasant realities in abstraction or sugar, is so perfectly endemic that we expect nothing else.
- Defending Pornography
Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
Traditional explanations of why pornography must be defended from would-be censors have concentrated on censorship's adverse impacts on free speech and sexual autonomy. In contrast, Nadine Strossen focuses on the women's rights-centered rationale for defending pornography.
- Dershowitz and Keefer "face off" in Vancouver debate this week whether Israel's critics are anti-semitic
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
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 speaks Thur. Sept 23 at SFU downtown.
- Diemer, Ulli
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
- A Different Kind of Safe Space
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Words are dangerous, but not as dangerous as efforts to suppress them, be it by government or dean -- and certainly not as insidious as self-censorship.
- Do It
Scenarios of the Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- Does Freedom of Speech Include Fascists?
Resource Type: Article
There are two concepts on how to deal with fascism. One is fighting; the other is running away.
- Does Freedom of Speech Include Fascists?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
There are two concepts on how to deal with fascism. One is fighting; the other is running away.
- Don't forget Liu Xiaobo, held for the past five years
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Reporters Without Borders reiterates its full support for Chinese free speech advocate Liu Xiaobo, winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize and his family and stresses the importance of his fight.
- Don't Incite Censorship
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
Free speech for everyone but bigots is no free speech at all.
- Draw and you'll go to jail': the fight to save comics from the censor
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
From worried parents to policemen with built-in 'Satan detectors', underground comics have never lacked enemies. And for 30 years Neil Gaiman and his friends have fought back in the name of free speech.
- EducationSources.ca
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
Web portal with sources of information about education and academia, including articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- EFF to Court: Posting 3-D Design Files Online Is Free Speech
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The U.S. government cannot require Americans to go through an export licensing scheme prior to posting and sharing 3-D printer design files online, because publishing technical information is a form of speech protected by the First Amendment.
- Excerpts from secretly recorded meeting between Wilfrid Laurier University grad student and faculty
Resource Type: Audio
Published: 2017
Lindsay Shepherd, a Wilfrid Laurier University graduate student and teaching assistant, landed in hot water with the university over a video clip, featuring controversial University of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson, she used in a critical thinking course. After receiving complaints, the university claimed she created a toxic environment. Shepherd had a meeting with faculty and administration, here are excerpts from the secretly recorded conversation.
- 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.
- Finally! Victory for Free Speech in Garcia v. Google
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Free speech must remain free; regardless of how nasty the message may be. This is a story about the peservation of free speech and the abuses of copyright law.
- Fire in the Streets
America in the 1960s
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
A political and cultural history of each year of the 1960's, focusing on one person to exemplify the year. Activist John Lewis is used to emphasize the Civil Rights movements heating up in 1960; Clark Kerr and the Berkeley "free speech movement" characterize 1964.
- For Campus Free Speech
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Bose describes the right-wing incursion on universities and his troubled feelings about the climate of intellectual fear among some on the campus left. He elaborates on this by discussing the demands for speaking engagements for right-wing pundits to be cancelled.
- Free Speech
Ten Principles for a Connected World
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2016
Ash offers a manifesto for global free speech in the digital age.
- Free speech activist prevented from leaving Iran
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
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.
- Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
Resource Type: Article
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.
- 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Free Speech, but Not for All?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Just over a century ago, the president of a distinguished college barred the suffragette and human-rights activist Jane Addams from speaking on campus, and suspended a student named Inez Milholland for organizing others in support of women's rights. Milholland would go on to become influential in the women’s movement, and the college president, James Monroe Taylor, would become yet another example of an overly protective and historically myopic educator. He believed that women should be "not leaders, but good wives and mothers" -- the prevailing view of the day.
- Free Speech - Censorship: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
- Free Speech and Double Standards
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
- Free speech fights
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Free speech fights are conflicts over the right to speak freely, particularly involving the Industrial Workers of the World efforts in the early twentieth century to organize workers and publicly speak about labuor issues.
- Free Speech For Me - But Not For Thee
How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
Hentoff is a passionate believer in free speech who recognizes that if speech is truly to be free, we must protect the expression even of ideas we abhors. He catalogues with equal disapproval the efforts of both the right and the left to censor speech they don't like. While being sympathetic to those who object to allowing bigots, racists, pornographers, atheists, and others of many stripes the right to lay out ideas that one group or another finds repugnant, he makes both an intellectual and an emotional case for allowing everyone to have their say, no matter how much this may offend some. He points out that suppressing speech doesn't get rid of the underlying thought, but merely drives it underground and gives it the benefit of martyrdom.
- Free speech for me - you shut up
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
- Free Speech for the Right? A Primer on Key Legal Questions and Principles
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The rise in national attention to the "alt-right" and fascist-white supremacist protesters has raised questions about the parameters of free speech in America. When can free speech be limited, if ever? What are the implications of attempting to limit controversial speech? And what precedents has the Supreme Court set regarding free speech?
- Free Speech Groups Issue New Guide to the International 'Necessary & Proportionate Principles'
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
EFF and ARTICLE 19 Urges Governments to Preserve Fundamental Freedoms in the Age of Mass Surveillance
- Free Speech in a Plural Society
Resource Type: Article
Published: 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 which free speech provides the means of engagement and dialogue between different parts of society.
- Free Speech in an Age of Identity Politics
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Transcript of Malik's TB Davie Memorial lecture on academic freedom at the University of Cape Town.
- Free Speech in Fearful Times
After 9/11 in Canada, the U.S, Australia & Europe
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
How post-9/11 anti-terror laws have limited free speech in Canada and abroad.
- Free Speech Movement Archives
Resource Type: Website
Documenting the history of the 1960s Free Speech Movement at Berkeley.
- Free Speech Movement (Berkeley)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A student protest which took place during the 1964-1965 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley after student activists, some of whom had traveled with the Freedom Riders and worked to register African American voters in Mississippi in the Freedom Summer project, set up information tables on campus and solicited donations for civil rights causes, in violation of university policy.
- Free Speech and Unsafe Spaces
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Malik criticizes "the blinkered, self-centred, indeed narcissistic, attitudes that shape much contemporary discussion on speech and its limits. Free speech, from this perspective, requires not a robust exchange of ideas but the validation of my views. I should have the right to denounce anyone I wish, but criticism of my views is a denial of my free speech. Vigorously defending oneself against criticism is to deny safe space for one's critics."
- Freedom of Expression
Resource Type: Article
A statement of what freedom of expression is and why it is important.
- Freedom of Expression in the Muslim World
A Comparative Legal Study of Blasphemy and Subversive Speech in International Human Rights Law and the Laws of the Muslim world
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1992
- Freedom of speech, assembly, protest? All are nixed by new police powers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
UK police now have free rein to create 'dispersal zones' in public places, writes Josie Appleton. This allows them to exclude people for anything from street drinking to looking suspicious, being homeless, protesting, or merely 'congregating'. This represents a serious breach of our Common Law and Magna Carta rights.
- Freedom of Speech Under Siege
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
Censorship is the handmaiden of a police state.
- Freedom of Speech? Dubious Settlement in School Prayer Case
Resource Type: Article
- From Fatwa to Jihad
The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2009
Tells the story both of the Rushdie affair and of its transformative impact on cultural and political landscape of the West. The book explores the issues that the Rushide affair raised. in particular the questions of muliculturalism, radical Islam and free speech, and shows how in responding to these issues Western liberals have betrayed the fundamental beliefs of liberalism.
- Gag Rule
On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Dissent is democracy. Democracy is in trouble. Never before, Lapham argues, have voices of protest been so locked out of the mainstream conversation. A call to action in defense of one of the most important liberties, the right to raise our voices against the powers that be, and to have those voice heard.
- The Global Battle for Free Speech
WikiLeaks: Bringing the First Amendment to the World
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Since 2011, waves of global uprisings have been erupting as never before. The crisis of representation helped spawn decentralized movements as a manifestation of people’s aspiration to take the reins of their own destinies. For many, the presumption of legitimacy of their governments has been crumbling. What triggered this widespread global crisis? WikiLeaks was a game changer. Their publication of disclosed documents along with established media reaction showed the true face of liberal institutions and the waning effectiveness of the politics of representation.
- Group wins right to leaflet at airports
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1992
- Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
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, particularly in Egypt and Burma.
- Hate speech in a plural society
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2005
One of the ironies of living in a more inclusive, more diverse society appears to be that the preservation of diversity requires us to leave increasingly to leave less room for a diversity of views. So, it is becoming increasingly common these days for liberals to proclaim that free speech is necessary in principle – but also to argue that in practice we should give up that right.
- Here come the thought police
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has declared his intention to fast-track legislation expanding CSIS and police powers of “surveillance, detention and arrest.”
- Here We Go Again
Resource Type: Article
Published: 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 against Islam, but the violence is being driven less by religious fury than by political calculation. In Libya, Egypt and elsewhere, the crisis is being fostered by hardline Islamists in an attempt to seize the political initiative in a period of transition and turmoil. The film is almost incidental to this process. The real struggle is not between Muslims and non-Muslims, but between different shades of Islamists, between hardline factions and more mainstream ones.
- How "Hate Crimes Against Police" Expose the Fatal Flaw Within Hate Crime Statutes
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Hate crime legislation lent legitimacy to a 40-year carceral program that has wrought immense damage on communities of colour. In an ironic twist, the police - who've been the main enforcers of this program - now want to invoke these laws for their protection.
- Human Rights Council resolution on blasphemy
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Human rights defender held in Saudi Arabia since mid-June on charge of 'annoying others'
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
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 Arabia on 15 June.
- If gender identity debate at U of T was about free speech, then the battle is truly lost
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
A recounting and criticism of the public debate over Bill C-16 and the Ontario Human Rights code, held in response to the remarks of University of a University of Toronto professor about transgender pronouns.
- 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.
- IFJ Welcomes Indictment of Former Security Operatives over Journalist's Torture in Colombia
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Seven former members of the former secret service in Colombia, the Administrative Department for Security (DAS), face charges of - psychological torture and intimidation' inflicted on prominent journalist Claudia Julieta Duque
- In Defense of Free Speech
It's Easier to Blame Bad Filmmakers Than to Address Massive War Crimes
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The answer to speech you disagree with is … (drum roll) … MORE SPEECH.
- Inside Lindsay Shepherd’s heroic, insulting, brave, destructive, possibly naïve fight for free speech
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
- Jason Kenney’s “anti free speech” conference sponsorship to be exposed on Monday
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
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 that this initiative poses to freedom of speech.
- Jewish human rights group condemns U of Manitoba Student Union attack on freedom of speech
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Independent Jewish Voices responds to Israel supporters' attack on freedom of speech.
- JournalismSources.com
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
A portal featuring news, articles, and resources about journalism, press freedom, free speech, censorship and related topics. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Let's Back Up A Sec And Ask Why Free Speech Actually Matters
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2022
To really answer the question of whether the increasingly widespread practice of Silicon Valley censorship via algorithm and deplatforming is a major problem and whether an increase in speech restriction is desirable, we need to take a step back and ask ourselves why free speech even matters in the first place.
- Lynching Free Speech
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
In Charlottesville, as in so many parts of the country right now, the conflict is over how to reconcile the nation's checkered past, particularly as it relates to slavery, with the present need to sanitize the environment of anything -- words and images -- that might cause offense, especially if it's a Confederate flag or monument.
- Making blasphemy an offence takes Europe back several centuries
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
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.
- The Making of Jericho Road
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
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, Kenan
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Writer, lecturer and broadcaster. (Born 1962).
- Malik, Kenan
Resource Type: Website
Website and blog of Kenan Malik, featuring articles on race, identity, multiculturalism, diversity, and censorship.
- The Misguided Attacks on ACLU for Defending Neo-Nazis' Free Speech Rights in Charlottesville
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
You can fight fascism by employing and championing one of its defining traits: viewpoint-based state censorship. those who favor free speech suppression, or who oppose the ACLU’s universal defense of speech rights, will create results that are the exact opposite of those they claim to want. It’s an indescribably misguided strategy that will inevitably victimize themselves and their own views.
- More than 100 rights organisations urge UN to oppose defamation of religions
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
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 that make criticising religion a crime.
- New extremism laws would stifle free speech
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
New and vaguely defined counter-extremism laws threaten freedom of speech in the UK. Anyone who disagrees with the government can, theoretically, be banned from media exposure.
- New law further restricts freedom of speech and freedom of the press in Hungary
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU, or “TASZ” in Hungarian) has criticized a new law, enacted by the Hungarian Parliament. The new law punishes by up to three years in prison the creation and distribution of video or voice recordings made for the purpose of harming another person's dignity.
- No Debate
The Israel Lobby and Free Speech at Canadian Universities
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
During 2008-2009, Israel lobby organizations made concerted efforts to block a planned conference on statehood for Israel and Palestine at Toronto's York University. Thompson probes the facts and context of the case and explores the meaning of academic freedom in Canada.
- No platform or no democracy?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 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 protected from unsolicited or offensive ideas.
- An open letter from Jewish academics and elders to McGill's administration regarding false allegations of student anti-Semitism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
This letter was sent Nov. 13 to Principal Suzanne Fortier, Provost Christopher Manfredi, and Secretariat Board of Governors and Senate Maria Kontzidis.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 19 2014
Spying, terrorism, and protest
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2014
Coverage of spying, terrorism, and protest. Articles on how the ISIS (Islamic State group) comes to be using American weapons; the U.S. government's secret plans to spy for American corporations; the insidious power of propaganda; how to spot and defeat disruption on the Internet, and steps to sustainable livestock production. Topic of the week is War Crimes; book for the week is Berkeley: The New Student Revolt, and website of the week is LabourStart.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 15, 2015
Workers' Health and Safety
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
The topic of the week is Workers' Health and Safety. Articles on why environmentalists should support working class struggles; whistleblowers; the appalling death rate from U.S. drone strikes; the murderous attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris; and what humanity could learn from Bonobos. The feature from the archives is Traces of Magma. The International Labor Rights Forum is the group of the week, and Silkwood is the film of the week.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 5, 2015
Ecosocialism, environment, and urban gardening
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices covers a wide range of issues, from the climate crisis and the ecosocialist response, to terrorism and the struggle against religious fundamentalism, as well as items on urban gardening, the destruction of olive trees, and how the police are able to use Google's timeline feature to track you every move, now and years into the past.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 1, 2017
April 1 issue
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
Other Voices always strives to present you with alternative views on important topics. This issue offers some really alternative perspectives and even some "alternative facts." As always, read critically - and enjoy.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 9, 2017
Meeting the Challenge of the Right
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
Challenging the Right requires not only anti-fascist actions in the street, but organizing to reach those who may be attracted the the appeal of the Right and offering an alternative social vision. This issue of Other Voices offers a number of articles, books, and films offering different perspectives on meeting the challenge of the right.
- Out of Bounds
Resource Type: Article
Published: 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 political claims as immoral arguments. Where once we might have challenged such sentiments politically, today we are more likely to seek criminal sanctions to outlaw them.
- Outspoken professor stokes free-speech debate at East Coast university
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
An associate professor at Acadia University is facing a growing backlash over incendiary social media comments, stoking a national debate about free speech on campus amid calls for his ouster from the Wolfville, N.S., school.
- Pakistani Company Accused of Running Fake Degree Scam Has a History of Silencing Critics
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
On immoral companies and small voices. A Pakistani company has been silencing accusations of illegality through the intimidation of big law suits.
- Plunderbund and Proletariat
A History of the IWW in B.C.
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
A history of working class struggle from the workers' perspective.
- Political Prisoners in the Sacrifice Zone of Empire
Mumia Abu-Jamal and Jeremy Hammond
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Recently, two cases concerning the constitutional rights of people in prison came to public light. They involve two U.S. political prisoners: Mumia Abu-Jamal who is serving a life sentence at a facility in Frackville, Pennsylvania and Jeremy Hammond, who is serving a ten year sentence at a federal prison in Manchester, Kentucky.
- Progressives shouldn't be begging the police to take more power
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1984
The last thing we need is to hand the police even more power to decide what we are allowed to see or read.
- Prosecution of Assange is Persecution of Free Speech
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
US authorities are reported to have prepared charges to seek the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. This overreach of US government toward a publisher is another sign of a crumbling façade of democracy.
- Protect the Freedom to Shock
Resource Type: Article
Published: 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 take a stand, to be unpopular, to refuse to see oneself as a victim easily disturbed by provocative beliefs. Respecting others means not ignoring them but engaging with them by putting them on their mettle and challenging their ideas and arguments. Without heated, entrenched debate a plural society becomes but a hollow shell.
- Quotes about Free Speech
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radical left-libertarian Marxist perspective.
- Radical Digressions 2
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2000
- Radical Digressions 4
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2008
- Radical Digressions 5
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2008
- The Radical Roots of Free Speech
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
Interview with Laura Weinrib author of "The Taming of Free Speech: America's Civil Liberties Compromise."
- Raising the Workers' Flag
The Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
A history of the Workers' Unity League, the Canadian affiliate of the Communist Red International of Labour Unions.
- Rebels Without a Cause: The Assault on Academic Freedom
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Examining current academic culture which falsely labels "words as violence" and how it is affecting acedemic freedom, notably by some who think of themselves as being on the left, who are employing totalitarian tactics which ultimately cause professional and economic harm.
- Rethinking the challenge of anti-Muslim bigotry
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
In 1997 the British anti-racist organisation the Runnymede Trust published its highly influential report Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All. Twenty years on, the Runnymede Trust has brought out a follow-up report Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us All, which is a stock-take on current views, and facts, about the issue.
- Right-Wing Thought Police Assault Free Speech on Campus
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2005
The 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."
- Rights and Liberties
Introduction to Volume 9, Number 2, of the Connexions Digest (Rights & Liberties issue)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1984
Civil liberties and human rights appear as a key dimension in almost every other field of social justice and social change, but those who seek a freer and more just society cannot rely on the state to achieve their goals.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Selected Political Writings
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
- The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
- RSF decries Saudi citizen-journalist's jail term and writing ban
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the four-year jail sentence and 15-year writing ban that a Saudi court passed yesterday on writer and citizen-journalist Zuhair Kutbi as "unjust and disproportionate."
- Ryerson Made a Mistake in Cancelling Panel Discussion
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Not only are censorship and suppression fatal to the purpose of the university, they undermine the foundation of democratic society. When individual rights to freedom of expression are diminished or taken away for an allegedly good cause, they are necessarily invested in some higher authority that is given the right to determine what is acceptable. The result is censorship from above – ultimately the state – with the likelihood that the champions of that censorship today are its vulnerable targets tomorrow.
- Savio, Mario
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American activist. (1942-1996).
- SDS
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
The rise and development of the Students for a Democratic Society, the organization that became the major expression of the American left in the 1960s -- its passage from student protest to institutional resistance to revolutionary activism, and its ultimate impact on American politics and life.
- Secularist Center for Inquiry Delivers Statement to UN Opposing "Defamation of Religions" Resolution
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
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).
- Seriously Free Speech Committee
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- 6 Ideas For Those Needing Defensive Technology to Protect Free Speech from Authoritarian Regimes
4 Ways the Rest of Us Can Help
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The Internet remains one of the most powerful means ever created to give voice to repressed people around the world. Unfortunately, new technologies have also given authoritarian regimes new means to identify and retaliate against those who speak out despite censorship and surveillance.
- Six Red Months in Russia
An Observers Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1918
Louise Bryant's account of her time in Russia during the revolution 1917-1918.
- '68: The Year of the Barricades
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
- The Socialist Register 1982
Volume 19: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Some Elementary Comments on The Rights of Freedom of Expression
Resource Type: Article
Published: 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.
- 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.
- Sources welcomes the Seriously Free Speech Committee
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Sources welcomes a new member: the Seriously Free Speech Committee. The SFSC is committed to free expression of views on Israel/Palestine.
- Sticks and Stones: Free Speech and Punching Politics
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The author explains why he does not agree with those who believe that right wing 'facist' groups should be denied the right to express their views, either by physical means or force of law.
- Strange Fruit
Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
Malik makes the case that most anti-racists accept the belief, also held by racialists and outright racists, that differences between groups are of great importance. While racialists attribute the differences to biology, anti-racists attribute them to deep-rooted cultural traditions which are typically seen as inherent in the group. Malik argues that these positions are actually quite similar, and makes the case that racism and racial inequality are best combatted by focusing not on our differences but on what unites us. Malik also strongly criticizes the cultural relativism of many anti-racists, and their increasing tendency to reject science as some kind of western imperialist conspiracy to oppress the rest of the world.
- The Strange (and Tortured) Legacy of 'Free Speech'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Despite a well-cultivated radical image, Antifa rarely focuses on the growing ultra-nationalism, militarism, and imperialism that lies at the very core of American politics – tendencies in fact more dangerous than the rhetoric of Yiannopoulos, Coulter, and Shapiro. Beneath its ultra-leftism is a modus operandi riddled with the worst of identity politics. And since its violent tactics are not aligned with any popular movement, its opposition to fascism (such as it is) turns hollow, empty. The irony is that while the FSM and its heirs did everything possible to expand the realm of free speech, new social forces – extreme identity groups, Antifa – want to restrict or deny freedoms.
- Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
A study of the role of the FBI in the postwar Red Scare, focusing especially on Ronald Reagan's long and creepy relationship with the FBI. It is also a fascinating account of the origins and development the New Left, and a powerful examination of how the FBI corroded due process and democracy.
- Thailand: Call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Things My Students Don't Know
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
One of the discussion exercises I use in my course on corporate power begins with the bare text of the First Amendment projected on screen at the front of the room. I tell students that this is a recently proposed piece of federal legislation and invite their comments. I also say that if anyone has heard of the proposal, they should remain quiet for the time being and let others speak first.
- Thou Shalt Not Give Offence
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Kenan Malik looks at the free speech debates around the Danish cartoons and Charlie Hebdo.
- To Name The Unnameable
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Discussing Salman Rushdie's non-appearance at the Jaipur Literature Festival.
- Trump, Namazie, Islam, Free Speech and the Left
Resource Type: Article
On the odd relationship that many on the left have with Islam. They view all Muslims as helpless victims, and regard any criticism of Islam as a form of bigotry.
- 23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance.
- Twitter Wars: My Personal Experience in Twitter's Ongoing Assault on Free Speech
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2022
- Understanding Power
The Indispensable Chomsky
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. As he elucidates the connection between America's imperialistic foreign policy and the decline of domestic social services, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change.
- Unlawful Dissent
New Laws Around the Globe Don't Curb Inequity, They Undercut Social Protests and Gag Free Speech
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
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
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
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 American sites, but will be Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, and Pashtu speaking "sock-puppets".
- Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1962
Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes.
- What Are We Allowed to Say?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Free speech is an aberration -- it is best to begin by admitting that. In most societies throughout history and in all societies some of the time, censorship has been the means by which a ruling group or a visible majority cleanses the channels of communication to ensure that certain conventional practices will go on operating undisturbed. It is not only traditional cultures that see the point of taboos on speech and expressive action. Even in societies where faith in progress is part of a common creed, censorship is often taken to be a necessary means to effect improvements that will convey a better life to all. Meanwhile, since the fall of Soviet communism, liberal bureaucrats in the North Atlantic democracies have kept busy constructing speech codes and guidelines on civility to soften the impact of unpleasant ideas.
- When Does Criticism of Islam become Islamophobia?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Basic points that undergird about the relationship between criticism, Islam and Islamophobia. We should stop being so obsessed by the distinction between legitimate criticism and Islamophobia, and start thinking about how an obsession with both Islam and Islamophobia distorts our culture and our debates.
- When Progressives Start Abandoning Free Speech
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
In the wake of attacks in Charlottesville, Virginia there were a number of rallies in Canadian cities. The anti-racist counter-demonstrators hugely outnumbered their rally opponents, constituting phenomenal public solidarity against racism. There was much to be cheered in these events. One thing dampened this amazing response. It was how, for some, denouncing hate slid into denouncing speech rights and into dangerous calls for governments to prevent rallies.
- Whistle blower site RCILeaks.Org wins Icelandic free-speech court battle against Canadian immigrant investor firm
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
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 Court.
- Why Banning Laura Kipnis Would Betray Wellesley's Academic Mission
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Six professors at an elite American college insist that students will suffer "damage" or "injury" if speakers they may disagree with are allowed to speak on campus.
- Why I had to face down the bullies trying to silence my supposedly 'offensive' stance on Islam
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
This week marked the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris. The atrocity was a brutal attack not just on human life but also on the principle of free speech, one of the pillars of human civilisation. In the aftermath of the killings, people across the world united to express their support for that essential liberty.
- 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.
- WikiLeaks: 10 Years of Pushing the Boundaries of Free Speech
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
We are now entering WikiLeaks 10 year anniversary. The organization registered their domain on October 4, 2006 and blazed into the public limelight in the spring of 2010 with the publication of Collateral Murder. This video footage depicted the cruel scenery of modern war seen from an Apache helicopter gun-sight. It became an international sensation, with the website temporarily crashing with the massive influx of visitors.
- With Power of Social Media Growing, Police Now Monitoring and Criminalizing Online Speech
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Criminal cases for online political speech are now commonplace in the UK, notorious for its hostility to basic free speech and press rights. As The Independent's James Bloodworth reported last week, "around 20,000 people in Britain have been investigated in the past three years for comments made online."
- Women and Censorship - Letters to Index on Censorship
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1991
Reader comments on pornography and censorship.
- Working Lives
Vancouver 1886-1986
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
- A year after Charlie, RSF warns against "religious correctness"
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
On the eve of the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo tragedy in Paris and amid controversy about the satirical weekly's latest cover, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) cautions against the insidious imposition of a "religious correctness"
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