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The racist implications of free speech
Lon :: Burkina Faso | 1 day ago
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And does US devotion to freedom of speech encourage racism? Last month, America’s First Lady fell victim to internet bigotry. A picture of Michelle Obama, coarsely depicted as a monkey, ranked highly in searches on Google Images. Although the search...
Tags: Burkina Faso, Lon, Censorship, Barack Obama, Social Issues, Technology Internet, Freedom of expression, Freedom of speech, Human Interest
Len Shipman: In defense of free expression and political correctness
Frisco :: CO :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility The writer feared that “well-meaning citizens … do not realize the damage that this harmful practice is causing our society and future generations.” I agree with the writer of the letter that damage is being done, but political correctness is not the...
Tags: political correctness, political expression, Founding Fathers, America, america today, Frisco, Censorship, Civic virtue, Marketplace of ideas, Human rights, Etiquette, Freedom of expression, Freedom of speech
Journalist Goodman "grilled" at the Border!
US journalist Amy Goodman was detained for the better part of 90 minutes at a Canada/US border crossing on Wednesday. Goodman, who writes for Democracy Now, was held up at the Peace Arch crossing south of Vancouver and "grilled" on her feelings about the...
Tags: journalist, Amy Goodman, Olympics, Border, detained, freedom of speech, press, Canada, Vancouver, Health care, Freedom, Democracy Now!, Canada ￢ﾀﾓ United States border, Pacifica Radio, Goodman, Obama, allnews
Journalist slayings bring declaration
Mexico City :: Mexico | 20 days ago
Credibility International broadcasters are calling for sustained, concrete global action to address the murder of journalists in peacetime and in war, officials say. "Most journalists are killed not in war zones but in their own countries as they try to shine the...
Tags: Mexico City, Mexico, Censorship, Civil rights and liberties, Journalism, Freedom of the press, Freedom of speech, International nongovernmental organizations, Freedom of expression, International Press Institute, United States, G20 nations, Liberal democracies
US FREEDOM OF SPEECH: MUSLIM REVOLUTION
J. Grant Swank, Jr.Muslims take full advantage of America’s freedom of speech to broadcast the Revolution Muslim cultic line per their own street vendors’ open season.Note video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhHYiWCm8GsThis is youthful Islamics...
Tags: Allah, Koran, Islam, Obama, revolution, anarchy, freedom of speech
The River is Rising
It can be easy to feel like we can’t make a difference, like the problems of this country let alone this world are just too big or that there are too many to tackle. That is completely understandable, especially when we try to do it alone....
Tags: Republic, Freedom, Constitution, Conservatism, Liberal, Republican, Democrat, Progressive, Apathy, Freedom of Speech, Internet, Blogs, Protests, Michael W, Smith, The River Is Rising
The Police Are Rioting: A Report from the G-20 Streets, Pittsburgh 2009
by David Rovics, professional musician & G-20 protester. There is a popular assumption that, although other countries such as Iran or China don't have freedom of speech and of assembly, we do. And that it's what makes us so great. Anybody...
Tags: Cindy Sheehan, David Rovics, G-20, protest, Bill of Rights, Joshua White, Sarah Wellington, Civil Rights movement, Shays' Rebellion, Pittsburgh, Kevin Rudd, police, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Assembly, ACLU, BBC, NPR, CNN, martial law, Secret Service, FBI, LRAD, Holiday Inn, rubber bullets, tear gas
More on Yale refusing to print Danish cartoons
More on this story about Yale University Press refusing to print the Danish Cartoons about Mohammed in their book on the subject. The manuscript was written by Dutch professor Jytte Klausen. The reason given for the removal of the cartoons...
Tags: Yale, cartoon outrage, freedom of speech, speech jihad, book
THE LIMITS OF OBAMA-HATING HYSTERIA: Has the Irrational Right’s Fear-mongering Tactics Breached the Public’s Tolerance Limits?
THE LIMITS OF OBAMA-HATING HYSTERIA: Has the Irrational Right’s Fear-mongering Tactics Breached the Public’s Tolerance Limits? The latest manipulated non-issue of the Obama-hating right wing appears to have landed in the public spotlight...
Tags: President Barack Hussein Obama, Michelle Obama, Hartford Courant, abpnews.com, Associated Baptist Press, George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Van Jones, Newsbusters.com, Media Research Center, Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, CEQ, 911Truth.org, White House Council on Environmental Quality, Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, Communists, Joe McCarthy, Freedom of Speech, E-bay, Media Matters, WND Productions, A Question of Eligibility, Gawker.com, Rupert Murdock, Kenya, Indonesia, Malcolm X, CNN
"We do not negotiate with terrorists. We just acced to their anticipated demands"
So says Cary Nelson, president of American Association of University Proffesors, about Yale's descision not to reprint the Danish cartoons in their upbooking boo, The Cartoons that Shook the World. The cartoons were published in a Danish newspaper in...
Tags: cartoon outrage, Yale, book, freedom of speech, Islam
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