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The U.S. Supreme Court may be on the brink of rolling back one of the most important free speech protections for journalists.
Donald Trump vowed to "open up those libel laws" as a candidate in 2016, and the court he stacked with three right-wing justices ...[Read more]
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The French interior minister has issued a blanket ban on protests in solidarity with Palestine. For months, Emmanuel Macron’s government has joined the far right in denouncing “Islamo-leftism” — a war on anti-racist movements that is now undermini ...[Read more]
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Civil rights and free speech advocates on Friday decried the advancement in the Florida Senate of a controversial bill that the ACLU says "aims to silence, criminalize, and penalize Floridians for exercising their First Amendment right to protest."
The ap ...[Read more]
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ESTHER KOONTZ IS a long-time math teacher and curriculum coach at Horace Mann Dual Language Magnet School in Wichita, Kansas.
She’s also a member of the Mennonite Church USA, which in July voted to divest itself from American companies that profit off o ...[Read more]
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THE CRIMINALIZATION OF political speech and activism against Israel has become one of the gravest threats to free speech in the West. In France, activists have been arrested and prosecuted for wearing T-shirts advocating a boycott of Israel. The U.K. has ...[Read more]
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A UK university has been accused of censoring free speech for banning phrases such as “right-hand man” and “gentleman’s agreement” in favour of more inclusive, gender neutral language. ...[Read more]
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GERMANY'S infamous Nazi Grandma an 87-year-old Third Reich fanatic repeatedly up before the courts for denying that the Holocaust took place has been handed down a new 11-month term behind bars. ...[Read more]
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After weeks of calling for the United States Government to provide the efforts of water protectors at Standing Rock to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline, Bernie Sanders finally has some company in the United States Senate joining him in that call. ...[Read more]
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