1. Abortion, Infanticide, Humanity, Free Speech
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2012
   Abortion is right, and infanticide is wrong, because there IS a moral boundary between the fetus and the newborn.
2. Against Censorship
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1995
   Some of us would rather not have customs officials and cops deciding what we can read or look at.
3. And Then They Came For Me
   Final Words from Lasantha Wickrematunge
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2009
   An editorial by Lasantha Wickrematunge shortly before he was murdered on January 8, 2009, and published three days after his death.
4. Apostasy, Blasphemy and Free Expression in the Age of ISIS
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   The right to religion comes with a corresponding right to be free from religion.
5. Arthur Topham's Political Beliefs May Just Be Illegal
   The Extraordinary Trial of Arthur Topham: Part 3
   Resource Type: Article
   First 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.
6. Bill C-51: A Legal Primer
   Overly broad and unnecessary anti-terrorism reforms could criminalize free speech
   Resource Type: Article
   First 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.
7. Bloggers Under Fire: The Fatal Consequences of Free Thinking in Bangladesh
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2016
   Six secular Bangladeshi writers have been killed since November of 2014: Rajshahi University professor AKM Shafiul Islam, literary publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan, and bloggers Avijit Roy, Oyasiqur Rahman Babu, Ananta Bijoy Das and Niloy Neel. At least a dozen more bloggers and progressive activists have been killed and scores of others attacked or threatened with death for their progressive and secular views since 2005.
8. Canadian group not dealing with major free expression issue
   Celebrating World Press Freedom Day
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014
   We need to address how corporate-owned mainstream news organizations restrict the freedom of journalists and prevent the public from having access to a wide variety of important news and opinion articles. This lack of balanced information affects everything from people having the information they need to decide how to vote to all of us better understanding how power is exercised in our communities. The censorship consists of banning some topics and discussions and filtering out stories and ideas that do not fit the current mainstream media agenda.
9. The Case for Grassroots Archives 
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2012
   Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
10. Censorship in Canada - When the Censor Comes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    Developed primarily for teachers, librarians, booksellers and others who disseminate the printed word, this guide offers basic information about dealing with would-be censors. Researched and written by Sandra Bernstein for the Freedom of Expression Committee of the Book and Periodical Council.
11. Challenged Books List
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    A partial list of books subjected to censorship attempts in Canada from the early 1980s to 2003.
12. Chevron's Crude Attacks
    Court Sides With Big Oil
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Yet another instance of the increasingly pro-business stance of the US legal system.
13. A climate of fear endangers press freedom
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
14. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989   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.
15. Connexions Library: Arts, Media, Culture Focus 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on media, culture, and art.
16. Connexions Library: Human Rights and Civil Liberties Focus 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on civil liberties and human rights.
17. Culture Inc.
    The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    Schiller defends democratic expression and free access to information while demonstrating the ways in which public expression, public space, and public access to information are becoming increasingly limited and controlled.
18. Defending the right to offend, shock or disturb
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Insult laws are designed to protect politicians, government leaders and officials and state institutions, arming the state with access to resources and legal doctrines that no other citizen has.
19. Diemer, Ulli
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
20. A Different Kind of Safe Space
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
21. Dismantling Democracy
    Stifling Debate and Dissent in Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    An extensive dossier of the Harper government's attacks on democracy, debate, and dissent.
22. Does Freedom of Speech Include Fascists?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1945
    There are two concepts on how to deal with fascism. One is fighting; the other is running away.
23. Does Freedom of Speech Include Fascists?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    There are two concepts on how to deal with fascism. One is fighting; the other is running away.
24. Domestic reality does not match bold words on Internet freedom of expression
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The U.S. government gives lip service to online free speech but simultaneously acts in ways to drastically limit freedom of expression.
25. Don't Incite Censorship
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Free speech for everyone but bigots is no free speech at all.
    
26. EducationSources.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    First 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.
27. The End of Academic Freedom in America: the Case of Steven Salaita
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    In the years I spent at Columbia University, there was always some professor or another coming under attack from the Israel lobby. But no matter the intensity of the witch-hunt, I was always proud to see my employer stand up for the free speech rights of the faculty.
28. Fame & Fortune Online
    Resource Type: Website
    Comprehensive listing of awards available to Canadian journalists.
29. Feminists Against Censorship
    Resource Type: Website
    A group of feminist academics and campaigners who fight censorship from a feminist perspective. They believe:
    1) Censorship is a dangerous tool that is primarily used to suppress dissent from those who would challenge oppression by society and the state, and particularly victimizes minorities.
    2) Censorship is used by those in power as a way to avoid dealing with serious, intractable problems in society that require real, imaginative action, and are not solved by banning words and images.
    3) Women must have recourse to free expression in order to explore the truth of our own experience and sexuality that has been forcibly hidden from us for millennia, and the state must no longer be permitted to interfere with this discourse.
    4) Censorship can never eliminate evil ideas, and so the best answer to bad speech is more speech.
    5) Censorship gives unacceptable powers to the police to invade our privacy and harass individuals who they find threatening although they pose no threat to others.
30. 50 Ways to Fight Censorship
    And Important Facts to Know about Censors
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    A practical guide to generating support and publicity for freedom of speech and how to combat acts of censorship.
31. For Campus Free Speech
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
32. Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
    Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
33. 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone 
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
    
34. 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.
35. Free Speech For Me - But Not For Thee
    How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
36. Free speech for me - you shut up
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
    
37. Free Speech for the Right? A Primer on Key Legal Questions and Principles
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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?
38. Free Speech in a Plural Society
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
    
39. Free Speech in an Age of Identity Politics
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Transcript of Malik's TB Davie Memorial lecture on academic freedom at the University of Cape Town.
40. Freedom to Read Week
    Resource Type: Website
    Freedom to Read Week encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom.
41. From Fatwa to Jihad 
    The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
42. Gag Rule
    On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
43. Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
44. Hate Speech and Free Speech
    The Wrong Kind of Climate Control
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Laws against sedition, in whatever guise, are an attack on free speech. Unlike laws against those rare instances of incitement which trigger immediate and actual violence against a present target (as in "get him boys!"), laws against sedition are always couched in vague, open ended terms because the real target is not the alleged "dangers" protected against but some political agenda or ideology that is opposed.
45. Hate speech in a plural society
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
46. Here come the thought police
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.”
47. Here We Go Again 
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
48. His Right to Say It
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1981
    Chomsky takes the opportunity to clarify the details of the so-called Faurisson Affair in which he played a catalytic role by signing a controversial petition. He defends his involvement by reiterating and exploring the principle of self-expression irrespective of content.
49. How "Hate Crimes Against Police" Expose the Fatal Flaw Within Hate Crime Statutes
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
50. I am not that Woman in a burqa
    A Palestinian novelist remembers the liberated, educated women of her life, and how their freedom has been, and is being, curtailed.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Palestinian novelist Sahar Khalifeh discusses growing up as a girl and woman in Arab culture, and how Arab women are represented in Western culture.
51. If boycotts could change the system they'd be illegal
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    A ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeal says that boycotting by a grassroots group Friends of the Lubicon Lake Cree Nation of Daishowa paper products was illegal because it resulted in economic harm to the corporation. This is an example of a growing number of "SLAPP suits" Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation brought by corporations against activists.
52. In Defense of Free Speech
    It's Easier to Blame Bad Filmmakers Than to Address Massive War Crimes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The answer to speech you disagree with is … (drum roll) … MORE SPEECH.
53. Increasing Legal Suppression of Freedom of Thought and Expression in So-called Free and Democratic Societies
    As evidence for increasing totalitarianism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    That freedom of speech is the foundational individual right for a truly democratic system to exist or emerge. And that this freedom must be defended without compromise, and without bias against any particular view, no matter how distasteful or disturbing the particular view might be to some or most people.
54. Israel Continues Its Attack on Palestinian Freedom of Expression
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The arrest of a teenager for voicing an opinion on a social media site raises serious concerns over freedom of expression in Israel.
55. I've changed my mind on the gay cake row. Here's why
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Like most gay and equality campaigners, I initially condemned the Christian-run Ashers Bakery in Belfast over its refusal to produce a cake with a pro-gay marriage slogan for a gay customer, Gareth Lee. I supported his legal claim against Ashers and the subsequent verdict – the bakery was found guilty of discrimination last year. Now, two days before the case goes to appeal, I have changed my mind. Much as I wish to defend the gay community, I also want to defend freedom of conscience, expression and religion.
56. Jailed by Israel for his cartoons, Mohammad Saba’aneh speaks out
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Mohammad Saba’aneh, who has a daily cartoon in the Palestinian newspaper al-Hayat al-Jadida, has published his work in newspapers across the Arab world. His cartoons are decidedly political, frequently criticizing Israel, the Palestinian Authority and mainstream Palestinian political parties. Targeted by Israeli occupation authorities for the opinions expressed in his art, he was arrested by Israeli occupation forces, and jailed.
57. Je Suis Charlie? It's a Bit Late 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Hardly had news begun filtering out about the Charlie Hebdo shootings, than there were those suggesting that the magazine was a 'racist institution' and that the cartoonists, if not deserving what they got, had nevertheless brought it on themselves through their incessant attacks on Islam. What is really racist is the idea only nice white liberals want to challenge religion or demolish its pretensions or can handle satire and ridicule. Those who claim that it is ‘racist’ or ‘Islamophobic’ to mock the Prophet Mohammad, appear to imagine, with the racists, that all Muslims are reactionaries. It is here that leftwing ‘anti-racism’ joins hands with rightwing anti-Muslim bigotry.
58. Jewish Canadians Concerned About Suppression of Criticism of Israel
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    We are Jewish Canadians concerned about all expressions of racism, anti-Semitism, and social injustice. We believe that the Holocaust legacy "Never again" means never again for all peoples. It is a tragic turn of history that the State of Israel, with its ideals of democracy and its dream of being a safe haven for Jewish people, causes immeasurable suffering and injustice to the Palestinian people.
59. JournalismSources.com
    Resource Type: Website
    First 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.
60. Manufacturing Consent 
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
61. MediaSources.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2017
    A web portal featuring resources about media and the media industry, with 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.
62. Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of Memory
    Preservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27). Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called “the battle of memory”. Mainstream media and institutions of power consign inconvenient histories, struggles, and alternative visions to what George Orwell called “the memory hole.” People’s history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions. Their role is particularly important as official archives are forced to restrict acquisitions, limit access and discard materials as funding is slashed.
63. The Misguided Attacks on ACLU for Defending Neo-Nazis' Free Speech Rights in Charlottesville 
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
64. Netizen Report: Why Did YouTube Censor Your Videos? You May Never Know.
    Global Voices Advocacy's Netizen Report offers an international snapshot of challenges, victories, and emerging trends in Internet rights ar
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Amid an apparent shift in YouTube’s approach to monitoring for rules violations and staying in the good graces of advertisers, a wave of YouTube users have found their work either blocked or relegated to "restricted" mode in recent months.
65. No Debate
    The Israel Lobby and Free Speech at Canadian Universities
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
66. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2015
    Urban agriculture and local food production
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    This issue of Other Voices ranges widely, from increasing worker activism and strikes in China, to advances in battery technology that make it much easier and cheaper to store solar and wind energy for future use, to testimonies from Israeli soldiers about the war crimes they committed routinely and as a matter of policy in last summer's attack on Gaza.
67. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 1, 2017
    April 1 issue
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First 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.
68. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 9, 2017
    Meeting the Challenge of the Right
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First 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.
69. Out of Bounds
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
70. Passionate Declarations
    Essays on War and Justice
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990   Published: 2003
    Essays looking at American political ideology.
71. PayPal admits US pressure over WikiLeaks account freeze
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    PayPal today admitted it suspended payments to WikiLeaks after an intervention from the US State Department.
72. PEN Centre
    Organization profile published 1986
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1986
    
73. Police Unions Sustain Police Violence Epidemic
    Since when did we decide that police officers should be above the law?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Two of the biggest police unions in the country are now on record in opposition to free speech. They are on record against constitutionally protected free speech that opposes the epidemic of police violence across America (more than 900 killed by police so far in 2015).
74. Pornography in a Free Society
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    An examination of public policy debates about pornography in the United States in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
75. Progressives shouldn't be begging the police to take more power
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
76. Protect the Freedom to Shock
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
    
77. The pursuit of Julian Assange is an assault on freedom and a mockery of journalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Four years ago, a barely noticed Pentagon document, leaked by WikiLeaks, described how WikiLeaks and Assange would be destroyed with a smear campaign leading to "criminal prosecution". We are witnessing the implementation of that plan.
78. Quotes about Free Speech
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    
79. Quotes about Freedom
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    
80. 'Rachel' screening in San Francisco shows a growing movement tired of being censored about Israel
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    A wide spectrum of individuals and organizations attempt to enforce the axiom: there shall be no public criticism of Israel. This platitude ironically goes hand in hand with the view that "Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East." Over the past several decades, self-appointed watch dogs of appropriate Israel discourse have spent hundreds of millions of dollars and poured out enormous doses of vitriol upon any individual or organization that dares to expresses even a drop of sympathy with the plight of Palestinians.
81. Radical Digressions 
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2017
    Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radical left-libertarian Marxist perspective.
    
82. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
    
83. Radical Digressions 4
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2008
    
84. Radical Digressions 5
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2008
    
85. Radical Perspectives in the Arts
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    An anthology of Marxist literary and cultural criticism.
86. Rebels Without a Cause: The Assault on Academic Freedom
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
87. Release of the Full TPP Text After Five Years of Secrecy Confirms Threats to Users' Rights
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Trade offices involved in negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement have finally released all 30 chapters of the trade deal today, a month after announcing the conclusion of the deal in Atlanta. Some of the more dangerous threats to the public's rights to free expression, access to knowledge, and privacy online are contained in the copyright provisions in the Intellectual Property (IP) chapter. Now that the entire agreement is published, we can see how other chapters of the agreement contain further harmful rules that undermine our rights online and over our digital devices and content.
88. Respect is a Two-Way Street
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    There is a whiff of hypocrisy among some Muslims who, in the name of being spared offence, want to censor other people's opinions.
89. The Right to Offend
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    Humans do have a right to offend other humans, especially in presenting dissent from the views with which many people seem to be very content. This includes those views called religious.
90. Rights and Liberties
    Introduction to Volume 9, Number 2, of the Connexions Digest (Rights & Liberties issue)
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
91. Rosa Luxemburg 
    Selected Political Writings
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
92. The Rosa Luxemburg Reader 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
93. Ryerson Made a Mistake in Cancelling Panel Discussion
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
94. '68: The Year of the Barricades 
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
95. Some Elementary Comments on The Rights of Freedom of Expression 
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
96. The Strange (and Tortured) Legacy of 'Free Speech'
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
97. They Dare to Speak Out
    People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby
    Resource Type: Book
    The author of this book served 11 terms as a Republican Congressman from Illinois. He describes the influence on the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on the U.S. Senate and Houseof Representatives. He describes the attempts of AIPAC to influence the curricula of university departments of Middle East Studies. He shows how leading Jewish spokespeople who criticize Israel are shunned and kept from questioning some of Israel's policies.
98. Things My Students Don't Know
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
99. 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.
100. Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1951   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.
101. We Are All – Fill in the Blank
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     We should condemn violence and terror, and defend freedom of the press. We should do so on the basis of consistent principles -- in contrast to the mainstream media and politicians, who condemn acts directed at 'us' but condone or ignore crimes committed by 'our side'.
102. When Free Speech Becomes Dead Silence - The Israel Lobby And A Cowed Academia
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     The sudden cancellation of an academic conference on Israel, as well as the lack of outcry from 'mainstream' media, demonstrates once again the skewed limits to 'free speech' in 'advanced' Western democracies.
103. When Progressives Start Abandoning Free Speech
     Resource Type: Article
     First 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.
104. Why Banning Laura Kipnis Would Betray Wellesley's Academic Mission
     Resource Type: Article
     First 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.
105. Why I had to face down the bullies trying to silence my supposedly 'offensive' stance on Islam
     Resource Type: Article
     First 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.
106. Why This Radical Leftist is Disillusioned by Leftist Culture
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2016
     I will always believe in "The Revolution". But I am becoming very frustrated with modern "activist" culture.
107. With Power of Social Media Growing, Police Now Monitoring and Criminalizing Online Speech 
     Resource Type: Article
     First 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."
108. Women Against Censorship
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1985
     Essays which argue that women have nothing to gain by allying themselves with anti-feminist forces and mainstream politicians. The contributors say that censorhip will be used against feminists who seek deep and permanent changes in the status quo.
109. Women and Censorship - Letters to Index on Censorship
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1991
     Reader comments on pornography and censorship.
110. Writing in an Age of Silence
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007   Published: 2009
     Sara Paretsky explores the traditions of political and literary dissent that have informed her life and work, against the unparallelled repression of free speech and thought in the USA today.
111. Yesterday's News
     Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1998
     Illuminates the decline of print journalism, suggests reasons for this decline and proposes solutions to reverse this downward trend.

Experts on Freie Meinungs„uáerung in the Sources Directory

1. Article 19
2. Center for Socialist History
3. Connexions
4. Ulli Diemer
5. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
6. Media Names & Numbers
7. United Nations Human Rights Council