1. Against Censorship
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1995
   Some of us would rather not have customs officials and cops deciding what we can read or look at.
2. Author warns coalition of MPs (CPCCA) intent on criminalizing free speech on Israel/Palestine
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   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.
3. The Berkeley Student Revolt
   Facts and Interpretations
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1965
   
4. Berkeley: The New Student Revolt
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1965
   
5. Bloggers invited to compete for special DEUTSCHE WELLE #free expression# prize with Reporters Without Borders
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Deutsche Welle, Germany#s international broadcaster, today announced the start of its sixth annual international Best of the Blogs award, The BOBs.
6. Challenged Books List
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2004
   A partial list of books subjected to censorship attempts in Canada from the early 1980s to 2003.
7. Chomsky.Info
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   The Noam Chomsky Web site.
8. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   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.
9. Connexions Archive seeks a new home
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
10. Dershowitz and Keefer "face off" in Vancouver debate this week whether Israel's critics are anti-semitic
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
11. Do It
    Scenarioes of the Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    
12. Don't Incite Censorship
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    Free speech for everyone but bigots is no free speech at all.
    
13. Fire in the Streets
    America in the 1960s
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    
14. Free speech activist prevented from leaving Iran
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
15. Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
    Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
    
16. 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
    
17. 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.
18. Free speech for me - you shut up
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
    
19. Free Speech in a Plural Society
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
    
20. Freedom of Speech Under Siege
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1999
    Censorship is the handmaiden of a police state.
21. Freedom of Speech? Dubious Settlement in School Prayer Case
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
22. Gag Rule
    On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    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.
23. Group wins right to leaflet at airports
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1992
    
24. Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
25. Human Rights Council resolution on blasphemy
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
26. Human rights defender held in Saudi Arabia since mid-June on charge of #annoying others#
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
27. IFJ Condemns United States "Desperate and Dangerous" Backlash over WikiLeaks
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
28. Jason Kenney’s “anti free speech” conference sponsorship to be exposed on Monday
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
29. Making blasphemy an offence takes Europe back several centuries
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
30. More than 100 rights organisations urge UN to oppose defamation of religions
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
31. No platform or no democracy?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
    
32. PayPal admits US pressure over WikiLeaks account freeze
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    PayPal today admitted it suspended payments to WikiLeaks after an intervention from the US State Department.
33. Progressives shouldn't be begging the police to take more power
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
34. Protect the Freedom to Shock
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
    
35. Radical Digressions
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2010
    Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radcial left-libertarian perspective.
    
36. Right-Wing Thought Police Assault Free Speech on Campus
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2005
    he 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."
37. Rights and Liberties
    Introduction to Volume 9, Number 2, of the Connexions Digest (Rights & Liberties issue)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
38. 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.
    
39. SDS
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
40. Secularist Center for Inquiry Delivers Statement to UN Opposing "Defamation of Religions" Resolution
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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).
41. Seriously Free Speech Committee
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
42. '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.
    
43. Some Elementary Comments on The Rights of Freedom of Expression
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
44. Sources welcomes OrangeWebsite
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
    
45. 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.
46. Thailand: Call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
47. 23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance.
48. 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.
49. WikiLeaks appeals for help as attacks are stepped up
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    As the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks comes under mounting cyber-attacks and as hosting companies continue to withdraw their services, it is appealing to its supporters around the world to create mirror sites.
50. Women and Censorship - Letters to Index on Censorship
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    Reader comments on pornography and censorship.
51. Working Lives
    Vancouver 1886-1986
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    

Experts on Free Speech in the Sources Directory

1. Article 19
2. Center for Socialist History
3. Connexions Information Sharing Services
4. Radical Digressions
5. Seriously Free Speech Committee