updated Sat. March 9, 2024
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Shadowproof (blog)
March 9, 2018
Immigrant Rights Activist Detained In Arizona As ICE Retaliates Against Political Opponents ... The detention—without a bond hearing—is part of a new normal for ICE, where immigrant activists like Pablos are targeted for their political advocacy on immigrant rights ... And it violates the First Amendment.”.
Columbia Journalism Review
March 9, 2018
The Knight Institute, which is based at Columbia University, is representing Cohen and six other plaintiffs—a surgeon, a comic, a musician-activist, two writers, and a police officer—in a bid to qualify Trump's Twitter as a public forum; part of a broader push to protect the First Amendment from a president whoÃâà...
Berkeleyside
March 8, 2018
1, 2017, when a group Antifa activists rioted in Sproul Plaza and prompted UC Berkeley to cancel a speech by the then-Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos. Many conservatives, Trump supporters, and white nationalists interpreted those events to mean that Berkeley, the home of the Free Speech Movement,Ãâà...
The Nation.
March 7, 2018
The ACLU hosts a Know Your Rights student activist training to address how First Amendment rights apply to school protest on March 1, 2018. (ACLU website) ... Students at private schools do not have guaranteed free-speech rights, because private-school administrations are not public actors. AdditionallyÃâà...
RollingStone.com
March 1, 2018
The group also criticized Kweli, claiming his decision to cancel his Riot Room show was influenced by anti-fascist activists known as Antifa. Kweli doesn't mention TAAKE in his essay, but focuses instead on the issue at the center of the band's complaint about "left wing agitators": Free speech. Kweli opensÃâà...
San Antonio Express-News
March 1, 2018
Local activists long have challenged the city on its ordinance and applauded Thursday's action from the council chambers. A key point of contention has been the cost associated with what the city calls “First Amendment” processions — the constitutional freedom to assemble in public. Assessing fees forÃâà...
Daily Signal
February 23, 2018
Panelists talked about how college campuses claim to promote free speech, yet students across the country are subjected to “free speech zones”—small, designated areas on campus where students may exercise their First Amendment rights. Elsewhere on campus, students are subject to so-called “hateÃâà...
NPR
December 31, 1999
YouTube is locked in a battle over free speech rights. Last Thursday, the company banned far-right activist Jerome Corsi from their site for just a few hours. He is the Washington, D.C., bureau chief of Infowars, which is headed by prominent conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. When Corsi got his access back toÃâà...
