Last night we celebrated a bunch of amazing defenders of Free Speech at Tribeca 360 in Manhattan. We have pictures! Here's a taste: Judy Blume presents Laurie Halse Anderson with her Free Speech Defender award! We all honored Laurie for continuing to write awesome, challenging books for kids of all ages. Publisher Jane Friedman and Kaylie Jones! This year, Kaylie [...]
As the NYPD stands in silence, Occupy Wall Street demonstrators use "human microphone" call-and-response to read aloud the text of the temporary restraining order granting them access to Zuccotti Park.
Occupy Wall Street activists singing "We Shall Not Be Moved" the morning following eviction by the NYPD. The encampment lasted almost two months
A participant in the Occupy Wall Street movement talks about the judge's restraining order stating protestors must be allowed entrance to Zuccotti Park (pending a hearing), and the NYPD's non-compliance.
This morning, we took a moment to capture a bit of the action at Zuccotti Park in the wake of the late night, NYPD eviction of the encampment that had lasted almost two months. Here, a participant in the Occupy Wall Street movement talks about the judge's restraining order stating protestors must be allowed entrance to Zuccotti Park (pending a [...]
Watch video from this morning's standoff at Zuccotti Park in Downtown Manhattan. **Update** the court ultimately ruled in the City's favor, barring tents and camping gear from the park.
It has been a formidable year for Sherman Alexie, whose Young Adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian has been challenged several times, due to would-be censors' unease about sexual and violent content. Alexie’s book was challenged in Helena, Montana, swapped out of the curriculum at Hastings Middle School in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, banned from classrooms in Prineville, [...]
