Jeff Reads "Song of the Open Road" from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. [...]
Sophia reads from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. [...]
Gary reads from The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. These videos are part [...]
Christine reads from The Lorax by Dr. Seuss at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. These videos are part of [...]
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The Annual Celebration of Free Speech & Its Defenders is the National Coalition Against Censorship’s major fundraising event of the year to support First Amendment rights and free speech projects.
Alex reads from Ulysses by James Joyce at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. These videos are part of that [...]
Gabriel reads from Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. These videos are part [...]
From Indybay.org: The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) and supporters protested the decision by the Museum of Children's Art (MOCHA) to cancel the exhibit "A Child's View From Gaza" under pressure from Zionist organizations. MOCHA held firm that they would not allow the exhibit. MECA announced that the exhibit would open on the originally scheduled date anyway, outside rather than [...]
NCAC participating organization The Dramatists Guild protests the cancellation of a community theater production of The Rocky Horror Show in Carrollton Georgia.
Noelle and Michael read from William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. These videos are [...]
Martha reads from James Baldwin's Go Tell It On The Mountain at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. These videos [...]
Shawna reads from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Return of the King at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. These videos are [...]
Samantha reads from Julia Alvarez' How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. These [...]
Rich reads from William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. These videos are part [...]
Micheline reads from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. These videos are part of [...]
Jacob reads from Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. These videos are part of [...]
Lauren reads from William Golding's Lord of the Flies at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. These videos are part [...]
https://ncac.org Video from the National Coalition Against Censorship's Banned Books Readout Booth at the 2011 Brooklyn Book Festival. Over 100 festival-goers read aloud from our Banned Books Library for our cameras in honor of Banned Books Week (Sept 24-Oct 1). Download a PDF of our library titles, including why they were challenged or banned, here: http://ncac.org/storage/banned_books_catalog_2011.pdf See more from the [...]
Tom reads from Allen Ginsberg's Howl at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. These videos are part of that series. [...]
Juliette reads from Shel Silverstein's A Light in the Attic at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. These videos are [...]
Jacob reads from Anthony Burgess' Clockwork Orange at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. These videos are part of that [...]
In honor of Banned Books Week, Whoopi Goldberg delights in one of her favorite Shel Silverstein poems
See videos from our Banned Books Readout tent at the 2011 Brooklyn Book Festival
Oakland Children's Museum incident the latest in a pattern of political interest groups silencing open critique and discourse on conflict in the Middle East.
Photo by Noah Berger for the San Francisco Chronicle
NCAC stands with Open The Government and co-signers to protect against coverups and overly broad exemptions to the Freedom of Information Act
"And So It Goes"...to the restricted section of the library? Republic, MO Slaughterhouse Five ban lifted but NCAC says literary gulag is an insult to students and teachers.
San Francisco's mass transit system, known as the BART, has faced widespread criticism for turning off mobile phone and Internet services within the subway to disrupt planned protests of a police shooting. Take action now!
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian will be restored to the curriculum for all high school classes in the district, located in Washington state, following a joint letter from NCAC, ABFFE, AAP, SCBWI, NCTE and PEN
The Court has struck down a California law banning the sale of video games deemed to be "violent" on First Amendment Grounds.
The U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that two students who both created fake MySpace profiles parodying their school principals had been unfairly disciplined by their respective school districts.
Funeral Protests, Copyright, and FCC decency regulations
Many book censorship incidents start with a single complaint seeking to remove one or more books from a school classroom or library. But what is at stake is more than a few books. Often battles over books represent an effort to imbue the public schools with a particular set of views and values. That’s why so many book censorship cases become emotionally loaded crusades.
LA MOCA's new director, Jeffrey Deitch, ordered a mural commissioned by the museum whitewashed within hours of its creation because of fear that its anti-war message would offend the museum's neighbors: a Veteran Hospital and a memorial to Japanese-American soldiers. A Department Of Education "Dear Colleague" letter on bullying worries First Amendment advocates because of its expansive definition of verbal [...]
Online predators! Cyberbullying! Privacy! There are a lot of fears about how young people are growing up online. And, since these are young people we're talking about, those fears often turn into full-blown panics (with help from the occasional, sensational news report). Good decisions are rarely made in a panic, however. To help kids navigate the world of instant communication in which they live, we need to take a step back and examine the facts and our fears.
In the fall of 2010 culture wars rhetoric seemed like a thing of the past, remembered alongside attacks on the National Endowment for the Arts and Congressional saber-rattling about “offensive” art. What a difference twenty years made: the National Portrait Gallery in Washington was mounting Hide/Seek, a show on queer portraiture in art, and Congress was voting to repeal the military’s repressive “don’t ask don’t tell” policy. It almost appeared as if the old cultural battle-axes had been buried.
One more public exhibition space forgot about their obligations under the First Amendment and removed artwork they found subjectively "offensive." In April this happened in California, this time it was Colorado. To their credit, however, local officials quickly corrected their mistake when reminded by NCAC's letter that it is not the role of public officials to shield the eyes of the public from work because they subjectively decides it is not “family-friendly.”
Senator Patrick Leahy (VT) has introduced the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011 (PROTECT IP) to replace last year’s failed Combating Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA). Supposedly a new and improved version of COICA, the PROTECT IP act is aimed at denying access to “pirate” or “rogue” websites “dedicated to infringing activities,” especially [...]
While paying lip service to the fact that fair use is the way in which the inherent tensions between the First Amendment and copyright law may be resolved, Judge Batts’s recent decision for the Southern District of New York in Cariou v. Prince preserved fair use protection for only those works that comment on or criticize the original copyrighted work. While Batts [...]
Pastor Jonathan Wiggins explain to his Resurrection Fellowship why he reached out to artist Enrique Chagoya, whose work featuring Christ-like imagery was attacked at the Loveland Museum Gallery
Joint letter to the Fremont, CA Unified School District.
