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PEN America Sues President Trump for Violating Journalists’ First Amendment Rights

October 16, 2018 by NCAC

PEN America Sues President Trump for Violating Journalists’ First Amendment Rights

NCAC shares PEN America’s grave concern about the President’s use of the levers of government power to retaliate against media companies for the content of their coverage.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 1st Amendment, Freedom of the Press, government, journalism

NCAC Condemns Trump Administration Censorship of CDC

December 16, 2017 by NCAC

NCAC Condemns Trump Administration Censorship of CDC

NCAC condemns the recent move by the Trump administration to censor the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by forbidding the use of certain words in official communications.

Filed Under: Press Releases Tagged With: 1st Amendment, censorship, government, Science

Supreme Court Grants The Slants an Important First Amendment Victory

June 21, 2017 by Jas Chana

Supreme Court Grants The Slants an Important First Amendment Victory

Given our current political climate we’d be wise not to take the protections afforded by the First Amendment for granted and to protest unconstitutional government action, as The Slants have successfully just done. 

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 1st Amendment, Copyright, Supreme Court

Free Speech Victory for Florida Medical Community in “Docs vs Glocks” Case

June 13, 2017 by Jas Chana

Free Speech Victory for Florida Medical Community in “Docs vs Glocks” Case

The state of Florida did not appeal the ruling against the “Firearms Owners’ Privacy Act,” which prevented doctors from asking patients about their gun ownership.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 1st Amendment, guns

Violent Protestors Misunderstand the First Amendment

March 6, 2017 by Joan Bertin

Violent Protestors Misunderstand the First Amendment

The violent protesters of Charles Murray need to understand a basic principle: the right to speech exists for all, or for none.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 1st Amendment, first amendment, higher education, Political Dissent, right to protest

NCAC Protests the Removal of American Diversity Posters over Alleged “anti-Trump” bias

March 1, 2017 by NCAC

NCAC Protests the Removal of American Diversity Posters over Alleged “anti-Trump” bias

NCAC is urging a Maryland school district to allow its teachers to display a series of posters promoting diversity and inclusion in America after administrators ordered their removal over concerns of political bias.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 1st Amendment, academic freedom, art censorship, Arts Advocacy Program, free expression, hate speech, Political Dissent, Youth Free Expression Program

Turn It Off, Dammit! — Opposition to Film Screening

June 11, 2012 by Conner Noteboom

Turn Me On, Dammit!, an indie Norwegian film about a 15-year-old girl’s struggling with her burgeoning sexuality and dealing with high school tensions, has been widely acclaimed by critics on both sides of the Atlantic. Yet, controversy led to the cancellation of a screening in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where the film was scheduled to be shown […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 1st Amendment, Alabama, Film & Video, Tuscaloosa

Reassessing “Decency”

July 1, 2011 by ncacblog

On Monday, June 27th, the Supreme Court announced that upon returning from its summer recess in October, it would revisit the Federal Communication Commission’s rule that allows it to fine broadcasters for “indecency.” Last year, the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the FCC was violating broadcasters’ free-speech rights. The Court […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 1st Amendment, Broadcasting, censorship, FCC, FCC v Fox, media, self-censorship, Supreme Court

Sorrell Means Business

June 29, 2011 by ncacblog

Last week’s Supreme Court decision in Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc.  signified a subtle yet important shift in commercial speech interpretation that may precede increased corporate strength in the legal arena.  The opinion, by Justice Kennedy, argues that Vermont did not have grounds to ban pharmaceutical data-mining as it is a form of non-deceptive commercial […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 1st Amendment, commercial speech, free speech, Roberts Court, SCOTUS, Sorrell v. IMS Health

Free to Speak or Free to Seize?

June 24, 2011 by ncacblog

A recent surge in vulnerability to search and seizure, despite protection under the Fourth Amendment, is creating a climate of fear of punishment for constitutional free expression.  Multiple stories this week share the theme of government interpretation of the Fourth Amendment infringing on the rights of the public.  If professionals and the public must live […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 1st Amendment, 4th Amendment, activism, David Protess, FBI, journalistic freedom, technology

Guest Blog: John Davis Malloy on the Smithsonian After Hide/Seek

May 11, 2011 by Michael O'Neil

It’s true that the Smithsonian’s Flashpoints and Faultlines forum was too late for Hide/Seek, but keeping the issues alive months after the exhibit closed may be the right timing for the future of this public institution. It was no surprise that in his welcoming remarks Wayne Clough described himself as having no choice but to […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 1st Amendment, art censorship, censorship, david wojnarowicz, DC, flashpoints, free expression, galleries, government censorship, heckler's veto, hide/seek, homophobia, museums, public art, self-censorship, smithsonian, wayne clough

WEAR IT PROUD

March 28, 2011 by ncacblog

Button brought back from the March 2011 Culture Wars symposium with the Corcoran and Transformer DC.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 1st Amendment, art censorship, censorship, free expression, free speech, Mapplethorpe, nudity, public art, religion, Serrano, Wojnarowicz

Democracy Now: Journalist Searched On Return From Haiti

February 15, 2011 by Michael O'Neil

Democracy Now! reports the Obama administration is continuing the Bush regime’s policy of directing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to search and copy computers, smartphones, cameras, and hard drives of “listed” Americans returning to the United States. ACLU (NCAC member!) staff attorney Catherine Crump says “many journalists and lawyers who often work abroad have also […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 1st Amendment, 4th Amendment, aclu, Amy Goodman, brandon jordan, chilling effect, Democracy Now, free press, ICE, journalism

US Government, Sponsor of Book Censorship

January 24, 2011 by ncacblog

NCAC occasionally publishes guest blogs on topics related to free speech. The views in these articles do not necessarily reflect the official position of NCAC, however they raise important issues for discussion. By Vel Nirtist How do you keep the unwashed masses known as the “public” from highly prestigious and quite remunerative pursuit known as […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 1st Amendment, Banned Books, book censorship, free expression, free speech

Waterbury CT School District Attempts to Cancel August Wilson Play

January 18, 2011 by ncacblog

Censorship continues full front attacks on all the arts. Two weeks into 2011, we’ve already seen censorship of David Wojnarowicz at the National Portrait Gallery; a new edition of Mark Twain’s Huckelberry Finn hit the bookstores, without the N-word; the arrest of Belarus theater director Nikolai Khalezin of Belarus Free Theatre and now the Waterbury […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 1st Amendment, August Wilson, censorship, free expression, free speech, Joe Turner, student, student speech, Theater & Performance, Youth Free Expression Program

New Museum Opens – Museum of Censored Art

January 12, 2011 by ncacblog

On Thursday, January 13th, a new museum opens in Washington, DC: The Museum of Censored Art, founded by art and free speech activists Mike Blasenstein and Michael Dax Iacovone. Mike and Mike are the iPad protesters, who were expelled from the National Portrait Gallery when they attempted to show David Wojnarowicz’s video Fire In My […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 1st Amendment, art, art censorship, free expression, free speech, Museum of Censored Art

Author of the Banned Books Week Manifesto Censored!

September 17, 2009 by Jamie Chosak

Ellen Hopkins, author of numerous Young Adult titles as well as most recently, the Banned Books Week Manifesto is being censored in Norman, Oklahoma. Hopkins was scheduled to speak at Whittier Middle School on September 22nd about her experiences as an author writing about real life issues facing youth today. However, her talk was reportedly […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 1st Amendment, Banned Books, Books, Kids' Right to Read Project

Land of Free Expression…? Map of Book Censorship in the USA Suggests Otherwise

August 13, 2009 by ncacblog

Being so busy with campaigns promoting “freedom and democracy” in the Middle East and central Asia, it’s hardly surprising that most of us here in the United States are unaware of an archaic and abominable practice that continues here at home – book banning. The Kids’ Right to Read Project (KRRP), a collaboration of NCAC […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 1st Amendment, Banned Books, book censorship, Books, free expression, free speech, Kids' Right to Read Project

Student Press Goes to Washington

December 23, 2008 by Brian Pickett

With what promises to be the most crowded inauguration in US history, SPLC has issued an advisory to student journalists planning on covering the event: The Student Press Law Center is advising college journalists who plan to cover events surrounding the Presidential Inauguration to be held January 20 in Washington, D.C., to take several precautionary […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 1st Amendment, Freedom of the Press, Inauguration, student press law center

NC State Update

December 15, 2008 by ncacblog

An incident at North Carolina State University in early November involving hateful words directed at President-elect Obama has sparked debate on campus about the extent to which Hate Speech is Free Speech. The debate has apparently spread to the UNC  campus as well. ABC News, Chapel Hill reports: After the controversy over racist comments spray-painted […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 1st Amendment, free expression, free speech, hate speech, NC State, UNC

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