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Nobel Prize to Dmitry Muratov is a Sign that the World Should Unite to Confront Kremlin’s Foreign Agent Law
The Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov is an important step to acknowledge the crackdown on independent media by authoritarian regimes. More
The PEN Pod: On Protesting Book Bans with the Students of York, PA
“We saw. . . what was happening at our school and we wanted to take immediate action. . . . Because we knew we had to do it.” More
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A Hong Kong court on Monday convicted an activist of inciting secession for shouting pro-independence slogans at a series of protests. https://nyti.ms/3pCYXtu
ICYMI: Virginia Beach City Public Schools removed Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and others from its libraries. We wrote to the district, along with @PENamerica @ncte @authorsguild & @CBLDF, calling on them to return these books to shelves.
https://ncac.org/news/virginia-beach-toni-morrison-lawn-boy-banned
"Is it possible that bad photos showed us something we wanted or needed to see?" Check out @PamelaPaulNYT's ode to the bygone days of blurry, poorly lit images before joining us for a #PENOutLoud event w/ Pamela Paul TOMORROW: https://bit.ly/3Aai2Wf. https://bit.ly/3be552A
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PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel’s book Dare to Speak, providing a pathway for navigating and defending free speech, is on sale!
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