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PEN America Speaks: How We Defended and Celebrated Free Expression The Week of July 1
PEN America works tirelessly to defend free expression, support persecuted writers, and promote literary culture. Here are some of the latest ways PEN America is speaking out. More
Unified Voices Summit in Florida: Educators, Authors, Faith Leaders and Activists Organize for the Right to Read
The Unified Voices Summit July 12-13 brings together authors, educators, students, teacher’s unions, faith leaders, and activists from across the state to solidify and mobilize the growing grassroots movement… More
PEN America Welcomes Supreme Court’s Rejection of Extreme Arguments by Florida and Texas in Social Media Cases
“The Court decisively ruled that social media platforms are acting as editors under First Amendment analysis when they choose which content to include, which to exclude and which to… More
Risk Assessment and Physical Safety: What Every Journalist Should Know
Recent physical attacks on student reporters covering campus protests highlighted an uncomfortable truth: Journalist safety is declining in the United States. The U.S. slipped 10 places in the recent World… More
Israeli Government Must Reject Bill Potentially Banning Foreign News Networks
If passed, this bill will allow communication minister Shlomo Karhi to shut down any foreign media outlet in Israel if it is perceived as a threat to the state.… More
Legal Brief Urges Federal Court to Find Ban on TikTok Unconstitutional
“PEN’s charter pledges fidelity to ‘the principle of unhampered transmission of thought’ and affirms that literature and ideas should know “no frontiers and must remain common currency,’” said Eileen… More
PEN America Speaks: How We Defended and Celebrated Free Expression The Week of June 24
PEN America works tirelessly to defend free expression, support persecuted writers, and promote literary culture. Here are some of the latest ways PEN America is speaking out. More
Latest Global Developments to #FreeNarges
Six months after Iranian writer and activist Narges Mohammadi received the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize in absentia at Oslo City Hall, the movement for her release continues to gain… More
PEN America Prison and Justice Writing Program FAQ
PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing program (PJW) is a successful program that has supported the freedom to write inside U.S. prisons for a half century. More
Slashing All Arts and Culture Funding in Florida Will Stifle Free/Creative Expression
“A state with an emaciated arts sphere, where books are already banned and classroom dialogue is stifled, is one that is in danger of abandoning freedom of expression altogether,”… More
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