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DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
White House finds few are interested in the press secretary role; secrecy abounds in drafting Senate Republicans' healthcare legislation; Mexican government's misuse of spyware to target journalists and critics… More
HUNGARY: New NGO Law Will Have Chilling Effect on Freedom of Expression
This statement originally appeared on PEN International's website: http://www.pen-international.org/newsitems/hungary-new-ngo-law-will-have-chilling-effect-on-freedom-of-expression/ Hungary Hungary’s new law imposing new restrictions on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is an attack on the rights to freedom of expression and association… More
Mexican Cyber-surveillance of Journalists and their Families Egregious Assault on Privacy and Dissent
NEW YORK–The Mexican government’s targeting of journalists and government critics through spyware is a serious attack on the privacy of those who have expressed criticism of the government, PEN… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
U.S. Supreme Court rules on two First Amendment cases, Georgia 6th candidates bar unfavorable media from events; cyberwar in Ukraine, and more in free expression news from the United… More
The PEN Ten with Sarah Schulman
The arresting officer testified that I said, 'Ladies should be able to choose.' I think that the idea of a woman's life being a human life was too complex. More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Google announces plans to curb extremist content on Youtube; Julius Caesar controversy continues; Univision flexes its muscles in the age of Trump, and more in free expression news from… More
Two Poems by Mu Cao
Your brain is stuffed with / garbage from books the System crams into you / Since grade school you’ve been mastering songs of praise / —Oh, you busy bees More
Class Notes: A Protest March
September 2012, they chose to take to the streets, band together, and shout as much as they liked. It fulfilled an inner need for which other people abandoned rationality… More
Two Poems by Chi Lingyun
But you must be able to see the rope around my waist / as I circle the coffin that’s adorned with multicolored streamers; More
DARE to be Informed
Weekly round-up of notable goings-on and pressing threats to free expression in the United States and around the world. More
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