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DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
The first three days of the Trump presidency revealed expanding threats to free expression—as well as increasing efforts to protect it by people like you. As we brace for… More
Write a Letter in Solidarity With Necmiye Alpay
Turkey’s respect for press freedom and free expression has dramatically worsened in the wake of an attempted coup in July 2016. More than 100 writers and journalists are behind… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
D-Day for President Trump, who surrendered his Android and got a new private phone number for the occasion. Washington DC police use pepper spray on demonstrators outside last night's… More
Fordham University’s Refusal to Permit SJP Group Does a Disservice to Free Expression, Open Campus Debate
NEW YORK—Fordham University’s refusal to allow students to start a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) infringes upon the principles of free expression and association that all… More
United States: Free Expression Groups Condemn Removal of Police Protest Painting from Capitol Hill
As organizations devoted to promoting the arts and freedom of expression, we condemn the recent removal of a student painting from a public passageway on Capitol Hill. The removal… More
Trump Administration Plans to Abolish National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities Will Usher in New ‘Dark Ages’ in America
NEW YORK—In response to news this morning of Trump administration plans to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for Humanities, PEN America Executive Director… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
President Obama gives a nod to the role of the press in keeping the government honest at his final presser. Meanwhile, Trump's DC hotel denies entrance to journalists; no… More
Azerbaijan: Rights Groups Demand Justice for Tortured Journalist Mehman Huseynov
Joint Statement by Sport for Rights Coalition Azerbaijan: Rights Groups Demand Justice for Tortured Journalist Mehman Huseynov The undersigned organizations strongly condemn the abduction and torture of Azerbaijani journalist Mehman Huseynov and… More
The First Speech: Poets & Writers Offer Words for Trump Inauguration
As we prepare for the inauguration of a U.S. presidential administration more hostile to free expression than any other in history, PEN America asked writers to craft an address… More
Meet the Judges for the 2017 PEN Literary Awards
Longlists announced: December 5-9, 2016 Shortlists announced: January 18, 2017 Winners announced: February 22, 2017 2017 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony: March 27, 2017 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature ($50,000): To… More
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