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Kate Ruane Joins PEN America as Inaugural Sy Syms Director, U.S. Free Expression Programs

Press ReleaseJanuary 4, 2023

(WASHINGTON)-- PEN America, the free expression and literary advocacy organization, today announced the appointment of Kate Ruane as the inaugural Sy Syms Director, U.S. Free Expression programs. Ruane joins… More

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Band Against the Ban in Arizona

Sunday, September 18, 2022 | 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm MT
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Headshots of Emrys Donaldson, Joi Miner, Brontez Purnell, and Minnie Bruce Pratt; on top: “Banned Books Week 2021” in a red banner and “Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Free Expression in Alabama”

[VIRTUAL] Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Free Expression in Alabama

Monday, September 27, 2021 | 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm CT
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Beth Shelburne

The PEN Pod: Incarceration Amid COVID-19 with Beth Shelburne

InterviewApril 14, 2020

“The bottom line is we have too many people in our jails and prisons for far too long, and that makes all of these other issues so much worse.” More

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DARE: Trump Consultant Is Trolling Democrats With Biden Site That Isn’t Biden’s

News DigestJuly 1, 2019

Fake website for Biden campaign, operated by Trump consultant, attracts more views than real Biden campaign website. (See PEN America's report on... More

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DARE: Trump Jokes to Putin They Should ‘Get Rid’ of Journalists

News DigestJune 28, 2019

At a meeting in Osaka, President Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin make light of election meddling and '[getting] rid' of journalists. FBI encourages U.S... More

Jamal Khashoggi

DARE: UN Investigator Calls on Saudi Arabia to Make Khashoggi Murder Trials Public

News DigestMarch 29, 2019

Special rapporteur leading UN investigation of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's killing finds that Saudi Arabia has not met its international human rights... More

DARE: Yesterday, they walked out of class. Now, they’re forced to stay after school

News DigestMarch 16, 2018

Scattered reports of students being punished by school administrators for participating in nationwide 17-minute walkout protesting gun violence. More

DARE: Publisher: Trump effort to stop book ‘flagrantly unconstitutional’

News DigestJanuary 9, 2018

MacMillan publishing CEO John Sargent fires back at Trump, echoing PEN America's conclusion that the White House's cease and desist letter targeting Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury was "flagrantly… More

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DARE: Trump Wants Washington Post Reporter Fired Over Misleading Tweet

News DigestDecember 11, 2017

President Trump calls for Washington Post reporter to be fired over a misleading tweet about the size of the crowd at a rally in Pensacola More

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Every yr, people cycle through the doors of 3,000+ jails in the U.S.—too often invisible to the public.❗
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Social media co’s are NOT enforcing their policies to limit disinfo, violence, other violative content. It’s not abt free speech, it’s abt companies doing what they’ve promised consumers. I @freepress wrote a report on tech failures in policy & practice:https://www.freepress.net/policy-library/empty-promises-inside-big-techs-weak-effort-fight-hate-and-lies-2022

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