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Can the Written Word Make a Difference, as Global Threats Mount?

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Writers Reflect on Peril at PEN America’s Emergency Congress of Writers By Suzanne Trimel Can the power of the written word meaningfully bring about change in a world threatened by… More

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Press ReleaseJune 19, 2018

"For the U.S. to quit now is to abdicate American leadership on free expression and human rights worldwide, ceding the playing field to the cynics and the subverters." More

PEN Spotlights Digital Freedom and Surveillance before the UN Security Council

By: Deji Olukotun | December 16, 2013

PEN American Center appears at the UN Security Council to comment on a landmark resolution to protect journalists and end impunity. More

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AdvocacySeptember 20, 2013

PEN led a coalition of human rights groups at the UN Human Rights Council to press for greater free expression in Ethiopia and Cameroon. More

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SOUTH TO AMERICA is "an essential meditation on the South, its relationship to American culture—even Americanness itself," wrote Tayari Jones in @nytimes.

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flfreedomread Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread ·
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Yesterday we logged almost 200 challenges- about 150 of those resulted in immediate removals.

This is a picture of all the books removed from one HS library, in one day, in one District, due to the objections of one man.

This is not freedom. #FreeTheBooks

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More book purging in FLORIDA https://twitter.com/FLFreedomRead/status/1620457139272814593

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