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  1. Against Censorship
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1995
    Some of us would rather not have customs officials and cops deciding what we can read or look at.
  2. America’s last taboo
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2002
    The unspoken premise of the mainstream press is that no Palestinian or Arab position on Israeli police terror, settler-colonialism, or military occupation is worth hearing from.
  3. Anatomy of Censorship
    Why the Censors have it Wrong

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Bringing together diverse disciplines such as literary and legal history, modern psychology and contemporary feminism, Anatomy of Censorship sorts out the many confusing explanations and often misleading justifications for censorship to reveal the underlying conditions and motivations that lead to the suppression of various forms of communication.
  4. Ask Yourself... Do You Really Want More Censorship?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1992
    Censorship is dangerous and feminists who support it are wrong-headed.
  5. Backlash as Google shores up great firewall of China
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Censoring the Internet.
  6. The Ban on the Leipziger Allgemeine Zeitung
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1843
    The German press begins the New Year with apparently gloomy prospects. The ban that has just been imposed on the Leipziger Allgemeine Zeitung in the states of Prussia is surely a sufficiently convincing refutation of all the complacent dreams of gullible people about big concessions in the future.
  7. Banned Books
    Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  8. Banned Books Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A sampling of books which have been censored or subject to censorship attempts.
  9. Banned in the Media
    A reference guide to censorship in the press, motion pictures, broadcasting, and the Internet

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    From colonial times to the present, the media in America has been subject to censorship challenges and regulations. This comprehensive reference guide to media censorship provides in-depth coverage of each media format -- newspapers, magazines, motion pictures, radio, television, and the Internet -- all of which have been, and continue to be, battlegrounds for First Amendment issues. Each media format is examined in-depth, from its origins and history through its modern development, and features discussion of landmark incidents and cases. Foerstel, author of Banned in the U.S.A., the acclaimed reference guide to book censorship in schools and public libraries, offers a brief history of media censorship, examines in-depth the drama of seven landmark incidents, and includes 31 relevant court cases. Complementing the volume are personal interviews with prominent victims of media censorship, who give human voice to the struggle of the media to remain free, and an examination of censorship of the student press.
  10. Banning of Books Alarms Freedom Advocates
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    The confiscation and banning of books by Malaysian authorities is sending alarm bells ringing among activists, who want the repeal of laws that the government is using to suppress freedom of expression.
  11. The Best Censored Stories of 1989
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
  12. The Best Censored Stories of 1989
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Exposing an issue that was otherwise overlooked or under-reported by national news media.
  13. The Best of The Nation
    Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    An anthology of articles from The Nation.
  14. Betrayal of Trust
    The Collapse of Global Public Health

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    The story of recent failings of public health systems across the globe.
  15. Between the Lines
    How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981
  16. Beware of the hidden agendas of media censorship in China
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    This article argues that China's censorship of the Tibetan protests during the Olympic games was the state's attempt to maintain a positive image of the West within China. Zhao argues that the West has misinterpreted Chinese censorship policies and emphasizes how censorship policies seek to contain "explosive Chinese nationalism and domestic social conflicts" rather than oppress the people.
  17. Blindspots in The News
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    The filters that determine what gets into the "news" and what doesn't.
  18. Books banned by governments, list of
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    This article intends to list works, such as novels, nonfiction books, short stories, and essays that have banned by governments over time.
  19. Books for Burning
    Between Civil War and Democracy in 1970s Italy

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
  20. Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Anders Østergaard's award-winning documentary assembles footage smuggled out of Burma/Myanmar by an underground journalist group known as Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB). The film explores how DVB members regularly put their lives at risk to reveal the realities of living under a brutal military occupation despite the government crackdown on free media and internet.
  21. Canadian Committee Against Customs Censorship
    Organization profile published 1988

    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1988
    Inactive/Defunct Organization
  22. Canadian Library Association
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
  23. Censored: The News That Didn't Make The News-And Why
    The 1995 Project Censored Yearbook

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    Documenting how the U.S. mass media does a shabby job, deliberately or negligently withholding information of vital importance.
  24. Censorship
    A World Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    Censorship: A World Encyclopedia presents a comprehensive view of censorship, from Ancient Egypt to those modern societies that claim to have abolished the practice. For each country in the world, the history of censorship is described and placed in context, and the media censored are examined: art, cyberspace, literature, music, the press, popular culture, radio, television, and the theatre, not to mention the censorship of language, the most fundamental censorship of all. Also included are surveys of major controversies and chronicles of resistance.Censorship will be an essential reference work for students of the many subjects touched by censorship and for all those who are interested in the history of and contemporary fate of freedom of expression.
  25. Censorship
    A Threat to Reading, Learning, Thinking

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Pointing out that censorship is undermining the goals of education and plaguing all areas of the curriculum, this collection of essays considers many areas in which students' right to read is being infringed. The collection offers thought-provoking perspectives on the methods used by protesters to remove books and materials from classrooms and libraries and outlines the rationales behind censors' motivations.
  26. Censorship and the School Library Media Centre
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    Presents censored materials, censorship incidents, court cases, and federal legislation, including the children's Internet Protection Act.
  27. Censorship in Canada - When the Censor Comes
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1996
    Developed primarily for teachers, librarians, booksellers and others who disseminate the printed word, this guide offers basic information about dealing with would-be censors. Researched and written by Sandra Bernstein for the Freedom of Expression Committee of the Book and Periodical Council.
  28. Censorship in Islamic Societies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    A study of censorship in Islamic societies, concentrating on key events throughout history. The text includes analysis of: censorship in Algeria the "fatwa" against Salman Rushdie Taliban repression in Afghanistan and the 1980 transmission on British TV of "Death of a Princess".
  29. Censorship, Inc.
    The Corporate Threat to Free Speech in the United States

    Resource Type: Book
    Soley shows how as corporate power has grown and come to influence the issues on which ordinary Americans should be able to speak out, new strategies have developed to restrict free speech on issues in which corporations and property-owners have an interest.
  30. Challenged Books and Magazines List 2009
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   Published: 2009
    This updated document provides a list of 100 books and magazines which have been challenged due to their content between the years of 1989 and 2009.
  31. Challenged Books List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2004
    A partial list of books subjected to censorship attempts in Canada from the early 1980s to 2003.
  32. Chomsky.Info 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  33. Comments on The Latest Prussian Censorship Instruction
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1842
    The real, radical cure for the censorship would be its abolition; for the institution itself is a bad one, and institutions are more powerful than people.
  34. Committee On Censorship For the Arts
    Organization profile published 1986

    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1986
    Inactive/Defunct Organization
  35. Connexions Annual Overview: Human Rights, Civil Liberties
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    If we accept that anyone may be denied their rights, their freedom, then we undermine our own rights and freedoms even as we undermine social solidarity.
  36. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
  37. Connexions Library: Human Rights and Civil Liberties Focus 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on civil liberties and human rights.
  38. Criminalizing Criticism of Israel
    The End of Free Speech?

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    A massive push is underway to criminalize criticism of Israel. The Lobby is working to ban as anti-Semitic any truth or disagreeable fact that pertains to Israel. It is permissible to criticize every other country in the world, but it is anti-semitic to criticize Israel, and anti-semitism will soon be a universal hate-crime in the Western world.
  39. Democracy's Oxygen
    How Corporations Control the News

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
  40. Don't Incite Censorship
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    Free speech for everyone but bigots is no free speech at all.
  41. False Freedom
    Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2005
    This report examines internet censorship policy and how theIinternet has transformed the accessibility of information mainly in the countries of Egypt, Iran, Syria, and Tunisia. When examining each country the following is considered: government policies on Internet access, theIinternet's role in affecting freedom of expression, restrictive laws and cases in which individuals have been detained for their online activities.
  42. Feminists Against Censorship
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A group of feminist academics and campaigners who fight censorship from a feminist perspective. They believe:
    1) Censorship is a dangerous tool that is primarily used to suppress dissent from those who would challenge oppression by society and the state, and particularly victimizes minorities.
    2) Censorship is used by those in power as a way to avoid dealing with serious, intractable problems in society that require real, imaginative action, and are not solved by banning words and images.
    3) Women must have recourse to free expression in order to explore the truth of our own experience and sexuality that has been forcibly hidden from us for millennia, and the state must no longer be permitted to interfere with this discourse.
    4) Censorship can never eliminate evil ideas, and so the best answer to bad speech is more speech.
    5) Censorship gives unacceptable powers to the police to invade our privacy and harass individuals who they find threatening although they pose no threat to others.
  43. 50 Ways to Fight Censorship
    And Important Facts to Know about Censors

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    A practical guide to generating support and publicity for freedom of speech and how to combat acts of censorship.
  44. Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
    Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by incorrect or harmful ideas. To achieve this safe learning environment, it will be necessary for the university authorities to cleanse the university's libraries of harmful books, to block inappropriate Internet sites, to ban guest lectures who hold improper views, and to identify and prosecute students and faculty who are guilty of thought crimes.
  45. 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression – they are for it ‘in principle’, but only so long as it isn’t used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who.
  46. Free Speech For Me - But Not For Thee
    How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Hentoff is a passionate believer in free speech who recognizes that if speech is truly to be free, we must protect the expression even of ideas we abhors. He catalogues with equal disapproval the efforts of both the right and the left to censor speech they don't like. While being sympathetic to those who object to allowing bigots, racists, pornographers, atheists, and others of many stripes the right to lay out ideas that one group or another finds repugnant, he makes both an intellectual and an emotional case for allowing everyone to have their say, no matter how much this may offend some. He points out that suppressing speech doesn't get rid of the underlying thought, but merely drives it underground and gives it the benefit of martyrdom.
  47. Free speech for me - you shut up
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
  48. Free Speech in a Plural Society
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    The argument against free speech is really an argument in defence of particular sectional interests. And that is the best reason for rejecting restraints on speech. We can build a plural society in which free speech provides the means of engagement and dialogue between different parts of society.
  49. Freedom of Speech Under Siege
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991   Published: 1999
    Censorship is the handmaiden of a police state.
  50. Freedom to Read Week
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Freedom to Read Week encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom.
  51. From Fatwa to Jihad
    The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
  52. Good Girls, Bad Girls
    Sex Trade Workers and Feminists Face to Face

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Looks into issues like racism in pornography, reclamation of the label "whore," the concerns surrounding censorship and the myths and stereotypes that have made sex trade workers outcasts.
  53. Hitler's Propaganda Machine
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
  54. Index on Censorship
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    One of the world's leading repositories of original, challenging, controversial and intelligent writing on free expression issues. Documents free expression abuses in scores of countries world wide.and reports on censorship issues from all over the world.
  55. Interview with Ulli Diemer
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
    Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
  56. Into the Buzz Saw
    Resource Type: Book
    Accounts of journalists investigating stories which the power structure doesn't want investigated.
  57. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2009
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the Middle East crisis based on peace, justice, and human rights.
  58. Jewish Canadians Concerned About Suppression of Criticism of Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    We are Jewish Canadians concerned about all expressions of racism, anti-Semitism, and social injustice. We believe that the Holocaust legacy "Never again" means never again for all peoples. It is a tragic turn of history that the State of Israel, with its ideals of democracy and its dream of being a safe haven for Jewish people, causes immeasurable suffering and injustice to the Palestinian people.
  59. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume I: State and Bureaucracy

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
  60. Libel Law is dangerous
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1992
    Libel laws threaten freedom of speech.
  61. Libraries, Erotica & Pornography
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  62. Malik, Kenan
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    (Born 1962). Writer, lecturer and broadcaster.
  63. Media Censorship in a Plural Context
    A Report on the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
  64. Media Censorship in the Middle East
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Examines Middle-Eastern media censorship and shows how the censorial culture grew as the media developed in this region. It also illustrates the illusionary and deceptive arguments presented by the authorities citing articles and stipulations from the constitution that speaks for the freedom of the press and free speech.
  65. The Missing News 
    Filters and Blind Spots in Canada's Press

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Asks a number of questions, including: How well do the news media filter reality, for what purposes, through what processes and in whose interests? How do newspapers and TV stations choose what news is printed or aired, which letters will be published, or who will be accorded credibility?
  66. The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Peter Steven aims to make readers realize the power and influence of dominant media but, at the same time, also understand that they are not "omnipotent" and that there are alternative forms available.
  67. No platform or no democracy?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1996
    Rather than promoting themselves as vehicles for broadening access to discussion and debate, universities now seek to present themselves as highly regulated institutions in which students will be protected from unsolicited or offensive ideas.
  68. Obscenity exposed
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
    The police definition of 'obscenity' gets right to the crux of the question.
  69. On Freedom of the Press (5)
    Censorship

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1842
    A censorship law is an impossibility because it seeks to punish not offences but opinions, because it cannot be anything but a formula for the censor, because no state has the courage to put in general legal terms what it can carry out in practice through the agency of the censor. For that reason, too, the operation of the censorship is entrusted not to the courts but to the police.
  70. On Freedom of the Press (1)
    Prussian Censorship

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1842
    Apart from the catchwords and commonplaces which fill the air, we find among these opponents of press freedom a pathological emotion, a passionate partisanship, which gives them a real, not an imaginary, attitude to the press, whereas the defenders of the press in this Assembly have on the whole no real relation to what they are defending. They have never come to know freedom of the press as a vital need. For them it is a matter of the head, in which the heart plays no part.
  71. On Freedom of the Press (2)
    Opponents of a Free Press

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1842
    What an illogical paradox to regard the censorship as a basis for improving our press!
  72. On Freedom of the Press (3)
    On the Assembly of the Estates

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1842
    Precisely because freedom of discussion, the speaker concludes, is desirable in our Assembly — and what freedoms would we not find desirable where we are concerned? — precisely for that reason freedom of discussion is not desirable in the province. Because it is desirable that we speak frankly, it is still more desirable to keep the province in thrall to secrecy.
  73. On Freedom of the Press (4)
    As a privilege of particular individuals or a privilege of the human mind?

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1842
    From the standpoint of the idea, it is self-evident that freedom of the press has a justification quite different from that of censorship because it is itself an embodiment of the idea, an embodiment of freedom, a positive good, whereas censorship is an embodiment of unfreedom, the polemic of a world outlook of semblance against the world outlook of essence; it has a merely negative nature.
  74. On Freedom of the Press (6)
    Freedom in General

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1842
    Some want a full censorship, others a half censorship; some want three-eighths freedom of the press, others none at all. God save me from my friends!
  75. On the Critique of the Prussian Press Laws
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1842
    Two ways are open to the Prussian for the publication of his thoughts. He can either have them printed in his own country, in which case he has to submit to the domestic censorship; or, should he meet with objections here, outside the frontiers of his own state he can still either place himself under the censorship of another state in the Confederation or take advantage of press freedom in foreign countries. In any case the state retains the right to take repressive measures against possible breaches of the law.
  76. Operation Cast Lead: News control as a military objective
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Control of news in time of war has become a military objective.
  77. Opposing Censorship
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
    According to Ulli Diemer, it is dangerous to think that liberation — in this case, sexual liberation — can be promoted by repressive legislation and censorship.
  78. Orwell
    The War Broadcasts

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
  79. Patent Folly
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    The misuse of patents rights and associated dangers.
  80. Patterns of Censorship Around the World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  81. Pen Centre
    Organization profile published 1986

    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1986
  82. Pornography and the Sex Censor
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1996
    The pornography debacle has driven deep wedges among feminists, and has weakened the women's movement by alienating many women who cannot relate to a perceived ethos of anti-sexuality, gender antagonism, and victimhood. To the extent that it has convinced women to conceive of themselves as victims, to live in constant dread of male violence and aggression, rather than thinking of ourselves as the agents of our own liberation, it has been profoundly disempowering.
  83. Pornography in a Free Society
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
  84. The Power of the Israel Lobby
    Two knights and a dragon

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    The Israel Lobby has shifted more and more to the Right. The billionaires who finance the Lobby are the same people who finance the extreme Israeli Right, and most of all the settlers.
  85. Progressives shouldn't be begging the police to take more power
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1984
    The last thing we need is to hand the police even more power to decide what we are allowed to see or read.
  86. Protect the Freedom to Shock
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
    Far from being the cornerstone of a diverse, plural society, the refusal to give offence shows respect neither for oneself nor for others. Respect for oneself requires self-belief, a willingness to take a stand, to be unpopular, to refuse to see oneself as a victim easily disturbed by provocative beliefs. Respecting others means not ignoring them but engaging with them by putting them on their mettle and challenging their ideas and arguments. Without heated, entrenched debate a plural society becomes but a hollow shell.
  87. ‘Rachel’ screening in San Francisco shows a growing movement tired of being censored about Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    A wide spectrum of individuals and organizations attempt to enforce the axiom: there shall be no public criticism of Israel. This platitude ironically goes hand in hand with the view that ‘Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.’ Over the past several decades, self-appointed watch dogs of appropriate Israel discourse have spent hundreds of millions of dollars and poured out enormous doses of vitriol upon any individual or organization that dares to expresses even a drop of sympathy with the plight of Palestinians.
  88. Radical Digressions 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2009
    Ulli Diemer's Notebook: events and comment from a left perspective.
  89. Radical Digressions 1
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1979
  90. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
  91. Radical Digressions 4
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2008
  92. Radical Digressions 5
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2008
  93. The Red Menace 
    A libertarian socialist newsletter

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
  94. Restricted Entry
    Censorship on Trial

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
  95. The Right to Offend
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    Humans do have a right to offend other humans, especially in presenting dissent from the views with which many people seem to be very content. This includes those views called religious.
  96. Right-Wing Thought Police Assault Free Speech on Campus
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2005
    he Orwellian campaign to portray the expression of views in the university that run contrary to those ruling the country as a lack of "academic freedom."
  97. The Secret Museum
    Pornography in Modern Culture

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
  98. Silenced
    International Journalists Expose Media Censorship

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005   Published: 2008
    What happens to journalists who expose uncomfortable truths? How far are journalists prepared to go in order to report a difficult story? Silenced provides answers to these questions with the stories of journalists who risked their careers so that the public might be informed.
  99. Some Elementary Comments on The Rights of Freedom of Expression 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1980
    It is precisely in the case of horrendous ideas that the right of free expression must be most vigorously defended; it is easy enough to defend free expression for those who require no such defense.
  100. A Story About Making a Sex Movie
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2005
    Politicians try to impose censorship by the back door, by imposing record-keeping obligations that are impossible to comply with.
  101. Tactics of desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-semitism' as a weapon to silence criticism of Israel's behaviour
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The Israeli state and its defenders are increasingly attempting to silence critics because they are losing the battle for public opinion.
  102. Ten Best Censored Stories of 1988
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Documenting the failure of the mass media to provide Americans with all the information they need to make informed decisions.
  103. Throw it in the garbage myself
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1992
  104. Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Provides a list and indepth analysis of the top 25 stories that were censored throughout the year in 2009.
  105. Tracking the News that Wasn’t
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1996
    A review of two books about media bias and censorship.
  106. Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1951   Published: 1962
  107. West Germany: Censorship and Repression in the Model State
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979
    In West Germany, repression is now 'democratically' sanctioned and seen as a model for other countries to adopt.
  108. Women Against Censorship
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
  109. Women and Censorship - Letters to Index on Censorship
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
    Reader comments on pornography and censorship.
  110. Writers in Prison
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  111. You Can't Read This
    Forbidden Books, Lost Writing, Mistranslations, and Codes

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Written for children ages ten and up, You Can’t Read This explores the development of alphabets, the decoding of ancient languages, and censorship in Ancient Rome and modern America.

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Connexions Directory Associations and NGOs dealing with social and environmental issues — A-Z Index or Subject Index.
For experts and media spokespersons also see the Sources directory and the comprehensive Sources Subject Index.
Links Selected Internet resources featuring information about alternatives.
Calendar Events from across Canada. Also see: Sources Calendar and news releases.
Publicity and Media Resources, publications and articles to help you get publicity and raise awareness. Plus Media Names & Numbers Canadian media directory, the Parliamentary Names & Numbers Canadian government directory, and mailing lists.
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Mission Connexions exists to support individuals and groups working for freedom and social justice. We work to maintain and make available a record of the theory and practice of people struggling against oppression and for social change. We believe that the more we know about the struggles, victories, and defeats of the past, and about those who took part in them, the better equipped we will be to bring a new world into being. Connexions maintains a physical archive of books and documents, and is engaged in an ongoing project to build and expand an indexed digital archive of documents. We try to feature a wide variety of resources reflecting a diversity of viewpoints and approaches to social change within our overall mandate of support for democracy, civil liberties, freedom of expression, universal human rights, secularism, equality, economic justice, environmental responsibility, and the creation and preservation of community. We are internationalist in our orientation, but as a Canadian-based project we feature an especially extensive collection of Canadian documents and profiles of Canadian activist organizations.