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. The Berkeley Student Revolt
   Facts and Interpretations
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1965
   
3. Berkeley: The New Student Revolt
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1965
   
4. Bureau of Public Secrets 
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Articles from a Situationist perspective.
5. 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.
6. China Mao or never
   New Internationalist September 2004
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 2004
   A look at the communist government China and the people's dream of free speech.
7. Chomsky.Info 
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   The Noam Chomsky Web site.
8. 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.
9. Culture of Complaint
   The Fraying of America
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1993
   Propaganda-talk, euphemism, and evasion are so much apart of American usage today that they cross all party lines and ideological divides. The art of not answering the question, of cloaking unpleasant realities in abstraction or sugar, is so perfectly endemic to Washington that we expect nothing else.
10. Defending the right to offend, shock or disturb
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Insult laws are designed to protect politicians, government leaders and officials and state institutions, arming the state with access to resources and legal doctrines that no other citizen has.
11. Don't Incite Censorship
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    Free speech for everyone but bigots is no free speech at all.
    
12. 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.
13. 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.
    
14. '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.
    
15. 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.
16. 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.
    
17. 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.
    
18. The Free Speech Movement and the Negro Revolution
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1965
    It is, of course, true that it was contact with the Negro people that inspired the Berkeley revolt. It is, however, also true that the Berkeley revolt, followed by the teach-ins, in turn, changed the climate for free speech on the pivotal question of war and peace for the whole country.
19. Free Speech Movement Archives
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Documenting the history of the 1960s Free Speech Movement at Berkeley.
    
20. Free Speech Movement (Berkeley)
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A student protest which took place during the 1964–1965 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley after student activists, some of whom had traveled with the Freedom Riders and worked to register African American voters in Mississippi in the Freedom Summer project, set up information tables on campus and solicited donations for civil rights causes, in violation of university policy.
21. Freedom of Speech Under Siege
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991   Published: 1999
    Censorship is the handmaiden of a police state.
22. Freedom of Speech? Dubious Settlement in School Prayer Case
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
23. From Fatwa to Jihad
    The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    
24. Gag Rule
    On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Dissent is democracy. Democracy is in trouble. Never before, Lapham argues, have voices of protest been so locked out of the mainstream conversation. A call to action in defense of one of the most important liberties, the right to raise our voices against the powers that be, and to have those voice heard.
25. Group wins right to leaflet at airports
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1992
    
26. Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Advice and technical tips for the best way to launch a blog and how to get round online censorship. It includes an explanation of how to blog anonymously and contains articles by bloggers, particularly in Egypt and Burma.
27. 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.
28. Malik, Kenan
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    (Born 1962). Writer, lecturer and broadcaster.
29. 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.
    
30. No Platform Won't Work
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    It is ridiculous for anyone to think that you can defeat the BNP by silencing them. A sinister thought, when silenced, only gets wider currency in the subterranean world where everything “establishment” is viewed as a conspiracy. Sunlight is the best disinfectant
31. 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.
32. 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.
    
33. ‘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.
34. Radical Digressions 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2009
    Ulli Diemer's Notebook: events and comment from a left perspective.
    
35. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
    
36. Radical Digressions 4
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2008
    
37. Radical Digressions 5
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2008
    
38. The Rage of the "Righteous"
    On Muslim Outrage at a Danish Cartoon
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Over and over, in the wake of 9/11, Muslims (and many non-Muslims) have proclaimed that all Muslims must not be judged on the basis of the few that are terrorists. Yes, it was Muslims that flew the airplanes into the World Trade towers, but most Muslims are not like that. That's very true. Each individual should be judged only on the basis of his or her own behaviour. So then why are all Danes being judged on the basis of one Danish cartoon? Why has an embassy been burned? Why have Danish products been taken off shelves?
    
39. 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."
40. Rights and Liberties
    Introduction to Volume 9, Number 2, of the Connexions Digest (Rights & Liberties issue)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1984
    Civil liberties and human rights appear as a key dimension in almost every other field of social justice and social change, but those who seek a freer and more just society cannot rely on the state to achieve their goals.
41. Rosa Luxemburg 
    Selected Political Writings
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
    
42. Savio, Mario
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    American activist 1942-1996.
43. SDS 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1974
    
44. '68: The Year of the Barricades 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
    
45. 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.
46. Strange Fruit 
    Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Malik makes the case that most anti-racists accept the belief, also held by racialists and outright racists, that differences between groups are of great importance. While racialists attribute the differences to biology, anti-racists attribute them to deep-rooted cultural traditions which are typically seen as inherent in the group. Malik argues that these positions are actually quite similar, and makes the case that racism and racial inequality are best combatted by focusing not on our differences but on what unites us. Malik also strongly criticizes the cultural relativism of many anti-racists, and their increasing tendency to reject science as some kind of western imperialist conspiracy to oppress the rest of the world.
    
47. A Tribute to Mario Savio and the FSM
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
    Mario Savio was a brilliant leader because he was careful to lay out the principles and choices before you. To follow Mario was to make your own choice, to know what you were doing and take responsibility for yourself.
48. Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1951   Published: 1962
    
49. Women and Censorship - Letters to Index on Censorship
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
    Reader comments on pornography and censorship.
50. Writing in an Age of Silence
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007   Published: 2009
    Sara Paretsky explores the traditions of political and literary dissent that have informed her life and work, against the unparallelled repression of free speech and thought in the USA today.

Experts on Free Speech in the Sources Directory

1. Article 19
2. Center for Socialist History
3. Connexions Information Sharing Services
4. Connexions Library/Archive
5. Radical Digressions