Free Speech

American Civil Liberties Union - Free Speech
Links to issues such as censorship, campaign finance reform, commercial speech, and flag desecration.
http://www.aclu.org/FreeSpeech/FreeSpeechMain.cfm

AskMen.com : Freedom of Speech in Sports
Article discusses pro baseball player John Rocker's inflammatory racist statements and his right to freedom of expression.
http://www.askmen.com/sports/fanatic/fanatic7.html

Atheism and Intraorganizational Free Speech (1996)
Michael Martin argues that atheistic organizations should generally allow their members to criticize them.
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/michael_martin/free_speech.html

Campaign Against Online Publishers Fails
A lawsuit ends Commodity Futures Trading Commission's campaign against online publishers and software developers. Details case to protect rights of those who offer opinions, analysis, or general information on commodities (like prices) in exchange for compensation.
http://free.ij.org/

Charlton Heston and Political Correctness
Speech to the Harvard Law School Forum February 16, 1999 on the idea that political correctness is invading our freedom of thought and speech.
http://mizai.tripod.com/index.html

Free Expression Network
Current news, features and trend analysis in free expression issues in U.S.
http://www.freeexpression.org/

Free Speech Movement Archives
Documents, photos, and essays on the events of the 1964 movement in Berkeley. With updates and reunions.
http://www.fsm-a.org/

The Freedom Forum Online
A nonpartisan, international foundation advocating free press and speech rights for all people. Holds conferences, educational activities, publishing, broadcasting, online services, fellowships, partnerships, research and other programs.
http://www.freedomforum.org/

Freedom of Expression - Freedom Magazine
Perhaps the most essential right is that of communication. Without the freedom to communicate, other rights deteriorate.
http://30th.freedommag.org/page29.htm

International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX)
Network of free expression groups that monitors violations worldwide. Issues alerts, publishes a weekly newsletter and hosts a searchable alerts online archive.
http://www.ifex.org/

Low Power to the People
Small groups, nonprofits and individuals might get low power FM radio stations.
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1999/07/lowpower.html

MIT Student Association for Freedom of Expression (SAFE)
SAFE provides links on censorship search engine, arguments against campus political correctness as it affects free speech.
http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/safe/home.html

New Age of Falsification ?
Nature photographers face a crisis of ethics as digital imaging makes photo fakery easier than ever. Overview in Atlantic Monthly of May, 1998.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98may/photo.htm

Off The Hook June 2000
Twenty-six Hundred dot com pages on challenges to their free speech on hacking computers.
http://www.2600.com/offthehook/2000/0600.html

Suppression of Dissent
Fosters examination of issues including whistleblowing, free speech, systems of social control and action against suppression.
http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/dissent/

There Is 'No Constitutional Protected Right' of Freedom of Speech
Argues that there is no constitutional right of freedom of speech or of press in America since a person could be defamed, sued or boycotted.
http://www.udarrell.com/constitutional_freedom_speech_press.html

U.S. Broadcasters Arrested
Reports that nine alternative media members were arrested during peaceful protests at the National Association of Broadcaster's convention in San Francisco.
http://sfbay.indymedia.org/news/2000/09/199.php

Whistleblowers Australia
The goal of Whistleblowers Australia (WBA) is to help promote a society in which it is possible to speak out without reprisal about corruption, dangers to the public and other vital social issues, and to help those who speak out in this way to help themselves.
http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/dissent/contacts/au_wba/

Rice University Spin Control
A long Houston Press story about the administrative coup d'état that closed down 91.7 FM, KTRU Houston, a college radio station. <small>(January 11, 2001)</small>
http://www.houstonpress.com/Issues/2001-01-11/news/feature.html