Category Archives: Freedom of Speech

Travel To Planet Gaia

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

  Learn more about Gaia’s street art.

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Free The Wall Space

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

The organization Wall Space was developed to offer international street artists fora to freely express artistic notions legally. They provide artists the time and opportunity to safely enrich the community with new public art. This seemingly innocuous mural by the … Continue reading →

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Support the 1st Amendment & Get Famous

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

 The First Amendment Project is a nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to protecting and promoting freedom of information, expression, and petition. For nearly ten years, FAP has provided advice, educational materials, and legal representation to its core constituency of activists, journalists, … Continue reading →

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International Cities of Refuge

Posted on November 12, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

ICORN, the International Cities of Refuge Network, is an independent, international organisation of member cities offering long term refuge for persecuted writers. As of mid-2010, ICORN has 31 member cities in Europe and beyond, inviting persecuted writers to dwell in … Continue reading →

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Bye-Bye Banned Books Week (til next year)

Posted on October 2, 2010 by Brian D. Butler
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Great First Lines From Banned Books

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know where I was born… J.D.Salinger Catcher in the Rye It was a pleasure to burn. Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 Someone must have slandered Josef … Continue reading →

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Anne Frank, A Graphic Biography

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

Many thanks to Nina Dijkstra for this timely post during Banned Books Week: Following the publication of Anne Frank – the graphic biography in the Netherlands at the beginning of July, publications in other countries will follow this autumn. The … Continue reading →

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Campaign For Real Books

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

Many thanks to contributor Evan Smythe for this post: Over the past year, the media has reported  over-the-top claims for e-book readers sales and the  escalating sales of e-books. Clearly, e-books have a place in the book reading world but … Continue reading →

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Covering Lolita

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

Many thanks to author and jounalist Dieter Zimmer for this post: Vladimir Nabokov’s modern classic, Lolita, has been banned many time since its first publication in the U.S. . Author Dieter Zimmer has put together an impressive collection of 150 book covers … Continue reading →

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BANNED ! … Books Week

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

September 25−October 2, 2010 Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment.  Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information … Continue reading →

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