- Against Censorship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1995
Some of us would rather not have customs officials and cops deciding what we can read or look at.
- America#s last taboo
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- Ask Yourself... Do You Really Want More Censorship?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1992
Censorship is dangerous and feminists who support it are wrong-headed.
- 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.
- The Best Censored Stories of 1989
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1990
- The Best of The Nation
Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
An anthology of articles from The Nation.
- Between the Lines
How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
An exploration of medthods of "dec-doing" our daily newspapers and radio/TV news. Examines our predominant sources of information (mass media) and indicates the existence of many alternative sources of informaiton.
- Blindspots in The News
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
The filters that determine what gets into the "news" and what doesn't.
- Books banned by governments, list of
Connexipedia Article
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.
- Books for Burning
Between Civil War and Democracy in 1970s Italy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
- Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country
Resource Type: Film/Video
Anders Ostergaard'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.
- Censored! The news that didn't make the news-and why (book review)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1993
- Challenged Books and Magazines List 2009
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- Challenged Books List
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2004
A partial list of books subjected to censorship attempts in Canada from the early 1980s to 2003.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- Connexions Annual Overview: Human Rights, Civil Liberties
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- 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.
- Democracy's Oxygen
How Corporations Control the News
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture public consent for policies which favour the corporate elite.
- Diemer, Ulli
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
- Don't Incite Censorship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2007
Free speech for everyone but bigots is no free speech at all.
- The Encyclopedia of Censorship
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
This Encyclopedia concentrates primarily on the United States and the United Kingdom, but it also covers events in Western and Eastern Europe and in parts of the Third World. The Encyclopedia is an accessible and wide-ranging sourcebook on censorship topics.
- Flaunting It!
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
An anthology of articles spanning the first decade of the Canadian gay liberation periodical, The Body Politic.
- Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- Free Speech For Me - But Not For Thee
How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Free speech for me - you shut up
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2008
The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
- Free Speech in a Plural Society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- Freedom of Speech Under Siege
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1999
Censorship is the handmaiden of a police state.
- Good Girls, Bad Girls
Sex Trade Workers and Feminists Face to Face
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Interview with Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1990
Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
- Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
Published: 2009
A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the Middle East crisis based on peace, justice, and human rights.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
- Libel Law is dangerous
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1992
Libel laws threaten freedom of speech.
- Libraries, Erotica & Pornography
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- Lies The Media Tell us
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Outlines the extent to which the mainstream media is subject to its corporate publishers and advertisers.
- Malik, Kenan
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Writer, lecturer and broadcaster. (Born 1962).
- The Missing News
Filters and Blind Spots in Canada's Press
Resource Type: Book
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?
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
Resource Type: Book
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.
- No platform or no democracy?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- Obscenity exposed
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1978
The police definition of 'obscenity' gets right to the crux of the question.
- Opposing Censorship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- Patent Folly
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1995
The misuse of patents rights and associated dangers.
- The Philosophy of Antonio Negri
Resistance in Practice
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
- Pornography in a Free Society
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
- The Power of the Israel Lobby
Two knights and a dragon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- Progressives shouldn't be begging the police to take more power
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- Protect the Freedom to Shock
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
Published: 2010
Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radcial left-libertarian perspective.
- The Red Menace
A libertarian socialist newsletter
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
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.
- Restricted Entry
Censorship on Trial
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
- The Right to Offend
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- Right-Wing Thought Police Assault Free Speech on Campus
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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."
- Some Elementary Comments on The Rights of Freedom of Expression
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- A Story About Making a Sex Movie
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2005
Politicians try to impose censorship by the back door, by imposing record-keeping obligations that are impossible to comply with.
- Tactics of desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-semitism' as a weapon to silence criticism of Israel's behaviour
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The Israeli state and its defenders are increasingly attempting to silence critics because they are losing the battle for public opinion.
- 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.
- 10 Best Censored Stories of 1988
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1989
- Throw it in the garbage myself
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1992
I will not have anyone tell me or my children what we can or cannot read.
- Tracking the News that Wasn#t
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1996
A review of two books about media bias and censorship.
- Tracking the News that Wasn't (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1996
- Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1962
Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes.
- West Germany: Censorship and Repression in the Model State
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1979
In West Germany, repression is now 'democratically' sanctioned and seen as a model for other countries to adopt.
- Women Against Censorship
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
- Women and Censorship - Letters to Index on Censorship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1991
Reader comments on pornography and censorship.
- Writers in Prison
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
An analysis of the work of imprisoned writers.
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