https://padlet.com/ascedu/FirstAmendment A wall of information about the First amendment. en-us 2017-10-04 21:13:29 UTC 2023-07-20 01:58:14 UTC hello@padlet.com ascedu https://padlet.com/ascedu/FirstAmendment/wish/194098360 2017-10-04 21:33:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ascedu/FirstAmendment/wish/194098360 ascedu https://padlet.com/ascedu/FirstAmendment/wish/194102247 2017-10-04 21:55:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ascedu/FirstAmendment/wish/194102247 ascedu https://padlet.com/ascedu/FirstAmendment/wish/194137928 Fighting for Free Speech on America’s Campuses
By CECILIA CAPUZZI SIMONAUG. 1, 2016 
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The free-speech watchdog FIRE is a familiar irritant to college administrators, but until this past year, the rest of the country wasn’t paying much attention. An “epic” year is what Greg Lukianoff, president and chief executive of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, calls it. Colleges and universities were forced to publicly and painfully deal with a confluence of national issues — race, sexual assault, gay rights, politically correct speech — mirrored and magnified in the microcosm of campus life.
Finally, FIRE’s activism was syncing with the zeitgeist, in part because of Mr. Lukianoff’s role in framing the public interpretation of the campus turmoil. It was Mr. Lukianoff who made the argument, in a widely read opinion piece in The Atlantic, that today’s students are “coddled” and demanding protections against offensive words and ideas at the expense of intellectual rigor and the First Amendment. It was also Mr. Lukianoff who happened to be at Yale during the infamous Halloween costume shout-down of Prof. Nicholas Christakis, and whose viral video of it appeared to vividly illustrate his observations that many college students don’t understand what freedom of speech is, and who it applies to.
Freedom of speech, he said, is not an “intuitive” concept, and Americans take its benefits for granted. “I think everyone understands that they have a free-speech right, but they don’t necessarily understand why you should have one,” he said, sitting in his eighth-floor office in FIRE’s satellite space in Washington.
Mr. Lukianoff, a First Amendment lawyer who joined FIRE in 2001 after a stint at the American Civil Liberties Union, has been on an “ongoing campaign to trick people” into understanding those rights.
The ultimate goal? “Change the culture,” he said, adding quickly. “I am under no illusion that I can do that, but I keep trying.”
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FIRE was started in 1999 by Harvey A. Silverglate, a criminal and civil rights lawyer in Boston, and Alan Charles Kors, now a University of Pennsylvania history professor. They met as Princeton undergraduates, and in 1998 wrote “The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America’s Campuses.” The book is an exhaustive recounting of administrators’ abuses of freedom of speech and due process, and a warning that the academy was being undermined by speech codes — restrictions that colleges and universities began to put in place in the 1980s, in part to protect the growing minority student population from racial intolerance.
The book, Mr. Silverglate said, resulted in a “tsunami of letters and calls” from college students and faculty members seeking help, and he and Dr. Kors set up a nonprofit foundation with a network of volunteers. They expected FIRE to last for 10 years. “The progression things have taken, which I feared, I thought I could prevent,” Mr. Silverglate said. “But I did not.”
FIRE’s mission has not changed, but interest from conservative groups has. Conservatives, Mr. Silverglate explained, are “seriously squeezed in the academic world” and finding their causes “suddenly coinciding with our agenda.” FIRE receives funding from groups like the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation and the Charles Koch Institute. (The institute just co-sponsored a reception for a screening of “Can We Take a Joke?,” a new documentary on free speech and comedy that FIRE helped produce.) FIRE bristles at the right-wing tag often applied to them. They say they are a free-speech group, period.
In many ways, their work has become even more complicated. Most significantly, students are, wittingly or not, becoming vocal opponents of free speech by demanding protections and safe spaces from offensive words and behaviors.
“Something changed,” Mr. Lukianoff said. “I don’t entirely know why.” But he can date the shift: October 2013, at Brown University, when the New ]]> 2017-10-05 03:01:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ascedu/FirstAmendment/wish/194137928 ascedu https://padlet.com/ascedu/FirstAmendment/wish/194137971 This is an article link about a case about the first amendment.]]> 2017-10-05 03:01:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ascedu/FirstAmendment/wish/194137971 ascedu https://padlet.com/ascedu/FirstAmendment/wish/194138193 2017-10-05 03:03:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ascedu/FirstAmendment/wish/194138193 ascedu https://padlet.com/ascedu/FirstAmendment/wish/194138297 2017-10-05 03:04:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ascedu/FirstAmendment/wish/194138297 ascedu https://padlet.com/ascedu/FirstAmendment/wish/194138423 http://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/censorship/courtcases
ew York Times Company v. United States, 403 U.S. 713, 91 S.Ct. 2140, 29 L.Ed.2d. 822 (1971): In the "Pentagon Papers" case, the U.S. government attempted to enjoin the New York Times and the Washington Post from publishing classified documents concerning the Vietnam War. Applying the doctrine of prior restraint from Near v. Minnesota, the Court found that the claims that publication of the documents would interfere with foreign policy and prolong the war were too speculative, and could not overcome the strong presumption against prior restraints.]]> 2017-10-05 03:05:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ascedu/FirstAmendment/wish/194138423 ascedu https://padlet.com/ascedu/FirstAmendment/wish/199384227 The government of North Korea is against free speech, led by Kim Jong Un who is a dictator that uses fear and violence to keep people in line.]]> 2017-10-22 19:13:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ascedu/FirstAmendment/wish/199384227 ascedu https://padlet.com/ascedu/FirstAmendment/wish/199384882 Barack Obama is a politician that believes in the first amendment and would defend the use of it.]]> 2017-10-22 19:19:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ascedu/FirstAmendment/wish/199384882 ascedu https://padlet.com/ascedu/FirstAmendment/wish/199385199 This bill  is connected to the first amendment
http://www.californiafamily.org/2017/governor-brown-attacks-the-1st-amendment-signs-bill-with-jail-time-for-refusing-to-use-transgender-pronouns/]]> 2017-10-22 19:21:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ascedu/FirstAmendment/wish/199385199 ascedu https://padlet.com/ascedu/FirstAmendment/wish/199385968 The government doesn't seem to promote the first amendment as free speech is a given in america, but it does seem to spend money stopping free speech. many times the government has sued people or organizations that have said something that the government didn't like.]]> 2017-10-22 19:28:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ascedu/FirstAmendment/wish/199385968 ascedu https://padlet.com/ascedu/FirstAmendment/wish/199389874 information on the first amendment]]> 2017-10-22 20:08:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ascedu/FirstAmendment/wish/199389874