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Posts Tagged ‘free speech’
December 27th, 2014 - 9:10 pm § in Schools & Colleges
School bans ‘I Can’t Breathe’ t-shirts from BB tournament
A California school district has banned athletes wearing “I Can’t Breathe” t-shirts from an invitational basketball tournament, citing safety concerns. The school didn’t receive any specific threats, but claims they don’t have the resources to deal with any trouble the [...]
“The Interview” = Idiocy Squared
By David Preston How bad was The Interview? It was so bad that 10 seconds into the film I was already rooting for the North Koreans. And I never stopped rooting for them until the bitter end. It’s not that I like those commie bastards, mind you. It’s simply that the Americans were such�[...]
December 12th, 2014 - 9:34 am § in Uncategorized
CENSORED
Jakarta Police have arrested The Jakarta Post Chief Editor Meidyatama Suryodiningrat. He was charged with blasphemy for the publication of a cartoon mocking the jihadist group Islamic State The cartoon published on July 3 depicted a flag emblazoned with the Arabic phrases “La ilaha Illallah,�[...]
Free Speech in Seattle Public Schools
Seattle Teacher Reinstated After Having His Course Censored Please check out the fresh-off-the-press website: citizenshipandsocialjustice.com It is named after the course the district tried to squash so that we never forget what happened—not just the nonsensical, heavy-handed actions of the dist[...]
Speaking the truth!
Mark Udall threatens to disclose the truth about torture The Senate Intelligence Committee, led by Dianne Feinstein of California, is soon expected to release its summary of the so-called CIA Torture Report, the committee’s four-year-long investigation into the CIA’s Bush-era torture practices[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Rabbis arrested for protest
Rabbis Recite Kaddish For Eric Garner The protest began at B’nai Jeshurun, a Jewish synagogue on 88th St. After the prayer, Rabbis Sharon Kleinbaum, Jill Jacobs, David Rosenn and Shai Held joined thousands of other protesters who took to the streets Wednesday and Thursday evenings in opposition to[...]
FACEBOOK: on racism
Everyone is obsessed with their own ethnicity. Everyone. Hispanics rant about demands for more Chicano classes, Blacks about more classes on their struggles for civil rights movements, Jews on studies regarding the Holocaust and Arab Diaspora, Japanese on internment camps in America ( which abou[...]