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Posts Tagged ‘Free Speech’
CHINA: Threatens Freedoms of Hong Kong
China issues white paper on policy in Hong Kong 06-10 11:17 The Chinese central government Tuesday published a white paper detailing the “one country, two systems” practice in HKSAR, stressing the policy as a basic state policy despite new circumstances.| Full text No “residual pow[...]
June 11th, 2014 - 10:44 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Israel selects radical supporter of greater Israel as President
Israel’s parliament has elected Reuven Rivlin, to replace Shimon Peres, a Nobel Laureate devoted to peace. M.r Rivlin unabashedly opposes it. Rivlin is a firm backer of the illegal Israeli settlement drive on the West Bank, and has argued that Israel should grant citizenship to the Palest[...]
May 28th, 2014 - 9:28 am § in Politics
Free Speech Comes to Cuba?
Cuba’s First Independent Media Outlet A dissident Cuban blogger, Yoani Sánchez, has launched the country’s first independent media outlet in the last 50 years. <div> <a href=”http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?iu=%2F4624%2FA[...]
May 20th, 2014 - 11:55 am § in America, Hypocrisy, Misc., Politics, Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
The NBA believes in Money Over Everything
Although I do commend NBA Commissioner Adam Silver for making the decision to ban Donald Sterling, I hate to say it, the decision to ban Sterling had everything to do with money and very little to do with racism. The Clippers have surpassed the Lakers as the best team in the 2nd largest market in [&[...]
The ACLU is contesting an Idaho law that bans photography of cows!
There Were No Cows on The Microsoft Campus. As an American photographer and sometimes civil rights activist, I have very much appreciated the protections of free speech. For example, a couple of years ago I went to the Microsoft campus to photograph what I feel is a very sterile environment. I did[...]
Sunday Revelations: ISLAM from Oxford Pt. 2.
Outrage Against Islam[...]
Of May Day and UW Logos
Today is May Day …. the day radicals on the left celebrate as their version of labor day. The day UW students will proudly fly banners with the UW logo, while faculty fear punishment if they even identify with the UW. May Day, I have read, memorializes the Haymarket Massacre in Chicago, 1886, [...]
Does the University of Hawaii Practice Free Speech”
Is Regulated Free Speech Free? At the UW, faculty have complained that the AAUP has restricted the use of its listserv to speak out on the issue of boycotting Israel as an occupying country. While I oppose the boycott, I am even more disturbed by the lack of a free discussion. Two examples from t[...]
Tiananmen Square Anniversary: Where is Thomas Paine?
CHINA, Inc. Wide spread suppression of free speech categorizes the upcoming June 4 anniversary of the Tiananmen Square uprising. Scholars, intellectuals, journalists and even foreign press have been arrested. Foreign journalists have been warned to stay away from the square s or “face grave[...]