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1,000+ people protested against the Government's controversial proposed Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill at Devonshire Green in Sheffield.
The proposed Bill includes proposals that would give police and the Home Secretary increased powers to stop protests on grounds of “serious annoyance or inconvenience” which if you’re a government minister could mean all of them.
It’s a serious erosion of civil liberties and democratic rights.
On 4 July 2017, English PEN launched Imagine Your Shadow, an anthology of poetry written by participants in our Brave New Voices project.
Five groups across London, at British Red Cross, Praxis Community Projects, Migrants Organise, Capital City Academy and Newman Catholic College, were each paired with writers with an established reputation in facilitating creative expression: Raymond Antrobus, Kat Lewis, Femi Martin, Simon Mole and Shazea Quraishi.
Photo: Robert Sharp / English PEN
International Translation Day 2017 was organised by English PEN and Free Word, and took place at the British Library, London, on 2 October 2017.
The BBC's Jon Sopel
remonstrates
with a taxi driver
from Crawley
called Khan
though I doubt if he
asked his name
who has some
mad cap theories
if not
this one
'I respect your right to protest'
says the presenter
politely
And we will do everything to
ensure
you
and your sign
are out of shot
'I'm trying to stop a nuclear war'
says the cabbie
mildly
not madly
in
well aimed
well struck
retaliation
A remark
that goes
home
well
unanswered
Nils Muižnieks, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, and one of the panelists at the annual Open Society Debate in Brussels. The theme of the debate this year was if freedom to debate is becoming freedom to hate. To read an article on how the debate unfolded go to www.soros.org/voices/has-freedom-debate-become-freedom-ha...
1,000+ people protested against the Government's controversial proposed Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill at Devonshire Green in Sheffield.
The proposed Bill includes proposals that would give police and the Home Secretary increased powers to stop protests on grounds of “serious annoyance or inconvenience” which if you’re a government minister could mean all of them.
It’s a serious erosion of civil liberties and democratic rights.
“This is unconstitutional and is also a violation of the First Amendment right of the press and citizens to oversee their public servants as they perform their duties in public”
International Translation Day 2017 was organised by English PEN and Free Word, and took place at the British Library, London, on 2 October 2017.
On 4 July 2017, English PEN launched Imagine Your Shadow, an anthology of poetry written by participants in our Brave New Voices project.
Five groups across London, at British Red Cross, Praxis Community Projects, Migrants Organise, Capital City Academy and Newman Catholic College, were each paired with writers with an established reputation in facilitating creative expression: Raymond Antrobus, Kat Lewis, Femi Martin, Simon Mole and Shazea Quraishi.
Photo: Robert Sharp / English PEN
On 4 July 2017, English PEN launched Imagine Your Shadow, an anthology of poetry written by participants in our Brave New Voices project.
Five groups across London, at British Red Cross, Praxis Community Projects, Migrants Organise, Capital City Academy and Newman Catholic College, were each paired with writers with an established reputation in facilitating creative expression: Raymond Antrobus, Kat Lewis, Femi Martin, Simon Mole and Shazea Quraishi.
Photo: Robert Sharp / English PEN
International Translation Day 2017 was organised by English PEN and Free Word, and took place at the British Library, London, on 2 October 2017.
“In 1987, I founded and maintained continuously the Uptown Multi-Cultural Art Center as a volunteer”
On 4 July 2017, English PEN launched Imagine Your Shadow, an anthology of poetry written by participants in our Brave New Voices project.
Five groups across London, at British Red Cross, Praxis Community Projects, Migrants Organise, Capital City Academy and Newman Catholic College, were each paired with writers with an established reputation in facilitating creative expression: Raymond Antrobus, Kat Lewis, Femi Martin, Simon Mole and Shazea Quraishi.
Photo: Robert Sharp / English PEN
On 4 July 2017, English PEN launched Imagine Your Shadow, an anthology of poetry written by participants in our Brave New Voices project.
Five groups across London, at British Red Cross, Praxis Community Projects, Migrants Organise, Capital City Academy and Newman Catholic College, were each paired with writers with an established reputation in facilitating creative expression: Raymond Antrobus, Kat Lewis, Femi Martin, Simon Mole and Shazea Quraishi.
Photo: Robert Sharp / English PEN
“After months of giving away art-patches I applied and paid for a Chicago Peddlers License, hoping to earn enough from selling my art to create more of it”
“I began to study the First Amendment and case law related to selling art in public and found the Chicago Peddlers License violated our First Amendment Rights”
“The greatest problem for struggling artists in Chicago is the absence of any art scene, where artists can sell their art in public as is our constitutional right”
On 4 July 2017, English PEN launched Imagine Your Shadow, an anthology of poetry written by participants in our Brave New Voices project.
Five groups across London, at British Red Cross, Praxis Community Projects, Migrants Organise, Capital City Academy and Newman Catholic College, were each paired with writers with an established reputation in facilitating creative expression: Raymond Antrobus, Kat Lewis, Femi Martin, Simon Mole and Shazea Quraishi.
Photo: Robert Sharp / English PEN
On 4 July 2017, English PEN launched Imagine Your Shadow, an anthology of poetry written by participants in our Brave New Voices project.
Five groups across London, at British Red Cross, Praxis Community Projects, Migrants Organise, Capital City Academy and Newman Catholic College, were each paired with writers with an established reputation in facilitating creative expression: Raymond Antrobus, Kat Lewis, Femi Martin, Simon Mole and Shazea Quraishi.
Photo: Robert Sharp / English PEN
On 4 July 2017, English PEN launched Imagine Your Shadow, an anthology of poetry written by participants in our Brave New Voices project.
Five groups across London, at British Red Cross, Praxis Community Projects, Migrants Organise, Capital City Academy and Newman Catholic College, were each paired with writers with an established reputation in facilitating creative expression: Raymond Antrobus, Kat Lewis, Femi Martin, Simon Mole and Shazea Quraishi.
Photo: Robert Sharp / English PEN
1,000+ people protested against the Government's controversial proposed Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill at Devonshire Green in Sheffield.
The proposed Bill includes proposals that would give police and the Home Secretary increased powers to stop protests on grounds of “serious annoyance or inconvenience” which if you’re a government minister could mean all of them.
It’s a serious erosion of civil liberties and democratic rights.
International Translation Day 2017 was organised by English PEN and Free Word, and took place at the British Library, London, on 2 October 2017.
On 4 July 2017, English PEN launched Imagine Your Shadow, an anthology of poetry written by participants in our Brave New Voices project.
Five groups across London, at British Red Cross, Praxis Community Projects, Migrants Organise, Capital City Academy and Newman Catholic College, were each paired with writers with an established reputation in facilitating creative expression: Raymond Antrobus, Kat Lewis, Femi Martin, Simon Mole and Shazea Quraishi.
Photo: Robert Sharp / English PEN
Syrian journalists and human rights defenders Mazen Darwish and Yara Bader talk to English PEN director Jo Glanville at the Free Word Centre, London, 18 July 2016.
Mazen Darwish was the recipient of the 2014 PEN Pinter International Writer of Courage Award, chosen by co-winner Salman Rushdie.
Photo: Robert Sharp / English PEN
Marking the one year anniversary since the death of secular blogger Avijit Roy, former prisoner of conscience and journalist Tasneem Khalil and Ahsan Akbar, director of Dhaka Literary Festival, discuss the state of freedom of expression in Bangladesh with BBC broadcaster Razia Iqbal.
On 4 July 2017, English PEN launched Imagine Your Shadow, an anthology of poetry written by participants in our Brave New Voices project.
Five groups across London, at British Red Cross, Praxis Community Projects, Migrants Organise, Capital City Academy and Newman Catholic College, were each paired with writers with an established reputation in facilitating creative expression: Raymond Antrobus, Kat Lewis, Femi Martin, Simon Mole and Shazea Quraishi.
Photo: Robert Sharp / English PEN
On 4 July 2017, English PEN launched Imagine Your Shadow, an anthology of poetry written by participants in our Brave New Voices project.
Five groups across London, at British Red Cross, Praxis Community Projects, Migrants Organise, Capital City Academy and Newman Catholic College, were each paired with writers with an established reputation in facilitating creative expression: Raymond Antrobus, Kat Lewis, Femi Martin, Simon Mole and Shazea Quraishi.
Photo: Robert Sharp / English PEN
On 4 July 2017, English PEN launched Imagine Your Shadow, an anthology of poetry written by participants in our Brave New Voices project.
Five groups across London, at British Red Cross, Praxis Community Projects, Migrants Organise, Capital City Academy and Newman Catholic College, were each paired with writers with an established reputation in facilitating creative expression: Raymond Antrobus, Kat Lewis, Femi Martin, Simon Mole and Shazea Quraishi.
Photo: Robert Sharp / English PEN
“When I read the regulations that came with my peddlers license I realized all the places where I might possibly make a survival living were listed in the prohibited districts of the regulations”
Media Release
Palestine Action Group Canberra (PAGC) - campaigning for freedom, justice and equality in Palestine - and Canberra Palestine and Climate Justice Group (CPCJC) are appalled at the censorship of the Palestinian flag in an Indigenous art installation at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) and are rallying against it at 1pm today.
The groups say censorship of artwork or any nation’s flag is unacceptable, and censorship of the Palestinian flag while the Palestinian people are enduring a genocide is particularly distasteful.
“Once censorship starts, it is the beginning of the end, because if an institution can censor, particularly on such spurious grounds, there is no logical reason why you would censor one thing and not another,” says CPCJC’s Dr Tamara Kayali Browne.
“Even if you are not passionate about the struggle for Palestinian liberation, everyone has an interest in opposing this censorship, because if this is permitted, it sets a very bad precedent and we could all be censored.
“The NGA’s justification for censorship is patently absurd, as the flag consists of a piece of cloth, and a piece of cloth cannot possibly threaten anyone’s security.”
This censorship goes against the NGA’s own stance that,
“Art is for all of us. It allows us to see the world in ways that expand our minds, provoke our ideas, ignite our imaginations. At the National Gallery we strive for cultural experiences that surprise, that disrupt convention, that deepen our understanding of the human condition and the world we live in.”
It appears the NGA needs to correct its statement to read “except for Palestine”.
The artwork is a celebration of anti-colonial struggles. It is not ethically or logically coherent to allow expression of one anti-colonial struggle and not another.
Link to Guardian article: www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/21/national-g...