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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
Mark Thomas at the media event outside New Scotland Yard, London. Highlighting the danger that new anti-terror legislation will pose to the right to take photographs in a public place.
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
An event for Mazen Darwish and Yara Bader 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
An event for Mazen Darwish and Yara Bader 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
Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell joining The Common Good and doing a book signing of A NATION OF WUSSES: How America’s Leaders Lost the Guts to Make Us Great.
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
Rund 2500 Menschen beteiligen sich an einer Demonstration unter dem Motto "Berlin gegen 13" gegen die geplante Reform des Urheberrechts. Aufgerufen hatte das Bündnis "Berlin gegen 13". Die Teilnehmer befürchten eine Einschränkung der Meinungsfreiheit durch den Artikel 13 der geplanten europäischen Urheberrechtsreform. So könnten Uploadfilter entstehen, die technische Fehler aufweisen oder bewusst zur Zensur missbraucht werden könnten.
International Translation Day 2017 was organised by English PEN and Free Word, and took place at the British Library, London, on 2 October 2017.
International Translation Day 2017 was organised by English PEN and Free Word, and took place at the British Library, London, on 2 October 2017.
Myspace censored my blog blog.myspace.com/salvor and blocked out certain worlds I put into my blog, not words like f*ck, bullshit or a**hole or other words from Les Blogs backchannel list but words that refered to youtube.com videosharing. Here is a screendump of what happened:
International Translation Day 2017 was organised by English PEN and Free Word, and took place at the British Library, London, on 2 October 2017.
Nach Angaben der Veranstalter nehmen rund 40.000 Menschen am 23.03.2019 an einer Demonstration durch Berlins Mitte gegen die geplante Reform des Urheberrechts auf europäischer Ebene teil.
Der Demonstrationszug passiert auf seiner Route den Sitz von Wikimedia ebenso, wie die Bundeszentrale der SPD. Aufgrund der großen Teilnehmerzahl muss die Strecke verlängert werden und endet nun am Brandenburger Tor, nachdem sie die Vertretung der Europäischen Kommission passiert hat.
Hauptkritikpunkt ist der der geplante Artikel 13 der Reform, der Internetanbieter verpflichtet, urheberrechtlich geschützte, nicht lizensierte Inhalte zu entfernen. Die Protestierenden befürchten, dass dies mittels Uploadfiltern geschieht, die einerseits technich unvollkommen sind, andererseits auch gezielt zur Zensur von Inhalten genutzt werden könnnten.
Zeitgleich finden in zahlreichen Städten in Europa vergleichbare Proteste statt.
“On December 2nd, 2009, after three years of documenting my activity on my Blog I stepped out on State Street to sell art for $1 to test the Peddlers License”
An event for Mazen Darwish and Yara Bader 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
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
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...
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
Syrian journalists and human rights defenders Mazen Darwish and Yara Bader 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
Happy 4th! Welcome to America, where we have Freedom of expression, as seen here :)
Headed to the fireworks in a bit- we tend to like things that go "boom!"
July ABC's F for Freedom, face, flag (ish), fun
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