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“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”
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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...
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
“The need for the public to be able to walk safely down the sidewalks is the reason the City uses in court to deny us our First Amendment Rights”
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.
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.
Afsan Chowdhury speaking at seminar on #freedomofexpression #MOSC #Dhaka #university #eavig
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A discuss on the interplay between Freedom of Expression and Wrongful Convictions based on the publication Fallos Judiciales que Violan Derechos Humanos en Ecuador: Seis estudios de caso, which presents a rigorous academic study of 6 selected cases in Ecuador
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
May 3, 2013 - The celebrations of the World Press Freedom Day at UNESCO Office Nairobi in Kenya included a three days conference on media and elections in East Africa. The importance of media in the transformation of societies and the regulation of media, including the access to information were also highlighted. The celebration also marked the launch of a publication prepared by the Media Council of Kenya and a journalists’ media award.
ⓒ Masakazu Shibata / Unesco
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...
International Translation Day 2017 was organised by English PEN and Free Word, and took place at the British Library, London, on 2 October 2017.
Playwright Mark Ravenhill recites his poem for Mazen Darwish 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
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.