2005-02-27
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
There are risks to speaking your mind
There are risks to speaking your mind
Among these risks could be public shunning, arrest, imprisonment, exile from one's native land, torture, abuse, death | Freedom of Speech, perhaps the most crucial of the freedoms granted to humankind, is constantly under seige | We owe to ourselves, to one another, to future generations, to protect that Freedom, that Fundamental Right | Stand up today and fight | Speak out for others engagaed in the battle under, perhaps less hospitable climes than your own | Failure to so do this, jeopardizes your own ability to speak |
SOME ORGANIZATIONS AND SITES DEVOTED TO PROTECTING THIS RIGHT:
| Reporters Without Borders | Committee to Protect Bloggers | PEN American Center | Bloggers Without Borders | Electronic Frontier Foundation | Chilling Effects | Article 19 | _OpenNet Initiative | The Bloggers' Rights Blog |
| Reporters Without Borders | Committee to Protect Bloggers | PEN American Center | Bloggers Without Borders | Electronic Frontier Foundation | Chilling Effects | Article 19 | _OpenNet Initiative | The Bloggers' Rights Blog |
Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "Everyone has the right to the freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
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