Category Archives: Freedom

Freedom Alliance to Host Exciting Smith Mountain Lake Outdoor Activities for Injured Service Members

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Freedom Alliance is set to host another “Salute to Our Heroes” retreat May 23-26Smith Mountain Lake, VA (PRWEB) May 10, 2012 Freedom Alliance is set to host another “Salute to Our Heroes” retreat May 23-26. This is the second consecutive year that the retreat will be held at Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia Continue reading →

WXYZ Honors Ford Freedom Award Winners

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SOUTHFIELD, Mich., May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ –WXYZ is proud to partner with the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and the Ford Motor Company to present “Ford Freedom Award: Talent, Tenacity, Teamwork,” honoring the New York Renaissance Basketball Team and NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the Ford Freedom Award Scholar Continue reading →

Armed Forces Day Gala to Raise Funds for Freedom Center

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DETROIT, May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ –Freedom Center, the newly opened military lounge at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, will benefit from funds raised by an Gala Event on Armed Forces Day, May 19. Since their official opening on Veterans Day 2011, Freedom Center has hosted more than 8,000 traveling members of our military, their families and veterans. The lounge, located at Gate A43 in the center of the McNamara Terminal, offers a relaxing atmosphere to armed forces members, travel assistance and complimentary juice, water, soft drinks, coffee, tea, snacks and traveling amenities Continue reading →

Zimbabwe: Freedom Comes With Responsibility

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This week we joined our colleagues worldwide in commemorating World Press Freedom Day. A day that was set aside by the United Nations General Assembly to celebrate the fundamental principles of Press freedom, evaluate Press freedom around the world, defend media freedom and pay tribute to media practitioners who face danger in the line of duty Continue reading →

Freedom Hill Amphitheatre scheduled to reopen

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Freedom Hill Amphitheatre is set to reopen this summer. The venue has been dormant since 2009 and will reopen in part because of the resolution of litigation between the county and operators, Hillside Productions, according to an announcement today from County Executive Mark Hackels Office. Continue reading →

Anti-Pipeline "Freedom Train" Rolls Into Winnipeg on Wave of Public Support

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WINNIPEG, MANITOBA–(Marketwire – May 4, 2012) – Manitoba and BC First Nations enjoy strong public support as they gather in Winnipeg today to send a strong message to government and corporations alike: that their right to make their own decisions about oil pipelines and other projects must be respected. A group of 12 First Nations are travelling across Canada on a “Freedom Train” from BC to Toronto to take their message of opposition to the controversial Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline through Northern BC directly to Enbridge’s annual shareholders meeting in Toronto on May 9. Over six thousand Canadians have signed a petition in the last week supporting the Freedom Train’s goal – to stop the expansion of oilsands pipelines and supertankers in Pacific coastal waters. Continue reading →

Press freedom in Africa

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World Press Freedom Day marks the anniversary of the Windhoek Declaration, a statement of free press principles drawn up by African newspaper journalists in 1991. In 1993 the United Nations General Assembly declared May 3 to be World Press Freedom Day in order to raise awareness of the importance of press freedom and to remind governments of their duty to uphold the right to freedom of expression Continue reading →

World Press Freedom Day

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By LIM MUN FAH Translated by SOONG PHUI JEE Sin Chew Daily The United Nation General Assembly declared May 3 as the World Press Freedom Day in 1991 to raise awareness of the importance of freedom of the press and remind governments of their duty to respect and uphold the right of freedom of expression. On this day over the past 19 years, the world’s members of the media had reaffirmed the basic principles of the freedom of the press, expressed their determination in defending the freedom of the press, and even paid the highest respect and remembrance to those who have lost their lives in harness Continue reading →

Five things to know about Freedom House's latest global rankings

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Freedom House, the New York -based watchdog on political and press freedoms, issued a report that ranks 197 countries according to their relative freedom, based on legal, political, and economic factors. Continue reading →

Internet Society Underscores Importance of World Press Freedom Day

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GENEVA–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The Internet Society today joined global celebrations around World Press Freedom Day, which focuses on the fundamental principles of press freedom. The Internet Society is strongly supportive of press freedom, fully recognizing that an open, global, and decentralized Internet is a pillar to enable all voices to be heard. Continue reading →

Freedom of expression not so free: journalists

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OTTAWA Freedom of expression in Canada is not as free as it could be, according to journalists who sat on a panel at a World Press Freedom Day luncheon in Ottawa on Thursday. Costs and delays with the Access to Information process, restrictions on government scientists talking to the media and the reluctance of politicians to engage with journalists were all issues raised on the “Is Freedom of Expression Under Siege?” panel. Continue reading →