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At Ron Paul Parade South Florida, Local Media Tries to Supress Free Speech HD
The grassroots Ron Paul supporters from South Florida utilize their own resources to reveal the message of liberty to hundreds of thousands of onlookers at a famous, annual parade in South Florida (Miami). Hugely successfully, and proof of the power of the grassroots liberty movement!!!From:MrRoibossViews:0 0ratingsTime:04:13More inNews Politics

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Arrested for tweeting: Legitimate or Curbing Free Speech?
As a man in Puducherry is arrested for allegedly posting on Twitter that MR Chidambaram #39;s son had amassed wealth more than that of Robert Vadra, we discuss whether freedom of speech is absolute. Watch full show: http://www.ndtv.comFrom:ndtvViews:0 0ratingsTime:05:42More inNews Politics

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Gang Stalking - The real Ronald Reagan - FBI Informant
What the hell is gang stalking? http://www.scribd.com DemocracyNow.org - Investigative journalist Seth Rosenfeld #39;s new book, "Subversives: The FBI #39;s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan #39;s Rise to Power," is based on more than 300000 pages of records Rosenfeld received over three decades through five Freedom of Information lawsuits against the FBI. The book tracks how then-FBI director J. Edgar Hoover ordered his agents to investigate and then disrupt the Free Speech Movement that began in 1964 on the Berkeley campus of the University of California. In part two of our interview, Rosenfeld discusses how Ronald Reagan collaborated with the FBI to target California #39;s student movement and strengthen Reagan #39;s own rise to power. Watch part 1: youtu.be To watch the complete weekday independent news hour, read the transcript, download the podcast, search our vast archive, or to find more information about Democracy Now! and Amy Goodman, visit http://www.democracynow.org FOLLOW DEMOCRACY NOW! ONLINE: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com Twitter: @democracynow Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com Listen on SoundCloud: http://www.soundcloud.com Daily Email News Digest: http://www.democracynow.org Google +: plus.google.com Please consider supporting independent media by making a donation to Democracy Now! today, visit http://www.democracynow.orgFrom:phrygian20Views:2 1ratingsTime:20:59More inNews Politics

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Rhetoric of Racism- Reaction to Rue #39;s death
Rough draft of video for WSU #39;s Rhetoric of Racism Script rough draft Narrator- This year the movie, Hunger Games, pulled in $152535747 in its first weekend in the US, and made grossed $672826249 world wide. But not everyone loved it. In fact there was mass outrage on twitter after the release of the move. Twitter Clips- Voice over of clips by multiple different voices Narrator- Why do we as a generation believe that it #39;s okay to put this on the internet? These twitter users now have a permanent record of their racism, but have seen no punishment, even if just by social pressures. Multiple groups have covered this outburst or racism among Generation C, from online commentary to national news agencies, but no solution has been thought of. How about this? The internet is a new open forum that anyone can participate in, and as the first Generation to live almost completely through the interactions of the internet- we define it #39;s culture. We can stomp out racism on the internet. Free speech is important, but equality for all races is even more so. Think before you type- who knows who #39;s reading your post, and who is immortalizing it with a screen capture. You can #39;t take it back... Rue #39;s death clip Narrator- How does that not make you the least bit sad?! How can you not look past the color of her skin to see the death of a little girl in a brutal way? If her skin ruined the movie... then you didn #39;t really get the deeper meaning of the story. Credits -notes- Addition of live ...From:Kirsten NelsonViews:0 0ratingsTime:00:25More inEducation

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#39;Lagarde list #39; journo arrests spark Greek free speech outrage
The Greek authorities look to be tightening their hold on the media, as another journalist is taken into custody in an alleged attempt to silence him. Spiros Karatzaferis promised to reveal potentially damaging information on the Greek bailout on TV, but was arrested before he could. RT LIVE rt.com Subscribe to RT! http://www.youtube.com Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com Follow us on Google+ plus.google.com RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 500 million YouTube views benchmark.From:LattestKhabrainViews:0 0ratingsTime:05:03More inNews Politics

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State University of New York Canton College Free Speech Calling for Revolution Saying Frack Monsanto
The Roselle Plaza of State University of New York Canton College is a perfect place for saying what you want. There are many young, intelligent, thinking Americans passing through this place where free speech is honored. During my campaign for Congress in the 21st Congressional District of New York, I have spoken freely here on numerous occasions. I love Canton College. I love freedom of speech. I love bringing great change. I am the Revolution!!!From:donaldhassigViews:0 0ratingsTime:04:20More inNonprofits Activism

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Should Trolling be Illegal?
A Political campaign manager was outed by Buzzfeed for spreading misinformation during Hurricane Sandy. Some officials are calling for prosecution, while others argue the right to free speech. Annie examines both sides of the debate. Please Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com Google+: plus.google.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com Follow Annie on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com And on Facebook: http://www.facebook.comFrom:TheTechFeedViews:279 43ratingsTime:02:02More inScience Technology

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CINCINNATI ?? A Kentucky man committed no crime when he asked groups of people at an event in a public park here if they wanted "to laugh at the crippled girl," a Hamilton County jury decided Thursday.

The win for Forest Thomer II, 25, of suburban Cold Spring, Ky., also is a win for free-speech rights, he said.

"I think we've taken a negative situation and turned it into a positive situation," Thomer said after Thursday's verdict.

Thomer was doing what he called guerrilla marketing when he went to the May 23 Party in the Park event, hosted by the USA Regional Chamber of Commerce. To promote the comedy career of his friend, Ally Bruener, Thomer walked up to groups of people, pointed at Bruener ?? who has muscular dystrophy and uses a wheelchair ?? and asked, "Do you want to laugh at the crippled girl?"

As the people were trying to recover from the seemingly inappropriate question, Bruener wheeled up, told a joke and then announced when and where her next performance would be.

Lori Salzarulo of the USA Regional Chamber of Commerce complained to police about Thomer's comments. Police threatened to shock Thomer with a Taser then arrest him.

Cincinnati Police Officer Dan Kreider charged Thomer with disorderly conduct, accusing him of "grossly abusive language."

The charge is a crime that could have sent Thomer to jail for up to 30 days and, Thomer insisted, also violated his right to free speech.

After Thomer accused the police of censorship, the city twice changed the charges, finally deciding to try him on a charge of "turbulent behavior."

Thomer and his lawyer, Danielle Anderson, believe Salzarulo wanted Thomer thrown out because she feared his kind of humor would ruin the chamber's event.

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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) A Portland lawyer has taken a complaint about free speech on Portland's mass transit system to federal court.

Jennie Bricker says that a year ago, she spoke up when a TriMet fare inspector told an argumentative man to stop talking and said he had no free speech fight on a light-rail platform.

The Oregonian reports (http://bit.ly/VaV2jn) Bricker disagreed. She says she raised her voice enough to be heard from about 30 feet away but wasn't yelling.

The fare inspector barred her from the system for 30 days for making excessive noise.

Bricker says it was what she said, not how loudly she said it, that upset the inspector, and the suspension violated her own free speech rights. She's asking that TriMet clarify its rules and train fare inspectors better.

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November 1, 2012

As UPR on Sri Lanka Begins, IFJ Urges Attention on Free Speech Issues

As the Universal Periodic Review on Sri Lanka begins at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its partners and affiliates in Sri Lanka, urge closer attention to issues of free speech and the right to information, which have been casualties of the quarter century long civil war, and are yet to gain due priority in the post-war environment.

The IFJ and its partners are especially concerned at the reign of impunity which continues to prevail for attacks on journalists and media institutions, and the constant fear that individual media practitioners work under. Even if overt measures of coercion are less conspicuous than during the war years, political and financial power is deployed to silence dissent. Victims of gross human rights violations during the war years are also deprived of a forum through which they can articulate grievances and seek redress.

The IFJ and its associated groups are worried at the failure of Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) to accept any firm commitments for implementing the recommendations of the Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), appointed with a Presidential mandate a year after the end of the war, as part of the national reconciliation process. The LLRC recommendations related to free speech and the right to information, though modest in number, are deeply consequential. Yet the action plan announced in July to give effect to the recommendations of the LLRC does not set down any time-line for the passage of a right to information law and seems to gloss over the need to dispel the climate of impunity for attacks on the media.

Following the resettlement of the last of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the Menik Farm camp in the northern province in late September, media persons seeking to travel into the area to report on the quality of life of resettled communities, encountered numerous obstacles from military officials whose presence in the area is reportedly, overwhelming.

The IFJ and its partners observe that the GoSL is in default on three main recommendations of the LLRC: restoration of freedom of movement for media personnel through all parts of the country; the investigation and prosecution of all known cases involving attacks on media practitioners; and the enactment of a right to information law.

In addition, the IFJ and its partners have found that state-controlled media, the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation, the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation, Channel ITN and Lake House publications, have become forums for verbal abuse and vilification of independent journalists and human rights defenders, often with dangerous implications for their physical safety and wellbeing.

Further, news websites hosting content on Sri Lanka have been subject to arbitrary rule changes and frequent obstruction with absolutely no legal or constitutional mandate.

The IFJ and its partners urge the UPR process in Geneva to particularly underline the following steps as urgent priorities for the GoSL to commit itself to:

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