Input Solicited for Open Government Directive
05/22/2009
As promised on President Obama’s first full day in office, the White House has launched a process for soliciting public input and participation in the development of Open Government Directive. The public may participate in a short three-phase process: Through May 28 -- Brainstorming: The public can submit and rank ideas regarding how the government should become more transparent, participatory and collaborative. Proposals voted down will still be kept and archived in compliance with the Federal Records Act.
Publishers Mourn Loss of Free Speech Champion Judith Krug
04/13/2009
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) joined colleagues in the book and free speech community in mourning the loss of legendary free speech advocate Judith Krug, director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. Mrs. Krug died in Chicago on Saturday after an 18-month battle with cancer. Judith Krug’s name was synonymous with intellectual freedom. She headed the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom from its creation in 1967.
New Campaign to Amend Patriot Act
04/07/2009
Organizations representing booksellers, librarians, publishers, and writers today launched the latest phase in their five-year campaign to restore the reader privacy safeguards that were stripped away by the USA Patriot Act.Since 2003, the Department of Justice has used its expanded power under the Patriot Act to issue more than 200 secret search orders under Section 215 and more than 190,000 National Security Letters (NSLs).
- ABFFE
- ACLU
- Association of American Publishers (AAP)
- District of Columbia Bar
- Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
- Hartford
- McCormick Freedom Museum
- Media Coalition
- NCAC
- National Coalition Against Censorship
- PEN
- Reporters Without Borders
- SPLC, FIRE
- Student Press Law Center
- The Clams
- The Free Expression Policy Project
- The Tully Center for Free Speech
- Thomas Jefferson Center
- Thomas Jefferson Center, et al
- Woodhull Foundation