FEN Newswire Press Releases

• 7/22/2004 California Supreme Court Upholds Student’s First Amendment Rights - Conviction of “George T” for Writing Dark Poems Overturned
• 7/8/2004 ABFFE Sees Progress in PATRIOT Act House Vote
• 6/30/2004 ABFFE Supports New House Move on PATRIOT Act
• 6/29/2004 Publishers Applaud Supreme Court Ruling On Internet Law
• 6/17/2004 Free Speech Groups Issue Statement of Grave Concern Over Continuing Federal Investigation of Buffalo Artist
• 5/25/2004 Booksellers Support New PATRIOT Act Challenge
• 5/12/2004 ABFFE Introduces New Harry Potter Merchandise
• 4/12/2004 Free Speech and Authors Groups Condemn Government Restrictions on Free Flow of Information
• 2/17/2004 Book, Library Groups Launch Petition Drive to Restore Privacy Safeguards to USA PATRIOT Act

• 11/05/2003 Publishers Defend Right To Satirize Public Officials
• 11/03/2003 Free Speech Groups Support Patriot Act Challenge
• 10/22/2003 Booksellers Endorse Craig Bill
• 10/09/2003 Free Speech Groups Protest Nevada County Art Censorship
• 08/28/2003: Appeals Court Finds Internet Law Unconstitutional
• 08/01/2003: Booksellers Endorse Senate Bills Amending Patriot Act
• 07/16/2003: National Groups Protest Soap Box Derby Censorship
• 06/23/2003: Arkansas Censorship Law Challenged by Broad Coalition
• 5/15/2003: Book Groups Call for Patriot Act Amendment
• 4/23/2003: Judge Blocks Censorship of Harry Potter in Arkansas Schools
• 4/13/2003: Censured for Being Censors
• 3/6/2003: Booksellers Praise Proposed Patriot Act Amendment
• 3/3/2003: National Groups Urge Court to Overturn Harry Potter Ban
• 2/11/03: Publishers, Booksellers, Authors Support Libraries Fight Against Forced Computer Filters
• 2/11/2003: Protesting Digital Divide, Coalition Files Brief Against Children's Internet Protection Act
• 1/17/2003: Free Speech and Civil Rights Organizations Speak in Support of UC Berkeley Chancellor Berdahl
• 1/08/2003: The National Coalition Against Censorship and 18 Other Groups Call For Accountability in New York's Educational Policy-Making System Citing Repeated "Sanitization" Of Literature in Mandatory English Language Arts Regents Exams

 

• 12/12/2002: Free Expression Think Tank Releases Guide to Copyright Battles
• 12/09/2002: Berkeley Mayor Admits to Daily Cal Theft After Police Investigate
• 12/02/2002: Free Expression & Art Advocacy Organizations Protest the Criminalization of Artistic Expression In Cincinnati
• 10/24/2002: ABFFE Sues Justice Dept. for Data on Patriot Act Subpoenas
  09/25/2002: 33 Scholars Join Brief In Media Case
• 08/19/2002: Book Groups Protest Secrecy on Bookstore, Library Subpoenas
• 06/25/2002: ABFFE Files Freedom of Information Request With Justice Dept.
• 06/25/2002: House Questions Ashcroft On Bookstore, Library, Newspaper Subpoenas
• 06/20/2002: Supreme Court Decision In Student Privacy Case Could Improve Access to Campus Crime Records
• 06/06/2002:Ohio Censorship Law Challenged by Broad Coalition
• 04/23/2002: April 25 Briefing on Capitol Hill - Free Speech & the USA PATRIOT Act
• 04/11/2002: Vanessa Leggett to Receive 2002 PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award
• 04/08/2002: Tattered Cover Victorious in Battle Against Seach Warrant
• 03/21/2002: NCAC Slams Tennessee Arts Commission's "No Nudes" Policy
• 02/26/2002: Internet "Harmful to Minors" Statute Held Unconstitutional
• 02/26/2002: ABFEE Supports Maryland Bookstore Privacy Bill
• 01/29/2002: Caltran's Policy Allowing Only American Flags to Hang on Highway Overpasses Found Unconstitutional by Federal Court
• 01/23/2002: NCAC Applauds Return of "Forever" to Elgin, Illinois School Library Shelves
• 01/07/2002: National Coalition Against Censorship Launches ART NOW (Artists' Responses to 9/11 Events)

 

• 12/12/2001: Student Press Law Center Launches New Version of Website
• 12/05/2001: Scholars Ask American Academy of Pediatrics to Reconsider Misstatements
• 11/14/2001: New Web Site Defends Harry Potter and Kids' Free Speech
• 10/11/2001: Free Speech Groups, Artists Protest Removal of Exhibit by City of Los Angeles and Watts Tower Arts Center
• 10/02/2001: NCAC's Free Expression Policy Project Releases Survey Showing Internet Filters are Hopelessly Flawed
• 09/21/2001: Sex Education and Free Speech Groups File Brief With U.S. Supreme Court in COPA Case
• 08/06/2001: Free Speech Groups Welcome Brookings Arts Council's Reversal of Decision That
  Censored Artwork
• 07/23/2001: NCAC Urges Taxpayers to Use Rebates to Fight for Free Speech - and Double Their Impact
• 07/02/2001: National Coalition Against Censorship Applauds Release and Conclusions of Surgeon General's Report
• 06/08/2001: 35 Free Speech Groups Launch Campaign to Oppose Government Censorship of Sexuality Education
• 06/08/2001: ABFFE Reports Latest Assault on Customer Privacy
• 05/16/2001: Free Expression Organizations Celebrate Esperanza Center's Landmark Legal Victory
• 05/10/2001: First Amendment Attorney Marjorie Heins Releases New Book - Not in Front of the Children
• 04/26/2001: Statement of the NCAC Regarding the Media Marketing Accountability Act of 2001
• 04/18/2001: First Amendment Protects Parody, Book Groups Tell Court
• 04/13/2001: Free Speech Groups Encourage New Mexico Museum to Respect Artistic Freedom
• 03/26/2001: Iranian Publisher and Uzbek Novelist to Receive 2001 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Awards
• 03/26/2001: Louisiana High School Librarian, Little Havana Theater Director Named Co-Recipients of 2001 PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award
• 03/26/2001: Free Speech Groups Express Concern Over Student Reaction to Controversial Ad
• 03/01/2001: Free Speech Groups Urge Pennsylvania Lawmakers and Penn State Administration to Respect Students' Rights in Response to Recent "Sex Faire"
• 03/01/2001: Rhodes Replies to Critics of "Media Violence Myth"
• 02/26/2001: Report Shows Fewer Media Trials in 2000
• 02/21/2001: Psychologists Defend Research Criticized in "The Media Violence Myth"
• 02/16/2001: National Arts & Free Speech Organizations Condemn NYC Mayor's Plans for Museum "Decency Standards"
• 02/06/2001: Author Assails Media Violence Research
• 01/23/2001: Public Information Campaign Announced to Free Schools and Libraries from Blocking Technologies
• 01/10/2001: Landmark College Press Censorship Ruling

 

• 12/12/2000: QueerNet and Online Policy Group to Merge
• 11/29/2000: Media Censorship Won't Stop Violence, Book Community Warns
• 11/09/2000: Media and Communications Scholars and Authors Urge Seventh Circuit to Scrutinize Social Science Research on Media Violence
• 11/02/2000: Tattered Cover to Appeal Demand for Book Purchase Records
• 10/27/2000: Mass Mic Releases Report on School Restrictions
• 10/19/2000: Media Advisory: News Conference Announcing Launch of The Cornerstone Project
• 09/14/2000: Online Policy Group Incorporated with Commitment to Universal Access to the Internet
• 09/13/2000: ACLU Sees Political Opportunism, Not Science, In Report Linking Pop Culture and Youth Violence
• 09/11/2000: Banned Books Week 'Heroes' to be Honored at Library of Congress Event
• 08/24/2000: Shooting The Messenger: Why Censorship Won't Stop Violence
• 06/21/2000: 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of Decade Announced
• 05/11/2000: Michigan School District Rescinds Most of Potter Ban
• 04/13/2000: CENSURED FOR BEING CENSORS
• 04/12/2000: Bookseller Defends Customer Privacy
• 04/11/2000: Newman's Own Gives Additional $18,000 To Save Texas Shakespeare Festival
• 04/10/2000: Free Expression Groups Oppose Harry Potter Ban (also: statement)
• 03/28/2000: Ruling in "Censorware" Copyright Controversy Leaves Clients, Consumers in the Dark, ACLU Says
• 03/27/2000: Texas College President Wins 2000 PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Awards .
• 03/07/2000: "Muggles for Harry Potter" To Fight Censorship.
• 01/13/2000: New Crypto Regs Still Inhibit Online Speech.
• 01/12/2000: American Professors Protest Chinese Government Arrest of Dickinson University Scholar.
• 01/12/2000: Lawsuit Challenges Ban on Anti-Censorship Pamphlet.
  
• 12/14/1999: A Birthday Present to the First Amendment.
  The first FEN Newswire press release.