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So to Speak podcast: Campus free speech roundup


On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we are joined by four members of ֭’s staff to discuss the latest campus free speech news, including two new FIREinitiatives to tackle art censorship and restrictions on free speech and academic freedom abroad.
Participants in this show are:
Nico Perrino, host of So to Speak, director of communications
Will Creeley, senior vice president of legal and public advocacy
Adam Steinbaugh, director of ֭’s Individual Rights Defense Program
Marieke Tuthill Beck-Coon, director of litigation
Sarah McLaughlin, senior program officer for legal and public advocacy
Show notes:
- Chicago State to rewrite policies, pay $650,000 to settle professors’ First Amendment lawsuit
- Nine years later, UCLA complains — again — about online critic
- Speech rights of 150,000 students to be restored as Los Angeles Community College District settles lawsuit
- Fencing in free speech at Los Angeles Pierce College (VIDEO)
- FIRE launches initiative to defend campus free expression across borders
- REPORT: Artists clash with campus censors
- Indiana University Kokomo confirms that once-removed sculptures will remain on display through end of semester
- The problem with porn filters
- Wisconsin system president reprimands UW La Crosse Chancellor for Free Speech Week talk by porn star
- Rutgers reverses finding against professor who posted about resigning from the white race on Facebook
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- Free Speech
- Litigation
- Faculty Rights
- Chicago State University
- California State University, Los Angeles
- Los Angeles Pierce College
- Indiana University - Kokomo
- University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
- Rutgers University
- Los Angeles Pierce College – Stand Up For Speech Lawsuit
- Chicago State University - Stand Up For Speech Lawsuit
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