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Dispatches From the Culture Wars - November 19, 2024

Nov 19, 2024 | portside.org | Frieda Afary |Nan Levinson |Julia Conley |Joanna Wuest

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – November 19, 2024 Published November 19, 2024 Making Sense The Free Speech Challenge Shawn Fain on the Election Walking Away From Trans Rights Empty Quads and Busy Counselling Centers Why Dystopian Fiction is Hot Native American Solutions to Tyranny Hatred Comes Out in Columbus OH Target: Educational Speech Diddy Case Sparks a New #MeToo Making Sense By Frieda Afary New Politics To mainstream pundits, it was rising inflation, economic hardships and Democrats...
The First Amendment Will Suffer Under Trump

Nov 19, 2024 | thenation.com | Nan Levinson

November 19, 2024 The First Amendment Will Suffer Under TrumpGiven what’s heading our way, we need a capacious view and robust defense of the First Amendment from all quarters. Ad Policy Former president Donald Trump in Milwaukee in 2020. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images)This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com. I thought I was done with free speech.
CPIML Strongly Condemns RSS Hooliganism At Udaipur Film Festival| Countercurrents

Nov 17, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Nan Levinson |Malini Subramaniam |MA Krishna |Yoav Litvin

The CPIML unequivocally condemns the cowardly disruption by RSS goons of the screening of Had Anhad at the Udaipur Film Festival. This brazen attack on democratic spaces and progressive art reflects the growing attack on freedom of speech under the fascist regime, which seeks to stifle any voices critical of exploitation and injustice.
The Show Must Go On – The 9th Udaipur Film Festival Forcefully Halted| Countercurrents

Nov 17, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Nan Levinson |Malini Subramaniam |MA Krishna |Hiren Gohain

Shabnam Virmani’s Film Had Anhad Based on Kabir’s Songs Stopped Mid ScreeningOn the second day of 9th Udaipur Film Festival, due to pressure and terrorizing of RSS activists, the RNT medical college administration forcefully stopped the film screenings.
Speaking Freely in the Age of Trump | Common Dreams

Nov 16, 2024 | commondreams.org | Nan Levinson

I thought I was done with free speech. For nearly two decades, I reported on it for the international magazine Index on Censorship. I wrote a book, Outspoken: Free Speech Stories, about controversies over it. I even sang “I Like to Be in America” at the top of my lungs at an around-the-clock banned-book event organized by the Boston Coalition for Freedom of Expression after the musical West Side Story was canceled at a local high school because of its demeaning stereotypes of Puerto Ricans.
A Love Letter To World Leaders From The Invisibles| Countercurrents

Nov 15, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Hailemariam DesAlegn |Laurel Sutherlin |Binoy Kampmark |Nan Levinson

ADDIS ABABA – Our long-term prosperity and the well-being of future generations are in jeopardy, as biodiversity loss and the collapse of critical ecosystems not only threaten our environment, but…
Blinken Atrocious In A Dangerous World| Countercurrents

Nov 14, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |M K Bhadrakumar |Ramzy Baroud |Nan Levinson

It is hard to credit one of the least impressive Secretary of States the United States has ever produced with any merit other than being a plasterwork that, from time to time, moved with caution on the world stage for fear of cracking.
Threats To Free Expression In The Trump Era| Countercurrents

Nov 14, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Nan Levinson |Malini Subramaniam |MA Krishna |Hiren Gohain

I thought I was done with free speech. For nearly two decades, I reported on it for the international magazine Index on Censorship. I wrote a book, Outspoken: Free Speech Stories, about controversies over it. I even sang “I Like to Be in America” at the top of my lungs at an around-the-clock banned-book event organized by the Boston Coalition for Freedom of Expression after the musical “West Side Story” was canceled at a local high school because of its demeaning stereotypes of Puerto Ricans.
A Democracy of Voices (If We Can Keep It)

Nov 14, 2024 | tomdispatch.com | Nan Levinson

Threats to Free Expression in the Trump EraI thought I was done with free speech. For nearly two decades, I reported on it for the international magazine Index on Censorship. I wrote a book, Outspoken: Free Speech Stories, about controversies over it.
Assessing the Flames of Protest

Jul 22, 2024 | original.antiwar.com | Nan Levinson |Tom Engelhardt

Reprinted from TomDispatch. From Gaza to the West Bank to the Israeli-Lebanese borderlands, it’s been a genuine nightmare. The devastation in Gaza remains surreal and almost impossible to take in. Housing, hospitals, schools, religious institutions, you name it – they’re all now a “maze of rubble” while the fighting just goes on (and on and on) with Palestinians (and far smaller numbers of Israelis) still dying daily.