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SUMMARY:Press Freedom and Social Media
DESCRIPTION:In this speaker series event\, Emily Hockett\, legal fellow at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press\, will discuss the importance of the free press on social media and the tensions surrounding the two.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the Zoom Event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Emily Hockett\n\n\n\nEmily Hockett is the Reporters Committee’s Technology and Press Freedom Project Fellow. Emily is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law\, where she was a member of the First Amendment Clinic\, working on public records matters and amicus briefs under the supervision of Reporters Committee attorneys. Emily received her B.A. from New York University. 
URL:https://firstamendmentmuseum.org/event/press-freedom-and-social-media/
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America
DESCRIPTION:Critically acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Ellis Cose joins the First Amendment Museum for a discussion focused on his book The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America\, which explores our right to free speech in America and how that right is crumbling under the combined weight of technology\, polarization\, money\, and systematized lying.  \n\n\n\nThis event is part of our Speaker Series and is open to all.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the Zoom Event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Ellis Cose\n\n\n\nEllis Cose is the author of more than a dozen books on issues of national and international concern. A Chicago native\, Cose holds a master’s degree in science\, technology\, and public policy from George Washington University. For 17 years\, Cose was a columnist and contributing editor for Newsweek magazine. He is a former chairman of the editorial board and editorial page editor of the New York Daily News. Cose was the inaugural writer-in-residence for the ACLU. He also served as moderator of a series of dialogues between the NYPD brass and various communities in New York and as senior adviser to the Pinkerton Foundation. Cose is also an independent radio producer and a popular lecturer and public speaker.
URL:https://firstamendmentmuseum.org/event/the-short-life-and-curious-death-of-free-speech-in-america/
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230314T120000
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SUMMARY:Curating Under Pressure
DESCRIPTION:Join Janet Marstine for a discussion of her co-edited book\, Curating Under Pressure (Routledge 2020)\, on Tuesday\, March 14\, at 12 PM via Zoom. This is the first book to look at pressures to self-censor and the curatorial responses to these pressures from a wide range of international perspectives. Curating Under Pressure breaks the silences surrounding curatorial self-censorship and shows that it is both endemic to the practice and ubiquitous\, despite the freedom of speech guaranteed by the First Amendment (1791) to the US Constitution and the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) more globally. Chapters\, including Janet’s own which examines the Hong Kong and mainland China context\, map the diverse forms such self-censorship takes and offer creative strategies for negotiating curatorial integrity. \n\n\n\nJanet’s talk will gives evidence of curators’ political acumen\, ethical sagacity and resilience over the long term. It will also challenge the assumption that self-censorship is something to be avoided at all costs and suggest that a decision to self-censor may sometimes be politically and ethically imperative. Her argument serves as a corrective to the assumption that censorship pressures render practitioners impotent. It demonstrates that curatorial practice under pressure offers inspiring models of agency\, ingenuity and empowerment. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the Zoom Event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Presenter\n\n\n\nJanet Marstine is Honorary Associate Professor of Museum Studies (retired)\, University of Leicester\, UK\, and is currently an independent scholar based in Yarmouth\, Maine. She writes on diverse aspects of museum ethics from curatorial ethics to negotiating the pressures of self-censorship to artists’ interventions as drivers for ethical change. Marstine is the author of six books including Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics (Routledge 2011); Critical Practice: Artists\, Museums\, Ethics (Routledge 2017); with S. Mintcheva\, Curating Under Pressure: International Perspectives on Negotiating Conflict and Upholding Integrity (Routledge 2020); and with O. Ho Curating Art (Routledge 2022). To support her research\, conducted internationally\, in the US\, UK\, Europe\, mainland China and Hong Kong\, she has received grants from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (US)\, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK)\, and the British Academy. In 2018 she was a Senior Research Fellow at Fudan University in Shanghai.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Marstine has a particular interest in recognizing and supporting the agency of practitioners to make informed ethical decisions. She has done ethics consulting with institutions from the National September 11 Memorial Museum—on collections policy—to the Royal Air Force Museum—on sponsorship. She sat on the Ethics Committee of the UK’s Museums Association from 2014-2019\, helping to move their approach from one of policing to empowerment. Presently\, she sits on the Board of the First Amendment Museum.
URL:https://firstamendmentmuseum.org/event/curating-under-pressure/
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Slanted: How an Asian American Troublemaker Took on the Supreme Court
DESCRIPTION:Simon Tam and Joe X. Jiang are Asian-American rock stars who notoriously took a First Amendment case to the Supreme Court. Using music\, the two will share their journey to Washington DC\, but this presentation will also discuss reappropriation and freedom of expression.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the Zoom Event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Simon Tam\n\n\n\nSimon Tam is an author\, musician\, activist\, and self-proclaimed troublemaker. Best known as the founder and bassist of The Slants\, the world’s first and only all-Asian American dance rock band\, Simon approaches arts and activism with radical optimism and compassion. In 2017\, he won a landmark case at the U.S Supreme Court\, unanimously\, helping to expand civil liberties for marginalized groups. His work has been highlighted in over 3\,000 media features across over 150 countries\, including Rolling Stone\, TIME\, NPR\, BBC\, and the New York Times. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Joe X. Jiang\n\n\n\nJoe X. Jiang is a filmmaker and musician who has called Portland\, OR home for a decade. His movies\, which range from intimate documentaries to artistic narratives\, have been featured at film and art festivals around the world. His most recent project\, The Cutting Shadow\, was screened at the 2017 San Diego Asian Film Festival and showcased at multiple festivals in 2018. As a musician\, Joe performs in several bands\, including The Slants\, and is also a producer.
URL:https://firstamendmentmuseum.org/event/slanted-how-an-asian-american-troublemaker-took-on-the-supreme-court/
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230207T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230207T200000
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SUMMARY:What are they afraid of?
DESCRIPTION:In spite of First Amendment guarantees in the U.S. Constitution\, attacks on books\, writers\, and free expression have been a feature of life in America throughout the nation’s history. From the burning of abolitionist pamphlets in the 1830s to the McCarthyism of the 1950s\, efforts to suppress books and ideas considered a threat have been pervasive. Censorship is as American as apple pie and lynching. \n\n\n\nBut in America today\, book bans and censorship have reached a new\, fevered peak. Schools and libraries across the country are facing increased pressure from groups that object to a wide range of books—many of which are written by people of color and deal with issues of racism\, gender\, and sexuality. This attack on free expression and the freedom to read goes hand in hand with an assault on how history is being taught\, all part of a “War of Ideas” in America today. \n\n\n\nWhat is going on? What do the censors fear?  What can we do about it? Who said\, “Where they burn books\, they will\, in the end\, burn human beings too.”  \n\n\n\nJoin bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis for a conversation about the long history of book banning in America and how authoritarian leaders and dictators have used censorship to consolidate power. He will explore reading and access to books as essential to preserving democracy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the zoom event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Kenneth C. Davis\n\n\n\nHistorian Kenneth C. Davis is the author of the bestseller  Don’t Know Much About History\, which gave rise to his Don’t Know Much About  series of books and audios. He wrote about threats to democracy in Strongman: The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy. His most recent book is Great Short Books: A Year of Reading-Briefly\, an exploration of 58 short novels and their authors —many of whom have been banned or suppressed.
URL:https://firstamendmentmuseum.org/event/what-are-they-afraid-of/
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:"Let Truth Have Fair Play": Elihu Palmer's Struggle for Religious Freedom
DESCRIPTION:In this First Amendment speaker series event\, Professor Kirsten Fischer will discuss her new book\, American Freethinker: Elihu Palmer and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in the New Nation. Palmer was a secular activist in early America that pushed for free speech and religious freedom. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Kirsten Fischer\n\n\n\nKirsten Fischer is a professor of history at the University of Minnesota. She recently wrote American Freethinker: Elihu Palmer and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in the New Nation. Published by the University of Pennsylvania in 2021\, the book is a biography of a once-notorious public speaker who attacked Christianity and pushed for freedom of speech. She is also known for her book Suspect Relations: Sex\, Race\, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina (Cornell\, 2002)\, which shows the development of racial thinking in a slave society. Fischer is an award-winning teacher and the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships. She has presented her work in France\, Italy\, Germany\, and Canada. She was hosted for two years at the University of Heidelberg’s Center for American Studies\, once as a Fulbright scholar.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the Zoom Event
URL:https://firstamendmentmuseum.org/event/let-truth-have-fair-play-elihu-palmers-struggle-for-religious-freedom/
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Waging A Good War
DESCRIPTION:In Mississippi\, it used to be illegal to teach Black students their constitutional rights. Thomas E. Ricks’ new book\, Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement\, 1954-1968\, offers a new perspective on the American civil rights movement\, depicting it as highly disciplined and carefully planned\, with a focus not on “passive resistance\,” but on confrontational nonviolence\, a much more aggressive stance.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the Zoom Event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Thomas E. Ricks\n\n\n\nThomas Ricks is a writer and the military history columnist for The New York Times Book Review. Ricks covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post from 2000 through 2008. Until the end of 1999\, he had the same beat at the Wall Street Journal\, where he was a reporter for 17 years. He reported on U.S. military activities in Somalia\, Haiti\, Korea\, Bosnia\, Kosovo\, Macedonia\, Kuwait\,Turkey\, Afghanistan\, and Iraq. He is the author of eight books. His best known is Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq\, 2003-05\, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2007.
URL:https://firstamendmentmuseum.org/event/waging-a-good-war/
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221209T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221209T203000
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SUMMARY:Why We Must Defend the Free Speech Rights of Our Enemies
DESCRIPTION:In this free online talk\, Nico Perrino will argue that it is essential to defend the free speech rights of those we disagree with. \n\n\n\n\nRegister for the Zoom Event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Nico Perrino\n\n\n\nNico Perrino is the Senior Vice President of Communications for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. He is also the creator and host of FIRE’s So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast. As a documentarian\, Nico was Co-Director and Senior Producer of “Mighty Ira” (2020)\, a feature-length film about the life and career of former ACLU Executive Director Ira Glasser. Previously\, Nico served as Creative Consultant on “Can We Take a Joke?” (2015)\, a film about censorship in stand-up comedy. His writing has been featured in USA Today\, Politico\, Newsweek\, and The Guardian\, and he regularly travels the country to speak about free speech and civil liberties issues.
URL:https://firstamendmentmuseum.org/event/why-we-must-defend-the-free-speech-rights-of-our-enemies/
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Virtual Screening: Battleground
DESCRIPTION:Battleground is an intimate look at our political divide\, as seen through the eyes of two grassroots activists in the pivotal counties of Lehigh Valley\, PA\, during the 2020 election.  \n\n\n\nTom Carroll is a Trump delegate\, and a Tea Party Chairman. Greg Edwards is a Black pastor\, and a progressive leader supported by Bernie Sanders.  \n\n\n\nWhen their paths collide\, we realize that they have much more in common than meets the eye. \n\n\n\nDirected by Hemal Trivedi and Jonah Markowitz \n\n\n\nUS | 56 min. | 2020 | English \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the virtual screening
URL:https://firstamendmentmuseum.org/event/virtual-screening-battleground/
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221027T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221027T210000
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SUMMARY:Tales from a Maine Investigative Journalist
DESCRIPTION:A Reporter for America corps member Kate Cough will share tales of her time as an investigative reporter in Maine. \n\n\n\nWhen: Thursday\, October 27 \n\n\n\nTime: 7:00 PM ET \n\n\n\nWhere: Online via Zoom \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the Zoom Event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Kate Cough\n\n\n\nKate Cough covers energy and the environment at The Maine Monitor as a 2021 Reporter for America corps member and writes the weekly Climate Monitor newsletter covering all things energy and environment in Maine. She was previously a reporter for The Ellsworth American before becoming the inaugural digital media strategist for The Ellsworth American and Mount Desert Islander.Cough graduated with honors from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Magna Cum Laude from Bryn Mawr College.
URL:https://firstamendmentmuseum.org/event/tales-from-a-maine-investigative-journalist/
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220929T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220929T190000
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SUMMARY:Offline Repression is Replicated Online: Content Moderation and Government Repression
DESCRIPTION:Jillian C. York will discuss her book\, Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism (published with Verso Books in 2021). \n\n\n\nWho decides what is permissible on the internet: Politicians? Mark Zuckerberg? Users? Who determines when political debate becomes hate speech? How does this impact our identity or our ability to create communities and to protest? Silicon Values reports on the war for digital rights and how major corporations—Facebook\, Twitter\, Google and Tiktok—threaten democracy as they harvest our personal data in the pursuit of profit. \n\n\n\nYork will discuss the current tensions related to content moderation and free expression online. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the Zoom Event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCourtesy of VampKitty/Nadine Barišić.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Jillian C. York\n\n\n\nJillian C. York is a writer and activist whose work examines the impact of technology on our societal and cultural values. Based in Berlin\, she is the Director for International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation\, a fellow at the Center for Internet & Human Rights at the European University Viadrina\, a visiting professor at the College of Europe Natolin\, and the author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism.
URL:https://firstamendmentmuseum.org/event/offline-repression-is-replicated-online-content-moderation-and-government-repression/
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220526T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220526T203000
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SUMMARY:Art as Activism: Indigenous Artists' Responses to Nuclear Exposure
DESCRIPTION:This presentation focuses on international Indigenous artists’ responses to the impacts of nuclear testing\, accidents\, and uranium mining on their communities and the environment. Manuela Well-Off-Man\, chief curator at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe\, New Mexico\, will present. \n\n\n\nIndigenous artists from Australia\, Canada\, Greenland\, Japan\, French Polynesia (Tahiti)\, and the United States with American Samoa and Guam combine tribal knowledge with Indigenous and contemporary art as a visual strategy to address the long-term effects of nuclear exposure. \n\n\n\nThere are over five hundred abandoned uranium mines and mills on Navajo Nation and Pueblo lands in New Mexico alone\, and most of them are unmarked. Native American miners worked in the uranium mines without any protective equipment and have been living in houses constructed from contaminated material\, exposed to toxic winds and polluted water. Many of them have died because of uranium-related illness. Exposure to uranium and nuclear poisoning is a serious issue for Indigenous communities worldwide.  \n\n\n\nThe talk takes a closer look at the creative responses of these international Indigenous artists to this deadly legacy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the Zoom Event \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Manuela Well-Off-Man\n\n\n\nManuela Well-Off-Man is an art historian and chief curator at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe\, New Mexico.  \n\n\n\nShe previously served as curator at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and at the Montana Museum of Art and Culture. With more than 20 years of curatorial experience in museums and galleries\, she has curated national and international contemporary Native American art exhibitions.  \n\n\n\nWell-Off-Man received her Ph.D. in art history from the Ruhr University\, Bochum\, Germany\, and her M.A. degree in art history\, archaeology and pedagogy from the University of Cologne\, Germany. She has authored numerous exhibition catalogue essays\, magazine articles and blogs on American art.
URL:https://firstamendmentmuseum.org/event/art-as-activism-indigenous-artists-responses-to-nuclear-exposure/
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Brewing a Boycott Book Talk with Dr. Allyson Brantley
DESCRIPTION:Allyson P. Brantley will discuss her book\, Brewing a Boycott: How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors and Remade American Consumer Activism (published with the University of North Carolina Press in 2021).  \n\n\n\nBrewing a Boycott tells the story of one of the longest-running consumer boycotts in U.S. history\, the boycott of Coors beer. From the 1950s to the 1990s\, union members\, progressive students\, Black and Latinx activists\, Native Americans\, feminists\, and members of the LGBTQ+ community built powerful coalitions to challenge the alleged anti-unionism\, discrimination\, and conservative politics of Coors Brewing Company and the Coors family.  \n\n\n\nBrantley will discuss this exciting history and explore the significance of the consumer boycott as a solidarity-building tool and an expression of First Amendment rights of speech\, assembly\, and petition. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the Zoom Event \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Allyson P. Brantley\n\n\n\nAllyson P. Brantley (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of La Verne in Los Angeles County.  \n\n\n\nShe studies\, teaches\, and writes about social movements\, labor\, and Latinx history in the late 20th century United States. S \n\n\n\nhe received her Ph.D. in History from Yale University in 2016 and she is a 2020-2021 Mellon Emerging Faculty Leader.  
URL:https://firstamendmentmuseum.org/event/brewing-a-boycott-book-talk-with-dr-allyson-brantley/
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Hong Kong: Freedom Under Attack
DESCRIPTION:Currently on display at the First Amendment Museum is a copy of the last edition of the famous Hong Kong newspaper\, Apple Daily.  \n\n\n\nFounded by Hong Kong freedom of speech and freedom of the press advocate Jimmy Lai in 1995\, Apply Daily was shuttered by the Chinese Communist Party in 2021. Its demise symbolized the death of the free press in Hong Kong and is just one of many assaults on the universal freedoms of Hong Kong citizens by the Chinese Communist Party.  \n\n\n\nJoin the First Amendment Museum as it hosts Hong Kong experts Chi-Sang Poon\, Michael C. Davis\, and Mark Simon for a panel discussion on the situation in Hong Kong and why it matters to free people around the world. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the Zoom event \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout panelist Mark Simon \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark Simon\, a Virginia native\, has been involved in media since his days as Media Board Chairman in University. After a brief stint as an intelligence analyst with the US Navy\, Mark came to Hong Kong in 1992 and started a career in shipping\, and also began to write once again. Over the years Mark has written for the Wall Street Journal\, Washington Post\, New York Post\, and was often a guest on radio and television from Hong Kong. \n\n\n\nMark joined Jimmy Lai in May 2001 at Apple Daily. He has held positions with the Next Digital Group\, Apple Daily’s parent\, from General Manager\, and Chief of Crime News\, to Group Director. \n\n\n\nMark sees himself primarily as a businessman as over the years he has also taken on roles in private equity and real estate. Yet\, even up until when he had to leave Hong Kong in the spring of 2020\, Mark was still writing his column\, “Second Opinion”\, a column that by Comscore was Hong Kong’s most-read English language column inside Hong Kong’s largest news media platform\, Apple Daily. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout panelist Michael C. Davis \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Michael C. Davis is a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC\, a Senior Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asia Institute at Columbia University\, and a Professor of Law and International Affairs at O.P. Jindal Global University in India.  \n\n\n\nLong a public intellectual in Hong Kong\, he was a professor in the Law Faculty at the University of Hong Kong until late 2016. His scholarship engages a range of issues relating to human rights\, the rule of law\, and constitutionalism in emerging states\, with frequent publication in such public affairs journals as Foreign Affairs and the Journal of Democracy\, as well as academic journals. Amnesty International and the Hong Kong FCC awarded him a 2014 Human Rights Press Award for his commentary in the South China Morning Post on the 2014 Hong Kong “umbrella movement.”  \n\n\n\nHis latest book on Making Hong Kong China: The Rollback of Human Rights and the Rule of Law (November 2020) is available on Amazon and from Columbia University Press. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout panelist Chi-Sang Poon \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChi-Sang Poon (潘志生) is a retired scientist from MIT where he served as a health sciences and technology visiting associate professor and then principal research scientist for thirty years.  \n\n\n\nA native of Hong Kong\, he obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Hong Kong\, a master’s degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong\, and a Ph.D. degree from UCLA. While at MIT\, he was vocal on racial discrimination and civil rights issues and was the creator of a musical CD in memory of 9/11.  \n\n\n\nHe is the author of a series of articles on defending freedom of the press and of speech under Hong Kong’s looming sedition law\, which has been recently decreed as part of Hong Kong’s National Security Law.
URL:https://firstamendmentmuseum.org/event/hong-kong-freedom-under-attack/
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Brown Belongings: A Dialogue about the Politics of Color and Class
DESCRIPTION:Join artist Linda Vallejo as she describes her new exhibit “Brown Belongings”\, which represents ten years of concentrated work on visualizing what it means to be a person of color in the United States. These works reflect what she calls her “brown intellectual property”—the experiences\, knowledge\, and feelings she has gathered over more than four decades of study in Chicano/a and American indigenous communities.  \n\n\n\nSince 2010 Vallejo has produced hundreds of sculptures\, paintings\, and works on paper entitled “Make ‘Em All Mexican.” She purchases pricey antiques (plaster and porcelain figures\, magazines\, and postcards) and paint their skin brown. There is a “brown” Elvis Presley\, Fred Flintstone & Barney Rubble\, Marie Antoinette & Louis Auguste\, the Rose Parade Queen\, Queen Mother\, Greek and Roman gods. In 2015 she produced “The Brown Dot Project\,” a series of “data pictographs\,” images on gridded architectural vellum where brown dots represented actual data. The works portrayed various data sets including US Latino populations; professional numbers in health\, education\, and business sectors; and Latino contribution to the US Gross National Product.  \n\n\n\n“Brown Belongings” will lead participants down an ironic path to find yourself confronted by some of the most difficult questions of our time\, “Do race\, color\, and class define our status in the world?” “Is it possible to be a part of and earnestly contribute to multiple cultures simultaneously?”  “Does color and class define our understanding and appreciation of culture?” \n\n\n\nLearn more about Linda’s work at www.lindavallejo.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the Zoom Event \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Linda Vallejo\n\n\n\nVallejo creates work that visualizes what it means to be a person of color in the United States. She states that these works reflect what she calls her “brown intellectual property”—the experiences\,  knowledge\, and feelings gathered over more than four decades of study of Latino\, Chicano\, and American indigenous culture and communities.   \n\n\n\nSolo exhibitions include LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes (2019-2020); Kean University\, Karl & Helen  Burger Gallery\, Union\, New Jersey and Museum of Latin American Art\, Long Beach\, CA (2018); bG  Gallery\, Santa Monica (2017); Texas A&M University Reynolds Gallery (2016); Bert Green Fine Art\,  Chicago Ill\, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center\, Los Angeles CA (2015); Lancaster Museum of  Art and History in Lancaster CA (2017 & 2014) and the Soto Clemente Velez Cultural Center in New  York (2014)\, George Lawson Gallery in Los Angeles and the University Art Gallery of New Mexico  State University (2013)\, as well as Arte Americas in collaboration with the Fresno Art Museum and  Central California Museum of Art Advisory Committee and California State University\, San  Bernardino\, Fullerton Museum (2012).   \n\n\n\nHer most recent solo exhibition Brown Belongings was featured in the NY Times “Visualizing Latino  Populations Through Art” by Jill Cowan\, New York\, NY (November 26\, 2019) and in LA Times “Linda  Vallejo and a decade of art that unapologetically embraces brownness” by Matt Stromberg (June 20\,  2019).  \n\n\n\nVallejo’s work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA)\, Long  Beach\, CA\, the Museum of Sonoma County\, Santa Rosa\, CA\, Museo del Barrio\, New York\, NY\, East  Los Angeles College Vincent Price Museum\, Los Angeles CA\, National Museum of Mexican Art\,  Chicago Ill\, Carnegie Art Museum\, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County\, CA\, UC Santa  Barbara\, California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA)\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, UCLA Chicano  Study Research Center (CSRC)\, Los Angeles\, CA\, California Digital Library\, Arizona State University  Library Archives.
URL:https://firstamendmentmuseum.org/event/brown-belongings-a-dialogue-about-the-politics-of-color-and-class/
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:TRUTH TELLERS: Artist Robert Shetterly's Journey to Uphold Our Founding Ideals
DESCRIPTION:A special virtual screening and conversation with Artist and Activist Robert Shetterly about the new documentary\, TRUTH TELLERS\, a film that delves into the lives of courageous Americans fighting for social\, environmental and economic justice. Shetterly has painted 255 portraits of Americans\, past and present\, who had the moral courage to confront the pressing issues of their time. Shetterly’s art and activism is a history lesson in what it means to be a citizen of our democracy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWatch the TRUTH TELLERS Trailer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the virtual screening and conversation \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artist: American Contemporary Artist and Activist Robert Shetterly has painted 255 portraits of Americans\, past and present\, who had the moral courage to confront issues of social\, environmental and economic justice. The project began in response to the government’s actions following the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. To deal with his grief and anger\, the artist began painting people who inspired him. The series\, Americans Who Tell the Truth\, has been exhibited throughout the United States for almost two decades. TRUTH TELLERS is both a story of Shetterly’s art and activism and a history lesson in what it means to be a citizen of a democracy. The film features Bayard Rustin\, Bill McKibben\, Kelsey Juliana\, Rev. Lennox Yearwood\, Sherri Mitchell\, Maulian Dana\, Bill Bigelow\, Zyahna Bryant\, Bree Newsome Bass\, Fannie Lou Hammer\, John Lewis\, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.\, Reggie Harris\, among others. \n\n\n\n\n“[Shetterly] is an invaluable chronicler of 21st century America.”   – Bill Moyers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Director\, Producer and Cinematographer:Richard Kane\, is an independent director whose work is focused on the intersection of art and contemporary American life.Previous film releases include\, J. Fred Woell: An American Vision\, I Know a Man… Ashley Bryan\, Imber’s Left Hand\, and 15 others\, all part of the Maine Masters collection\, a New England Emmy-nominated series of portraits that airs on public television. With partner Melody Lewis-Kane\, their company\, Kane-Lewis Productions\, has worked for National Geographic\, The Discovery Channel\, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the White House Office of Technology Policy among many others. Kane-Lewis produced the Natural Resources Council ofMaine’s 50th anniversary film Protecting the Nature of Maine\, an indie doc ROCK SOLID: The Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium and the classic award-winning documentary M.C. Richards: The Fire Within. From 2007-2016 Richard served as chair of the Maine Film & Video Association. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Writer:Judith Dwan Hallet is an award-winning documentary filmmaker\, former Senior Producer/Writer at National Geographic\, who has been making films for 50 years\, and received many distinguished awards including Woman of Vision Creative Excellence Award from Women in Film and Video in Washington DC and an Emmy from The National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in recognition for her significant contributions to the broadcast industry. Additional cinematography was provided by veteran Bob Elsfrom\, who has shot and directed documentaries for half a century and won multiple Emmys and Academy Award nominations. His resume includes the likes of PBS\, Frontline and National Geographic and a feature film with Brian De Palma and Robert De Niro.
URL:https://firstamendmentmuseum.org/event/truth-tellers-artist-robert-shetterlys-journey-to-uphold-our-founding-ideals/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:FREE SPEECH: A History from Socrates to Social Media
DESCRIPTION:Free speech around the world today is in retreat.  \n\n\n\nAuthoritarian and nationalist figures from Narendra Modi in India to Viktor Orbán in Hungary are silencing dissenting voices in an effort to entrench power.  \n\n\n\nEven in democracies\, where it is hailed as the “first freedom” and a bedrock democratic value\, the free speech debate is weaponized by the political left and right\, as different groups aim to curtail it on college campuses\, in classrooms\, and on digital platforms — undermining the very culture of tolerance and open-mindedness on which this freedom ultimately depends.  \n\n\n\nJoin author Jacob Mchangama for a conversation on the global history of free speech\, from the ancient world to today. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the Zoom event \n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK:In FREE SPEECH: A History from Socrates to Social Media (Basic Books; On sale February 8\, 2022)\, Jacob Mchangama offers a definitive account of this transformative idea\, from the ancient world to the digital age\, and in the process establishes why defending free speech is so critical today. History shows that the free exchange of ideas is essential not only to the spread of knowledge and innovation\, but also to upholding the values so cherished by democratic nations.  \n\n\n\nMoreover\, despite contemporary debates\, the practice and principle of free speech has been instrumental in ensuring the equality and dignity of marginalized and voiceless groups\, while censorship and repression has been the weapon of choice of oppressors\, authoritarians and supremacists. \n\n\n\n“The best history of free speech ever written and the best defense of free speech ever made. Jacob Mchangama never loses sight of the trouble freedom causes but always keeps in mind that lack of freedom creates horrors.”  — P.J. O’Rourke\n\n\n\nIn this sweeping history\, Mchangama includes a global cast of free speech defenders\, including the great liberalphilosopher John Stuart Mill\, the trailblazing Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza\, the ancient Athenian orator Demosthenes\, the ninth-century freethinker al-Rāzī\, the anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells and the campaigner for Indian independence Mahatma Gandhi.  \n\n\n\nThrough their captivating stories and others\, he reveals how the free exchange of ideas underlies all intellectual achievement and has enabled the advancement of both freedom and equality worldwide. \n\n\n\nMchangama has spent a decade advocating for free speech in the press and as a member of the Danish government’s independent commission on free speech. In FREE SPEECH\, he establishes just how much humanity has gained from the spread of this powerful idea\, and just how much we stand to lose if we allow for its erosion in the digital age. \n\n\n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR:Jacob Mchangama is the founder and executive director of the Danish think tank Justitia and the host of the podcast Clear and Present Danger: A History of Free Speech. His writing on free speech has appeared in the Economist\, the Washington Post\, Foreign Policy\, and many other outlets around the world. He lives in Copenhagen\, Denmark.
URL:https://firstamendmentmuseum.org/event/free-speech-a-history-from-socrates-to-social-media/
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CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Mary McLeod Bethune and the Necessity of Black Women's Leadership
DESCRIPTION:First Amendment Speaker Series presents Dr. Ashley Robertson Preston\, author\, curator\, and Assistant Professor of History at Howard University. She is the author of Mary McLeod Bethune in Florida: Bringing Social Justice to the Sunshine State. \n\n\n\nMary McLeod Bethune was often called the “First Lady of Negro America\,” but she made significant contributions to the political climate of Florida as well. From the founding of the Daytona Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls in 1904\, Bethune galvanized African American women for change. She created an environment in Daytona Beach that\, despite racial tension throughout the state\, allowed Jackie Robinson to begin his journey to integrating Major League Baseball less than two miles away from her school. Today\, her legacy lives through a number of institutions\, including Bethune-Cookman University and the Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation National Historic Landmark. Historian Ashley Robertson Preston explores the life\, leadership\, and amazing contributions of this dynamic activist. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the Zoom Event \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Dr. Ashley Robertson Preston\n\n\n\nDr. Ashley Robertson Preston is an author\, curator\, and Assistant Professor of History at Howard University.  \n\n\n\nHer past positions include serving as director of the Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation-National Historic Landmark at Bethune-Cookman University while she also was an archives technician for the National Archives for Black Women’s History at the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House-National Historic Site.  \n\n\n\nShe is the author of Mary McLeod Bethune in Florida: Bringing Social Justice to the Sunshine State which examines how the educator rose to prominence while fighting for equality at the height of racial unrest in the state.  \n\n\n\nDr. Preston’s research interests focus on the activism of Black women during the early twentieth century and the ways in which they uplifted their communities\, created institutions\, and stood against systemic racism. 
URL:https://firstamendmentmuseum.org/event/mary-mcleod-bethune-and-the-necessity-of-black-womens-leadership/
LOCATION:First Amendment Museum
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Letters to Martin: Meditations on Democracy in Black America
DESCRIPTION:The First Amendment Speaker Series presents Randal Maurice Jelks\, professor\, a documentary producer\, and award-winning author. His latest book Letters to Martin: Meditations on Democracy in Black America (Chicago Review Press\, Jan 11\, 2022) evokes Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and contains twelve meditations on many of the public issues currently faced by citizens in the United States—economic inequality\, freedom of assembly\, police brutality\, ongoing social class conflicts\, and geopolitics.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the Zoom Event \n\n\n\nProfessor Jelks was an executive producer of the documentary I\, Too\, Sing America: Langston Hughes Unfurled and he currently teaches American Studies\, African Studies\, and African American Studies at the University of Kansas. His writings have appeared in the Boston Review and the Los Angeles Review of Books\, and he also serves as co-editor of the academic journal American Studies.
URL:https://firstamendmentmuseum.org/event/letters-to-martin-meditations-on-democracy-in-black-america/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Natasha Mayers: an Un-Still Life
DESCRIPTION:Now\, more than ever\, people want to see truthful\, creative role models like Natasha Mayers\, who has been called the “most committed activist artist” in Maine and who Senator George Mitchell called a “state treasure.” Presenting an artist who has remained true to her passion for over 50 years\, the film follows Natasha as she takes on social\, economic and environmental justice issues with humor\, irreverence and a keen aesthetic that enlightens while it entertains. Using a non-traditional approach\, the film’s animation and special effects reflect Mayers’ own art-style.  From her arrest at a demonstration to featured conversations with Artists Kathy Bradford\, Robert Shetterly and Art Critic Lucy Lippard\, the film follows her quest to engage with the questions that face people-of-conscience today. \n\n\n\nRegister for the virtual film screening and conversation \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Artist Natasha MayersNatasha Mayers has been called “the heart and soul of activist art in Maine.” She is widely known for her work supervising more than 600 school and community murals from Maine to Nicaragua. She supervised painting utility poles in her town which depict local history and were featured in Lucy Lippard’s book\, The Lure of the Local. For the past 35 years she has been creating parade “floats” for the local Whitefield 4th of July parade. For Natasha\, the painted poles and parade floats represent art by the community\, about the community\, and for the community\, empowering a community to portray and know itself. More about the artist > \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Filmmaker Geoffrey LeightonGeoffrey Leighton has over 35 year’s experience in video and multi-media production. In addition to his award-winning documentaries\, commercials\, and long form programming\, Leighton has produced a variety of large-scale multimedia educational projects.  He has also worked to develop teacher development material with Apple\, the Lucas Foundation\, Center for Collaborative Education\, Classroom Connections\, the City of Boston\, Bates College\, and the Maine Learning Technology Initiative\, as well as the Tech Goes Home Project in Boston and the Diploma Plus Network of schools. Leighton is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern Maine\, teaching Special Effects and Animation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Filmmaker Anita ClearfieldAnita Clearfield\, Producer/Director/Artist\, has created many award-winning independent films\, documentaries and educational programs\, including “Olivia Records: More Than Music\,” “Vacation Nicaragua\,” and “There Ought to Be a Law”. She was a staff producer/director for Maine Public Broadcasting\, creating a variety of documentaries and science series. She has worked with Natasha Mayers on the Artists’ Rapid Response Team (ARRT!) and is a founder of LumenARRT!\, video projections for social change. She holds an M.F.A. from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and is a practicing painter and video installation artist.
URL:https://firstamendmentmuseum.org/event/natasha-mayers-an-un-still-life/
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