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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/
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230112T180000
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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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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: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: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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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/
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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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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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