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Free speech : what everyone needs to know - Nadine Strossen.
Free speech : what everyone needs to know - Nadine Strossen.
"This concise but comprehensive book engagingly lays out answers to myriad questions about free speech principles and current controversies, including those pertaining to hate speech, disinformation, and social media. Nadine Strossen, one of America's leading free speech scholars and advocates, focuses on modern First Amendment law, explaining the historic factors that propelled its evolution toward more speech protection -- in particular, the civil rights movement. She highlights the many cases in which robust speech-protective principles have aided advocates of racial justice and other human rights causes. The book also shows how these rulings reflect universal, timeless values that benefit everyone, regardless of identity or ideology. Correcting prevalent misunderstandings, the book explains that the First Amendment sensibly permits government to outlaw the speech that is the most dangerous, while outlawing the censorship that is the most dangerous. The book's lively question-and-answer format clearly and memorably presents free speech tenets, citing colorful episodes and eloquent language from landmark Supreme Court opinions. It will be illuminating to a wide range of readers, from those who know nothing about free speech law, to experts who seek a well-organized summary of major doctrines, as well as insights into their background and rationales." --
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Free speech : what everyone needs to know - Nadine Strossen.
Fearless speech : breaking free from the First Amendment - Mary Anne Franks.
Fearless speech : breaking free from the First Amendment - Mary Anne Franks.
"Fearless Speech emphasizes the distinction between what speech a democratic society should protect and what speech a democratic society should promote. The First Amendment has been legally deployed most visibly and effectively to promote powerful antidemocratic interests: misogyny, racism, religious zealotry, and corporate self-interest, in other words, reckless speech. Franks argues we need to focus on fearless speech--speakers who have called out injustice and hold the powerful accountable"--
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Fearless speech : breaking free from the First Amendment - Mary Anne Franks.
'Flood injustice' calls us to declare the dignity of vulnerable communities | National Catholic Reporter
'Flood injustice' calls us to declare the dignity of vulnerable communities | National Catholic Reporter
In this dispiriting moment when the Trump administration has rejected environmental justice and climate change, what can the 2023 Pajaro flood teach us about how Catholic moral thought responds to such realities?
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'Flood injustice' calls us to declare the dignity of vulnerable communities | National Catholic Reporter
The rise of social consciousness: Tucson protests surge amid global conflicts
The rise of social consciousness: Tucson protests surge amid global conflicts
Tucson has become a hotspot for growing protests, sparked by global issues like the Israel-Palestine conflict and local reactions to President Donald Trump’s policies. What began as a response from the University of Arizona students to the escalating violence between Israel and Palestine in October 2023 became a focal point for a new wave of...
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The rise of social consciousness: Tucson protests surge amid global conflicts
Roundup: Trump-Era Agency Policy in the Courts
Roundup: Trump-Era Agency Policy in the Courts
Our new data tool, Tracking Major Rules in the Courts, compiles more up-to-date case results that can be easily compared across presidential administrations, and offers additional research findings. Between 2017 and 2021, the Institute for Policy Integrity[[The Institute for Policy Integrity has filed amicus briefs in several of the cases discussed in this Roundup. Policy Integrity did not represent any of the parties.]]documented the outcomes of litigation over the Trump administration's use of federal agencies to implement its policies.[[The Roundup does not include litigation over self-implementing presidential memoranda or executive orders or over project-level decisions.]] We tracked litigation over agency actions such as regulations, guidance documents, and agency memoranda.[[At times, advocates have brought lawsuits over a single agency action in multiple different courts. The Roundup combines decisions from different courts regarding the same agency action in a single entry. ]] The win-loss rate below reflects all decisions through January 20, 2021, when the Biden administration took office. [[A new administration’s litigation strategy may differ from the previous administration’s litigation strategy due to differences in policy objectives. See Bethany A. Davis Noll, “Tired of Winning”: Judicial Review of Regulatory Policy in the Trump Era, 73 Admin L. Rev. 353, 389 (2021) (noting ways in which Biden administration’s strategy changed in light of substantive goals). Accordingly, changes after President Biden took office are not clearly attributable to the Trump administration, and we did not recategorize reversals that occurred after this transition.]] Any reversals or modifications on appeal that occurred during the remainder of 2021 are noted in the case descriptions. [[The Roundup reflects wins and losses as they stood on January 20, 2021 when President Biden was inaugurated and his administration took over the defense of cases. Subsequent reversals on appeal or any other subsequent modifications that occurred prior to April 1, 2022 are noted in the relevant entry, but are not reflected in "win" or "loss" categorizations. If cases in the tracker were instead categorized as wins or losses based on subsequent substantive reversals on appeal or other subsequent modifications that occurred, 57 cases (23%) would have been successful for the administration and 188 (77%) of cases would have been unsuccessful for the administration.]] As of April 25, 2022, those updates are no longer being added.
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Roundup: Trump-Era Agency Policy in the Courts
Akin's Trump Executive Order Tracker
Akin's Trump Executive Order Tracker
The executive orders published by the Trump Administration cut across dozens of industries. This searchable tool, helps clients break down the orders and their impacts on specific industries. Akin will provide in-depth analysis of specific orders.
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Akin's Trump Executive Order Tracker
Report of the Prejudicial Materials Working Group - RBMS Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Group, June 2024
Report of the Prejudicial Materials Working Group - RBMS Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Group, June 2024
The Prejudicial Materials Working Group (PMWG) of the RBMS Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Group (CVEG) was convened in the summer of 2020 to review, revise, and generate new terminology in the RBMS Controlled Vocabulary for Rare Materials Cataloging (RBMS CVRMC) that would be useful for indexing works that are prejudicial in nature, or that are the byproduct of prejudicial and hateful systems and ideologies. This work included review and revision of scope notes and relationships between terms.
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Report of the Prejudicial Materials Working Group - RBMS Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Group, June 2024
Women's History Month 2025 | A Reading List
Women's History Month 2025 | A Reading List
In 1987, Women’s History Month was formally recognized by presidential proclamation as a monthlong celebration to honor women’s contributions, accomplishments, and voices throughout U.S. history. The following books spotlight extraordinary women from the distant and not-so-distant past—women both imagined and real, both famous and little-known, coming from diverse cultures, countries, and continents.
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Women's History Month 2025 | A Reading List
“Urgent need": Report paints stark picture of homeless services in Tucson and Pima County - AZ Luminaria
“Urgent need": Report paints stark picture of homeless services in Tucson and Pima County - AZ Luminaria
Day in and day out, social workers and case managers working to find people housing in Pima County hit an overwhelming reality: homelessness in the region is increasing, funding cliffs mean fewer beds, and the majority of unhoused individuals who request help from service providers are unlikely to see any result.  It’s an unflinching picture […]
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“Urgent need": Report paints stark picture of homeless services in Tucson and Pima County - AZ Luminaria
Defending the "Walled Garden": Yes, Academic Libraries Actually Should Focus on the Needs of Their Host Institutions - The Scholarly Kitchen
Defending the "Walled Garden": Yes, Academic Libraries Actually Should Focus on the Needs of Their Host Institutions - The Scholarly Kitchen
Academic libraries' first and most fundamental obligation is to support the work of their host institutions.
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Defending the "Walled Garden": Yes, Academic Libraries Actually Should Focus on the Needs of Their Host Institutions - The Scholarly Kitchen
Tracking Trump 2.0 - Center for Progressive Reform
Tracking Trump 2.0 - Center for Progressive Reform
With the second Trump administration and the 119th Congress now in power, the Center for Progressive Reform is defending our safeguards and standing up for our democracy. We’re also driving, supporting, and showcasing progress and positive developments on climate justice, environmental justice, a just energy transition, and more when and where they occur in the states.
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Tracking Trump 2.0 - Center for Progressive Reform
Curating for data rescue - Data Curation Network
Curating for data rescue - Data Curation Network
This recent federal agency changes and confusion over access to federally funded research, including the removal of access to data, alteration of existing datasets, and the removal and alteration of documentation, reaffirms the Data Curation Network’s dedication to data curation and preservation. We are grateful for the time and energy of our colleagues across the...
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Curating for data rescue - Data Curation Network
ALA to U. S. Department of Education: Book bans are real | ALA
ALA to U. S. Department of Education: Book bans are real | ALA
The American Library Association responds to the Department of Education's dismissal of complaints about censorship and discrimination: the "effort to terminate protections... advances the demonstrably false claim that book bans are not real."
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ALA to U. S. Department of Education: Book bans are real | ALA
Large floods drive changes in cause-specific mortality in the United States - Nature Medicine
Large floods drive changes in cause-specific mortality in the United States - Nature Medicine
Analyses of death records over the two decades in the United States reported greater mortality from infectious and parasitic diseases, injuries and respiratory and cardiovascular diseases associated with exposures to flooding events, particularly floods caused by tropical cyclones and heavy rain.
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Large floods drive changes in cause-specific mortality in the United States - Nature Medicine