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Freedom of Speech
| Pledge of Allegiance | School Prayer| Evolution vs. Creationism | Right to Protest | Flag Burning | Hate | Religion | Music Freedom | Dress Code | Banned Books | Music File Sharing | CIPA/Filtering | Patriot Act | T-shirts | General | TV/Video Violence | Ratings Systems | Standards |
General
The First Amendment
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=3924
Text and explication.
The Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/
Collections from every part of America's past. Search for images and documents.
National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/
All of the U.S. official documents are available here.
First Amendment Basics from the American Library Association http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/basics/firstamendment.htm
“Congress Shall Make No Law Respecting an Establishment of Religion, or Prohibiting the Free Exercise Thereof; or Abridging the Freedom of Speech, or of the Press; or the Right of the People Peaceably to Assemble, and To Petition the Government for a Redress of Grievances.”
Rally for Free Speech in Cyberspace
http://www.mediacast.com/Calendar/95-12-14/Rally/images/Papa,_Elan/
Photo gallery of rally for free speech at South Park, San Francisco.
Freedom of Speech in the United States
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/default.html
News updates, links to resources, court decisions, historic documents.
Student Press Law Center - News Flashes
http://www.splc.org/newsflash.asp?id=652&year=
"While support of the First Amendment is increasing, Americans are not as willing to apply it to high school students, an annual survey conducted by the Freedom Forum’s First Amendment Center and the American Journalism Review reveals."
EFF Blue Ribbon Campaign Home Page
http://www.eff.org/br/
Local site with links to news items concerning privacy and free speech.
THE BILL OF RIGHTS
http://memory.loc.gov/const/bor.html
"The Conventions of a number of the States having, at the time of adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added, and as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution..."
American Civil Liberties Union
http://www.aclu.org/FreeSpeech/FreeSpeechMain.cfm
Freedom of speech page of the legal organization that protects our civil rights. Links to issues and updates.
Unlimited Freedom of Speech, free speech, free press, individual freedom http://free.freespeech.org/unlimitedfreedom/?poll123=102089
"Activism, alternative news, individual rights, guns, peace, free speech, security,
terror, new world order, freedom, humor."
Banned books
Banned Books Online
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/banned-books.html
ALA's short history of banned books.
Banned Books and Censorship -- A Closer Look at Book Banning http://www.booksatoz.com/censorship/banned.htm
"Every year, books in the U.S. and around the world are challenged. Some of the challenged books are banned, some aren't. The punishment for
ignoring these bans range from almost nonexistent to severe. Here are some sites that deal with who bans these books, and why."
ALA | Banned Books Week
http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Our_Association/Offices/Intellectual_Freedom3/Banned_Books_Week/Banned_Books_Week.htm
A guide to Banned Books Week for librarians.
Surfing the Net with Kids: Banned Books Week
http://www.surfnetkids.com/banned.htm
P2P definition
http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci212769,00.html
"Peer-to-peer is a communications model in which each party has the same capabilities and either party can initiate a communication session. "
Rappers in Disharmony on P2P
http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,60650,00.html
Article about music file sharing.
P2P United http://www.p2punited.org/
Advocacy site that includes links to news articles.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/howto-notgetsued.php
How not to get sued by the RIAA for file-sharing.
ISPs Ignore RIAA's New P2P Ploy
http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3300211
"After an appeals court ruled that Internet service providers (ISPs) do not have to hand over names of suspected music pirates to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), ISPs are showing no interest in the RIAA's latest effort to enlist them in its fight against music piracy."
CIPA
Witnesses advocate unfiltered Internet
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/local/2943252.htm
Philadelphia Inquirer article about testimony before federal judges regarding CIPA.
CIPA FAQs
http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Our_Association/Offices/ALA_Washington/Issues2/Civil_Liberties,_Intellectual_Freedom,_Privacy/CIPA1/legalfaq.htm
Frequently asked questions about the Children's Internet Protection Act. Published by the American Library Association.
WIP: CIPA
http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/cipa.htm
Background and summary of the Children's Internet Protection Act.
USA PATRIOT Act (H.R. 3162)
http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/hr3162.html
Text of the act.
ACLU search results
http://search.aclu.org/AdvancedSearchResults.cfm
Linked articles about the Patriot Acts 1 and 2.
Elliot's story
http://www.afa.net/homosexual_agenda/elliotsstory.asp
Elliot Cambers was told not to wear his "straight pride" sweatshirt to school.
Gutsy Teen Lesbian, Pride of Queens
http://www.gaycitynews.com/gcn226/gutsyteenlesbian.html
News article about Natalie Young, who is suing her school district for not allowing her to wear a t-shirt to class.
News/Activism by keyword TSHIRT
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/k-tshirt/browse
Links to articles and opinions about confederate symbols on t-shirts, anti-Bush, etc.
Student’s Right to Wear Anti-War T-Shirt to School
http://www.aclu.org/FreeSpeech/FreeSpeech.cfm?ID=13913&c=87
"In a victory for students’ free speech rights, a federal judge has ruled that the Dearborn teenager who was prohibited from wearing a t-shirt with a picture of President Bush that reads, "International Terrorist" must be allowed to wear the shirt to school. "
Heather Wells fights her school dress code
http://www.libertarianrock.com/topics/rockstars/heather_wells_dress_code.html
One student's battle.
A Careful Look at Pro-Uniform Arguments
http://www.geocities.com/hardingpj/uniformslookatarguments.html
"We hear a lot of arguments in favor of school uniforms.
Let's see if they make sense."
Legal Issues
http://www.geocities.com/hardingpj/uniformslegal.html
Links to articles.
Mother Knows Best
http://www.geocities.com/hardingpj/uniformsmotherknowsbest.html
"School Uniforms take power away from parents."
Student Rights and School Dress Codes and Uniforms
http://www.tentler.com/dress.htm
"These pages provide general information on School Dress Codes and uniforms. "
Student Dress Codes
http://eric.uoregon.edu/publications/digests/digest117.html
"Many school boards, mindful of their responsibility to provide safe school environments for students, have implemented policies specifying dress codes or the wearing of uniforms."
The Freedom of Religion Page
http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/
Links to the Constitution, texts and court decisions.
Freedom From Religion Foundation
http://ffrf.org/index.php
Links to articles, quotes and student essays. "Since 1978, the nonprofit Freedom From Religion Foundation has been working to keep state and church separate and educate the public about the views of nontheists.
Religious Liberty-ACLU
http://www.aclu.org/ReligiousLiberty/ReligiousLibertyMain.cfm
"Americans enjoy a degree of religious freedom unknown in most of the rest of the world, and they take full advantage it: the United States is home to more than 1,500 different religious bodies and 360,000 churches, synagogues and mosques."
Religion and the Founding of the American Republic-Library of Congress
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/religion.html
"This exhibition demonstrates that many of the colonies that in 1776 became the United States of America were settled by men and women of deep religious convictions who in the seventeenth century crossed the Atlantic Ocean to practice their faith freely."
Evolution vs. Creationism in schools
Why Teach Evolution?
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/evolution98/evol1.html
National Academy Press page.
Statement on Teaching Evolution
http://www.nabt.org/sub/position_statements/evolution.asp
National Association of Biology Teachers statement.
Proposal to teach evolution without using word
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4107285/
"Georgia schools would replace it with 'biological changes over time'"
Teach Evolution : Evolving Concepts
http://www.accessexcellence.org/WN/SUA12/nas498.html
From Access Excellence at the National Health Museum
The Teaching of Evolution
http://www.nsta.org/positionstatement&psid=10
National Science Teachers Association Position Statement
The Mathematical Impossibility of Evolution
http://www.icr.org/pubs/btg/btg-179.pdf
The creationist point of view by the Institute for Creationist Research.
Fossils --Dinosaur bones help pastor teach creationism
http://www.eagletribune.com/news/stories/20021013/FP_002.htm
News article in the Eagle-Tribune (New Hampshire.)
Religious Liberty Battles Continue
http://archive.aclu.org/features/f070700a.html
From ACLU.
Constitutional Amendment on School Prayer or Moment of Silence
http://archive.aclu.org/library/aaprayer.html
ACLU position paper.
Important School Prayer Rulings
http://www.schoolprayer.com/courts/rulings.html
Timeline.
Americans For Voluntary School Prayer
http://www.concentric.net/~Dannemyr/
Published by former Congressman Bill Dannemeyer.
Pro and Con Arguments
http://www.schoolprayer.com/eduguide/positions.html
From the film "School Prayer : A Community at War."
Parental Advisory
http://ericnuzum.com/banned/
"A Brief History of Banned Music in the United States by Eric Nuzum"
Links to historical articles and opinion.
Popular Music Under Siege
http://archive.aclu.org/library/pbr3.html
ACLU archived article.
Rock & Roll: Does it influence teens' behavior?
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/1997/november12/teenmusic.html
Stanford (Online) report by Kathleen O'Toole.
Yahoo Music Censorship Links
http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Censorship/
Rock Out Censorship - Frequently asked questions
http://www.theroc.org/aboutroc/faq1.htm
"I'm doing a school project on music censorship, can you send me some information on the subject?"
Racist Speech on College Campuses
http://www.eff.org/Censorship/Hate-speech_discrimination/hate_speech_aclu.article
""Why doesn't the ACLU support hate speech codes on college campuses?"
Can we kill/should we kill the Messenger?
http://www.fmew.com/archive/cults/
One law firm addresses this issue.
How does ROC feel about free speech for Nazi hate groups?
http://www.theroc.org/aboutroc/faq13.htm
Rock Out Censorship's FAQ response.
Hate Groups, the Internet and Libraries
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/divers/conf/extrmist.htm
"A Presentation and Discussion led by Kevin R. Harwell,
Social Sciences Librarian, Penn State University Libraries."
Censorship Hurts Women
http://www.ncac.org/projects/chwflyer.html
From the National Coalition Against Censorship.
Hatewatch
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/hatewatch/
The Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project site has linked articles.
Holocaust Denial from The Anti-Defamation League
http://www.adl.org/hate-patrol/holocaust.asp
"Holocaust Denial is an Anti-Semitic propaganda movement active in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe that seeks to deny the reality of the Nazi regime's systematic mass murder of six million Jews during World War II."
ACLU on flag burning
http://www.aclu.org/FreeSpeech/FreeSpeechlist.cfm?c=50
"For more than a decade, the Citizen's Flag Alliance and others have expended seemingly endless resources lobbying candidates and members of Congress to pass a constitutional amendment giving the government the power to prohibit the physical desecration of the American flag."
A letter from Gen. Colin Powell
http://www.asne.org/ideas/flagpowell.htm
"The First Amendment exists to insure that freedom of speech and expression applies not just to that with which we agree or disagree, but also that which we find outrageous."
Citizens' Flag Alliance
http://www.cfa-inc.org/
". . . a group of individuals and organizations that support passage of an amendment to the United States Constitution that will return to "We the people" the freedom to protect the U.S. Flag from physical desecration."
Issue: Burning the American Flag
http://www.pbs.org/jefferson/enlight/flag.htm
"The burning of the American flag continues to be debated."
Illinois Town Targets Violent Arcade Games
http://archive.aclu.org/news/2000/w092800d.html
"Children's exposure to violence and sex in movies and video games has emerged as a major issue"
Anti-violent video game bill becomes law
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2003May/bga20030523020126.htm
"Groups who say they represent students, pediatricians, schools, and police support the law, but the ACLU, retail and rental stores, and Nintendo and Microsoft oppose it."
Minors' access to violent games could be limited
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/comics/7713271.htm
"North Miami moves to curb sale and rental of violent video games to minors, but critics say the proposed ordinance borders on censorship."
Violence Chip
http://archive.aclu.org/library/aavchip.html
"Why Does the ACLU Oppose the V-Chip Legislation Currently Pending In Congress?"
Freedom of Expression in the Arts and Entertainment
http://archive.aclu.org/library/pbp14.html
ACLU briefing paper.
Motion Picture Association of America Voluntary Ratings System
http://www.mpaa.org/movieratings/
The familiar system seen in theaters.
Decent Films Ratings
http://www.decentfilms.com/about/ratingsintro.html
"The Decent Films Guide four-part ratings system is more complex than other ratings systems, but was designed to be very intuitive and easy to learn."
Ratings: The United States Catholic Conference of Bishops
http://www.decentfilms.com/about/usccb.html
"Where applicable, the Decent Films Guide provides classifications assigned to films by the Office of Film and Broadcasting of the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops."
Two PICS-based self-rating systems
http://www.icehouse.net/jim_d/ratings.html
"The RSACi ratings scheme was originally designed for computer games, and adapted for use on the Web; SafeSurf was meant to be a Web ratings system from the beginning."
Pediatricians Respond to TV Industry Ratings System
http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content2/news2/tv.ratings.html
"The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) today stated that any effective television ratings system should be content based to offer parents guidance on a program's level of sex, violence and language."
Frequently Asked Questions About the V-Chip
http://www.childrennow.org/media/vchip/vchip-faq.html
"Children Now is an independent, nonpartisan organization."
Television ratings controversies
http://www.mediascope.org/pubs/ibriefs/trc.htm
"The controversy surrounding television ratings followed a December 1996 announcement by the Television Implementation Committee -- led by Jack Valenti, President of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) -- on the creation of TV Parental Guidelines, a system designed to meet the requirements of the Telecommunications Act of 1996."
Free Speech : Right to protest
http://www.aclu.org/FreeSpeech/FreeSpeechlist.cfm?c=86
Links to news articles on the ACLU site.
Right to Protest at Risk
http://www.saveourcivilliberties.org/en/2004/02/249.shtml
Article by Judy Ettenhofer (Capital Times journalist.)
Government Prosecutes Greenpeace Over Protest
http://www.corpwatch.org/news/PND.jsp?articleid=8889
By Duncan Campbell The Guardian (London)October 31, 2003
Students travel to Florida to protest NAFTA's expansion
http://www.michigandaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/11/21/3fbdab937ab74
By Adam Rosen, Michigan Daily Staff Reporter, November 21, 2003
It's our right to protest
http://www.socialistworker.org/2004-1/487/487_04_ProtestRight.shtml
"Seattle police settle with anti-WTO demonstrators."
Federal court upholds WTO no-protest zone
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=15273
"SEATTLE - A no-protest zone and curfews imposed after violent disorders erupted during World Trade Organization protests in late 1999 have been upheld by federal judge."
Kent State protests, 1970
http://alancanfora.com/may4fr.htm
American students were shot by the National Guard during a campus protest.
Protesters Cry Foul, Claim Their Actions Were Nonviolent
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1227-02.htm
"Cops Defend Use of 'Spy' Tactics"
US puts right to protest at risk
http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=3468&fcategory_desc=Bush%20Environmental%20Impact
""Two hundred and thirty years ago American protesters boarded ships over objectionable cargo," he said. "It was called the Boston Tea Party, and it was critical to focusing colonists' objections to British rule... If such limited protests against commercial ships are banned, then acts of protest in malls, universities and public plazas will be next."
The Pledge of Allegiance
http://wilstar.com/holidays/pledge.htm
Includes Guidelines for Displaying the Flag.
The Strange Origin of the Pledge of Allegiance
http://archive.aclu.org/news/move/pledgeorigin.html
"How did this Pledge of Allegiance to a flag replace the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights in the affections of many Americans?" How a flag salesman influenced policy, from ACLU.
The Values of the Pledge of Allegiance
http://www.aclunc.org/opinion/020903-pledge.html
Opinion which appeared in the Daily Journal September 3, 2002.
The Pledge of Allegiance: A Short History
http://history.vineyard.net/pledge.htm
By Dr. John W. Baer.
Lawmakers blast Pledge ruling
http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/06/26/pledge.allegiance/
News article from CNN.
Senate Bill 1558
http://www.stopliberaljudges.com/
"Senator Wayne Allard of Colorado has given Americans a method to restore our religious liberties by introducing a bill, S. 1558, called the "Religious Liberties Restoration Act.""
Restore our Pledge of Allegiance
http://www.restorethepledge.com/
"The Supreme Court said on Tuesday, October 14, 2003 that it will hear the case."
Standards
7th Grade Social Studies Standard 7.11.6 CA Reading Standards 2.1-2.3 and 2.6; Writing Standards 1.4-1.6; Writing Applications Standard 2.3; ELD Strands: Organization and Focus, Evaluation and Revision, Research and Technology.
National Educational Technology Standards (NETS•S) and Performance Indicators for Students:
3. Research and Information Fluency
Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information. Students:
a. plan strategies to guide inquiry.
b. locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and
media.
c. evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks.
d. process data and report results.
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