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Across the nation, free speech rights are under attack. Join us in defending this essential quality of liberty. Make your voice heard and join a campaign below.
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Off-Campus Take Action Library
Stand with historian sued for reporting academic fraud
If we allow scholars to be intimidated into silence under the threat of meritless legal action, we risk losing the critical voices that keep our government, history, and society honest.
Defending Our Right to Free Speech Online
Texas lawmakers are censoring first and asking questions later. This doesn’t make anyone safer; it just silences essential conversations.
Posthumous Pardon for D.M. Bennett
FIRE filed a petition on June 17 calling on President Joe Biden to posthumously pardon D.M. Bennett, one of the Comstock Act’s most prominent victims.
Protect the First Amendment: Oppose the Antisemitism Awareness Act
Speak out against this unconstitutional legislation by emailing your senator today.
Help Defend Free Speech in Vermont!
Demand state police develop and implement policies that ensure our First Amendment rights.
On-Campus Take Action Library
Tell NYU’s accreditor that enough is enough
Over the past year, NYU has repeatedly violated the expressive rights of students and faculty who engage in pro-Palestinian speech. NYU must be held accountable for its campaign of censorship.
Tell Columbia its “Abysmal” speech climate is unacceptable
Tell Columbia to cultivate a better climate for free expression by realigning itself with its own promises to protect free speech. Only then can Columbia bounce back from this year’s ranking.
Tell UT Dallas to honor student speech rights
Because UT Dallas has continuously allowed the "spirit rocks" to be used for political expression, it cannot now limit that speech or cut it off entirely because it does not like the views expressed.
Penn State must end its reign of censorship now
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Penn State is engaging in censorship, and it must end now.
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