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For Immediate Release: July 17, 2011 The report issued last week by an unofficial coalition of parliamentarians is a threat to the  democratic rights of Canadians as the group makes recommendations to protect Israel from international criticism. The Canadian Parliamentary … Continue reading → seriously free speech committee

http://www.straight.com/article-405680/vancouver/brian-campbell-and-anne-roberts-labelling-criticism-israel-antisemitic-new-mccarthyism Jack Chivo constructs a sham argument in defence of Israel that relies on a false – and dangerous — definition of antisemitism.  To give it credibility, he calls it the European Union’s definition.  Not so.  It’s connection, at best, … Continue reading → seriously free speech committee

According to Mingpao Daily, Beijing Police has issued a notice to all the cafes and bars which provide Wi-Fi access to their customers to install a RMB20,000 monitoring system. Upon installation, users have to register their ID in the counter before logging in the Wi-Fi network. The notice was issued by the Beijing police around [...]

In Joyner v. Forsyth County, North Carolina, (4th Cir., July 29, 2011), the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision held that  the prayer policy of a county commission violated the Establishment Clause even though the policy was neutral on its face. All congregations in the community were invited to send a religious [...]

  Sherley vs. Sebelius, a lawsuit threatening stem cell research, was thrown out today. What does this mean? My paralyzed son Roman Reed and I were in the room when President Obama signed a declaration reversing the Bush doctrine, which had so severely limited stem cell research. What a shining moment that was, filled with [...]

Letter from America: Equating right-wing politics with violence could undermine political speech for all The Free Speech Blog: Official blog of Index on Censorship

Federal funding of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research is now legal in the United States. Chief judge of the US District Court for the District of Columbia Royce Lamberth has ruled on the case Sherley et al. v. More: Judge Rules For Federal Funding of Stem Cell Research | Geekosystem Advance Stem Cell Research

Paul Knoepfler Knoepfler Lab Photo California stem cell researcher Paul Knoepfler today published a piece in Nature about his nearly two years as a stem cell blogger – a period that included a bout with both cancer and “negative feedback,” including insistence that he shut down his blog. Knoepfler is an associate professor at the [...]

As a new Aborton Gang blogger, I was (and still am) very nervous about my first post.  Thoughts kept running through my head: “What will be my blogging ‘voice’? Will I be able to live up to my fellow bloggers’ expectations?” Hence, it was super difficult for my overactive brain to decide on topic for this [...]

John Rosenberg of Discriminations wrote a follow-up piece at Minding the Campus to a previous article about a black University of Virginia law student named Johnathan Perkins. Perkins falsely claimed he was the subject of racial profiling and abuse by campus police. He said he made it up to “bring attention to … police misconduct.” [...]