Portside

Daniel McGowan is now serving the last six months of his seven-year sentence for an environmentally motivated arson at a halfway house in Brooklyn. The Bureau of Prisons has retaliated against McGowan for writing constitutionally protected political blogs by placing him in a special prison unit and then after he was released, re-imprisoned him when he exercised his free speech rights by writing an article complaining about it. Kafka is twirling in his grave.

Use media to fight

Judgement Day for the merchants of death

How strong is the First Amendment?

Making sense of the new hell

New attacks on free speech for Palestine advocates

Organizers working to end police violence refuse to be intimidated by growing efforts to criminalize free speech.

Bang! Now what?

Holocaust scholar and pro-Palestine activist Norman Finkelstein expresses his support for the student protests, insisting on the importance of free speech and uniting the majority of Americans around solidarity with Gaza.