Sentences with phrase «week of free speech»

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«It is with regret that we tell our members and all of those who treasure free speech and the separation of religion and government that American Atheists and Adams Outdoor Advertising have mutually agreed to remove the billboards immediately,» Amanda Knief, American Atheists» managing director, said in a statement last week.

Last week ended with a speech by Jeremy Corbyn in which he lashed out at a Brexit strategy which would take away workers» rights and industrial standards and leave us at the mercy of US corporations in a Tory free market paradise.

But Johnson made clear in his speech to the Tory conference this week that the prime minister should go further and place the free movement of people around the EU on the negotiating table.

(Two weeks before the FTC publicly announced its lawsuit, POM preemptively sued the FTC, claiming that preapproval of ads featuring health claims violates the companys right to free speech.)

Harvard Admission Decision Prompts Debate Over Free Speech (Boston Globe) Howard Gardner weighs in on a free speech debate as it applies to a broader Harvard admissions decision this past week to rescind admission to a group of students for their activity on social meFree Speech (Boston Globe) Howard Gardner weighs in on a free speech debate as it applies to a broader Harvard admissions decision this past week to rescind admission to a group of students for their activity on social mefree speech debate as it applies to a broader Harvard admissions decision this past week to rescind admission to a group of students for their activity on social media.

WASHINGTON — Teachers» unions L violate non-members rights to free dom of speech and association when they use the fees that non-members are compelled to pay for activities unrelated to local collective barL gaining, a lawyer for six Michigan college instructors told the U.S. Su preme Court last week.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined last week to hear two appeals involving the free - speech rights of educators involving school matters.

Last week, lead plaintiff Rebecca Friedrichs and Terry Pell, president of the Center for Individual Rights, outlined their side of the case with reporter, insisting that forcing employees to pay dues to a union infringed on their rights to free speech.

Legal Simon Jones has commentary on the defeat this week of a controversial bill in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly to tighten regulations on the sexual depictions of minors in manga, anime and video games: «This is a social battle waged in legislature, and the ultimate goal is to once again push adult content back into the darkest recesses of society, by getting people accustomed to the idea of granting rights to fictional characters, and eroding the rights of real people to have free and unpleasant speech.

While Obama's Earth Day speech in the Everglades turned out to be a big nothingburger — except if you're the parent of a fourth - grader who'll now receive a free annual National Park pass — there are renewed signs this week that his nickel - and - dime approach to fighting climate change is finally starting to pay off.

Guest - hosting The Rush Limbaugh Show last week, I mentioned an outrageous and very direct assault on free speech by the Government of the United States.

U.S. District Judge Robert E. Blackburn ruled on Friday of last week that the act violates free speech.

Continuing on his meme of a few weeks ago, blogfather Volokh takes a long look at Sweden's incomplete protection for free speech (in this case, a «hate speech» against homosexuality), and provides a little historical perspective for a logic - based (and refreshingly non-PC) reality check:

This week, we follow - up with two guests who believe such laws would be a serious mistake, because of both their chilling effect on free speech and their needless criminalization of -LSB-...]

On Thursday last week, eight judges in South Korea's Constitutional Court unanimously struck down a law requiring the use of real names online on the grounds that it violated the constitutional right to free speech.

In the aftermath of the brutal killings of a dozen staff members at the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo last week, rallies in support of free speech sprang up across Europe and elsewhere, most featuring the slogan «Je Suis Charlie.»

yro.slashdot.org - In an article published on The New Yorker this week, Andrew Marantz discusses the state of free speech on the Web and takes a look at Reddit, the internet's fourth - most - popular site, after Google, YouTube, and Facebook.