Word: freedom
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...vitally important that you know the guideline for interaction with media was never intended to limit anyone’s freedom of speech,” Dienstag wrote in the e-mail...
After the policy came under fire for its perceived restriction on freedom of speech, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Massachusetts contacted school officials to discuss the policy. Long an advocate of the freedom of expression on university campuses, the ACLU Foundation of Massachusetts wrote a letter to Clark University in Worcester last spring, urging university officials to reconsider a decision to cancel a talk by controversial political scientist Norman G. Finkelstein...
...focus in this case is to preserve the right to freedom of academic expression,” said ACLU staff attorney Sarah Wunsch...
...Though freedom of speech cannot legally be enforced at a private institution such as Harvard, University officials have an obligation to apply and protect the same principles in an academic setting, Wunsch said...
...already outlawed headscarves in schools, and where this summer Muslim women wearing what have been termed "burkinis" were refused entry to pools in France and Italy. But Americans are still divided on whether to embrace the declaration that President Obama made during his speech in Cairo this summer. "Freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to practice one's religion," said Obama. "That is why the U.S. government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab, and to punish those who would deny...