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| How
Does The
First Amendment
Impact Your
Life? A
recent survey
concluded
that young
people feel
the First
Amendment
is not vital
to their
lives. We
at FFE want
to challenge
this conclusion
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where you
come in. more >> |
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New Book From FFE President Jamye Waxman
Getting Off: A Woman's Guide to Masturbation
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Masturbation is like tuning a radio—you don’t know what frequencies you’ll enjoy until you play with the knobs. Masturbation has a complicated stigma attached to it; everybody is doing it, but not everybody talks about it. Some were told that touching oneself would cause cute kittens to die, some were told masturbation led blindness. Getting Off: A Woman's Guide to Masturbation is here to debunk those masturbation myths, and reinforce the truth.. more >> |
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New Book From FFE Board Member Barbara Carrellas
Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty First Century
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Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty First Century is a book about consciousness cleverly disguised as a sex guide. It's is for everyone who would like to have a more sexual and spiritual ecstasy in their lives. Urban Tantra shows you how sacred sex can be practiced anywhere from ashrams to a lap dancing parlors-and in the time you actually have available in your busy life. more >> |
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| Protect
reproductive and adult sexual privacy
by sending this letter to your Congressmen:
Dear Senator or Representative:
In 1991 National NOW (National Organization
For Women) approved a proposed
Privacy Amendment to the US Constitution.
The measure, which originated with
grassroots New York activists,
would protect reproductive and
adult sexual privacy from campaigns
suggesting that the penumbra Constitutional
right is not sufficient to protect
Americans from Governmental intrusion
into the most personal of decisions.
By the time of NOW's
approval, a number of national and
state level organizations had signed
on to the project. Congressman Ted
Weiss - NY (D) had been approached,
and although he joked about the length
of time such a project might take,
he had agreed to make the first step
in this journey by introducing the
Privacy Amendment, if only to get
it into the Congressional Record.
Unfortunately Congressman Weiss passed
away days after his meeting with
then NOW-New York State President
Marilyn Fitterman and East End NOW
Privacy Rights Chair Sandy Rapp.
Today we ask that
you introduce and/or sponsor this
simple affirmation of human dignity:
Proposed Privacy Amendment
The right to privacy in matters of
birth-control, abortion, and consensual
adult* sexual relations conducted
in private shall not be abridged
by the United States or by any state.
*Adult status" is
proposed to be associated with the
Constitutionally-determined voting
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The
Fair Use Network is Launched
The Free Expression Policy Project
has just launched a new website with
information and resources to help artists,
scholars, activists, and everyone else
who contributes to culture and political
debate defend their rights to fair
use under copyright and trademark law.
Go to www.fairusenetwork.org and
take a look. |
Knight,
Channel One Team Up to Boost Teens'
Understanding of First Amendment
Channel
One ( http://www.channelone.com )
and the Miami-based John
S. and James L. Knight Foundation
( http://knightfdn.org )have
announced a national campaign
to help teens understand
and appreciate the personal
freedoms guaranteed by the
First Amendment.
The three-year
program, funded with a $2.25 million
grant from Knight, will begin in
January 2007, with Channel One
providing a mix of broadcast and
ChannelOne.com programming, public
service announcements, student
events, and instructional materials
and other resources for educators.
The network is a major provider
of news and public affairs content
for teenagers and reaches more
than seven million students in
middle and high school nationwide.
"Our surveys
of high school teens show there's
great interest in the First Amendment
but also great skepticism," said
Knight Foundation president Alberto
Ibargüen. "Our collaboration
with Channel One will help us take
the message of the rights -- and
responsibilities -- of freedom of
expression and the press dir- ectly
to the future leaders of this country."
http://fconline.foundationcenter.org |
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| The
First Amendment Congress
shall make no law respecting an establishment
of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,
or of the press; or the right of the people
peaceably to assemble, and to petition
the Government for a redress of grievances. |
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FEATURED POSTING
| High Court Leaves Ala. Sex Toy Ban Intact -Phillip Rawls
(AP) |
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a challenge to Alabama's ban on the sale of sex toys, ending a nine-year legal battle and sending a warning to store owners to clean off their shelves.
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SPECIAL ALERTS
Report
Finds Rampant Censorship at American
Colleges and Universities
A report released by the Foundation
for Individual Rights in Education
(FIRE) reveals that burdensome restrictions
on speech are commonplace at America's
colleges and universities.
The full report
is available here: www.thefire.org |
Free
Speech Groups Urge Court to Reject
FCC Censorship
New York, NY, November 30,
2006-New standards adopted by the Federal
Communications Commission to censor "indecency" on
the airwaves are overly vague and unconstitutional,
a coalition of 20 free speech organizations,
community broadcasters, filmmakers,
performers and writers argued in a
legal brief filed today.
The full brief is available as a
PDF: http://www.fepproject.org
For more information:
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Public
Opinion on First Amendment Sets Stage
For Supreme Court Rulings, Yale Law
Study Concludes
Study
emphasizes the
importance of educating
the public on freedom
of speech and other
civil liberties.
MIAMI - Do public attitudes about the
First Amendment matter? The answer, simply,
is yes. And here's the latest reason
why: Because public opinion shapes how
the Supreme Court rules.
The study is
available on the web HERE . |
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