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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
In an effort to activate a deeper understanding of Free Speech and First Amendment issues across the country, the Free Speech Project at Georgetown University, in collaboration with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, will hold four regional symposia around the United States. We are pleased to announce that the first one will be in St. Paul, Minnesota, and co-hosted by Hamline University.
Free Speech at the Crossroads: A Minnesota Dialogue will take place Monday-Wednesday, September 18-20, 2023, with the first day at the Knight Foundation offices in downtown St. Paul, and the subsequent two days on the campus of Hamline University.
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Pitched battles in the streets of Berkeley, California, as rival factions fight over who should be allowed to speak at one of America’s great public universities. A faculty member seriously injured on the idyllic campus of Middlebury College in Vermont as violence erupts at a talk by a controversial visitor. The staff of the main newspaper in Maryland’s capital devastated by a shooter pursuing “the enemies of the people.” These incidents represent just a few of the ways Free Speech is threatened in the United States today. The Free Speech Project at Georgetown University works to document and analyze such threats through its flagship enterprise, the Free Speech Tracker.
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Everyday, the First Amendment is exercised, tested, and debated in countless ways. The Free Speech Tracker provides a glimpse of the controversies sweeping public and private spaces, from college campuses to state capitols. Our map permits visualization of national trends, and summaries of each incident or legislative development reveal the issues at stake.