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Boas used the excitement generated by the Manifesto to launch the LBCDIF. Twenty-six meetings were organized to uphold the principles of the Manifesto, and the success of these meetings encouraged the organizers to expand the Birthday Committee to an ongoing group called the American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom (ACDIF).
The success prompted the ACLU to broaden their freedom of speech efforts beyond labor and political speech to encompass movies, press, radio, and literature. [125] The ACLU formed the National Committee on Freedom from Censorship in 1931 to coordinate this effort. [125] By the early 1930s, censorship in the United States was diminishing. [124]
The main goal of the organization is to defend the first amendment, freedom of thought, inquiry, and expression. NCAC's website contains reports of censorship incidents, analysis and discussion of free expression issues, a database of legal cases in the arts, an archive of NCAC's quarterly newsletter, a blog, and Censorpedia, a crowdsourced wiki.
Advancing American Freedom (AAF) is an American nonprofit organization that advocates for conservative politics, it was created in 2021 by Mike Pence. [ 1 ] History
The Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies (CDAAA) was an American mass movement and political action group formed in May 1940. Also known as the White Committee, its leader until January 1941 was William Allen White. Other important members included Clark Eichelberger and Dean Acheson. The CDAAA shared its leadership with the ...
The success prompted the ACLU to broaden their freedom of speech efforts beyond labor and political speech to encompass movies, press, radio, and literature. [39] The ACLU formed the National Committee on Freedom from Censorship in 1931 to coordinate this effort. [39] By the early 1930s, censorship in the United States was diminishing. [38]
The day-to-day operations of the organisation are run by the IFEX Secretariat based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. IFEX's mandate is to raise awareness by sharing information online and mobilising action on issues such as press freedom, Internet censorship, freedom of information legislation, criminal defamation and insult laws, media concentration and attacks on the free expression rights of ...
PEN International Writers in Prison Committee is a founding member of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX), a global network of 90 non-governmental organisations that monitors censorship worldwide and defends journalists, writers, internet users and others who are persecuted for exercising their right to freedom of expression ...