In the USA, exchange/foreign students don't have freedom of speech, students can better choose for the EU or other countries.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Z1vfWt4hDin5H8Mn4znKo?si=YfyvzfhvTXeqnnKu8pwJWw
#usa #students #freedomofspeech #trump #fascism #ice #universities #science
#Quakers condemn arrests of #activists at meeting house
March 30, 2025
"The arrests of six female supporters of activist group #YouthDemand at a Quaker meeting house have been condemned by the faith group.
"Quakers in #Britain said the arrests were the first at a meeting house and 'an aggressive violation'.
"The Metropolitan Police said six people were arrested on Thursday evening at the Westminster Meeting House on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a #PublicNuisance.
"The force said it came amid concerns there were plans to 'shut down' London during April using tactics such as road blocks.
"Youth Demand said more than 30 officers were involved with making the arrests.
"Paul Parker, of Quakers in Britain, said he could not recall anyone being arrested at a Quaker meeting house in living memory.
"'The forceful removal of young people holding a protest group meeting clearly shows what happens when a society #CriminalisesProtest.
"'#FreedomOfSpeech, assembly, and fair trials are an essential part of free public debate which underpins #democracy,' he said.
"Police said a further five arrests for the same offence were made on Friday - four at addresses in #London and one in #Exeter.
"Youth Demand, which is not affiliated with the Quakers, said the meeting was 'an opportunity to share plans for non-violent #CivilResistance actions' due to take place in April.
"The group claimed a number of houses were also raided on Thursday and Friday as part of the operation.
"Quakers in Britain said: 'Quakers support the right to non-violent public protest, acting themselves from a deep moral imperative to stand up against #injustice and for our planet.
"'Many have taken non-violent direct action over the centuries from the abolition of #slavery to women's #suffrage and prison reform.'
"The Met said the force understood the importance of the right to protest but added that Youth Demand had stated an intention to 'shut down' London in April.
"'We have a responsibility to intervene to prevent activity that crosses the line from protest into serious disruption and other criminality,' a spokesman said.
"On Thursday, officers raided a Youth Demand planning meeting where those in attendance were plotting their April action.
"Six people were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.
"A further five arrests for the same offence were made on Friday, 28 March. Four of the arrests were at addresses in London and one in Exeter.
'Policing priorities'
"Out of the 11 people arrested, 10 have been released on bail and one will face no further action.
"Asked about the matter on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said: 'I have made clear to the police this government's priorities for policing are reducing serious violence... and bringing back neighbourhood policing, those crimes in town centres like shoplifting.'
"Youth Demand, which describes itself as a 'new youth resistance campaign fighting for an end to #genocide', began carrying out acts of #CivilDisobedience last year.
"Its demands of the government include stopping all trade with #Israel and raising money from 'the #SuperRich and #Fossilfuel #elite' to pay damages for the effects of fossil fuel burning."
Read more:
https://bbc.com/news/articles/cj3x5j6g30ro
#UKPol #ThoughtCrime #CriminalizingDissent #CriminalizingActivism #PublicNuisanceLaws #Article20 #2023PublicOrderAct #Resistance #UKResistance #ProtectMotherEarth #FreePalestine #IsraeliWarCrimes
Is this Nazi Germany now? French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found
France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched
#FuckTrumpNaziParty #freedomofspeech #StopMAGAFascistState #NoFascistUSA
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-french-scientist-detained?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”
—Martin Niemöller #nazis #fascism #usa #gestapo #gop #civilrights #freedomofspeech #trump #uspol https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/ice-university-of-alabama-doctoral-student
Obey the dictator of American Greatness Again of be disappeared by secret police and sent to foreign labor prison.
#FreedomOfSpeech has been trumped - #FuckYourFreedoms
@cmorris so much for freedom of speech.
@kranfahrer 
Exactly, if people can't even use the most basic tools. They should reconsider running a country. Wasn't Orange Man bubbling something about IQ, etc.? Those people are unqualified to run an elementary class. 
Let alone a country 
#freedomofspeech #imho
Reporter ohne Grenzen Doppel-Vinyl-Mysterium
Does anyone know what the tracks on the Uncensored Playlist Vinyl are like? Would like to know what these tracks sound like... Anyone got a hold of the playlist postings?
https://shop.reporter-ohne-grenzen.de/detail/d/The-Uncensored-Playlist-Vinyl/8#image-92
Can your phone get you deported in the U.S? Yes! After Trump's order to increase national security, more travellers are facing increased scrutiny, including searches of their phones and laptops. @USAToday has the latest.
"As a person of Jewish heritage who has personally encountered actual antisemitism, I find it deeply distasteful that this administration would claim to speak for me. And I’m not the only one. Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal was similarly horrified: “Shalom, the Hebrew greeting for peace,” he said, “is being used as a declaration of war and repression of dissent at home… Trump is weaponizing Jews to wage war crimes and repression.” Jamie Beran, a columnist for the Israeli paper Haaretz, has used the apt term “smokescreen antisemitism” to describe what Trump is doing: Using a faux concern for Jewish safety as a shield for his administration’s goals of crushing dissenters of all backgrounds.
A lot of American Jewish groups, thankfully, have recognized the danger of this action and were quick to condemn it. Not only groups like Jewish Voice for Peace and If Not Now, which are openly supportive of the Palestinian cause, but also liberal Zionist groups like J Street and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs have denounced Khalil’s arrest and detention. The same cannot be said, however, for one of America’s largest and most influential Jewish organizations: The Anti-Defamation League. In a post unequivocally praising Khalil’s arrest, the ADL called for “swift and severe consequences for those who provide material support to foreign terrorist organizations, incite violence in support of terrorist activities, or conceal their identities in order to harass and intimidate Jewish individuals and institutions with impunity.” It should be noted that Khalil has not actually been charged with providing “material support” for terrorism, “inciting violence,” or “concealing” his identity to harass people. (What was that about being against defamation?) This would be par for the course for a group like the ADL, which has long sought to conflate any criticism of Israeli policy with antisemitism."
#USA #Trump #Musk #Israel #Antisemitism #FreedomOfSpeech
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-right-doesnt-actually-care-about-antisemitism
Criminalizing Dissent: Greenpeace Ordered to Pay $667M to Dakota Access Pipeline Firm over Protests
Steven Donziger, himself prosecuted by Chevron in response to his case of Ecuadorians’ injuries by Chevron, analyzes the Greenpeace case.
#StandingRock #DakotaAccessPipeline #protest #protests #freedomofspeech
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/20/greenpeace_lawsuit_north_dakota_pipeline
Massive peaceful civil disturbance is the most effective tools for change
Give Trump & Fascists no excuse to use violence
An important message to all members & #Resistance protestors:
Know Your Rights
Thank you @aclu.org
https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights
#DoNotComply
#FreedomOfSpeech
"The Pursuit of Truth" only when it conveniently enables us to suppress speech we don't like.
How a Free-Speech University Sidles Up to Orbán’s Strongman Rule
Bari Weiss’s University of Austin, touted as a haven for free academic inquiry, has a dozen scholars and officials with ties to Hungary’s speech-suppressing regime
*DO NOT TRAVEL TO THE US!*
“‘I learned with concern that a French researcher,’ on a mission for the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), ‘who was going to a conference near Houston was banned from entering American territory before being expelled,’ said the Minister of Higher Education and Research, Philippe Baptiste, in a statement sent to Agence France-Presse (AFP). ‘This measure was allegedly taken by the American authorities because this researcher's phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friendly relationships in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration's research policy,’ he added.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0TgnhY_Ndo
* #SuperRichBullies and when Dave's #TaylorLorenz interview will be available
* #ColumbiaUniversity #journalism #FreedomOfSpeech #FreePalestineNOW
* #GaryEconomics on Youtube, economist #GaryStevenson
#GunOwners #2A #1A #FreeMahmoudKhalil #FreedomofSpeech #SocialistGunClub
There are a lot of #MAGA people who claim to love Guns and their freedom of speech awfully silent about this.
PACIFISM allows you to keep your guns. Peaceful protests allow you to keep your guns. If you take away that freedom to express yourself, it only makes violence more likely. If violence becomes the only way to change government, you know full well you no longer have your guns.
Leavitt is one of three administration officials who face a lawsuit from The Associated Press on First- and Fifth-amendment grounds. "The press and all people in the United States have the right to choose their own words and not be retaliated against by the government," the AP said in its lawsuit https://www.cbsnews.com/news/associated-press-sues-trump-officials-over-coverage-restrictions/. #APlawsuit #freedomofspeech #FreePress #firstamendment #trumpCoup
"Should Trump get his way, his licence to punish any speech that he deems pro-terrorist or against the US national interest would make him judge and jury on first amendment rights. It would put every US citizen — not just permanent residents — at risk. To take one example: Trump said that attacks on Tesla showrooms qualify as domestic terrorism. But you can fill in any number of blanks. Trump depicts his adversaries as the enemy within. Isn’t criticising America’s president anti-national?
My guess is that Khalil’s case will make it to the Supreme Court. There, one of three scenarios could happen:
1. The court rejects Trump’s attempts to bring back the Hanoverian bill of attainder and Trump reluctantly complies.
2. The court folds and essentially declares Trump to be king.
3. The court upholds the law, which gives due process to citizens and permanent residents alike, but Trump ignores the ruling.
Both 2 and 3 would end the rule of law in America, though 3 would be a more dramatic way of doing it. 1 would be great, though do not bet on it.
Students of political science could not ask for a better live experiment in whether liberal democracy can survive."
https://www.ft.com/content/bcd39cd0-9995-4409-b525-853cdcdb98bf
