Nearing the end our Social Justice project, we were assigned to write opinion editorials utilizing the culmination of knowledge we gained over the course of several months. These were to exhibit how we grew as advocators for social justice and teach those who read our papers about our issue that we chose to learn about. Mine…
Social Justice: The Feel Stage
by River
The main problem we wanted to resolve and gain a larger understanding around was freedom of speech in foreign countries. Since we are currently living in a nation that prioritizes our first amendment rights, and makes it a paramount objective to protect them, we believed that solving freedom of speech issues in our country would…
Our interview with Floyd Abrams:
by River
Today, January 28th, my group and I traveled down to wall street to meet with a prolific first amendment lawyer, Floyd Abrams. By the time Abrams was in college, he had taken a liking to freedom of speech related topics. During high school he had participated in many exercises of his first amendment right, including…
Our Phone Interview with Nisan Chavkin:
by River
Today my group and I held a interview over the phone. We called a man by the name of Nisan Chavkin, the executive director of CRFC for over 20 years,(Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago.) This is an organization dedicated to the education of students and teachers about their free speech rights and others. He made a…
Our Interview with David Reiter
by River
Today, my group and I met with David Reiter at ABC Studios. We met in a conference room on one of the many floors of the building, after taking a short tour of their offices and recording areas. David is the vice president of data gathering and collection for ABC. He takes any information he…
Peter Scheer Phone Interview:
by River
Peter Scheer began at Harvard law school where he studied topics and cases relating to free speech. Shortly after leaving school, he became a lawyer who dealt with many cases like the ones he studied for many years. After that, he found himself loosing interest in his profession and he know works for the first…
Our Volunteer work with Democracy Now!
by River
On Friday, January 15th, our group met with an organization named, “Democracy Now.” This organization deals with several problems regarding freedom of speech and other issues in America. It reports of democratic and republican presidential candidates and posts videos and stories that relate to what’s happing in our wold right now. We met in their…
Our Interview with Arch Puddington:
by River
Arch Puddington from his early years was fascinated by freedom of speech. He explained that he and his family often watched freedom of speech issues on television and read about them in the newspaper. When he was older he moved to Europe where he worked for, Radio Free Europe, which deals with speech issues internationally.…
Amnesty International Activity:
by River
On Thursday, 10th of December, our group had a representative of an organization, called Amnesty International, meet with us and the 8th and 7th grade. This organization was currently hosting an event by the name, “Write For Rights.” This event included a writing activity which quickly grabbed my group’s attention. This activity involved a list of…
Our Viewing of the, ” Black Panthers, Vanguard Of The Revolution”
by River
Today we saw a showing the new Blank Panther documentary with the racial profiling group. It’s premise was about the beginnings of this organization, what and who it effected, and what eventually led to its end. It started out as a small group and as it progressed it accumulated many more African Americans and became an international organization. It…
Our interview with Timothy Karr, and David Isenberg
by River
Interview Debrief with Timothy Karr Cameron Glass, Cameron Krakowiak, Nissim Hershkovits, River Magee During our interview with Timothy Karr we gained some in insight to some important topics like, a decentralized internet, net neutrality, communication conglomerates, rights to encryption, rights as a journalist, and computer and media privacy. Timothy explained how he had travled to Vietnam…
