What have you learned as a result of this experience of being a change maker? I have learned by being a change maker is helping other people. Helping other people and sharing our topic by teaching which is very important. Other people understanding the problem helps. The result of people knowing problems might spark…
Freedom of Speech
Opinion Editorial: Freedom Of Speech
by River
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…
Interview With Arch Puddington of Freedom House
by Nissim
On the 7th of January, our group interviewed the vice president of research at Freedom House, Arch Puddington. Arch talked with us about what Freedom House does, how freedom of speech plays different roles in different places of the world, and some of his views on free speech. Freedom House publishes various analytical documents about…
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…
Our Volunteer Work at Democracy Now!
by Cameron K
On Friday, January 15th, our group met with an organization named, “Democracy Now.” This tv show deals with several problems regarding freedom of speech and other issues in America. We met in their office and we had the opportunity to participate in research related activities for them. Their offices like last time were just the…
Our Interview With Floyd Abrams
by Cameron K
Today, January 28th, my group and I traveled to busy crowded wall street to meet with a great first amendment lawyer, Floyd Abrams. Floyd Abrams has done amazing work during his time as a first amendment lawyer, fighting for the New York times on the pentagon papers case which is one of the most memorable…
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…
Interview With Arch Puddington
by Cameron K
On Thursday the seventh of January we spoke to the Vice President of Freedom House, Arch Puddington. Something Arch talked about how Freedom of Speech intrested him when he was a young child. He always wanted to learn more about freedom of speech and wanted to help with it. He decided to go to Europe…
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.…
Interview with Arch Puddington, Freedom House
by Cameron
On the 7th of January, our group interviewed the vice president of research at Freedom House, Arch Puddington. Arch talked with us about what Freedom House does, and how freedom of speech plays different roles in different places of the world. Freedom House takes the role of analyzing and researching freedom of speech on a…
Democracy Now! Visit
by Cameron
On the 17th of December, our group made a visit to the Democracy Now! headquarters located in New York City. Democracy Now! is an independent news organization that focuses on delivering raw and uncensored news to people everywhere. They broadcast on television, radio, and do not advertise using giant media corporations. During our visit, we…
Democracy Now! Studio Visit 12/17/15
by Nissim
On Thursday, December 17th my group and I woke up rather early and ventured to West 25th street to watch the news broadcast Democracy Now! live. We received a tour of the office and stations involved in creating a news broadcast. On top of this beautiful tour we had the pleasure of sitting next to…
Amnesty International Visit
by Nissim
On Thursday, December 10th our group welcomed a representative of Amnesty International to speak to the 7th and 8th grades. Every year Amnesty holds a right for wrights campaign. Every year they choose 12 cases of people internationally and this year is the US who have been stripped of their rights and are imprisoned. They…
Write for Writes, Amnesty International
by Cameron
On the 10th of December, we had the privilege of participating in the “Write for Rights” campaign, hosted annually by Amnesty International. The campaign put focus towards freeing political prisoners through encouraging letters to them, and letters about political prisoners to Government’s hosting them. Earlier, we contacted Amnesty International by email. They were more than…
Amnesty International Activity
by Cameron K
On Thursday, 10th of December, our group had a representative from Amnesty International, come in and talk about imprisoned writers to the 7th and 8th grade. Amnesty holds a write for rights campaign. This event got our attention because it was writing to people who were revoked from their freedom of speech. Each year Amnesty chooses 12…
Interview with Peter Scheer Activist, Journalist, and Lawyer
by Cameron K
On Friday the 4th of December our group spoke to Peter Scheer. Peter executive director at First Amendment Coalition. Peter Scheer is a former lawyer and has a degree from Harvard Law. He has appeared at almost all levels of the court including Supreme Court, working on many levels of freedom of speech. He has…
Interviewing Peter Scheer of The First Amendment Coalition
by Cameron
On the 4th of December, our group held an online interview with Peter Scheer, an executive director of the First Amendment Coalition. According to the First Amendment Coalition’s website, they are “an award-winning, nonprofit public interest organization dedicated to advancing free speech, more open and accountable government, and public participation in civic affairs.” The First…
Interview With Peter Scheer 12/4/15
by Nissim
On Friday, December 4th my group and I had a phone interview with Peter Scheer. Peter is the executive director of the First Amendment Coalition, a California based organization with the goal to help preserve free speech. He went to Harvard Law and was a lawyer for many years. During that time some of the…
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…
Black Panthers, Rise of Vanguard Visit.
by Cameron
On the 18th of November, our group as well as the Police Brutality group saw Black Panthers, Rise of Vanguard. The movie was a documentary about the Black Panther party, and the African American equality movement as a whole. The movie followed the Black Panthers through their many movements, demonstrations, and beliefs. The movie showed…
Black Panther: Rise Of The Vanguard Revolution
by Nissim
Along with the Police Brutality group we went to see the Black Panthers movie. We saw it at the BAM theater in Brooklyn. Before going to the movie we didn’t know much about the Black Panthers. We knew them as an activist group that was known for violence. What I came to realize is that…
Freedom of Speech
by Clair
Our group is focusing on Freedom of Speech and how it behaves in the world. Journalists, writers, and activists have their unalienable rights violated, and are restricted to speak by their own Governments. We believe that Freedom of Speech is a ubiquitous right; One that should be given to people as a human right. It…
Trip To See Black Panters Movie
by Cameron K
The black panthers are member “of a militant political organization set up in the US in 1966 to fight for black rights.” We went to see the movie Black Panthers Vangaurd of a Revolution last wednesday with the Black Rights activist group. The movie we about the Black Panther group, the leaders of the group…
Interviewing Timothy Karr of Free Press
by Cameron
On November 16th, we interviewed the Senior Director of Strategy at Free Press, Timothy Karr. Timothy talked to us about everything from his history as a journalist in Vietnam to his work at Free Press and what it stands for. We learned a lot about how free speech and neutralized internet relate to each other,…
Our Interview With Timothy Karr
by Nissim
Interview With Timothy Karr of Free PressWhile meeting with Tim we learned about some new things and had our views of current things we knew expanded. With ease we found Tim and went to a place to sit and chat. The first thing we asked him was about his background and how he got to…
Trip to see Timothy Karr
by Cameron K
On the date 11/16/15 we met Timothy Karr, the senior director of strategy at the Free Press. We met him at Civic Hall where we sat down and interviewed him. At the interview we learned what the Free Press organization did. We also learned more about Freedom of Speech in general. Here is a list…
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…
