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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
