OR318 Blog

March 18 page peel: Grab one for your site/blog!

March 1st, 2010

A few days ago, a wonderful blogger (Roman) alerted us that he’s supporting the campaign by creating a page peel for websites. A page peel is certainly a nice way to spread awareness about the cause! Below are the wonderful designs he created for this purpose:

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In order to get the code for you to paste the peel on your websites, please explore the following documents, it consists of simple steps!

Page peel: Dark

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Page peel: Light

Download file

Thank you Roman! For anyone having issues with this, please post a comment on this blog. Spread the word to your friends!

Guest Post: The pen…. mightier than the sword?

March 1st, 2010

Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold
The arch-enchanters wand! – itself a nothing! -
But taking sorcery from the master-hand
To paralyse the Caesars, and to strike
The loud earth breathless!…

Organize an OR318 event in your city!

February 28th, 2010

On March 18th, we hope to be holding events in as many cities as possible, to show how many people around the world are uniting for free speech. We hope that you will also help us honor all bloggers like…

March 18 in Dubai, UAE

February 26th, 2010

This is cross-posted from my blog:
Protests are so passe.
(Plus with the country’s stringent laws on protests, we don’t want to be stepping on anyone’s toes here.)
Everybody deserves the right to freedom of speech so long as it…

The Human Piano – Contextualizing freedom of speech

February 19th, 2010

The following is a guest post for OR318 by Leyla Haidarian, a Baha’i film maker based in South Africa and co-founder of Double Take TV.
In my son’s children’s prayer book, there is a sentence that has always baffled me:…

Supporter makes campaign video

February 18th, 2010

This is a wonderful contribution made by Jordan Ess, whose photo submissions for OR318 are featured here. Jordan is a fellow supporter of free speech and the March 18 Movement. We love his spirit and hope that you can follow…

Jordan Ess stands up for free speech of bloggers

February 16th, 2010

We are happy to see our friend Jordan supporting the March 18 Movement! Please also show your support by taking similar photos and sending them to us (you may do so via Twitter and Facebook too!)
Having an opinion isn’t…

New video: Bloggers should not be killed

February 14th, 2010

We’re very excited to announce our latest video:

This would not have been possible without the help of our friends and supporters. Thank you so much for your hope, efforts and solidarity. Let’s make this Movement as effective as possible…

March 18 Themed Twitter Background

February 3rd, 2010

We’ve created a nifty little Twitter background for you guys to show your support for the movement. Instructions on how to upload it are below.

Step 1:  Right click on the above image and save it to your computer hard…

Call for Videos

January 26th, 2010

Dear friends,
As you may have noticed, for the past week we have been calling for videos as a prominent way of how you can get involved. Some people have requested for a sample, and below we’re showing two:

Please…