Archive for the ‘Free speech’ Category

Guest Post: Who are we? Individuals, citizens, journalists or all three?

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

-Hisham Wyne-
“Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign”
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859.

But sovereign are we, over our blogs and the contents and comments therein?

We are bloggers. We want freedom. But…

Guest Post: Libertas Supra Omnia

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Freedom of expression.
A term that weighs different on the scales of every individual. Be it invisible fetters that hold back tears, or physical restraints that gag your right to scream. Be it the dread of a tyrant’s wrath, or…

Organize an OR318 event in your city!

Sunday, 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

Friday, 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

Friday, 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:…

Jordan Ess stands up for free speech of bloggers

Tuesday, 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

Sunday, 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

Wednesday, 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…

Free Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

The “Support Azerbaijan youth activists” campaign, whose mission is to secure the release of activists Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli, has been collecting videos of solidarity from worldwide supporters.
Adnan and Emin were first arrested last year on the 8th…

Ways you can help

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Support free speech for bloggers
We’d like to thank everyone who is volunteering to commit with their support. We owe this movement to imprisoned bloggers everywhere and it’s important that we all stick together to make sure that our efforts…