Videos
Don't Mess with Firefly: How SciFi Fans Made a Campus Safe for Free Speech
Our newest video features an interview with legendary author Neil Gaiman and takes a lighthearted look at how the University of Wisconsin-Stout backed down from its censorship of Professor James Miller's posters, one featuring a quote from the science fiction show Firefly, and the other condemning fascism. Stout stood by its actions until FIRE's advocacy campaign on Miller's behalf inspired Gaiman, along with Firefly actors Nathan Fillion and Adam Baldwin, to take to Twitter to encourage their millions of followers to contact the university with their support of free speech. FIRE is also offering $500 in prizes at the new Prizes.org for the best tweets promoting the video.
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Silencing U: Five Outrageous Cases of Campus Censorship
Since our founding in 1999, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has fought to defend the First Amendment on campus and protect students and faculty members whose freedom of expression is in jeopardy. The following video reviews five of the worst cases in our history, and provides a glimpse at the various threats to freedom on campus and the means that FIRE uses to combat them. A special thanks to Mr. Lawrence Post for making this video possible. For more information on these cases or on FIRE's work, visit thefire.org.
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Chris Lee - Campus Freedom Network Conference 2010
In a new video from the 2010 CFN Conference, Chris Lee discusses how Washington State University (WSU) administrators subsidized a group of protesters to disrupt his satirical play, 'Passion of the Musical.'
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Michele Kerr - Campus Freedom Network Conference 2010
Stanford alumna and teacher Michele Kerr describes how Stanford University's Teacher Education Program (STEP) tried to oust her for her views at the 2010 CFN Conference.
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Scootergate!
On August 17, 2010, University of Georgia graduate student Jacob Lovell e-mailed a complaint to UGA Parking Services concerning limited scooter parking. Although Parking Services specifically asks students for both "negative & positive" comments, Lovell spent nearly a month under the threat of punishment after submitting his complaint.
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FIRE and You: Together Changing Campus Culture
With the support of our committed and principled donors, FIRE is making huge strides towards changing the campus culture from one of repression to one of liberty. Please join us in this fight by making a contribution today.
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Braum Katz - Campus Freedom Network Conference 2010
CFN member and former FIRE intern Braum Katz shares his road map for fellow students to get their universities to drop unconstitutional speech codes.
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