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Across the nation, free speech rights are under attack. Join us in defending this essential quality of liberty. Make your voice heard and join a campaign below.
Interested in participating further in FIRE’s work? Check out our Guide for Grassroots Activists.
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Off-Campus Take Action Library
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Posthumous Pardon for D.M. Bennett
FIRE filed a petition on June 17 calling on President Joe Biden to posthumously pardon D.M. Bennett, one of the Comstock Act’s most prominent victims.
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Protect the First Amendment: Oppose H.R. 6090
H.R. 6090 threatens free expression on campus by pressuring schools to police speech under a vague and overbroad definition of anti-Semitism.
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Tell Governor Abbott to Protect the First Amendment on College Campuses
Lately, free expression isn’t looking very free in Texas. Join FIRE in demanding that Gov. Abbott recommit to upholding First Amendment rights.
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Help Defend Free Speech in Vermont!
Demand state police develop and implement policies that ensure our First Amendment rights.
On-Campus Take Action Library
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Tell LACC to protect the rights of student journalists!
FIRE has written three letters to Los Angeles City College about the college’s repeated violations of student journalists’ right to a free press. Now we need your help.
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Tell Texas A&M University to stand up for faculty rights
Texas A&M University investigated Professor Joy Alonzo — an expert on the opioids crisis — for allegedly criticizing Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s opioid policies. Join FIRE in telling Texas A&M it must swiftly and publicly renounce its investigation.
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Tell Harvard worst-ranked is not good enough
According to FIRE’s 2024 College Free Speech Rankings, Harvard University ranked dead last at 248 out of 248 institutions. Students reported their discomfort expressing ideas, lack of confidence in the administration’s support for speech, and acceptance of students shouting down speakers.
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Tell Penn to up its free speech game!
Despite University of Pennsylvania’s status as an Ivy League institution, the university has consistently failed to meet standards in one area: free speech. Tell Penn to cultivate a better climate for free expression by endorsing a principled pro-free speech statement.
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Tell USC to stand up for speech!
University of South Carolina has consistently failed to live up to its commitment to free speech. Tell USC to cultivate a better climate for free expression by endorsing a principled pro-free speech statement.
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Tell Georgetown to stand up for speech!
Georgetown University has consistently failed to live up to its commitment to free speech. Tell Georgetown to cultivate a better climate for free expression by embodying the free speech values it espouses, revising its problematic speech codes, and supporting students and faculty as they become embroiled in free speech controversies.
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Tell Fordham to stand up for speech!
Fordham University has consistently failed to take the free expression of its students seriously. Tell Fordham to cultivate a better climate for free expression by endorsing a principled pro-free speech statement.
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Tell Penn to protect free expression!
Join us in reminding Penn’s Board of Trustees that the solution to the current conflict is not to expand the use of speech codes so that they apply in more cases—it's to eliminate these codes and consistently defend protected speech for all.
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Tell UT Dallas to honor student speech rights
After students painted different slogans about the Israel-Hamas war on the rocks, UT Dallas announced that the rocks would be removed because, the school claimed, political messages were inconsistent with the rocks’ original purpose. But since UT Dallas has continuously allowed the rocks to be used for political expression, it cannot now limit that speech or cut it off entirely because it does not like the views expressed.
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Students at American University need your help
Join FIRE and remind American University’s leadership that the expressive and associational rights of its students must remain protected.
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