So to Speak podcast: Campus free speech roundup

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On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we are joined by four members of FIRE’s staff to discuss the latest campus free speech news, including two new FIRE initiatives to tackle art censorship and restrictions on free speech and academic freedom abroad.

Participants in this show are:

Nico Perrino, host of So to Speak, director of communications

Will Creeley, senior vice president of legal and public advocacy

Adam Steinbaugh, director of FIRE’s Individual Rights Defense Program

Marieke Tuthill Beck-Coon, director of litigation

Sarah McLaughlin, senior program officer for legal and public advocacy

Show notes:

• Chicago State to rewrite policies, pay $650,000 to settle professors’ First Amendment lawsuit
• Whistleblowers on campus: The fight for free speech and academic freedom (VIDEO)
• Nine years later, UCLA complains — again — about online critic
• Speech rights of 150,000 students to be restored as Los Angeles Community College District settles lawsuit
• Fencing in free speech at Los Angeles Pierce College (VIDEO)
• FIRE launches initiative to defend campus free expression across borders
• REPORT: Artists clash with campus censors
• Indiana University Kokomo confirms that once-removed sculptures will remain on display through end of semester
• The problem with porn filters
• Wisconsin system president reprimands UW La Crosse Chancellor for Free Speech Week talk by porn star
• EFF sues Texas A&M University for violating PETA's free speech rights by blocking group from its Facebook page
• Rutgers reverses finding against professor who posted about resigning from the white race on Facebook

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