Banned Books Week
Organizations that Address Censorship Issues
- American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression
- American Library Association - Read Freely
- Article 19
- Committee to Protect Journalists
- Index on Censorship
- Intellectual Freedom Committees (local or state)
International Freedom of Expression Clearinghouse - International Press Institute
- Journalists for Human Rights
- PEN American Center
- Reporters Sans Frontières
- World Press Freedom Committee
The Amnesty International Urgent Action Network has
a "journalists/writers" category. For information:
AIUSA Urgent Action Office
600 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20003
O men of arms, why do you love injustice?
You must live in law and order
Get up, wake up, or be forever regretful,
Don't be infamous among the nations.
"Through my poetry I can convince people of the need for peace who would never be convinced by laws or by force."
- Amin al-Mashreqi
Yemen
(quoted in the Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2006)