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1. Embracing Forbidden Voices: Exiled Authors in Chicago.
“The Guild Literary Complex’s commitment to spotlighting divergent voices extends beyond the borders of Chicago in Voices of Protest,” the GLC has announced.
“On April 25 and 26, the Guild brings Manal Al-Sheikh (Iraq) and Mazen Maarouf (Palestine) – two authors exiled from their home countries and now living in Scandinavia – to participate in conversations, film screenings, and readings with a focus on human rights, freedom of speech, and the ways literature celebrates life and inspires social change.

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Posted on April 4, 2014

By The Electronic Frontier Foundation

On April 4th, EFF is partnering with the Center for Civic Media at MIT and the National Coalition Against Censorship to bring attention to the longstanding problem of Internet censorship in public libraries and schools for 404 Day.
Join us on Friday, April 4th from 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. PST for a digital teach-in with some of the top researchers and librarians working to analyze and push back against the use of Internet filters on library computers.

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Posted on April 2, 2014