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September 24, 2007 at 19:37:14

All Hail Mahmoud bin Laden Chavez! F@#k Bushler! (A Shameless Advancement of Freedom of Speech)

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Kevin Gosztola goes to Columbia College in Chicago where he is studying film. He hopes to become a documentary filmmaker. He is currently working as a production assistant on a documentary called "Seriously Green" which traces the development of the Green Party throughout the 2008 election. He has a passion for journalism and writes articles or press releases in his spare time. Kevin Gosztola is also a student activist who believes in questioning the way America's systems work(its electoral system, its military-industrial complex, its foreign policy of American exceptionalism, its media which has become the Fourth Branch of government,etc.)
His ambitions have him currently organizing and raising money for a Chicago Conference for Media Reform in April or May of 2009. It will be organized by college students to promote youth involvement in media reform and justice. Those interested in attending or helping with the organization of the program should contact him.

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Armed with word, song, and sequencer, Mars delivers social analysis, dreams and blueprints for change. She survived the 1999 National Poetry Slam, has performed all over Chicago, and has been a featured speaker at many political rallies. Born in New England in the radical 60's, Mars is a veteran political activist, performance artist/musician, chocoholic, early childhood educator, photographer, sky-watcher, single mom of a rebel in training, and proud African-american bowl of gumbo.
Mars CaultonArmed with word, song, and sequencer, Mars delivers social analysis, dreams and blueprints for change. She survived the 1999 National Poetry Slam, has performed all over Chicago, and has been a featured speaker at many political rallies. Born in New England in the radical 60's, Mars is a veteran political activist, performance artist/musician, chocoholic, early childhood educator, photographer, sky-watcher, single mom of a rebel in training, and proud African-american bowl of gumbo.

This is, to me, the heart of the Free Speech issue

"why don’t we stop having the Congress, the media, the FCC, the MPAA, etc. be our mommies and daddies and be big boys and girls, and if we don’t like what somebody says, than respond to it. All of us should be literate Americans who can write to the editor or simply post our feelings on the World Wide Web. We seem to forget that people have the right to freedom of speech but we have the right to call those people idiots if we so choose."

BINGO. Our right to stand up for truth and righteousness is more holy to me than freedom of speech. Luckily, the two are rarely incompatible.

by Mars Caulton (1 articles, 1 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 82 comments) on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 11:04:24 PM