Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service. I'm surprised the party of small government would support such a large change to protected classes, but here we are. But this time, the NAACP and the ACLU are teaming up against free speech advocates; both . The following commentary is by Ira Glasser, who served as the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1978 to 2001. This debate forum is not aligned to any political party. -By Ira Glasser. Glasser fears that, by becoming more political and less absolutist when it comes to defending speech, the ACLU might be shrugging off its hard-won legacy. Amid high-profile controversies surrounding free speech and racial equality, former American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Ira Glasser reflects on his life at the forefront of defending the rights of all Americans, from civil rights leaders to neo-Nazis. The former head of the American Civil Liberties Union has ripped the group for no longer defending all free speech claiming it now cherry-picks cases that fit a new "progressive" agenda. In the early 1960s, Glasser taught mathematics at Queens College (CUNY) and Sarah Lawrence College.From 1963 to 1967, he was the editor of Current magazine. Ruben Gallego/Chlo Valdary/Bret Stephens. The leading critic of the ACLU's newfound partisan mission is Romero's predecessor, Ira Glasser who was the executive Director of the ACLU from 1978 until 2001. Ira Glasser, former executive director of the ACLU, . This debate forum is not aligned to any political party. Glasser believes that this transformation in the way the ACLU has operated since 1920 "has the capacity to destroy the organization as it has always existed." "I mean, I love Stacey Abrams," Glasser told me. SF Green Party Showing events after 3/27. much of the membership loss was offset by an ACLU fundraising letter to the membership that I drafted with the help of Ira Glasser, then the New York Civil Liberties Union executive director. William F. Buckley, Jr., conservative intellectual and supporter of drug policy reform passed away February 27, 2008. The 5-4 ruling by the Supreme Court in 1977 is often cited as a landmark First Amendment precedent even Nazis have First Amendment rights. But . But anyone who disagrees with the government is a dissident, not just people who's opinions against the government you happen to agree with. Under the proposed map, Republicans stood to carry 11 of the states 14 Congressional districts. Upon his retirement, the ACLU said that Glasser "transformed the American Civil Liberties Union from a 'mom and. unfurled new guidelines that suggested lawyers should balance taking a free speech case representing right-wing groups whose "values are contrary to our values" against the . Ira Glasser Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union Before the United States Senate Committee on Rules and Administration March 22, 2000 Thank you for inviting me to testify at today's hearing. Maher referred to him as one of his heroes, and his admiration for the man was clear throughout. In a party line vote (4-3), the North Carolina Supreme Court tossed a proposed Congressional map submitted by the state's Republican Party. Glasser, who had fought for the equal rights in Western society for many years, was frightened to see Western democracy dying right before his eyes. The party's core issues-living-wage laws, massive investments in public education, campaign finance reform, day care, health care, and affordable housing-represent what Cantor calls . Some 40 years later, civil righters and civil libertarians are at another fork in the road to freedom. . . Movie review of "Mighty Ira," Directed and Produced by Nico Perrino, Chris Maltby and Aaron Reese . Expenditures by candidates (including of their own funds), contributions, advertising by political parties, labor unions, nonprofit organizations and . Dave Wasserman expects Democrats will pick up . S20, Ep6. October 28, 2020. Retired since 2001, Glasser tells Nick Gillespie that in. Ira Glasser, who served as executive director of the ACLU from 1978 to 2001, said the organization that has defended free speech by unsavory groups like Neo-Nazis has turned into a 'partisan . This battle likely won't be the last. Another prohibited members of political parties from participating in demonstrations while wearing military-style uniforms. "She has become my favorite political character in the country. 24, 2012. . Trump is, technically, a dissident. Often we find ourselves agreeing on one platform but some topics break our mold. Ira Glasser was born on April 18, 1938, at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. When Glasser said that, he was talking to the scolds eager to censor whatever they've chosen to call white supremacists. . Republicans have traded the party's future for yesterday's America.". The leading critic of the ACLU's newfound partisan mission is Romero's predecessor, Ira Glasser, who was the executive Director of the ACLU from 1978 until 2001. Ira Glasser was head of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from 1978 until 2001, and his name is familiar to those who keep an eye on civil liberties. A voiceover on the film asks the audience, "Do young people know who Ira Glasser was?" Glasser was head of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1978-2001. . At a time of deep political polarization, Mighty Ira also shows that our ideological differences do not have to make us enemies of one another. For his part, Glasser was critical of the policies the organization adopted a few years ago regarding case selection. Often we find ourselves agreeing on one platform but some topics break our mold. . Early years. This third-party data is then indexed through methods similar to those used by Google or Bing to create a . Ira is now single. The ACLU works through litigation and lobbying, and has over 1,800,000 members as of July 2018, with an annual budget of over $300 million. In an extreme example of advocating for unpopular causes, Maher recalled how in . January 29, 2022 On Friday, HBO host and comedian Bill Maher interviewed former American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Executive Director Ira Glasser on his HBO program "Real Time." Glasser has spoken out in recent years about how much his former organization has drifted away from its roots of fearlessly defending absolute free speech for all. Ira Glasser, the outspoken former ACLU Executive Director in January 2022 told Bill Maher, ""The ACLU has become more of a political partisan, what they call 'progressive' organization." Today's. Floyd Abrams , Ira Glasser and Joel Gora. 24, 2012, 04:17 PM EDT | Updated May. Ira Glasser of the New York Civil Liberties Union called the document an "undisguised declaration of war against the black militants." It was that and more. American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California "History: 1923-1940," ACLU of Southern California website (accessed May 25, 2011) Mar. As Glasser says in Mighty Ira, "Anyone in power is going to violate civil liberties sooner or later," which is why "we end up suing everybody, including our members." The ACLU was central to what liberalism meant once, and not just because it had a history of pursuing social justice cases like Brown v. Glasser asked rhetorically. Brooke Jenkins - former San Francisco Assistant District Attorney; John Avlon - senior Political Analyst and anchor for CNN and author; Katrina Vanden Heuvel - Publisher of The Nation and a columnist for The Washington Post. In today's politics, many ideas are split between and even within all the political parties. Free Speech-Former ACLU Leader Ira Glasser Tells Us It's Not What You Think The long-time free-speech advocate talks about Skokie and Charlottesville, battling at the ballot box, and the . Ira Glasser was born on 05/25/1951 and . Ira Glasser, former executive director of the ACLU, . Ira Glasser, the outspoken former ACLU Executive Director in January 2022 told Bill Maher, "The ACLU has become more of a political partisan, what they call 'progressive' organization." Today's Democratic Party prioritizes illegal entry into the USA while abandoning the rule of law. Former ACLU leader Ira Glasser slams organization's 'progressive' new agenda. requirements "woefully inadequate" and called on Congress to mandate disclosure of contributions made to third parties for political purposes; to require shareholder or at least director approval for significant corporate political spending; and to require institutional shareholders . requirements "woefully inadequate" and called on Congress to mandate disclosure of contributions made to third parties for political purposes; to require shareholder or at least director approval for significant corporate political spending; and to require institutional shareholders . The leading critic of the ACLU's newfound partisan mission is Romero's predecessor, Ira Glasser, who was the executive director of the ACLU from 1978 until 2001. Defamation, personal, racial, gender and other insults are inadmissible. Glasser also points to the group's decision to run a television advertisement supporting then-Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams as a telling sign of its transformation. Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 - February 22, 1965) was an Austrian-American lawyer, professor, and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.Frankfurter served on the Supreme Court from 1939 to 1962 and was a noted advocate of judicial restraint in the judgments of the Court.. Frankfurter was born in Vienna, Austria, and immigrated to New York . There was in the UK the title of my such during in other party convention for the conservative party, did blow up Lord Mobile. Guest Writer. In today's politics, many ideas are split between and even within all the political parties. In the last issue of FAN, I posted several excerpts from Emily Bazelon's New York Times Magazine article titled "Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation. Ira Glasser, Guest Writer. 25 Feb. 2022. "Mighty Ira," a documentary about legendary former ACLU chief Ira Glasser, is simultaneously inspiring and unnerving. Reason: The incident that dominates Mighty Ira is Nazis marching in Skokie, Illinois, in the late 1970s. " Thereafter, Ms. Bazelon was interviewed by Dave Davies on NPR in a piece entitled "Unfettered . This is a political forum that is non-biased/non-partisan and treats every person's position on topics equally. "I . Ira Glasser, the ACLU's executive director from 1978 to 2001, bemoaned the group for recently changing its guidelines to limit the rights it fights to uphold. In October, Glasser spoke with Reason 's. 21, 1925 - Jan. 15, 1927 - Scopes Trial: ACLU Combats Tennessee Anti-Evolution Law. Early career. "Mighty Ira" Glasser: An old school liberal with an unbroken political compass. And what it showed was the ability of one of America's two major political parties to have not a majority perhaps, but a very large faction of . Ira Glasser, national director of the American Civil Liberties Union, told the yearly Bill of Rights assembly of the state chapter that "the forces of intolerance" have partly captured the Republican Party, and swayed the . Ira Glasser, the outspoken former ACLU Executive Director in January 2022 told Bill Maher, ""The ACLU has become more of a political partisan, what they call 'progressive' organization." Today's Democratic Party prioritizes illegal entry into the USA while abandoning the rule of law. In a modern society freedom of speech cannot be absolute. Ira Glasser in "Mighty Ira" (Photo courtesy of Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) . How the ACLU got woke, became political, and changed its mission April 1, 2021 1:00 pm I've written before about the newish movie " Mighty Ira ", a documentary about former American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) head Ira Glasser and his involvement in civil-liberties litigation in the 1970s (see my posts here and here ). Look for earlier events Wednesday, April 20 7:30pm SF Green Party Council Meeting WhenWed, April 20, 7:30pm - 9:00pm WhereEl CafeTazo, 3087 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103 (map) Description: This elected group is the equivalent to other political parties Central Committee. After getting to know Glasser, Perrino teamed with co-directors Aaron Reese and Chris Maltby to make "Mighty Ira," which will be shown Nov. 14 at the Columbus Jewish Film Festival at the . They did and assassinations . Sinn Fein was ahead of the pro-British Democratic Unionist Party by 27 to 24 seats with two . A nonprofit organization that has specialized in promoting and protecting freedom of speech in higher education for over 20 years is rebranding itself to expand its mission beyond the campus quad. Set the scene for that. Trump won NC with 50% of the vote in 2020 to Biden's 49%. the documentary focuses on the ACLU's involvement in the landmark 1977 U.S. Supreme Court case National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie, . Ira Glasser: They ran an ad which you could show to a thousand people and a thousand people would say, if you asked them, "Oh, that's a political ad for Stacey Abrams." Ira Glasser spent 34 years . Glasser served as executive director of the organization from 1978 to 2001. Arecently produced clip from the UK-based journalist Michael Rotenshtern shows the Democratic Party from an international perspective. Glasser believes in the power of letting truth and falsehood grapple, as John Milton put it in his anti-censorship polemic Areopagitica. I imagine many liberals would agree with him, and that many conservatives would not. The future of true liberalism in the United States might just depend on it. Guest Writer. The war on Joe Rogan is just the latest attack on free speech by the side of the political spectrum that historically has been known to care most about an open and free exchange of ideas. Source: Smithsonian Institute, "John Scopes," wikipedia.org, May 31, 1925. 3 Apr 2021 - There's a scene at the beginning of Mighty Ira, an elegant and thought-provoking documentary about longtime ACLU director Ira . even people who are political enemies or have political opinions that are opposite to . "I am not," he insisted. The group had previously been "fastidiously nonpartisan," The New Yorker said, quoting the organization's former executive director, Ira Glasser, describing the "transformative change . . . This is a political forum that is non-biased/non-partisan and treats every person's position on topics equally. The evening's first guest was Ira Glasser, the onetime head of the ACLU and the subject of the documentary Mighty Ira. and shift as competing political parties adapt. He earned a graduate degree in mathematics from Ohio State University.. . The Supreme Court agreed with the ACLU, run at the time by Ira Glasser, another panelist, that the group had a First-Amendment-protected right to gather. LEG had emerged from another courtroom dispute between cops and Panthers the previous month, an extension of the tension erupting on city streets. Friday night at the University of Charleston, a throng of West Virginians heard a remarkable lecture on morality. Ira Glasser served the ACLU in various capacities for more than thirty years, but, as Jamie Kirchick reported recently, Glasser's legacy there is now threatened. Over a year ago, in November 2010, (as I reported here) Ira Glasser alerted then-Public Editor Clark Hoyt to the fact that the century-old ban on direct corporate contributions to candidates still . Glasser fears that, by becoming more political and less absolutist when it comes to defending speech, the ACLU might be shrugging off its hard-won legacy. whose political affiliation is currently a registered Democrat; and religious views are listed as Jewish. political partisan, what they call progressive organization. he recognizes, too, that short-term events -- like a 9/11 attack, foreign crises, economic catastrophes or a scandal like Watergate -- can interrupt long term trends and trump them. The shifting political and cultural terrain is evident in the institutional background of Mighty Ira itself. John Scopes during the trial. As Wikipedia notes:. "Most of . Now Glasser is the subject of a new documentary, Mighty Ira, that celebrates his time at the ACLU and his legacy of protecting free speech. The A.C.L.U. Expenditures by candidates (including of their own funds), contributions, advertising by political parties, labor unions, nonprofit organizations and . He is remembered by Ira Glasser, president of the Drug Policy Alliance's board and former executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union: There are courts that are supposed to protect the rights of those . (Originally aired 1/28/22) . William F. Buckley, Jr., conservative intellectual -- and supporter of drug policy reform -- passed away February 27, 2008. ANGLO AMERICA, 5 Apr 2021. social, and other sources, plus personal reviews written by others. Given the recent amount of posts claiming free speech violations for companies refusing to do business with right wing groups, I think it's time we need to discuss adding a person's political beliefs as a protected class. director of the ACLU . Maher noted a recent statement by a Fox News commentator, who suggested he's gearing up to run for president, which critics saw as a sign that he's changed. "Who ever knew Truth put to the [worse], in a free and . this happening in the Middle EAST. The group had previously been "fastidiously nonpartisan," the New Yorker said, quoting the organization's former executive director, Ira Glasser, describing the "transformative change" as "a departure which has the capacity to destroy the organization." Bill's guests are Ira Glasser, Fiona Hill, and Matt Welch. Ira Glasser was the former executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from 1978 to 2001; he is now retired. Like Dave Chappelle, pray Joe Rogan wins. Mar. Robert Corn-Revere's recent analysis of the Disney controversy is, in my view, exactly right, and I commend it. In 1967, Glasser joined the New York Civil . Ira Glasser Speaks Out. Floyd Abrams , Ira Glasser and Joel Gora. At the end, Ira says he "should be convicted under the impeachment process", which is pretty slippery because then he says that it's because regular people can't be impeached, so it wouldn't broaden the general definition.For a general conviction, he worries (as noted above) that the Supreme Court would ride the wave of anti-Trumpism to broaden the definition of incitement. Sinn Fein, the former political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), hailed its first election win in Northern Ireland's history as a "defining moment" for the British-controlled region and called for a debate on the creation of a united Ireland. Referring to the ACLU, Maher chimed in to say that "but your value is free speech.". The leading critic of the ACLU's newfound partisan mission is Romero's predecessor, Ira Glasser, who was the executive director of the ACLU from 1978 until 2001. Then, Ira Glasser, the former executive director of the ACLU, joins Preet for a discussion about the state of free speech and why the organization defends the rights of Neo-Nazis and Klansmen. He is remembered by Ira Glasser, president of DPA's board and former executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union: It was sometime in the eighties. The 99-year-old is one of the most compelling figures in a new documentary about another man, his onetime opponent Ira Glasser, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union from . The clip misses a few details that are worth noting. The marginalization of moderate Republicans has accelerated in the past decade, since the advent of the Tea Party . Directors Nico Perrino, Chris Maltby, Aaron Reese Starring The former head of the American Civil Liberties Union has ripped the group for no longer defending all free speech claiming it now cherry-picks cases that fit a new "progressive" agenda. Johnson won the backing of 211 out of 359 Conservative lawmakers, more than the simple majority needed to remain in power, but still a significant rebellion of 148 MPs. Glasser, a down-to-earth liberal Jew from Brooklyn, made numerous appearances on Firing Line, the political debate show hosted by the aristocratic conservative intellectual William F. Buckley Jr., and . The ACLU website credits Glasser with transforming the American Civil Liberties Union from a 'mom and pop'-style operation concentrated mainly in a few large cities to a nationwide civil liberties powerhouse." Ira Glasser, the ACLU's executive director from 1978 to 2001 . The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1920 "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States". Glenn Greenwald , System Update Ira Glasser is well-known (indeed, fabled) in civil liberties circles as the long-time (1978-2001) Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) during the period of its biggest growth spurt and most potent influence on the protection of freedom of speech and other civil . Glasser believes that this. First Amendment News 276: Abrams, Strossen and Glasser respond to Bazelon NYT magazine article by Ronald K. L. Collins. One of the 20th century's key civil libertarians insists in a new film and interview that free speech must endure. In October, Glasser spoke with Reason's Nick Gillespie via Zoom. But the ACLU has always stayed away from that. He has appeared on numerous television and radio shows and spoken . In this April 24, 1980, file photo, Olympic bronze medalist Anita DeFrantz, right, and Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, announce a lawsuit in New York by . American lawyer Ira Glasser Former Director of the American Civil Liberties Union An advocacy group that has spent more than two decades fighting for free expression on college campuses is. permitting the town council of Skokie to prohibit any speech or demonstration by members of political parties wearing "military-style" uniforms; and 3) preventing the public .
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