first amendment

The mayor has said she will remove the Occupy Baltimore protestors from McKeldin Square “at a time of her choosing.” We ask an occupier: what do they plan to do…when they no longer have a space to Occupy?

The Occupy Baltimore movement has been camping out in McKeldin Square, near the Inner Harbor, since early October. The square is designated by the city as an area for demonstrations and protests.

September 23rd & 24th, 2011, on The Signal…

“In the past, personal and political liberty depended to a considerable extent on government inefficiency.  The spirit of tyranny was always willing, but its organization and equipment were generally weak.  Progressive science and technology have changed all that completely.”  

-Aldous Huxley, 1948

Freedom of expression and the first amendment, Maryland author Evan Balkan tells Nathan Sterner about the ruthless conquistador chronicled in his new book: “The Wrath of God: Lope de Aguirre, Revolutionary of the Americas”, and Dudley Clendinen has talked with Tom Hall about the things he WANTS to do before dying — now he talks with him about the things he HAS to do — a chore list of sorts.