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"The gutting of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) will weaken our nation’s library system,” said Jonathan Friedman 📚. "We call on Congress to ensure the IMLS remains strong, independent, and robustly funded." Full statement: pen.org/press-release/…

“Columbia’s concessions today strike at core principles of academic freedom and self-governance in the higher education sector,” says Kristen Shahverdian, PEN America's program director for Campus Free Speech. Full statement: pen.org/press-release/…

PEN America, pencanada, and PEN Québec Jointly Call for Books and Literature to Flow Freely Across the Shared Border: pen.org/press-release/…

Your moment of resistance this week comes from Tufts president Sunil Kumar. Who submitted this statement in support of detained student Rümeysa Öztürk. Hoping more college presidents stand up for students and follow this example. tufts.edu/president/spee…

381 books banned from the Naval Academy. College level library. Banning books. All about race, racism, gender. List published by The New York Times. #11 is Our Time is Now by Stacey Abrams. Many others worth noting here. Attn: Macmillan Publishers PEN America nytimes.com/interactive/20…

The US Naval Academy is banning books from its library, including about the Holocaust. Books are not the enemy; ignorance is the enemy. apnews.com/article/navy-d…

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New pod: PEN's Jonathan Friedman 📚 is brilliant on the larger stakes of Trump war on Harvard. "It's a game changer. It says to every institution that is feeling like they have to capitulate that there is something greater that they have to stand for." Listen: newrepublic.com/article/194046…

Harvard’s pushback against the Trump administration "is a game changer," Jonathan Friedman 📚 tells Greg Sargent. "It says to every institution that is feeling like they have to capitulate that there is something greater that they have to stand for." Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tru…

In response to a public records request from the TX Freedom to Read Project Project, a school district in Texas has acknowledged it removed the entry for "Virginia" from its online learning platform for violating the school board’s new policy against "frontal nudity." pen.org/yes-virginia-y…

PEN America announces A Pledge to Our Democracy – a powerful call-to-action endorsed by more than 100 former college and university presidents and chancellors representing all sectors of higher education: pen.org/press-release/…

There's still an adult in the room in North Dakota. Republican Gov Armstrong did the reasonable thing- vetoed a bill that would censor libraries, saying it was a "misguided attempt to legislate morality through overreach and censorship". More of this 🙏 apnews.com/article/north-…

“What we’re seeing now is very dangerous,” said PEN America's Jonathan Friedman (Jonathan Friedman 📚). “When you attach these punitive potential actions to these concepts, you can comb through anything a university is doing and find fault.” nytimes.com/2025/05/05/art…

The decision in Alabama may have been the first time a local public library was targeted for defunding by a state government, said Jonathan Friedman 📚, who directs U.S. free expression programs at the nonprofit PEN America. nytimes.com/2025/05/04/us/…

PEN America: Decision to Cancel Kehlani Concert at NYC’s Central Park is “Cowardly” and Suppresses “Artistic Expression” pen.org/press-release/…

PEN America: AI-Generated Fake Book List Seems Funny, but Reflects the Technology’s Danger to Journalism pen.org/ai-generated-f…

Five major U.S.-based press freedom organizations — Committee to Protect Journalists Freedom of the Press International Women's Media Foundation @PENAmerica and Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press — announced today the launch of a network to provide legal and safety resources and training to journalists and newsrooms in the United States. pen.org/press-release/…

Revoking Harvard's right to enroll international students is "a brazen escalation of the Trump administration’s attacks on the higher education sector... (that) reduces international students to pawns in a political game," says PEN America's Jonathan Friedman 📚. pen.org/press-release/…

“This policy risks upending the long-standing place of the U.S. as a beacon for intellectual and cultural exchange with the world,” said PEN America's Jonathan Friedman 📚 as Trump administration halts scheduling of new visa interviews for international students apnews.com/article/intern…

ARC condemns the Whitney Museum’s cancellation of No Aesthetic Outside My Freedom, a vital performance mourning Palestinian lives. This act of censorship echoes the troubling trends we documented with Art Museum Directors & PEN America.🧵👇 artistsatriskconnection.org/statement/arc-… #ArtisticFreedom