/mit/safe/writings

The purpose of this directory is to furnish source material to make
composing anti-censorship statements easy.

As of June 1, 1993, all of the files in this directory were put here
by Lars Bader (leb@athena.mit.edu).  You are welcome to put your own
here.  Make a subdirectory with your name if you want.  Give the files
descriptive names, insofar as is possible while still letting the
directory be listed in two-column format.

A majority are pieces written by Lars's twin, Hans Bader, a Harvard
Law School student who has published numerous letters and op-ed pieces
attacking censorship, including letters in Newsweek, the New York
Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe (twice), Boston Herald
(twice), Cambridge Tab, Boston Phoenix, Washington Post, Richmond
Times-Dispatch, and the main Houston daily.  Most, however, have
appeared in college papers.  Most pieces regarded "harassment"
although one defended an art gallery that depicted Jesse Helms
half-naked.  Some pieces in the directory were also written by Lars.
Some of these were published in the MIT community media --
Counterpoint, Tech, and Thistle.

You are encouraged to plagiarize any written materials by Hans Bader
or Lars Bader if you feel the situation calls for you to speak out and
you don't have time to write your own letter.  Most of these points
need to be reiterated yearly.  In political activism, the point is not
to be thought original but to defend your freedoms.

The directory contains an opinion piece from an anti-censorship
feminist in Forbes, and also an anti-speech code editorial from the
Wall Street Journal.  

The usenet subdirectory contains comments made over Usenet.

The directory law contains legal cases and legal commentary that may
also be useful to draw upon.