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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 10:45:29 +0000
From: James Heartfield <James-AT-heartfield.demon.co.uk>
Subject: M-I: Free Speech Wars




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FREE SPEECH WARS

Free Speech Wars is a three-day international festival of talks, debates,
screenings and events organised by the ICA and LM magazine in association
with Waterstone's.

The Festival will explore the boundaries of contemporary taboo from the WWW
to the corner shop and ask: how far should free speech go?

'I'm not in favour of censorship, but...' Of course everyone supports free
speech in principle, but in practice it seems there is always an exception:
privacy laws and the paparazzi; Prodigy lyrics and pictures of Myra
Hindley; smoking on the screen and porn on the Net.

Are the calls for restraint and bans an understandable response to a media
free-for-all? Or are the exceptions to free speech becoming the rule? Do
words and images have a power that needs to be regulated or is regulation
itself the real threat?

These are questions that require the fullest debate possible. The ICA and
LM have organised Free Speech Wars as a contribution to such a debate.

There is a website which will keep you up-to-date with developments before,
during and after the event:

        <www.FreeSpeechWars.org>

Latest news, timetable changes and a discussion area ... please join in.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-ISSUES:
Hate Speech, Publishing, Advertising, Disclosure - press freedom after
Diana, Music, Comedy, Internet, Film, Reporting, Broadcasting, Abortion,
Football, Photography, Computer Games and other topical controversies.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Nadine Strossen - President, American Civil Liberties Union; Fay Weldon -
Novelist; Dr Frank Furedi - Author, Culture of Fear; Alan Clark MP; David
Banks - Consultant Editor, Sunday Mirror; William Bourdon - Defence lawyer
for the photographers charged in connection with the death of Diana,
Princess of Wales; Mick Hume - Editor, LM; Anthony Julius - Lawyer and
critic; Cosmo Landesman - Art critic, Sunday Times; Frances Kissling -
President, Catholics for a Free Choice; Tony Wilson - Factory Records;
Jello Biafra - Dead Kennedys; Laetitia Sadier - Stereolab; Chris Ellison -
Internet Freedom; Roger Gale MP; Tom Dewe Mathews - Author; Melanie
Phillips - Columnist, Observer; Christopher Dunkley - TV critic, Financial
Times; Beatrix Campbell - Columnist, Observer; Q.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-VENUE:
ICA, The Mall, London, SW1
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-DATES:
Friday 27 February to Sunday 1 March 1998
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-TICKETS:
Festival Pass: UKP50 (allows entrance into all festival events over three
days) or UKP30 (concessions)

One Day Pass: UKP20 or UKP15 (concessions)

Tickets are available ONLY from the ICA box office +44 (0)171 930 3647,
open daily: 1200-2130. You are advised to book in advance. Full price
tickets can be purchased by post (send a sterling cheque payable to the ICA
plus 30p) or by telephone (with any major credit card). Concessions
available to full-time students, OAPs, and claimants only at the Box
Office.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-INFORMATION:
>From the website or the Festival Hotline: Claire Fox +44 (0)171 278 9908 or
+44 (0)976 628 584 or email: lm-AT-informinc.co.uk
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--- 
James Heartfield


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