Show of the week: Shouting Fire: Stories From the Edge of Free Speech
Filmmaker Liz Garbus and her father, First Amendment attorney Martin Garbus, argue that American free speech is under attack from both the Right and Left, to a degree unseen since the McCarthy era.
This thought-provoking documentary argues that American free speech is under attack, from both the Right and Left, to a degree unseen since the McCarthy era. Filmmaker Liz Garbus and her father, First Amendment attorney Martin Garbus, profile several prominent cases. A professor was fired after he wrote that U.S. foreign-policy abuses were a partial cause of the Sept. 11 attacks. A high school student was suspended for wearing a T-shirt that read, “Homosexuality Is Shameful.” And an Arab-American school principal claims she was forced to resign for discussing the meaning of the word “intifada” with a reporter. Monday, June 29, at 9 p.m., HBO
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