Kit Gage and the Board of Directors of FAF and the NCARL Steering Committee have great news!
FAF has been joined by NCARL. And we have the re-named resulting entity:

Defending Dissent Foundation. You can see our logo here. We are enthusiastic that this streamlined organization
with its obvious focus even more effectively works with you all to defend the right of dissent.

Our mission is to protect and advance the right to dissent in the United States. We will do this by:

* Raising grassroots civil liberties concerns in the national arena,

* Alerting local activists to civil liberties threats, and

* Educating the public, the press and policymakers about how dissent is
crucial to democracy.

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CALLING ALL HUAC, post 9/11 and COINTELPRO Veterans!

The FIRST AMENDMENT FELON is out!

Robert Sherrill's book on the life and times of Frank Wilkinson has been published and is now available at www.amazon.com and your local bookstore! We are currently seeking to enlist folks, including those who experienced our government’s abuses of dissenters, to help us publicize and do readings of the book, and help build a bigger movement to resist further abuses.

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Photo: SCLC Reception honoring Frank Wilkinson and Carl Braden, April 30, 1961,
the day before they went to jail for the First Amendment. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Frank Wilkinson,
Carl Braden and Dr. James Dombrowski. Unknown photographer, Wilkinson family collection

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Frank Wilkinson passed away January 2, 2006 at age 91.
Thank you for your thoughts about Frank, your guidance, and your activism.
Frank depended on them and so do we.

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The First Amendment Foundation is a non-profit foundation that initiates educational programs on vanguard First Amendment constitutional rights issues, giving priority to:

• exposing encroachment by government agencies on the rights of free expression including defending the right of political dissent of individuals and organizations; and
• sharing educational materials to audiences unfamiliar with or inattentive to the threats to the First Amendment.

The Foundation was established in 1985, incorporated in California, now headquartered in Washington, D.C., and
is a 501(c)(3) organization.