Right Wing Collectivism.pdf. Milwaukee, June 12, 2021. This past year represented a new level of achievement for FIRE and its cause on campus. Without Yiannopoulos, CPACs speakers list was still full of individuals pushing xenophobic and discriminatory agendas and figures associated with the extremist so-called alt-right movement. FIRE contends that since it debuted in 1999 it has won over 500 public victories for students and faculty members, secured 425 campus policy changes, and helped drive down the prevalence of highly-restrictive campus speech codes. Weve said it before: The greatest threat to democracy from the media isnt disinformation, its the paywall. [36][37] These fees are charged to pay for extra security, which colleges say is necessary due to the likelihood of demonstrations and disruption of events. Although the details are purposely obscured, its likely that the DeVoses -- like Charles and David Koch -- have additionally contributed to groups in this list through the anonymous donor funds DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund. The Unite the Right rally they held ended with violence, including the death of a 32-year-old woman who was run over by a car driven by a far-right demonstrator whose friends said he was obsessed with Hitler. Right-Wing Campaign to Block Teaching for Social Justice. Charles Koch is also a board member at the center. Examples of bias on campus from this week include: a professor who reached out to a black student about an upcoming class that would focus on slavery and white nationalism; a school supporting an emergency fund for immigrant students; and a school hosting a seminar on pay inequity and salary negotiation for women students. $35,000. What are his equivalent ties and obligations to progressives, whose freedoms he also claims to defend? The group is sponsoring a lawsuit that challenges the . Thank you! [88][89], In August 2022, FIRE defended the nonprofit group NeuroClastic, which had been threatened with a defamation lawsuit by the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center after criticizing the Center's use of electro-shock devices. Its given $15 million to Young Americas Foundation, more than $8 million to the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, as well as smaller donations to the Leadership Institute. The voices that think of free speech as a dirty word on campus or on Twitter are actually a pretty small minority.. Such offenses often prompt not intimidation and silence but more speech, including criticism from liberals. According to tax filings, the Alliance for School Choice has received substantial funding from right-wing philanthropists, including at least half a million from the Gleason Family Foundation. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education on Monday announced a $75 million expansion into off-campus free-speech advocacy and defense that will include litigation, public. [59][60] The lawsuit eventually ended with nearly $1 million in damages and fees awarded. History Founded in 1946, The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) is a libertarian economic think-tank dedicated to the "economic, ethical, and legal principles of a free society." FEE publishes books, daily articles and hosts seminars and lectures. The American Conservative Union is a conservative political organization that oversees the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a massive annual conference with organizing workshops and speeches from prominent right-wing politicians and leaders. Its largest donors appear to be anonymous right-wing billionaires contributing throughDonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund. Funding Rounds Number of Funding Rounds 1 Total Funding Amount $2.5M Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has raised a total of $2.5M in funding over 1 round. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's "Responsible Use Policy" forbids using computing resources "for partisan political purposes" or to "offend" or "annoy" others. Lukianoff should be asked to acknowledge this at the Bard conference. Even Lukianoffs Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate was published in 2014 by the right-wing Encounter Books, which also publishes such conservative mainstays as Kimball and William Kristol, and which has been funded with at least $6 million by the Bradley Foundation. 03/01/23 10:55 PM EST, Video & Audio Original Filing: 300460117.xml Issue(s) they said they'd lobby about: The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to defending . Here are some known contributors: Adolph Coors Foundation: $95,000 (2014-2018) Allan S Gordon Foundation: $10,000 (2017-2018) American Endowment Foundation: $36,377 (2016-2017) In addition to funding medical research and more standard philanthropic endeavors, the F.M. The same foundations also supportand FIRE has applaudedthe duplicitously named Citizens United ruling that, in the name of expanding free speech, opens election campaigns, and therefore public deliberation about how to regulate corporations, to business-corporate fiduciaries of incorporeal whorls of shareholders, who cannot really deliberate about anything but the size of their dividends. The ACLU later recalibrated its free-speech advocacy, urging that its lawyers considering what cases to take also consider offense to marginalized groups. Romero also said it would not defend those seeking to engage in protests while armed. Known as Higher Educations Internet Outrage Machine, Campus Reform posts several poorly sourced articles each day alleging professorial bias against conservative students or policies. FIRE aims to protect college students' First Amendment rights | Indivisible", "So to Speak podcast: Matt Taibbi, Nadine Strossen, and Amna Khalid respond to 'On the Media' free speech critiques", "Podcast: Discussing Free Speech on "So to Speak", "Samuel Goldwyn Films Acquires Docu, Asks 'Can We Take A Joke? As of August 2020, SPN's membership totals 162. (One of FIREs biggest funders, the Bradley Foundation, even paid for billboards in black neighborhoods that depicted a black man behind bars and the words Voting Fraud is Felony, a not-so-veiled example of voter intimidation.). January 2, 2023. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression's mission is to defend and sustain the individual rights of all Americans to free speech and free thoughtthe most essential qualities of liberty. "[10], FIRE has received major funding from groups which primarily support conservative and libertarian causes, including the Bradley Foundation, Sarah Scaife Foundation, and the Charles Koch Institute. 2012. This beacon provides an assessment of a charity's financial health (financial efficiency, sustainability, and trustworthiness) and its commitment to governance practices and policies. [34], At the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, FIRE opposed university practices that required student journalists to submit their questions ahead of time or seek permission from the school before interviewing university employees. Kirby Foundation. Lukianoff declined to detail who has contributed the $28 million for the new initiative or what prompted them to offer funding. [87] Later that year, FIRE announced a lawsuit challenging Floridas "Stop Woke Act", claiming the bill unconstitutionally suppresses certain discussions of race and sex on college campuses. Turning Point USA is the project of Charlie Kirk, a 23-year-old conservative boy wonder who spoke at the 2016 Republican National Convention, describing work to push free markets and free people on college campuses, the most treacherous terrain imaginable. He reportedly visited Trump Tower in November to give advice on young people and millennials and outreach to undisclosed members of the presidential transition team. 03/01/23 8:17 PM EST, Article However, he said in the last fiscal year, about 69 percent of FIREs funding came from individual donors and about 31 percent from foundations. The notion that you have to reduce your vigor with which you defend First Amendment rights or you will damage the strength of your advocacy for equal rights for women, gays, and Blacks, et cetera is just demonstrably not true and, yet, theyve done that. Another ad features a Montana State University student, Stefan Klaer, who was ordered to take down a Black Lives Matter banner from his dorm room window. "[2] The Times also referred to FIRE as a "familiar irritant to college administrators" and said FIRE "bristles at the right-wing tag often applied to them". Links Reference Wikipedia Conservapedia RationalWiki SourceWatch Category: Seed Facts . The Times Jennifer Schuessler reported last weekend that although [t]he conventional wisdom surrounding American college life these days views campuses as hotbeds of intolerance for free speech, the PEN report questions that story line while warning of a different danger: a growing perception among young people that cries of free speech are too often used as a cudgel against them., In other words, one thing threatening freedom of expression on campus is the free speech crusade itself. And lets hope that theyll ask Lukianoff to explain his funding, premises, and the pattern and practice of his propaganda and provocations and omissions, which surround and often undermine his groups legitimate complaints. The Charles Koch Foundation is the private philanthropic organization of oil billionaire Charles Koch. [28], FIRE has opposed campus speech codes. DonorsTrust and the affiliated Donors Capital Fund (DCF) are donor-advised funds that have been labeled the dark-money ATM for the conservative movement. DonorsTrust and DCF allow wealthy individuals and philanthropic organizations to donate to right-wing causes (and even hate groups) with anonymity. Dunn's Foundation for the Advancement of Right Thinking. Romero, the ACLU chief, said Monday that he agrees free speech is under increasing attack in the U.S. and is pleased that FIRE is branching out. Provost Marty Krauss informed Hindley in October 2007 that comments he made in his Latin American politics class violated the school's anti-harassment policy. By Barbara Miner. I also argued, in The New York Times, that free speech is alive and well on campus, and that demands for safe spaces, trigger warnings, and speaker cancellations, while real and sometimes chilling, are far less prevalent and dangerous than FIRE insists. [39] The school settled the lawsuit and agreed to revise its policies. The ACLU faced internal upheaval in 2017 after its Virginia chapter provided legal assistance to white-nationalist groups seeking a permit to demonstrate in Charlottesville, Va. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is right for you. 03/01/23 9:41 PM EST, Video & Audio In the past, CPAC has typically featured remarks from, and panel discussions with, leading and up-and-coming conservative voices, including many presidential candidates in election years. . Web the foundation for individual rights in education (fire) is an organization whose work concerns university students and faculty members the organization considers to have. Its also hard to accept at face value Lukianoffs claim that FIRE takes on so many liberals only because most professors and students are liberals, and are therefore behind most campus constraints on free speech. In 2014, the foundation gave a total of more than $24 million for use in educational programs, educational grants, and general operating support at these schools and organizations, including more than $11.8 million in 2014 to George Mason University, which hosts the conservative Mercatus Center and Institute for Humane Studies. [71] The criticism led to the resignation of Charlene Allen, Columbia's program coordinator for the Office of Sexual Misconduct Prevention and Education, whose policies were at the center of the controversy. The Leadership Institute also operates Campus Reform, a website where student reporters write about perceived instances of liberal bias on college campuses. Jim Sleeper is a lecturer in political science at Yale, a former columnist for Newsday and the New York Daily News, and author of The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York.. 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It detailed a $75 million expansion plan over three years to focus on "litigation, public education, and research," with $10 million for a nationwide advertising campaign. FIREs new expansion is also a challenge of sorts to the ACLU, which has faced criticism in recent years for drifting from its unapologetically pro-free-speech roots and taking a more direct role in partisan political fights. [6] It was founded to be non-ideological and nonpartisan. Freedom of speech is our right as Americans and we must do everything we can to protect it, Lynum says over images of Martin Luther King Jr. and a young anti-abortion activist. Summers told POLITICO hes troubled that a stifling conformity in discussions about issues related to identity on college campuses seems to be spreading. How a Stanford 3L got the last laugh against the Federalist Society", "Update: Law Student Who Made Fun of the Federalist Society Will Be Allowed to Graduate After All", "Emerson College targeted by ad campaign for suspending student group behind 'China Kinda Sus' stickers", "Right-wing student group suspended over 'anti-China' stickers", "Conservative student group blackballed by Massachusetts college for 'anti-China hate', "Turning Point Chapter Warned for Distributing China Stickers | Inside Higher Ed", "Ron DeSantis faces Florida lawsuit over anti-woke law", "Fourth lawsuit filed to challenge DeSantis' 'Stop WOKE Act', "A psychiatric facility punishes residents with painful electric shocks. I think for FIRE to spread its wings is very constructive, said Summers, who served as president of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006 and was National Economic Adviser for from 2009 to 2011 under President Barack Obama. Students for Liberty is largely funded by a network of anonymous conservative donors through DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund, along with several Koch-affiliated groups. The foundation supports free-market teachings at the university level, including by funding individual faculty positions. Students for Lifes funding is largely obscured, but it appears to have received at least some funding from DonorsTrust, a donor fund that allows wealthy individuals and groups to anonymously support right-wing causes. An advocacy group that has spent more than two decades fighting for free expression on college campuses is broadening its efforts to fight so-called cancel culture and other perceived threats to free speech across American society. Not only did FIRE secure more victories than ever, but it also succeeded in bringing liberty to thousands more students by welcoming Arizona State University and James Madison University to its list of Lukianoffs boards of directors and advisers include such prominent free-market conservatives as George Will and T. Kenneth Cribb, who was assistant for domestic affairs to President Ronald Reagan and a former president of the conservative Intercollegiate Studies Institute, which trains students to counter liberal threats to the market economy.. Email: ROBERT@THEFIRE.ORG. 03/01/23 8:20 PM EST, Video & Audio FIRE is justified, up to a point, in criticizing black protesters who shout down and intimidate classmates and professors by branding their colleges as racist, and in challenging feminist government and university bureaucrats who impose unfair standards and procedures when judging sexual assault charges. [62][63] The school eventually agreed to rewrite its speech policies, paying $650,000 to settle the lawsuit. ), predatory lending, and ever more intrusive, degrading consumer marketing. The PEN report misses this broader context, conscientious though it is in distinguishing real threats to campus free speech from hyped and imagined ones. [72], FIRE criticized Brandeis University on both free speech and due process grounds in early 2008 over its treatment of veteran politics professor Donald Hindley. Students for Liberty is a network of pro-liberty students from all over the world that claims to organize almost 3,000 local student groups and 1,400+ leaders around the world in training students to become a new generation of libertarian leaders. Waiver of right of respondent United States to . 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