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The ACLU was joined by the American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress, and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and other religious and civil rights groups in opposing a Bureau of Prisons proposal that would remove some religious texts from prison chapel libraries.
The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) released a training guide to help booksellers anticipate free speech problems in their stores.
Catholics for Choice released a report on The Catholic League, which addresses a number of censorship issues NCAC has been involved with in the past.
SEICUS reviews abstinence-only curricula.
ACLU, SPLC file lawsuit against Calif. high school over canceled student newspaper
SIECUS (Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States) has released a comprehensive guide to sexuality education lesson plans.
The ACLU commended the House Judiciary Committee as it considered legislation that would protect journalists from having to reveal their confidential sources.
The National Education Association (NEA) has released an analysis entitled "Academic Freedom in America After 9/11."
The ACLU is advocating for legislation that would cut all funding from the National Security Agency's illegal domestic wiretapping program.
The American Federation of Teachers is protesting the Iranian government's arrest of Professor Ramin Jahanbegloo -- an arrest that seems to be motivated by hostility towards Professor Jahanbegloo's political views.
An invitation to young adult novelist Ellen Hopkins to speak about her experiences as a writer was rescinded by the Superintendent of the Humble (Texas) Independent School District after some parents complained about the content of her books. NCAC coordinated a letter of protest with five other national organizations. In July, 2010, NCAC joins The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, The Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project, and The Pennsylvania Center for The First Amendment in a friend of the court brief in the Supreme Court in support of the right to protest. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Congressional decision to require the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to consider "general standards of decency and respect" in awarding grants, the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) presents How Obscene is This?, a program about censorship and arts funding. In what appeared to be a retaliatory move against vocal citizen Steve Fults, Wakulla County (FL) Commissioner Mike Stewart proposed to eliminate the public’s use of AV equipment during meetings. NCAC and eight other groups blast CommonSenseMedia.org for its book rating system, which warns about all the things “to watch out for” hidden between the covers of books, but rarely has anything good to say about the value of literature and reading. NCAC sent the following letter to Stockton School District in Missouri concerning the challenge to Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. The novel was used during the 2009-2010 school year as the all-school read for grades 9-12, and challenged because the content did not reflect "community values." The following letter from the ACLU is in support of the bill HR 2765, which would address the growing problem of libel tourism, whereby individuals seek libel judgments in foreign countries where libel laws do not include the same free speech protections as in the U.S.NCAC'S NEWS