Article: Michigan Equality unveils online resolution for 'Independence from Hate Crimes and Hate Speech'

Article: Michigan Equality appoints Nemecek and Brown as ...
Between the Lines;  January 22, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Jan. 19, LGBT rights organization Michigan Equality announced the appointment of Michelle ... I am proud that the board of Michigan Equality has people as capable and willing ... during this transitional time for Michigan Equality and this important time for the civil ...

Article: Michigan Equality ED departs; big changes on the ...
Between the Lines;  December 18, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... LANSING - Big changes are underway at Michigan Equality that could result in surprising announcements ... Indeed, much of the work of Michigan Equality has been similar to that of the Triangle ... ordinance. Still, Meeks claimed that Michigan Equality will continue to remain a separate ...

Article: Leadership change at Michigan Equality?
Between the Lines;  December 11, 2008 ;     380 words ... ... that Derek Smiertka is no longer the executive director of Michigan Equality. The future of the organization remains uncertain. An ... mail also stated that questions and issues related to Michigan Equality should be directed to Julie Powers, the organization ...

Article: Opposing Hate Speech
Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Opposing Hate Speech. Anthony Cortese. Westport, CT ... individual expression. In Opposing Hate Speech, Anthony Cortese criticizes those ... University, concentrates his focus on hate speech that denigrates people on the basis ...

Article: Destructive Messages: How Hate Speech Paves the Way ...
Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Destructive Messages: How Hate Speech Paves the Way for Harmful Social ... 45 hbk. Few would disagree that hate speech and prejudice are terrible relics ... expression against the ugliness of hate speech. Yet, the task of "line drawing ...

Article: COLUMN: Free speech means allowing hate speech
University Wire;  March 10, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... cross the line. For many, that line should be hate speech. Only by allowing hate speech and other objectionable expressions can we ... first problem faced by the attempt to regulate hate speech is defining it. Hate speech is not hate crimes ...

Article: Understanding hate speech as a communication ...
Communications and the Law;  June 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... issues that American society faces, hate speech, entangled with multiculturalism and ... hardest free speech question."(1) Hate speech is defined as an expression that is ... orientation.(2) While widespread hate speech largely reflects conditions of American ...