Free Speech Week is an annual, non-partisan national event that seeks to raise awareness of freedom of speech in the United States, and gives organizations and individuals an opportunity to celebrate that freedom. Free Speech Week was created in 2005 by The Media Institute and the National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation and takes place during the third week of October every year.
Directors Guild of America National Executive Director Jay D. Roth is a member of the Free Speech Week Advisory Council. (Click here for press release)
To learn more about Free Speech Week and find out how you can participate, please visit www.freespeechweek.org.
The Directors Guild of America has a long history of protecting and vigorously defending the right to free speech. A sample of the DGA’s public statements, magazine articles and National Board actions is below:
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DGA Quarterly, Spring 2011
How a fractured Guild battled over a loyalty oath 60 years ago—and ultimately came together.
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DGA joins AMPAS, ACE, ASC, IDA, PGA, SAG, WGAE and WGAW in support of the rights of imprisoned Iranian filmmakers and call for their immediate release.
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The DGA, in support of filmmaker Joe Berlinger and the First Amendment, objects to a judge's decision that Berlinger must turn over 600 hours of raw footage from his documentary Crude: The Real Price of Oil to Chevron.
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The DGA was one of several organizations that joined the ACLU's brief criticizing the FCC regulation of "indecent speech" as arbitrary, inconsistent and irreconcilable with core First Amendment values.
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The AFTRA, DGA, SAG, WGAE and WGAW jointly responded to an Appeals Court decision overturning a new FCC policy on decency standards.
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The DGA, SAG, and WGA argued in a legal brief filed that new standards adopted by the FCC to censor “indecency” in TV, film, and radio are overly vague and unconstitutional.
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