Over the course of about an hour one night last week, two people with diametrically opposing views on a heated topic sat in a bar and had a reasonable, civil conversation about it. Crazy, right? The Humboldt Center for Constitutional Rights (HumRights) hosted the debate, which saw Humboldt State University students Freddy Brewster (a Journal […]
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Strumming Up a Case
Free speech or solicitation? A Humboldt County judge is slated to decide in October whether or not Oscar Leatherman, who has been busking in Eureka for three years, violated the city’s panhandling ordinance last year, when crooning on a street corner drew him a citation from Eureka police. Leatherman, who has since written a song […]
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Save Our Speech
I’m pro-free speech and I am not a Nazi. I feel I have to to start there following news story after news story about people protesting “free speech rallies” when what they are actually protesting is the gathering of Nazis and white nationalists and the spouting of racist ideas. These images give me chills: mobs […]
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Up-stakes for County Camping Ordinance
Hear that huge sigh of relief among cookie-sellers, campaigners, protesters and others wanting to exercise their free speech and sugar-peddling rights over at the swell outdoor digs of the county courthouse? Soon, they’ll no longer be scofflaws when they stake out their awnings on those public premises: Tuesday, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors voted […]