[Libs-Or] JULY 2020 - Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions: Intellectual Freedom Newsletter

[Ekatrina Sotomayor]

Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions: Intellectual Freedom News - JULY 2020


Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,
or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to
petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

First Amendment:  Protests

“Defendant Shall Not Attend Protests”:  In Portland, Getting Out of Jail
Requires Relinquishing Constitutional Rights
<https://www.propublica.org/article/defendant-shall-not-attend-protests-in-portland-getting-out-of-jail-requires-relinquishing-constitutional-rights?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailynewsletter>
- ProPublica

Statement on Federal Police Abuses in Portland, Oregon
<https://ncac.org/news/joint-statement-on-reports-of-unidentified-federal-officers-in-portland-oregon>
- National Coalition Against Censorship

Perspective: Trump’s crackdown in Portland is an attack on free speech
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/22/trumps-crackdown-portland-is-an-attack-free-speech/>
- Washington Post

Two independent journalists file suit against Portland police, county
sheriff’s deputies and state police
<https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/07/two-independent-journalists-file-suit-against-portland-police-county-sheriffs-deputies-and-state-police.html>-
Oregonian

Federal forces keeping medics from doing jobs at Portland protests, ACLU
suit says
<https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/federal-forces-keeping-medics-doing-their-jobs-portland-protests-aclu-n1234659>
- NBC News

A district judge issues a temporary restraining order on federal agents.
Portland protesters describe being detained, chased.
<https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/portland-protesters-being-detained-chased-federal-agents-situation-intensifies-n1234616>
- NBC News

Trump announces 'surge' of federal officers into Democratic-run cities
<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/22/donald-trump-federal-officers-police-surge-chicago>
- The Guardian

Portland Protests: Local Leaders Urging Feds to Leave
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/us/portland-protests.html> - New York
Times

To end ‘Unconstitutional Nightmare,’ ACLU sues Trump administration over
use of secret police in Portland
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/18/end-unconstitutional-nightmare-aclu-sues-trump-administration-over-use-secret-police>
- Common Dreams

Nothing Can Justify the Attack on Portland
<https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/nothing-can-justify-attack-portland/614413/>
- The Atlantic

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announces ‘phased’ removal of federal officers from
Portland
<https://www.opb.org/article/2020/07/29/oregon-portland-deal-announced-federal-officers-phased-removal/>
- OPB

Trump Contradicts Oregon Governor: Feds Are Not Leaving Portland
<https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2020/07/30/trump-contradicts-oregon-governor-feds-are-not-leaving-portland/#d38667c5b0e9>
- Forbes

Rethinking Police Presence
<https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2020/07/08/rethinking-police-presence/>
- American Libraries Magazine


Censorship, Banned Books & Free Speech

Goya Foods’ CEO says his speech is being suppressed by a boycott. It’s not
<https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/7/12/21320954/goya-foods-unanue-boycott-cancel-culture-free-speech>
- Vox

Has Free Speech Become an Even More Partisan Issue Under the Trump
Administration?
<https://pen.org/free-speech-partisan-issue-trump-administration/> - PEN
America

NCAC Opposes Removal of Mural Depicting Slavery
<https://ncac.org/news/ncac-opposes-removal-of-mural-depicting-slavery> -
National Coalition Against Censorship

Free Speech And Hate Speech:  Another Reckoning For Social Media Companies
<https://www.npr.org/2020/07/06/887652751/free-speech-and-hate-speech-another-reckoning-for-social-media-companies>
- NPR

Facebook’s Decisions Were ‘Setbacks for Civil Rights,’ Audit Finds
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/technology/facebook-civil-rights-audit.html>
- New York Times

How Media Censorship in America Affects the News You See
<https://www.thoughtco.com/how-media-censorship-affects-the-news-you-see-2315162>
- Thought Co.

The Great American Firewall: On the Question of Censorship
<https://mronline.org/2020/07/17/the-great-american-firewall-on-the-question-of-censorship/>
- Monthly Review

How Trump's Efforts To Ban Critical Books Violate The Constitution
<https://www.wgbh.org/news/commentary/2020/07/29/how-trumps-efforts-to-ban-critical-books-violate-the-constitution>
- WGBH Boston

Mathematicians Boycott Police Work
<https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a32957375/mathematicians-boycott-predictive-policing/>
- Popular Mechanics


Privacy

Map: surveillance technology used by police departments across the US
<https://www.businessinsider.com/map-surveillance-technology-used-by-police-departments-across-the-us-2020-7>
- Business Insider

Defending Black Lives Means Banning Facial Recognition
<https://www.wired.com/story/defending-black-lives-means-banning-facial-recognition/?>
- Wired

Atlas of Surveillance <https://atlasofsurveillance.org/> - Electronic
Frontier Foundation

Portland’s Radical Facial Recognition Proposal Bans the Tech From Airbnbs,
Restaurants, Stores…
<https://onezero.medium.com/portlands-radical-facial-recognition-proposal-bans-the-tech-from-airbnbs-restaurants-stores-and-32ada95430b6>
- One Zero

EU-US Privacy Shield for data struck down by court
<https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53418898> - BBC

What Is the EARN IT Act and Why Is It Bad for the Internet?
<https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/m7j3np/what-is-the-earn-it-act-encryption>
- Vice

ISPs Lose Facial Challenge to Maine Privacy Law
<https://www.multichannel.com/news/isps-lose-facial-challenge-to-maine-privacy-law>
- multichannel.com

The Most Important Privacy Case You've Never Heard Of
<https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200626/11405044796/most-important-privacy-case-youve-never-heard-gigi-sohn-jeff-gary.shtml>
- Tech Dirt

Contact Tracing Demonstrates Need for National Privacy Laws, Lawmaker Says
<https://www.nextgov.com/analytics-data/2020/07/contact-tracing-demonstrates-need-national-privacy-laws-lawmaker-says/167160/>
- Nextgov



Diversity, Access & Net Neutrality

Wake up, Libraries: Curbside Pickup is NOT the Answer
<https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=wake-up-libraries-curbside-pickup-is-not-the-answer-reimagining-public-libraries-youth-services>
- School Library Journal

Leading Diversity:  Why Listening and Learning Come Before Strategy
<https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/leading-diversity-listening-learning-before-strategy/>
- Knowledge at Wharton

Secretary Mark T. Esper Provides Update on Department Efforts to
<https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2275106/secretary-mark-t-esper-provides-update-on-department-efforts-to-address-diversi/>

Address Diversity, Inclusion and Equal Opportunity in the Military Services
<https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2275106/secretary-mark-t-esper-provides-update-on-department-efforts-to-address-diversi/>
- U.S. Department of Defense

How Remote Work Can Enhance Workplace Diversity
<https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2020/07/28/how-remote-work-can-enhance-workplace-diversity/#43fff018e6a7>
- Forbes

Krissah Thompson named The Washington Post’s first managing editor for
diversity and inclusion
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/krissah-thompson-named-the-washington-posts-first-managing-editor-for-diversity-and-inclusion/2020/07/28/2e033ffa-d0dc-11ea-8d32-1ebf4e9d8e0d_story.html>
- The Washington Post

Sen. Manchin to introduce bill to provide rural broadband hotspots
<https://www.localdvm.com/news/west-virginia/sen-manchin-to-introduce-bill-to-provide-rural-broadband-hotspots/>
- Local DVM

ALA, Capital One invite rural libraries to apply for Community Connect:
Digital Access at Home grants
<http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2020/07/ala-capital-one-invite-rural-libraries-apply-community-connect-digital-access>
- American Library Association

Mathematicians Boycott Police Work
<https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a32957375/mathematicians-boycott-predictive-policing/>
- Popular Mechanics

Covid-19

The COVID Slide:  How to Help Students Recover Learning Losses
<https://www.rand.org/blog/rand-review/2020/07/the-covid-slide-how-to-help-students-recover-learning.html>
- RAND Corporation

Opinion:  With Covid-19, Broadband Internet Access Is a Civil Rights Issue
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/opinion/sunday/broadband-internet-access-civil-rights.html>
- New York Times

Many Black and Asian Americans Say They Have Experienced Discrimination
Amid the COVID-19 Outbreak
<https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2020/07/01/many-black-and-asian-americans-say-they-have-experienced-discrimination-amid-the-covid-19-outbreak/>
- Pew Research Institute

The Color of COVID: Will Vaccine Trials Reflect America’s Diversity?
<https://khn.org/news/the-color-of-covid-will-vaccine-trials-reflect-americas-diversity/>
- Kaiser Health News

The Technology 202: Tech to contain coronavirus on college campuses sparks
fresh privacy concerns
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-technology-202/2020/07/10/the-technology-202-tech-to-contain-coronavirus-on-college-campuses-spark-fresh-privacy-concerns/5f077b4a88e0fa7b44f716e8/>
- Washington Post

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Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions is a monthly roundup of Intellectual
Freedom News compiled by the Multnomah County Library Intellectual Freedom
Committee.

We welcome suggestions of articles to include at lib.ifc at multco.us.  In
general, submissions should follow the following criteria: (1) News
articles; (2) Published in the relevant month; (3) Prioritize issues of
either local relevance or national interest.



-- 
Ekatrina Sotomayor (she/her/hers)
Access Services Assistant
Holgate Library
My schedule is Wednesday/ Thursday/ Sunday


*Multnomah County operates on the ancestral homelands of the Multnomah,
Mollala, Kathlamet, Chinook, Clackamas, Tualatin Kalapuya and many other
Indigenous Nations. These Nations have become the Confederated Tribes of
Grand Ronde <https://www.grandronde.org/>, the Confederated Tribes of
Siletz Indians <http://ctsi.nsn.us/>, as well as the Chinook Nation
<http://www.chinooknation.org/> and Cowlitz Nation
<https://www.cowlitz.org/> in Washington State.** Land acknowledgements
recognize and honor the enduring relationship that Indigenous People have
with their traditional homelands. The effects of settler colonization are
still felt today and land acknowledgements are a small step down the path
towards repair, reconciliation, and cultural revitalization. *
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