Promote Freedom of Expression!

Bring the Campaign for Free Expression to Your Campus

The Campaign for Free Expression is a CFI initiative to focus efforts and attention on one of the crucial components of freethought, the right of individuals to express their viewpoints, opinions, and beliefs.

Students and campus groups are invited to bring the Campaign to your campus.  This can include holding events and engaging in advocacy and activism focused on Blasphemy Day, Banned Books Week, or any other aspect of the Campaign.

Blasphemy Day: September 30, 2009

Blasphemy Day International takes place every September 30th to commemorate the publishing of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons.  The purpose is to promote free speech and stand up in a show of solidarity for the freedom to challenge, criticize, and satirize religion without fear of murder, litigation, and reprisal.

Banned Books Week (coordinated by the American Library Association): September 26 - October 3, 2009

Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one's opinion, even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular, and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them.

New event and advocacy ideas are available online to help you bring the Campaign for Free Expression to your campus:

Chalking for Free Speech Blasphemy Day demonstrations 90-Second Megaphone/Soapbox Free Expression Post-It board display Food for Freethought

Flyering for Free Expression Bus and billboard campaigns Blasphemous Art exhibition Presentation on banned books and censorship

To volunteer as an individual and help defend the right to free expression on a national or international level, join the new CFI campus Activism Committee by e-mailing oncampus@centerforinquiry.net.

For more information about the Campaign for Free Expression, including about the cartoon and student essay contests, go to the Campaign for Free Expression Announcement page.