National Coalition Against Censorship

For my activist presentation I discussed the National Coalition Against Censorship. The coalition is a grassroots movement to educate and inspire the public to take action against various types of censorship such as in the media and arts. One of the coalition’s greatest concerns is that “freedom of communication is the indispensable condition of a healthy democracy, in a pluralistic society it would be impossible for all people at all times to agree on the value of all ideas and fatal to moral, artistic and intellectual growth if they did.” (www.ncac.org) I chose to speak about the coalition because it is in direct relation to my major in Communication Studies and my minor in English. I think it is important that everyone have the right to express their ideas however they choose as long as it is in a nonviolent manner. Without the freedom of expression our society would be unable to grow and evolve past any previously established ideas. It would hinder our ability to adapt to change. We as a society would become uniform carbon copies of one another because any new notion of life would be unable to reach the public. The idea of the NCAC is to help create a healthy environment to allow the free exchange of ideas. It does so by sending out a quarterly newsletter, educating the public, and helping to organize and correlate activist movements. It’s important to protect our basic rights to freedom of speech and freedom of expression. It would be more beneficial for our society as a whole if we could simply agree to disagree and respect one another.

National Coalition Against Censorship. Website. Retrieved November 26th, 2006, from http://www.ncac.org/about.cfm.