| You can see our history and work on these pages: First Amendment Foundation (FAF): Here National Committee Against Repressive Legislation (NCARL): Here
where you can find our newsletters archived. National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom (NCPPF): Here
This coalition no longer exists, but some of its core materials are archived. | |
| The Defending Dissent Foundation is a newly coalesced national civil liberties organization based in the Washington D.C. area. It was formed as the First Amendment Foundation and recently renamed. Also NCARL, the National Committee Against Repressive Legislation recently melded into Defending Dissent Foundation. If you have been around a long time, perhaps you remember NCARL as the National Committee to Abolish HUAC – the House UnAmerican Activities Committee. We are an advocacy organization whose mission is to protect and advance the right of dissent in the United States by:
• Translating grassroots civil liberties concerns into national policy debate and action,
• Alerting local activists to civil liberties threats, and
• Educating the public, the press and policymakers as to how dissent is crucial to democracy. | | |
First Amendment Foundation
+ National Committee Against Repressive Legislation
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= The Defending Dissent Foundation
| | | | | | | | Bill of Rights Amendment I 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. |
