March for Free Expression

international | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Tuesday March 21, 2006 17:00 by Maryam Namazie

March for Free Expression

What and When
A Rally in Trafalgar Square between 2:00pm and 4:00pm on Saturday March 25th 2006.
Speakers

* Evan Harris, MP. Lib Dem human rights spokesman
* Maryam Namazie, Broadcaster & Human Rights Campaigner
* Keith Porteous Wood, National Secular Society

March for Free Expression

What and When
A Rally in Trafalgar Square between 2:00pm and 4:00pm on Saturday March 25th 2006.
Speakers

* Evan Harris, MP. Lib Dem human rights spokesman
* Maryam Namazie, Broadcaster & Human Rights Campaigner
* Keith Porteous Wood, National Secular Society

Supported By

* 3:AM Magazine
* Lord Alton of Liverpool
* British Humanist Association
* Ekklesia
* Free Muslims Coalition
* The Freedom Association
* Gay & Lesbian Humanist Association
* lgfwatch
* The Libertarian Alliance
* Little Atoms
* Maryam Namazie
* New Humanist
* Nigerian Humanist Movement
* National Secular Society
* Oliver Kamm
* Rationalist International
* Samizdata
* Third Way Magazine

Statement of Principle
The strength and survival of free society and the advance of human knowledge depend on the free exchange of ideas. All ideas are capable of giving offence, and some of the most powerful ideas in human history, such as those of Galileo and Darwin, have given profound religious offence in their time. The free exchange of ideas depends on freedom of expression and this includes the right to criticise and mock. We assert and uphold the right of freedom of expression and call on our elected representatives to do the same. We abhor the fact that people throughout the world live under mortal threat simply for expressing ideas and we call on our elected representatives to protect them from attack and not to give comfort to the forces of intolerance that besiege them.