8/4/04: State of Emergency: Unconventional Readings
Literary luminaries present a series of readings on the topics of free speech and democracy, in concert with the PEN Campaign for Core Freedoms. >> Listen

4/17/05: Reading: Banned Voices
A reading during the first PEN World Voices Festival featuring the work of those writers who were not able to attend. >> More

11/8/05: State of Emergency: Readings Against Torture, Arbitrary Detention, and Extraordinary Rendition
A special evening of readings in opposition to United States policies on the treatment of detainees in this country and abroad. >> Listen

4/06: Conversation with Philip Gourevitch & James Risen
A conversation about the importance of a free press, the demagoguery of 9/11, the greatest strategic failure in American history, and breaking the NSA spy story. >> Listen

4/27/06: An Evening Without...
Readings from the work of writers who have been barred from the United States. >> Listen

9/28/06: Protecting Privacy, Challenging Secrecy & Standing Up for the First Amendment
The Campaign for Reader Privacy presents this program in celebration of the 25th observance of Banned Books Week, an annual reminder that we can never take our freedom to read for granted. >> Listen

9/27/06: Jailing the Messenger: Leaks, Sources, and Freedom of the Press
Journalists explore the question of how to balance the great importance of nurturing a vigorous free press and enxure public access to information against competing values such as the rights of criminal defendants, privacy rights, and national security. >> Listen

3/3/07: Freedom to Write? Our Obligation to Protect Free Expression
A panel discussion from the 2007 AWP Conference in Atlanta >> Listen

4/26/07: Dirty Wars
Readings against torture, arbitrary detention, kidnapping, and rendition. >> Listen

5/1/08: Something to Hide: Writers and Artists Against the Surveillance State
Prominent international and local writers and artists gather for a special reading to provoke reflection on controversial post-9/11 government surveillance programs in the United States. >> Listen

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