{"id":1505100,"date":"2022-06-06T11:34:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T15:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1505100"},"modified":"2022-06-06T11:34:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T15:34:42","slug":"fire-the-free-speech-group-to-broaden-its-scope-as-aclu-delves-into-other-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fire-the-free-speech-group-to-broaden-its-scope-as-aclu-delves-into-other-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"FIRE, The Free Speech Group, To Broaden Its Scope As ACLU Delves Into Other Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffire-the-free-speech-group-to-broaden-its-scope-as-aclu-delves-into-other-areas%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1505100&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The nonpartisan advocacy group formerly known as The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is broadening its efforts. After focusing solely on the defense of free speech on campus, it will now work to include threats off campus, the organization announced in a press release Monday.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the broadening effort at the organization, FIRE, founded in 1999, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/fire-announces-75-million-expansion-into-off-campus-free-speech-advocacy-defense\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">changing its name<\/a> to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica\u2019s leading defender of free speech, due process, and academic freedom in higher education is expanding its free speech mission beyond campus. The $75 million expansion initiative will focus on three main areas of programming: litigation, public education, and research,\u201d the group said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo say the least, we have not solved the campus free-speech problem, but we started to realize if we wanted to save free speech on campus we have to start earlier and we have to do things not on campus,\u201d FIRE President <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2014\/03\/21\/from-ucsb-to-dartmouth-free-speech-gets-torn-up-and-run-over-literally-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greg Lukianoff<\/a> told Politico.<\/p>\n<p>FIRE\u2019s newly expanded role fighting threats to free speech both on and off campus expands into a sphere previously primarily occupied by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce the ACLU backs off its traditional role, who else is there?\u201d Ira Glasser, a former executive director of the ACLU and a current member of FIRE\u2019s advisory board, told Politico.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/27\/aclu-second-amendment-racist-maj-toure-mychael-waller-gun-control-racist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ACLU claimed<\/a>, \u201cRacism is foundational to the Second Amendment and its inclusion in the Bill of Rights.\u201d\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/02\/aclu-endorses-vaccine-mandates-to-further-civil-liberties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED:\u00a0\u2018Justifiable Intrusion\u2019: ACLU Claims Vaccine Mandates Further Civil Liberties)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Racism is foundational to the Second Amendment and its inclusion in the Bill of Rights.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more from experts Carol Anderson and Charles Howard Candler on this episode of the At Liberty podcast.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9AjGALT1GH\">https:\/\/t.co\/9AjGALT1GH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ACLU (@ACLU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ACLU\/status\/1419294620417155074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe notion that you have to reduce your vigor with which you defend First Amendment rights or you will damage the strength of your advocacy for equal rights for women, gays, and Blacks, et cetera is just demonstrably not true and, yet, they\u2019ve done that,\u201d Glasser said. \u201cIt has created a vacuum in the viewpoint-neutral defense of free speech, which FIRE has filled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>FIRE\u2019s vice president of communications, Nico Perrino, told the Daily Caller the free speech advocacy organization would continue to work with the ACLU in its efforts to protect free speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur off-campus work is focused squarely on defending freedom of expression. The ACLU has 19 issue areas, we have one,\u201d Perrino said, \u201cWe regularly work with the ACLU on campus and now look forward to doing so off campus, as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe aim to be an unapologetic defender of free speech culture in America, and we seek to use litigation, public education, and research to support this mission,\u201d Perrino continued. \u201cThis mix of programming, coupled with our unique brand of public messaging around the issue, distinguishes us from other organizations doing free speech work, all of whom we already collaborate with toward shared goals, and will continue to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ACLU did not respond to the Daily Caller\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nonpartisan advocacy group formerly known as The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is broadening its efforts. 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