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30 June 2008
The need for socialist politics in the film and television
industry
Screen Actors Guild negotiations continue in secret on eve of
contract expiration
10 June 2008
Bill
Henson case dropped but Australia’s "moral guardians"
demand harsher censorship laws
3 June 2008
Growing
condemnation of censorship of Australian artist Bill Henson
30 May 2008
Australian
photographer Bill Henson--scapegoat for a wider assault on democratic
rights
26 May 2008
Australia:
Labor government backs witch-hunting of photographer Bill Henson
17 July 2007
A
letter on a forum with Norman Mailer and Günter Grass in
New York
4 January 2007
Letter
on cancellation of "My Name is Rachel Corrie" in Toronto
13 November 2006
USA Today: A political
outlook emerging amongst artists
30 May 2006
Sri Lankan government bans local film Aksharaya
(Letter of Fire)
28 March 2006
Spain:
Bomb threats and funding cuts follow theatre show
23 March 2006
On
orders from prime minister's department and police: Australian
web site shut down
8 March 2006
Graffiti computer game banned in Australia
Bi-partisan censorship campaign targets youth
3 March 2006
Capitulation to Zionist censors
Play on Rachel Corrie canceled by NewYork theater group
23 February 2006
Zionists
witch-hunt Australia's leading cartoonist
15 February 2006
New attack on freedom of expression
Australian police seize artwork from gallery
12 January 2006
Imperialist apologetics from Johann Hari Independent journalist who attacked Harold Pinter turns on World
Socialist Web Site
4 January 2006
The Wall Street Journal responds with venom
to Spielberg's Munich
15 December 2005
Australian
government tries to censor Indonesian film festival
7 November 2005
Sri
Lankan filmmakers oppose military threats
29 September 2005
Sri
Lankan military threatens antiwar filmmakers
23 June 2005
"You can speak your truth more easily in the
theatre"
An interview with Australian playwright Hannie Rayson
5 May 2005
Media
witch-hunts Australian author Hannie Rayson and her new play
24 February 2005
Michigan
artist sentenced to jail over mural nudity
4 February 2005
PBS
officials cave in to Bush administration over children's program
18 January 2005
Christian
right forces attack "blasphemous" British television
comedy
4 June 2004
San
Francisco gallery owner attacked by right-wing thugs
7 May 2004
Corporate censorship in the US
Disney blocks release of Michael Moore documentary
Thousands of Australian artists living in poverty
Don't give up your day job by David Throsby & Virginia
Hollister, Macquarie University
10 July 2003
Australia:
Police block protest screening of banned film
16 June 2003
Australian
government bans Sydney Film Festival movie
18 December 2002
Detroit
museum holds meeting on US war against Iraq
David Walsh at Detroit forum: "Great questions
confront artists and intellectuals"
22 October 2002
Iranian
film director denounces US immigration policy
1 October 2002
US
refuses visa to Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami
7 August 2002
US
country singer Steve Earle subjected to witch-hunt
29 July 2002
Ground Zero exhibition
in Detroit
Signs of a more critical mood among US artists
18 May 2002
Australia: Howard government bans French movie Baise-moi
15 March 2002
"Carlucci" bleeped from HBO version of Lumumba
Ex-CIA official threatened lawsuit
10 January 2002
Detroit
panel discusses role of art museum in twenty-first century
WSWS Arts Editor David Walsh's remarks to Detroit
forum
"Serious artistic work is incompatible with intellectual
cowardice"
12 December 2001
US cable channel whitewashes the CIA
Into the Shadows: The CIA in Hollywood, written, produced
and directed by Charles C. Stuart
6 December 2001
Composer
Pierre Boulez victim of Swiss police raid
22 November 2001
Federal
agents visit "anti-American" art exhibition in Houston
19 November 2001
Hollywood
enlists in Bush's war drive
30 October 2001
Iranian
filmmaker faces death penalty in upcoming trial
25 September 2001
Sri
Lankan court orders release of banned film
3 September 2001
US
actor-director Sean Penn on Hollywood and protests against global
capitalism
1 September 2001
Iranian
court orders arrest of filmmaker
4 July 2001
Sri Lankan director speaks to WSWS about chauvinist
attack on film
4 May 2001
Iranian
director protests harassment by US immigration officials
24 April 2001
Arroyo
bans film at insistence of Philippines Catholic hierarchy
10 April 2001
Deepa Mehta calls off production of her film Water
Britain: Labour government outlines the next stage
in its assault on the arts
28 March 2001
Bill
112: the Ontario Tory government and the McMichael Art Gallery
19 January 2001
South Australian police raid bookshop and seize Mapplethorpe's
Pictures
9 October 2000
BJP-led
government censors painting at India's National Gallery of Modern
Art
27 September 2000
"I appeal to all thinking people to stand
up for Pura Handa Kaluwara"
A dialogue with Sri Lankan film director Prasanna Vithanage
22 August 2000
"A terrible violation of basic rights"
Australian film technicians defend Deepa Mehta
5 August 2000
US Christian fundamentalists target Harry Potter
books
21 July 2000
Art, museums and society
An interview with Jan van der Marck, former chief curator
at the Detroit Institute of Arts
6 July 2000
"The only appropriate response is to make the
film"
An interview with filmmaker Deepa Mehta
29 June 2000
Obscenity
charge dropped against Michigan artist
15 June 2000
New
York police, Mayor Giuliani attack Bruce Springsteen for criticizing
Diallo shooting
14 June 2000
Pontiac,
Michigan to proceed with obscenity case against artist
19 May 2000
While Indian government remains silent:
A reply by the Hindustan Times to WSWS campaign
in defence of filmmaker Deepa Mehta
Filmmaker Deepa Mehta replies to an attack in the
Hindustan Times
Leading author Bapsi Sidhwa defends Deepa Mehta
'They are punishing Deepa for deflating
their egos'
11 May 2000
Letters
in support of Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta
27 April 2000
Support builds for international campaign against
censorship by Hindu extremists
British film director Ken Loach calls for support for Indian
filmmaker Deepa Mehta
24 April 2000
Film
directors and critics at Singapore film festival oppose Hindu
extremist attempt to stop Deepa Mehta film
20 April 2000
Students
and artists protest attack on Indian-born filmmaker Deepa Mehta
13 April 2000
Filmmaker Deepa Mehta replies to the Times of India:
"I am determined to make the film"
10 April 2000
Filmmaker speaks with the WSWS
Hindu extremist campaign forces director Deepa Mehta to suspend
filming in India
7 April 2000
More
protests against the attack on Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta
6 April 2000
Protests
against the attack on filmmaker Deepa Mehta
5 April 2000
Filmmakers
and artists protest the attack on director Deepa Mehta
3 April 2000
Why are the Thai authorities so sensitive about Anna
and the King?
27 March 2000
Deepa
Mehta takes legal action in Indian court to defend film
31 March 2000
New
York's Mayor Giuliani and the Brooklyn Museum reach a settlement
22 March 2000
The
"Sanitation" controversy at New York's Whitney Museum:
freedom of expression under attack
10 March 2000
Shock waves in Austrian cultural and media circles
"It is not just that new Austrian government has no idea
of art, they hate it"
Sacked Austrian publisher Jochen Jung speaks in Berlin
7 March 2000
New attempt at censorship
Pontiac, Michigan police cite artist for "obscenity"
Pontiac panel discussion on censorship and the arts
WSWS Arts Editor David Walsh's remarks to Pontiac
meeting on censorship and the arts
"On what basis should a movement in defense of artistic
freedom be founded?"
29 February 2000
World Socialist Web Site
issues appeal:
Oppose Hindu extremist attacks on Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta
19 February 2000
A letter from Madras
Indian film societies federation protests attacks on artistic
freedom and democratic rights
15 February 2000
Deepa Mehta speaks out against Hindu extremist campaign
to stop her film
"What we face is not about religion, it's political"
12 February 2000
India: Hindu chauvinists block filming of Deepa Mehta's
Water
11 February 2000
The banning and unbanning in Australia of the new
French film Romance
22 January 2000
Censorship, democracy and the state of contemporary
art
A conversation with artist Jef Bourgeau
30 December 1999
Arrests
made in India over screening of film on the Manjolai massacre
29 December 1999
National Gallery of Australia cancels Sensation
exhibition
23 December 1999
Artists
organise against artistic censorship in Berlin
10 December 1999
Detroit
museum controversy: Censored artist defends his exhibit
24 November 1999
New attack on artistic freedom and democratic rights
Detroit museum shuts down exhibit
2 November 1999
Federal
judge rules in favor of Brooklyn Museum of Art
30 October 1999
Blacklisted
US film director Abraham Polonsky dead at 88
Three filmmakers who were silenced:
Abraham Polonsky, Paul Carpita and Paul Meyer
18 October 1999
Some issues raised by the
Brooklyn Museum exhibit
David Walsh reviews Sensation
1 October 1999
City Hall versus the Brooklyn Museum: Artistic freedom and democratic rights under attack
in New York
28 September 1999
New
York City's mayor threatens Brooklyn Museum
27 September 1999
Inquiry
foreshadows major rationalisation of Australian performing arts
2 April 1999
What
were the real issues in the Elia Kazan award controversy?
31 March 1999
Interview
with an actor on the Elia Kazan controversy: "I think it
was one of the darkest periods in our history"
24 February 1999
Hollywood honors Elia Kazan
Filmmaker and informer
A series of articles by David Walsh
23 October 1998
US judge rules The Tin Drum is not child pornography
14 October 1998
Democratic
rights and the religious right
23 September 1998
Protest
turns back attempt to demolish Detroit art project
17 July 1998
The US Supreme Court's ruling
on the NEA
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