Anti-Censorship Organizations

The following is a list of some of the anti-censorship organizations we've learned about in research for The File Room. Please submit contact information for others you know of in the COMMENTS section:

American Booksellers Association P.O. Box 672 New York, NY 10113 212.463.8450 American Civil Liberties Union Art Censorship Project 132 West 43rd Street New York, NY 10036 212.944.9800 American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom 50 East Huron Street Chicago, IL 60611 312.944.6780 ALA Library Bill of Rights American Society of Journalists & Authors 1501 Broadway, Suite 1907 New York, NY 10036 212.997.0947 212.768.7414 (fax) Amnesty International 53 West Jackson Chicago, IL 60605 312.427.2060 Article 19 International Centre on Censorship 90 Borough High St. London SE1 1LL England Art Save People for the American Way 2000 M Street, NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20036 202.467.4999 202.293.2672 (fax) Authors League of America 234 West 44th Street New York, NY 10036 212.391.9198 Campaign Against Censorship 25 Middleton Close Fareham, Hampshire T014 1Qn England 44.329.28.44.71 Can Control P.O. Box 406 North Hollywood, CA 91603 Center for Arts Advocacy c/o Arts Partners 861 West Wrightwood Chicago, IL 60614 Center for Civic Education 5146 North Douglas Fir Road Calabasas, CA 91302 818.340.9320 Center for Constitutional Rights 666 Broadway New York, NY 10012 212.614.6464 212.614.6499 (fax) Chicago Artists Coalition 5 West Grand Ave. Chicago, IL 60610 312.670.2060 Columbia Journalism Review 700 Journalism Bldg., Columbia Univ. New York, NY 10027 212.854.2716 1.800.669.1002 (subscription) Communications Consortium 1333 H Street, Suite 1162 Washington, DC 20005 202.682.1270 Culture Watch The Data Center 464 19th Street Oakland, CA 94612 510.835.4692 510.835.3017 (fax) Deadline Center for War, Peace, and the News Media c/o New York University 10 Washington Place, 4th floor New York, NY 10003 212.998.7960 Deep Dish TV Network 339 Lafayette St. New York, NY 10012 212.473.8933 212.420.8223 (fax) Essential Information P.O. Box 19405 Washington, DC 20036 202.387.8034 Extra!/FAIR Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting 130 West 25th Street New York, NY 10001 212.633.6700 Freedom of Information Act FBI J. Edgar Hoover Building Washington, DC 20535 202.324.5520 (Or call local branch of FBI for info.) Freedom Writer Institute for First Amendment Studies P.O. Box 589 Great Barrington, MA 01230 413.274.3786 Free Speech Committee P.O. Box 55-S Bexley South NSW 2207 Australia 02.389.4009 02.399.8564 (fax) Fund for Free Expression/Human Rights Watch 485 5th Ave. New York, NY 10017 212.972.8400 212.972.0905 (fax) Gauntlet 309 Powell Road Springfield, PA 19064 Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders P.O. Box 218 Boston, MA 02112 617.426.1350 617.426.3594 (fax) Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation 80 Varick St., Suite 3-E New York, NY 10013 212.966.1700 212.966.1701 (fax) GRIP (Group for Rap Industry Protection) P.O. Box 4856 Berkeley, CA 94704 Index on Censorship Writers and Scholars Int'l Ltd. 32 Queen Victoria St. London EL4N 4SS England 44.71.329.6434 44.71.329.6461 (fax) International Institute for Social History Cruquiusweg 31 1019 Amsterdam The Netherlands 31.20.668.58.66 31.20.665.41.81 (fax) iisg@antenna.nl (e-mail) Jello Biafra's No More Censorship Defense Fund P.O. Box 11458 San Francisco, CA 94101 Lies of Our Times Institute for Media Analysis 145 West 4th Street New York, NY 10012 212.254.1061 Media Coalition/Americans for Constitutional Freedom 90o Third Ave., Suite 1600 New York, NY 10022 212.891.2070 212.759.6351 (fax) National Association of Artists Organizations 918 F. Street, NW Washington, DC 20004 202.347.6250 National Campaign for Freedom of Expression P.O. Box 50245 Washington, DC 20004 202.393.ARTS National Campaign for the Reform of the Obscene Publication Act 15 Sloane Court West London SW3 4TD England 44.71.730.9537 National Coalition Against Censorship 2 West 64th Street New York, NY 10023 212.724.1500 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force 1734 14th St., NW Washington, DC 20009 202.332.6483 Pacifica Foundation/Pacifica Radio 3729 Cahuenga Blvd., West N. Hollywood, CA 91604 818.985.2711 Parents for Rock and Rap P.O. Box 53 Libertyville, IL 60048 Peace Museum 350 W. Ontario Chicago, IL 60610 312.440.1860 PEN American Center 568 Broadway New York, NY 10012 212.334.1660 PEN Center U.S. West 1100 Glendon Ave., Suite 850 Los Angeles, CA 90024 213.824.2041 Propaganda Review Media Alliance Fort Mason Center, Room D-290 San Francisco, CA 94123 415.441.2557 Rock & Roll Confidential P.O. Box 341305 Los Angeles, CA 90034 Sign of the Times P.O. Box 2363 Sawnee Mission, KS 66201 Source 594 Broadway New York, NY 10012 212.274.0464 Student Press Law Center 1755 I Street, Suite 504 Washington, DC 20006 202.466.5242 Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts 1285 Ave. of the Americas, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10019 212.977.9273 212.245.4514 (fax) Women's Action Coalition 212.967.7711 x9226 (New York) 312.918.9161 (Chicago) Z-PAC P.O. Box 5265 North Hollywood, CA 91616 818.764.0777

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