Category - Free Speech Award

Join the critical national conversation about free speech and voting rights with this year’s Free Speech Award winner Robert Greenwald, September 22, 2019,

The 2018 Free Speech Award will be presented to Team ENOUGH in recognition of their successful effort in galvanizing young students to exercise free speech through activism.

Tarquin Ramsay’s film is an illuminating look at the core components of Free Speech, and asks whether the concept can survive in a global security apparatus. For the questions it raises, and the conclusions it draws, Free Speech, Free Fear won American INSIGHT’s 2017 Free Speech Award.

Flanked by a shepherd ferry image of Edward Snowden, a not-quite-empty bottle of High West Whiskey Double Rye, and a mock Donald Trump photo signed by his colleagues, Ben Wizner sat down with American INSIGHT to discuss Free Speech in post-9/11 America.

American INSIGHT Board Member Karen Curry’s career spans stints at NBC London, CNN New York, the ACLU, and Drexel University. Here she uncovers how her combined experiences give her a unique outlook on protecting and preserving Freedom of Speech.

Forgive Me Father is a riveting film that raises many of the complicated questions American soldiers and anti-American terrorists have yet to answer. What compels combatants, once innocent civilians, to develop such deep hatred toward one another, and is there an end in sight?

So when the white Australian took the stand in a cramped Kiberan courtroom and began her testimony, she unleashed a tremor that would forever transform the East African nation of which she had become a vital part. Her extraordinary 7-year legal battle for justice is the subject of Judy Rymer’s award-winning film “I Will Not Be Silenced.”

I Will Not Be Silenced is the extraordinary tale of one woman’s 7-year legal battle for justice in the Kenyan slum of Kibera.

‘Honor Diaries,’ American INSIGHT’ 2015 Free Speech Award-winning film, investigates violence against women in Muslim-majority societies by exposing the hidden prevalence of honor killings and female genital mutilation. The story is driven by a roundtable discussion of nine of Islam’s most notable women’s rights activists led by Raheel Raza.