FRANKE JAMES

Video: Banned on the Hill (and in Europe!)

by Franke James

See the visual essay: Banned on the Hill

 

Want to help? Please sign the Care2 petition: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/6/free-speech-for-Canadian-artists/

PEN Canada and the Writers’ Union of Canada have expressed their concern over the Government censorship.

“The government of Canada has no right to determine what is an acceptable opinion for an individual citizen, on climate change or any matter of public interest,” said Charlie Foran, President of PEN Canada, “To do so is clearly not in the spirit of the Charter and the long history of freedom of expression in Canada.”

Greg Hollingshead, Chair of The Writers’ Union of Canada, “The right to freedom of expression includes freedom from official disapproval, including the sort of bureaucratic interference encountered by Franke James.”

Read more about the blacklisting, including the internal government documents released through an ATIP request.

See the visual essay: Banned on the Hill

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The Video “Banned on the Hill (and in Europe!)” by Franke James and Billiam James is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at www.frankejames.com. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at www.frankejames.com.

82 Responses: 12 Comments and 70 Tweets

  • Canada's Approach to Inconvenient Art - NYTimes.com says:
    December 16, 2011 at 4:28 pm

    […] gives an overview of my blacklisting and how I fought back by mounting a protest artshow in Ottawa: Banned on the Hill (and in Europe!)Here’s the visual essay version (with research links).Please visit my site to see my protest […]

  • Peter says:
    December 16, 2011 at 4:46 pm

    Good job!

  • Marshall says:
    December 17, 2011 at 9:08 am

    Go green! it is the only way to make our world a better place to live!

  • tugce Tugran says:
    December 18, 2011 at 10:35 am

    This only shows the lengths people would go to hold on to the existing energy system…It is really sad, a country like Canada can not tolerate voices of people who want some change….We are all very lucky because people like Franke produce such nice, accessible and important work on such pressing issues…thank you

  • Franke James » Ring! Ring! How would Sierra Club like to host a Green Conscience workshop in Ottawa? says:
    December 18, 2011 at 3:47 pm

    […] “Banned on the Hill” artshow was opening in Ottawa and I needed help on the ground… I spotted a post by […]

  • Thanes says:
    December 18, 2011 at 4:28 pm

    Go Green is nice, but a carbon tax is the only thing that will save us. God bless Australia!
    Said as a moderately informed person in a very benighted USA cracker-state.

  • Paul says:
    December 19, 2011 at 2:17 pm

    Good for you Franke! You may find yourself in years to come feeling a sense of pride being on this frightened government’s blacklist, much the same as the ‘communists’ who were blacklisted during the McCarthy era in the US in the 50’s.
    I like your work and don’t feel that you deserve this treatment from this petty, vindictive government…it’s our own little incipient Taliban in the works.

  • Franke James » Yahoo News: A Canadian artist takes on the Harper Gov’t says:
    December 20, 2011 at 11:38 pm

    […] climate change office was secretly working to kill my support,” James said in a visual essay posted on her […]

  • AW says:
    December 28, 2011 at 1:13 pm

    I just saw your video on the web (Yahoo News). Glad to see that you’re fighting this injustice and that you’ve garnered a lot of global attention. Too bad that your European tour was stopped. Prior to writing my first book, I was told that I had numerous funding opportunities from the federal and provincial governments. Too make a long story short, it wasn’t true, especially not in Quebec. So, I was sponsored myself and published my book through my own publishing company.

    Where there’s a will… you know the rest. ;) Keep the passion alive! AW

  • GFB says:
    January 6, 2012 at 7:39 pm

    Great video! Signed the petition and thanks for posting this!

  • Portfolio says:
    January 7, 2012 at 7:40 am

    […] faced behind-the-scenes interference by the Canadian Government. Created with Franke James. See: http://www.frankejames.com […]

  • Angelie says:
    January 10, 2012 at 6:58 am

    Great project!!! Nations should approach this topic globally rather than left on making their own decisions. Keep the spirit flaming! Go for Green!

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