First Amendment Days 2021 – Some Assembly Required
Events (all virtual – click to expand)
- Depth & Dialogue Sessions
Virtual sessions exploring various First Amendment topics will take place throughout the day. - Activism in the Music Industry: An ISCORE Encore Presentation
virtual event via zoom - Think Like A Journalist: Arrested on the Job – Andrea Sahouri, Des Moines Register
virtual event via YouTube Live - A Protest is Worth 1,000 Pictures – Michael Englund
virtual event via Webex - When Objectivity Stops – Will Fowler
virtual event via Webex - Pawsies – Pet Film Competition Awards Presentation
virtual via Webex
First Amendment Workshop
The culmination of our weeklong First Amendment Days celebration is a one-, two-, or three-hour workshop designed to examine more deeply the challenges and opportunities provided by free expression. Led by First Amendment experts from the state, each 50-minutes session uses current events to engage a dialogue with national scholars.
- Session 1 – You Can’t Say That! Cancel Culture and the First Amendment
virtual - Session 2 – Free Assembly in a Time of Polarization
virtual - Session 3 – Making Free Speech an Ally on Campus
virtual
Raise Your Voice: First Amendment Days High School Event
Choose one of two opportunities to discuss the power of social movements through youth free speech in America with Maribeth Romslo, the director and producer of “Raise Your Voice,” and First Amendment advocate Mary Beth Tinker.
Protest Music on 88.5 KURE Ames Alternative
Student-run public radio station 88.5 KURE is airing 3 hours of protest-theme content. Tune in at 88.5 FM, through the MyState app or on KURE’s website at kure.stuorg.iastate.edu to listen to our DJs share the best of protest music and the history of protests in the United States.
All week events
Iowa State University Library First Amendment libguide
Want to study up on the First Amendment? Check out the extensive resources available in this Iowa State University Library First Amendment libguide curated by Charles Yier of the Iowa State University Library in conjunction with First Amendment Days.
First Amendment Quiz
Test your First Amendment knowledge! Take a First Amendment Quiz put together by a student in this semester’s First Amendment seminar class offered by the Greenlee School. Score an 8 out of 10 or better and you will be entered into a drawing for a First Amendment Days t-shirt! Five winners will be picked every day and you can enter more than once!
“Raise Your Voice” film screening
A free screening of “Raise Your Voice,” a film that spotlights student journalists from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School following the mass shooting at their school, is available April 7 through April 21. If you’d like to request a link to stream the film, please contact Julie Roosa, jroosa@iastate.edu. The link will also be shared with all who register for the Raise Your Voice: First Amendment Days High School sessions at 1 p.m. or 2 p.m. Friday, April 16.