Description of Incident: Bista was charged with "spreading malice and hatred toward the king" under the Treason Act, because of his poem, "Beware." The poem was published in the non-governmental newspaper, "Weekly Debate."

Results of Incident: Bista was released in April, 1987. No charges were filed. The arrest helped organize his political party, and improved election results for candidates who supported his release.

Description of Incident: The "Catholic Review" accused Bilbao of blasphemy, sedition and immorality. He was aquitted of the sedition charge but found guilty of the remaining charges. His work was siezed, burned and he was fired from his position at the National Institute. Again in 1850, his work, "Spiritual Bulletins," was said to deny original sin. All of his followers were excommunicated.

Results of Incident: Bilbao continued to criticize the church. He left Chile for Peru and eventually left Peru for France after offending the Peruvian president.

Description of Incident: The BCM began in the 1960s after the government banned all progressive organizations. Biko himself was forbidden from publishing and organizing black community programs. The censor did not stop him from editing "Black Review," by listing a man named Ben Khoapa as the editor. Biko broke the law under the 90-day detention law by returning to Cape Town in 1977. He was arrested, tortured and died in police custody.

Results of Incident: BCM literature and activists were banned and detained following Biko's death. The police were not charged with criminal negligence.

Description of Incident: Biermann performed in a poetry reading organized by the Academy of Arts in 1961 where he offended members of the SED, who blacklisted his work. In 1963 his first play, "Berlin Bride" was prohibited and his theater group, Berlin Workers' and Students' Theater (b.a.t.), was closed. Biermann was also expelled from the SED and banned from publishing for the next eleven years. He avoided censorship by publishing outside of the country. When he left the GDR in 1976 to perform a concert in West Germany, East German officials withdrew his citizenship.

Results of Incident: Three weeks after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 Biermann performed his first concert in East Germany in almost 25 years.

Description of Incident: Roper was fired for defending his student's work after it was painted over by order of the school board without consulting Roper or his class and while eighteen faculty members supported the mural. The school said that he was fired for not being a "team player." The Texas Civil Rights Project suggested that the image of the two men was not "erotic or provocative."

Results of Incident: Roper's attorney is seeking to regain his job, lost wages, attorney fees and a court order prohibiting First Amendment violations on campus. Porter School students were outraged at the school's decision. One student painted the First Amendment on a piece of plywood and left it in the school hallway in protest.

Description of Incident: The vulva and "Braball" were part of an exhibit that accompanied the performance of Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" at the Masonic Auditorium in Nob's Hill. After objections from the Masonic hall's management, the vulva and "Braball" were covered with sheets and only allowed to show during the evening of the performance. Chris Carpenter told Lane and the event coordinator, Melissa Howden, that he did not want to recieve complaints from other guests, the general public and a school across the street from the auditorium.

Results of Incident: Though Howden and Lane disagreed with the covering of the sculpture's, they respected Carpenter's decision.

Description of Incident: "The Kentucky Cycle" was scheduled to perform, produced and directed by a graduate student at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Stephanie Richards, in Breaks Interstate Park in the summer of 2002. Park officials, however, told Richards that she must remove the f-word and "God's name in vain" from the script. Richard's wrote a letter to Schenkkan, asking him for permission to alter the work. The park superintendent, Carl Mullins, said that the park "rules and governs the park." On the other hand the park commission's attorney, Gerald Gray, believes that the park officials cannot censor the production.

Results of Incident: Mullins maintained his position, saying that if Richards does not change the script, the play will not run. Richards is willing to change the play if Schenkkan grants permission.

Description of Incident: The Bronx Lesbian and Gay Health Resource Consortium sponsored an ad campaign to increase awareness of healthcare and HIV protection for homosexual populations in the Bronx. Infinity Outdoor pulled the advertisements featuring the two men from city bus stops in the Bronx after recieving complaints. The complaints focused on the ad's reference to sex. A spokesman from Infinity Outdoor suggested that the removal of the posters was not widespread but rather a "case-by-case basis."

Results of Incident: Infinity Outdoor replaced the controversial posters with the two other ads in the consortium's campaign.

Description of Incident: Ferragamo commissioned Jenkins and several other artists to create art inspired by objects in their 5th Avenue store. Jenkins chose a pair of red baby shoes called the "Audrey" shoes. Coincidently, her daughter's name is also Audrey. The piece was part of the store's "Sweet and Sour" exhibition, which promised "a fashionable exhibition of provacative paradoxes." When Ferragamo recieved a complaint, calling Jenkins's work "Tasteless," they pulled it from the exhibit.

Results of Incident: Jenkins hopes that her piece will be viewed elsewhere; unfortunately, it was made especially for Ferragamo's 42-inch widescreen television.

Description of Incident:  Intervening with the Freedom of University Research.

Results of Incident:  The court has not decided and will announce its decision from 2-5 months after the 21 of April 2004 when the trial ended.

Description of Incident: Shortly after Gamwell hung his posters the school's Principal, Bill Williamson, removed them from the school hallway. School officials suggested that the posters were "disruptive of the educational process" and cited school board policy 6850 which gives the school "the right to control and censor speech." Gamwell countered that arguement with policy 5021 which reads, "If they are prohibited from speaking because of their points of view, academic freedom is endangered. Students need to study issues upon which there is disagreement." Jarred contacted the ACLU who tried to postpone the election. The principal banned all candidates speeches, fearing more disruptions from Jarred.

Results of Incident: Jarred lost the election, coming in fourth place with 133 out of 866 votes. He recieved support from all over the country, even recieving a phone call from Ted Allen, star of "Queer Eye for the Staight Guy."

Description of Incident: Biddle had been arrested numerous times and all of his writings were banned an burned. He was forced to print his work secretly, to avoid prosecution under England's blasphemy laws. Biddle would have been put to death if King Charles I was not executed and Oliver Cromwell had not taken control of the country. Cromwell abolished the Blasphemy Ordinance in 1649, but cited it in 1653, when Biddle was sentenced to exile on Scilly Isle, 40 miles off the coast of England. Biddle returned in 1658 only to land back in prison in 1660 for conducting "unauthorized worship," contrary to the Anglican Act of Uniformity.

Results of Incident: Biddle died in prison in 1662, where he spent most of his life.

Description of Incident: When the Communists took over Romania at the close of World War II Bibesco was exiled from the country, her manuscripts were siezed and her books banned. Her books were withdrawn from circulation in the library, and only made available for researchers and Communist officials.

Results of Incident: An abridged version of her, "Jurnal Politic," was available in the National Library of Romania.

Description of Incident: Biberman, a blacklisted director, joined other blacklisted film makers to form the Independent Productions Corporation (IPC) to produce "Salt of the Earth." Before production began, Biberman was denied a union film crew by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. The lead actress, a Mexican citizen named Rosaura Revuelta, was deported to Mexico by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. California Republican congressman, Donald L. Jackson, vowed to prevent the film from showing in American theaters. When the film was ready for release, very few theaters accepted it. Some distributing companies threatened theaters who showed the film. The American Legion and United Autoworkers hindered the promotion of the film across the United States.

Results of Incident: IPC lost $250,000 on the film. "Salt of the Earth" won the grand prize conferred by the Academie du Cinema de Paris in France; however, it was boycotted throughout the United States.

Description of Incident: In 1956 Cameroonian colonial authorities and Catholic Church officials banned Beti's "Le Pauvre de Bomba." A single copy was allowed to remain at the University of Yaounde. Beti moved to France and wrote "Main Basse Sur le Cameroon," which was also banned and confiscated by the French and Cameroonian governments. When he returned to Cameroon in 1993 he was refused permission to run for legislative elections.

Results of Incident: "Main Basse Sur le Cameroon" sold 20,000 copies in other countries and inspired Amnesty International to produce a film entitled "Anti-censorship." Beti was invited to speak at numerous foreign universities.