ADVISORY/Award-Winning Poet and Performance Artist Sarah Jones Will Sue Federal Communications Commission Over 'Indecency' Label.Entertainment Editors ADVISORY...for Wed & Thurs (Jan 30 & 31) WASHINGTON--(Entertainment Wire) Jones to hold press briefings in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and DC this week to discuss lawsuit Poet and performance artist Sarah Jones Sarah Jones may refer to:
The lawsuit challenges a ruling that one of Jones' works is "indecent." Jones, well known for her critically acclaimed solo shows Surface Transit Surface transit is a type of public transit that operates on the surface in built-up areas, usually with buses or tram systems. and Women Can't Wait, has become the target of the FCC in the wake of the ruling and a threatened fine against a non-commercial educational radio station in Portland, Oregon that aired the poem/song entitled Your Revolution. Other stations have now refused to air the piece. Your Revolution is a protest against the degrading treatment of women in popular culture. Jones is being represented by prominent New York-based media law firm Frankfurt Garbus Kurnit Klein & Selz, P.C. and attorneys with People For the American Way Foundation People For the American Way Foundation is the charitable arm of People For the American Way (PFAW), a progressive advocacy organization in the United States. Unlike its parent organization, the Foundation restricts itself to activities that are permitted to organizations registered , a civil rights and civil liberties organization with a long record of supporting freedom of artistic expression. Copies of Your Revolution will be available at both press events. What: Press Conference and Media Briefing to discuss Sarah Jones' lawsuit against the FCC When/ Where: Wednesday, January 30, 2002, 11:00 a.m. (Press Conference) Frankfurt Garbus Kurnit Klein & Selz, P.C 488 Madison Avenue, 9th floor (between 51st and 52nd) New York, NY Thursday, January 31, 2002, 10:00 a.m. (Media Briefing) People For the American Way Foundation 2000 M St., NW, 4th floor Washington, D.C. Jones' lawsuit against the FCC and its chairman Michael Powell asks the Court to declare that the FCC's ruling violates Jones' constitutionally protected free speech rights, to declare that Your Revolution is not "indecent" under federal law, and to prevent the FCC from enforcing its indecency INDECENCY. An act against good behaviour and a just delicacy. 2 Serg. & R. 91. 2. The law, in general, will repress indecency as being contrary to good morals, but, when the public good requires it, the mere indecency of disclosures does not suffice to exclude ruling against Your Revolution. To listen online to Your Revolution and review the lyrics, please log onto Sarah Jones' website at www.sarahjonesonline.com. |
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