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New Film Urges Citizens to Speak Out!
December 2009
A new film commissioned jointly by Speakers’ Corner Trust and the Southbank Centre was launched on 4 December. The fifteen minute download made by Sam Lawlor seeks to encourage people with ideas and opinions to take every opportunity to express them in public. It features advice from a range of performers, campaigners and politicians including poet Lemn Sissay and Justice Secretary Jack Straw who speak of their own experiences and pass on some of the tips they have learned in the course of their careers. Above all they emphasise the right of every individual to speak out in a democracy and the importance of their finding the confidence to do so.
Freedom of Expression
"Freedom of expression is the cornerstone of democratic life. It is by the free exchange of ideas among citizens about how they should live together and how they should be governed that we create and sustain the democratic society. So the rights to free association and expression are scarcely less important than the right to live in peace and free from want."
The Hyde Park Tradition
