This free speech success story was posted by Cecilie Surasky of MuzzleWatch with permission.
http://www.muzzlewatch.com/?cat=12
See the ad that CBS didn’t want you to read is the subject line of an email sent out yesterday by the US Campaign to End the Occupation. The Campaign is organizing a June 10-11 mobilization in Washington DC to mark the 40th anniversary of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian Territories.
They created an ad (below) to run on the DC metro system. Briefly, here’s how events went down.
CBS Outdoors, which manages advertising for the Washington, DC metro rail system, originally rejected our ad. However, after our friends at the ACLU intervened and defended our right to freedom of speech, CBS relented and DC commuters will view this ad almost 9 million times starting in May!
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