Guest: Christopher Finan, executive director of the National Coalition Against Censorship. He previously served as president of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, the booksellers voice in the fight against censorship. Before that, he was executive director of Media Coalition, a trade association that defends the First Amendment rights of producers and distributors of media. Christopher is the author of From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America by Beacon Press, which won the 2008 Eli Oboler Award of the American Library Association. His forthcoming book is How Free Speech Saved Democracy.

Three of the top progressive lawyers and activists in the fight for civil liberties, civil rights and human rights host this weekly one-hour talk radio show. Produced at WBAI New York. Go to https://lawanddisorder.org/ for more information.