Continuing Attacks on Nonprofit Speech: Death by a Thousand Cuts II

Untitled Document: "Continuing Attacks on Nonprofit Speech: Death by a Thousand Cuts II
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Government agencies and officials and conservative allies are increasingly targeting nonprofit organizations for their free speech activities, according to an analysis released Oct. 26, Continuing Attacks on Nonprofit Speech: Death by a Thousand Cuts II. Leaders of several affected organizations joined the authors in describing its findings and their experiences in an audio news teleconference at OMB Watch, the publisher of the report.
'The Bush administration and conservative allies have proposed or begun implementing a number of actions that taken one by one may not seem broadly significant, but taken together constitute a 'death by a thousand cuts' for advocacy by the nonprofit sector,' said Kay Guinane, co-author and Counsel for the Nonprofit Advocacy Project at OMB Watch.
Among actions cited are:
-- Retaliatory action against government grantees that engage in controversial policy discussions or active advocacy that includes points of view different from the administration, regardless of how well those views are supported by science
-- Aggressive application of the global gag rule, and signs of a back-door 'domestic gag rule' that illegally imposes government rules on private funds of grantees
-- Selective enforcement of laws against nonprofits engaged in direct action "