As dangerous conditions intensified across the globe this year for writers, artists, and journalists, the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) persisted in its work to offer them protection. Ongoing conflict in in Yemen, Ethiopia, and Myanmar, Russia’s...
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You Cannot Silence Us: Exiled Writers Speak At Ithaca College
On September 22, the Park Center for Independent Media hosted a discussion with dissident writers who were forced from their homelands and found sanctuary through a City of Asylum in Ithaca, Pittsburgh, or Detroit. The event, which was attended by nearly 70 Ithaca...
Ithaca Writers’ Advocacy Group Expresses Solidarity with Salman Rushdie
The board of Ithaca City of Asylum joins with authors and human rights advocates worldwide to condemn the brutal attack on novelist Salman Rushdie in Chautauqua, New York, on August 12th.