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<h3><strong>Public Service Through the Spoken Word (G-4)</strong></h3>
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Radio Free Asia also has a website that serves as an alternative way of reaching its potential audience. This website offers enriched content and detailed coverage of all of the key issues ongoing in Vietnam, with a primary focus on democracy, civil society and human rights. Although Vietnam has one of the region’s highest Internet penetration growth rates, the nation blocks the Radio Free Asia website and thereby prevents its approximately 40 million Internet users from accessing a source of independent and vital information unless such users circumvent the censorship by using secure browsers and virtual private networks (VPNs).
Based on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia (FRA), was established in the 1990’s, with the aim of promoting democratic values and human rights, and diminishing the Communist Party control of China. RFA is funded by a grant from the U.S. Agency for Global Media (formerly the "Broadcasting Board of Governors"), an independent agency of the United States government. In 2017, RFA and other networks, such as Voice of America, were put under the newly created U.S. Agency for Global Media, an independent federal agency. RFA is the only station outside of China that broadcasts in the Uygur-language. As a result, Radio Free Asia has been recognized for playing a vital role in exposing Xinjiang re-education camps. The New York Times considers RFA to be one of the few reliable sources of information about Xinjiang.
RFA broadcasts news and relevant information to the nations of China, Tibet, North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Burma.
RFA adheres to the highest journalistic standards of objectivity, accuracy, and fairness, as defined in the code of ethics for its reporters and editors. In countries and regions with little or no access to accurate and timely journalism, as well as alternative opinions and perspectives, RFA’s nine language services fill a crucial gap. RFA aims to retain the greatest confidence among its audiences and to serve as a model on which others may shape their own emerging journalistic traditions.
RFA is a private, nonprofit corporation, funded by the U.S. Congress through the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which is an independent federal government agency that oversees all U.S. civilian international media. In addition to providing oversight for RFA's radio broadcasts and the like, the USAGM works with RFA to ensure the professional independence and integrity of its journalism.
"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." — Article 19, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Radio Free Asia
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1990s - present
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Radio Free Asia (RFA) is a private, nonprofit corporation. The United States Agency for Global Media Chairman, Kenneth Weinstein, serves as the chair of RFA’s corporate board.
Radio Free Asia operates under a Congressional mandate to deliver uncensored, domestic news and information to China, Tibet, North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Burma, among other places in Asia with poor media environments and very few, if any, free speech protections.
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Lincoln-Douglas debates
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<h4><a href="https://vmps.omeka.net/exhibits/show/public-service-spoken-word/public-service-spoken-word">Return to Public Service through the Spoken Word</a></h4>
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<p><strong>The Lincoln-Douglas debates </strong>can be <span>can be defined as a series of seven debates between incumbent S</span>enator<span> </span>Stephen A. Douglas, as the Democratic Party candidate,<span> </span>and Republican challenger<span> </span>Abraham Lincoln, Republican Party candidate for the U.S. Senate from Illinoiw during the 1858<span> </span>Illinois<span> </span>senatorial campaign, principally concerning the issue of<span> </span><span>slavery</span><span> </span>extension into the territories.<br /><br />Lincoln and Douglas decided to hold one debate in each of the nine congressional districts in Illinois. Both candidates had already spoken in Springfield and Chicago within a day of each other, so they decided that their joint appearances would be held in the remaining seven districts. Each debate lasted 3 hours. The format was that one candidate spoke for 60 minutes, then the other candidate spoke for 90 minutes, and then the first candidate was allowed a 30-minute rejoinder. The debates previewed the issues that Lincoln later faced after his victory in the 1860 presidential election. Illinois was a free state, and the main issue discussed in all seven debates was slavery in the United States, particularly its future expansion into new territories.</p>
<p><span> </span><span>The slavery extension question had seemingly been settled by the</span><span> </span><span>Missouri Compromise</span><span> </span><span>nearly 40 years earlier. The</span><span> </span><span>Mexican War, however, had added new territories, and the issue flared up again in the 1840s. The</span><span> </span><span>Compromise of 1850provided a temporary respite from sectional strife, but the</span><span> </span><span>Kansas-Nebraska Act</span><span> </span><span>of 1854—a measure which was sponsored by Douglas—brought the slavery extension issue to the forefront once again. Douglas’s bill in effect repealed the</span><span> </span><span>Missouri Compromise</span><span> </span><span>by lifting the ban against slavery in territories north of the 36°30′ latitude. In lieu </span><span>of the ban, Douglas offered</span><span> </span><span>popular sovereignty, the doctrine which states that the actual settlers in the territories should decide the fate of slavery in their own land, being the central focus of such settlers, and not Congress. </span></p>
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<p><span>In 1854</span>,<span>Senator </span><span>Stephen Douglas of Illinois presented a bill destined to be one of the most consequential pieces of legislation in our national history. </span><span>Supposedly </span><span>a bill “to organize the Territory of Nebraska,” an area covering the present-day states of Kansas, Nebraska, Montana, and the Dakotas, contemporaries </span><span>referred to </span><span>it </span><span>as</span><span>“the Nebraska bill.” Today, we know it as the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.</span></p>
<p><span>By the 1850s</span><span>, </span><span>there were </span><span>pressing </span><span>demands to </span><span>structure </span><span>the western territories. </span><span>The </span><span>land acquired from Mexico in 1848, the California </span><span>Gold Rush </span><span>of 1849, and the </span><span>unyielding movement </span><span>toward westward expansion forced farmers, ranchers, and </span><span>over-viewers </span><span>toward the Pacific. The Mississippi River had </span><span>indeed </span><span>long served as a highway for the north-south traffic, but the western lands needed a river of steel, not a river of water—</span><span>denoting </span><span>a transcontinental railroad </span><span>in order </span><span>to link the eastern states to the Pacific. Whic h led to the golden question of: What route would that railroad take?</span></p>
<p><span>Stephen Douglas, one of the railway’s chief </span><span>organizers and supporters</span><span>, wanted </span><span>to develop </span><span>a northern route through Chicago. However, the only problem with this idea is that would take the rail lines through the </span><span>dis</span><span>organized </span><span>territory of Nebraska</span><span>, which </span><span>was located </span><span>north of </span><span>the </span><span>1820 Missouri Compromise line</span><span>, </span><span>where slavery was prohibited. Others, mainly slaveholders and allies </span><span>of</span><span>, most specifically, </span><span>favored </span><span>a southern </span><span>railroad </span><span>route, perhaps </span><span>one that went </span><span>through the new stat</span><span>e</span><span>of Texas. Nevertheless, in order to pass his “Nebraska bill,” Douglas needed a compromise.</span></p>
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<p><span>On January 4, 1854, </span><span>Stephen</span><span>Douglas introduced a bill designed to </span><span>maintain common ground</span><span>. He proposed arranging the </span><span>extensive</span><span>territory “with or without slavery, as their constitutions may prescribe.” </span></p>
<p><span>This policy became known as “popular sovereignty,” and was policy that contradicted the Missouri Compromise, and leaving open even more, the question of slavery. However, despite Douglas’s proposal and efforts to meet northerners and southerners in the middle, even that was not enough to satisfy a group of dominant southern senators led by the state of Missouri’s David Atchison. These senators wanted to explicitly repeal the 1820 line. Douglas viewed the railroad line as the “onward march of civilization,” and thus, he agreed to the southern senators’ demands. Douglas told Atchison, “I will incorporate it into my bill, though I know it will raise a hell of a storm.” From that moment on, the Nebraska bill debate was no longer a discussion about organizing railway lines; it was all about slavery.</span></p>
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US Government, Post Office Department, U.S. Senate
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1958
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Senate.gov
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US Government, Post Office Department, U.S. Senate
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English
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Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Illinois, Slavery, Unied States, Historic
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