“PEN International, the worldwide association of writers, emphasises the role of literature in mutual understanding and world culture; and promotes literature in various ways, including opposing restraints on freedom of expression and working to promote literacy itself. Today International PEN has 144 centres in 102 countries across the globe, and is a powerful voice on behalf of writers harassed, imprisoned and sometimes murdered because of the words they write.” [1]
I am on the 2011 committee for PEN Sydney. I encourage you to support this important activist organisation - http://pen.org.au/
[1] Taken from the PEN Sydney Website
