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Miami Beach Mayor Drops Plan to Evict O Cinema After ‘No Other Land’ Controversy
The proposal to terminate the lease of Miami Beach's O Cinema for screening "No Other Land' has been withdrawn after a City Commission meeting.
Haskell told the Herald that Meiner was “right to withdraw the resolution to evict and defund O cinema.” The theater’s legal reps had argued that it was a clear case of “viewpoint censorship.” Meiner’s proposal drew attention around the world and particularly among the filmmaking community, which saw the threat as a dangerous precedent seeking to dampen free speech. Documentarians including Michael Moore, Laura Poitras, Ezra Edelman and Alex Gibney signed an open letter to the city of Miami Beach on Monday that called the threat “an attack on freedom of expression, the right of artists to tell their stories, and a violation of the First Amendment.”
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