If this week’s feature story [see “Blogger jailed,” pg. 11] doesn’t satisfy your hunger for First Amendment rights, be sure to snag a seat for next week’s Liberty Brew & View movie.

In Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Liz Garbus teams up with her father, First Amendment attorney Martin Garbus, to explore the current state of free speech in the United States.

The film interweaves historical cases like the New York Times’ struggle to publish the Pentagon Papers and the Nazis’ determination to march in Skokie with recent cases like an Arab-American principal fired for using the word “intifada,” a high school student suspended for wearing a “Homosexuality Is Shameful” T-shirt and a college professor fired for comments made after 9/11.

According to the film’s summary on the Moxie Firecracker Films Web site: “Most Americans believe the First Amendment is sacred and inviolate. But not since the 1950s has it been under such attack — from both the right and the left.”

Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech is shown at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the City Nights Theater at Capital City Bar & Grill, 3149 S. Dirksen Pkwy. A program by the Springfield-area American Civil Liberties Union will follow. Admission is free.