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Australian national Julian Assange has been targeted for prosecution by the United States whose war crimes and political intrigue have been exposed by WikiLeaks.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Carola Frediani
Stefania Maurizi
Andrei Soldatov
Nel giugno 2016 sulle elezioni americane si è abbattuta la tempesta delle mail hackerate, rilasciate da WikiLeaks. La diffusione e il sospetto che il Democratic National Committee – l’organo di governo del Partito Democratico Americano – abbia favorito la candidata alla primarie Hilary Clinton ha portato alle dimissioni della sua presidente, Debbie Wasserman Schultz. La Russia è stata davvero deus ex machina dell’operazione, come indicherebbe il rapporto congiunto di CIA, NSA ed FBI? Chi è Guccifer 2.0, il sedicente hacker rumeno che a ridosso dello scandalo ha rivendicato l’hacking? Wikileaks ha di fatto consegnato un pezzo di Casa Bianca a Donald Trump, lavorando a senso unico per danneggiare il Partito Democratico, o ha tenuto fede ai propri ideali?
In June 2016, the storm of hacked emails, released by WikiLeaks, hit the US elections. The diffusion and the suspicion that the Democratic National Committee – the governing body of the Democratic Party – had favored the primary candidate Hilary Clinton led to the resignation of its president, Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Has Russia been really the deus ex machina of the operation, as stated by the joint report of the CIA, NSA and FBI? Who is Guccifer 2.0, the so-called Romanian hacker who claimed responsibility for the hacking? Did Wikileaks effectively deliver a piece of the White House to Donald Trump, working in only one direction to damage the Democratic Party, or has it lived up to its ideals?
video: media.journalismfestival.com/programme/2017/hacking-democ...
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Carola Frediani
Stefania Maurizi
Andrei Soldatov
Nel giugno 2016 sulle elezioni americane si è abbattuta la tempesta delle mail hackerate, rilasciate da WikiLeaks. La diffusione e il sospetto che il Democratic National Committee – l’organo di governo del Partito Democratico Americano – abbia favorito la candidata alla primarie Hilary Clinton ha portato alle dimissioni della sua presidente, Debbie Wasserman Schultz. La Russia è stata davvero deus ex machina dell’operazione, come indicherebbe il rapporto congiunto di CIA, NSA ed FBI? Chi è Guccifer 2.0, il sedicente hacker rumeno che a ridosso dello scandalo ha rivendicato l’hacking? Wikileaks ha di fatto consegnato un pezzo di Casa Bianca a Donald Trump, lavorando a senso unico per danneggiare il Partito Democratico, o ha tenuto fede ai propri ideali?
In June 2016, the storm of hacked emails, released by WikiLeaks, hit the US elections. The diffusion and the suspicion that the Democratic National Committee – the governing body of the Democratic Party – had favored the primary candidate Hilary Clinton led to the resignation of its president, Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Has Russia been really the deus ex machina of the operation, as stated by the joint report of the CIA, NSA and FBI? Who is Guccifer 2.0, the so-called Romanian hacker who claimed responsibility for the hacking? Did Wikileaks effectively deliver a piece of the White House to Donald Trump, working in only one direction to damage the Democratic Party, or has it lived up to its ideals?
video: media.journalismfestival.com/programme/2017/hacking-democ...
WikiLeaks' next assault on Washington may highlight U.S. government reports on suspected militants held at Guantanamo Bay, which some U.S. officials worry could show certain detainees were freed despite intelligence assessments they were still dangerous.
The leaks could be an embarrassment to President Barack Obama's administration, already angered over WikiLeaks document dumps of U.S. State Department cables, as it seeks to fulfill a 2-year-old pledge to close the prison and either release the foreign terrorism suspects or move them elsewhere.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, jailed in Britain this week, has told media contacts he has a large cache of U.S. government reports about inmates at the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, known as GITMO, the last of four major tranches of U.S. government documents which WikiLeaks had acquired and at some point would make public.
"He's got the personal files of every prisoner in GITMO," said one person who was in contact with Assange earlier this year.
via reuters.com
Video of Rainey Reitman of EFF
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEeU667tsfA
The Best of Cablegate: Instances Where Public Discourse Benefited from the Leaks by Rainey Reitman
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/01/cablegate-disclosures-have-...
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"Since its release of about 2000 diplomatic cables (as of January 7th, 2011), Wikileaks has been subject to extraordinary pressures, seemingly at the behest of the US government. Amazon and EveryDNS have denied Wikileaks internet service and Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, and Bank of America have been prevented supporters from donating money to Wikileaks. This is despite the fact that Wikileaks has not even been charged with a crime.
Unfortunately, the situation has gotten even worse. The press has been spreading lies about Wikileaks. Mainstream media outlets do not appear to be doing even the most rudimentary fact-checking. The most blatant of these lies is the idea that Wikileaks has “indiscriminately dumped 250,000 cables on the internet”. This is flat-out false.
A few news organizations, including NPR and InformationWeek, have corrected this mistake, and NPR has even offered an apology. By contrast, most news organizations ranging from the AP to the Wall Street Journal continue to print this falsehood.
We call upon all news organizations to correct previous articles and statements, to issue apologies to their readers, and to take steps to prevent this mistake from occurring in any future articles and shows.
We will be protesting outside the TransAmerica pyramid, across from a San Francisco office of the New York Times, on Saturday, January 15th, at 4pm. On that day, we will be joining in protesting against the repression of Wikileaks with many others around the world, including Washington, DC, and several cities in Canada and Australia.
To counter the New York Times’s censorship of reality, we plan to publish the released cables on the walls of their building. In addition, participants will be provided cable printouts and markers and encouraged to throw down their artistic abilities by adding a graphic representation of their favorite cable to the Cablegate Coloring Book.
References:
[1] 8 Smears and Misconceptions About WikiLeaks Spread By the Media
www.alternet.org/story/149369/8_smears_and_misconceptions...
[2] NPR Fesses Up to WikiLeaks’ Coverage Blunder, Now It’s Everyone Else’s Turn
lippmannwouldroll.com/2010/12/28/npr-fesses-up-to-wikilea...
more wikileaks photos
Video of Rainey Reitman of EFF
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEeU667tsfA
The Best of Cablegate: Instances Where Public Discourse Benefited from the Leaks by Rainey Reitman
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/01/cablegate-disclosures-have-...
Description of event
www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=178950392136750
"Since its release of about 2000 diplomatic cables (as of January 7th, 2011), Wikileaks has been subject to extraordinary pressures, seemingly at the behest of the US government. Amazon and EveryDNS have denied Wikileaks internet service and Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, and Bank of America have been prevented supporters from donating money to Wikileaks. This is despite the fact that Wikileaks has not even been charged with a crime.
Unfortunately, the situation has gotten even worse. The press has been spreading lies about Wikileaks. Mainstream media outlets do not appear to be doing even the most rudimentary fact-checking. The most blatant of these lies is the idea that Wikileaks has “indiscriminately dumped 250,000 cables on the internet”. This is flat-out false.
A few news organizations, including NPR and InformationWeek, have corrected this mistake, and NPR has even offered an apology. By contrast, most news organizations ranging from the AP to the Wall Street Journal continue to print this falsehood.
We call upon all news organizations to correct previous articles and statements, to issue apologies to their readers, and to take steps to prevent this mistake from occurring in any future articles and shows.
We will be protesting outside the TransAmerica pyramid, across from a San Francisco office of the New York Times, on Saturday, January 15th, at 4pm. On that day, we will be joining in protesting against the repression of Wikileaks with many others around the world, including Washington, DC, and several cities in Canada and Australia.
To counter the New York Times’s censorship of reality, we plan to publish the released cables on the walls of their building. In addition, participants will be provided cable printouts and markers and encouraged to throw down their artistic abilities by adding a graphic representation of their favorite cable to the Cablegate Coloring Book.
References:
[1] 8 Smears and Misconceptions About WikiLeaks Spread By the Media
www.alternet.org/story/149369/8_smears_and_misconceptions...
[2] NPR Fesses Up to WikiLeaks’ Coverage Blunder, Now It’s Everyone Else’s Turn
lippmannwouldroll.com/2010/12/28/npr-fesses-up-to-wikilea...
more wikileaks photos
Daniel Domscheit-Berg, ehem. Wikileaks-Sprecher und Constanze Kurz, Chaos Computer Club, bei der Podiums-Diskussion "Wikileaks und die Folgen"
Julian Assange's supporters at Ecuador Embassy. London, 21.06.2012
Wikileaks press spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson and personal friend and surety bond-provider Sarah Saunders made staements this afternoon outside the Ecuador embassy in Hans Crescent to explain that Julian Assange is well and in good spirits as he remains inside the embassy awaiting news of his application for political asylum.
A group of supporters from the Bradley Manning campaign group Friends of Bradley Manning (UK) also arrived to begin a vigil in support of Assange. Members of hacktivist group Anonymous also attended.
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Julian Assange's supporters at Ecuador Embassy. London, 21.06.2012
Wikileaks press spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson and personal friend and surety bond-provider Sarah Saunders made staements this afternoon outside the Ecuador embassy in Hans Crescent to explain that Julian Assange is well and in good spirits as he remains inside the embassy awaiting news of his application for political asylum.
A group of supporters from the Bradley Manning campaign group Friends of Bradley Manning (UK) also arrived to begin a vigil in support of Assange. Members of hacktivist group Anonymous also attended.
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Fort Meade, Maryland, Saturday afternoon June 1, 2013. Human rights activists from the Bradley Manning Support Group, Veterans For Peace, Code Pink and many other groups marched east on Rt. 175 ("Desolation Row") from Reece Gate to Llwewllynn Avenue for a rally and "Speak Out" in support of Army Private Bradley Manning, whose court martial for releasing classified material to Wikileaks was to commence on June 3. Speakers included Eathan McCord, Dan Choi, Sarah Shourd, Ann Wright and Daniel Ellsberg. My crowd size guesstimate is around 750. Interactions between the absurdly numerous and over-armed police and the activists were generally respectful and peaceful.
On Thursday June 19, 2014, I photographed this campaigner holding a placard - thanking President Correa of Ecuador for offering asylum to Julian Assange - at a vigil to mark the 2nd anniversary of Julian Assange, WikiLeaks' founder and editor-in-chief, entering the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to seek political asylum, fearing that he would end up being extradited to the US from Sweden, where he is accused of sexual offences (claims which he denies). His asylum claim was accepted on August 16, 2012.
WikiLeaks' work, exposing US crimes through documents released by Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning, has, of course, been enormously influential, and I am pleased to have worked with WikiLeaks as a media partner on the release of the classified military files from Guantánamo in April 2011.
For WikiLeaks, see: wikileaks.org/
For Justice for Assange, see: justice4assange.com/
For the Guantánamo files, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/2011/04/25/wikileaks-reveals-se...
And: www.andyworthington.co.uk/category/2002-2011-the-complete...
For Julian's Q&A on Reddit, see: www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/28js8v/i_am_julian_assange...
For Michael Ratner on Julian Assange's two years in the embassy, see: www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/06/17/assange-wikilea...
For news about a new legal challenge to the Swedish claims, see: www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jun/18/julian-assange-fres...
For my most interesting photos, see: www.flickriver.com/photos/andyworthington/popular-interes...
Ellingham, Norfolk. WikiLeaks Founder, Julian Assange who's wanted by the Swedish Government in connection with sexual harassment claims by two women in Sweden, he's currently on bail at Ellingham Hall in Norfolk.
Julian Assange's supporters at Ecuador Embassy. London, 21.06.2012
Wikileaks press spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson and personal friend and surety bond-provider Sarah Saunders made staements this afternoon outside the Ecuador embassy in Hans Crescent to explain that Julian Assange is well and in good spirits as he remains inside the embassy awaiting news of his application for political asylum.
A group of supporters from the Bradley Manning campaign group Friends of Bradley Manning (UK) also arrived to begin a vigil in support of Assange. Members of hacktivist group Anonymous also attended.
All photos © 2012 Pete Riches
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Ellingham, Norfolk. WikiLeaks Founder, Julian Assange who's wanted by the Swedish Government in connection with sexual harassment claims by two women in Sweden, he's currently on bail at Ellingham Hall in Norfolk.
What Does WikiLeaks Reveal About Our Inner Selves
Julian Assange of the WikiLeaks website holds up a copy of The Guardian newspaper as he speaks to reporters in front of a Don McCullin Vietnam war photograph at The Front Line Club on July 26, 2010 in London, England. The WikiLeaks website has published 90,000 secret US Military records. The Guardian, The New York Times, and Der Spiegel have also published details.
(photo: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
Julian Assange's supporters at Ecuador Embassy. London, 21.06.2012
Wikileaks press spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson and personal friend and surety bond-provider Sarah Saunders made staements this afternoon outside the Ecuador embassy in Hans Crescent to explain that Julian Assange is well and in good spirits as he remains inside the embassy awaiting news of his application for political asylum.
A group of supporters from the Bradley Manning campaign group Friends of Bradley Manning (UK) also arrived to begin a vigil in support of Assange. Members of hacktivist group Anonymous also attended.
All photos © 2012 Pete Riches
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Video of Rainey Reitman of EFF
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEeU667tsfA
The Best of Cablegate: Instances Where Public Discourse Benefited from the Leaks by Rainey Reitman
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/01/cablegate-disclosures-have-...
Description of event
www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=178950392136750
"Since its release of about 2000 diplomatic cables (as of January 7th, 2011), Wikileaks has been subject to extraordinary pressures, seemingly at the behest of the US government. Amazon and EveryDNS have denied Wikileaks internet service and Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, and Bank of America have been prevented supporters from donating money to Wikileaks. This is despite the fact that Wikileaks has not even been charged with a crime.
Unfortunately, the situation has gotten even worse. The press has been spreading lies about Wikileaks. Mainstream media outlets do not appear to be doing even the most rudimentary fact-checking. The most blatant of these lies is the idea that Wikileaks has “indiscriminately dumped 250,000 cables on the internet”. This is flat-out false.
A few news organizations, including NPR and InformationWeek, have corrected this mistake, and NPR has even offered an apology. By contrast, most news organizations ranging from the AP to the Wall Street Journal continue to print this falsehood.
We call upon all news organizations to correct previous articles and statements, to issue apologies to their readers, and to take steps to prevent this mistake from occurring in any future articles and shows.
We will be protesting outside the TransAmerica pyramid, across from a San Francisco office of the New York Times, on Saturday, January 15th, at 4pm. On that day, we will be joining in protesting against the repression of Wikileaks with many others around the world, including Washington, DC, and several cities in Canada and Australia.
To counter the New York Times’s censorship of reality, we plan to publish the released cables on the walls of their building. In addition, participants will be provided cable printouts and markers and encouraged to throw down their artistic abilities by adding a graphic representation of their favorite cable to the Cablegate Coloring Book.
References:
[1] 8 Smears and Misconceptions About WikiLeaks Spread By the Media
www.alternet.org/story/149369/8_smears_and_misconceptions...
[2] NPR Fesses Up to WikiLeaks’ Coverage Blunder, Now It’s Everyone Else’s Turn
lippmannwouldroll.com/2010/12/28/npr-fesses-up-to-wikilea...
more wikileaks photos
WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange's bail hearing, 14.12.2010
I know this is definitely old news as Assange is now out on bail and is holed up in the countryside on mansion-arrest with an electronic tag, but I still wanted to post my own personal record of the day, as a large, international Press scrum and a group of enthusiastic WikiLeaks supporters gathered outside Westminster Magistrates' Court whilst Assange's fate was decided inside.
As we know, he was granted bail, but was sent back to prison because the Crown Prosecution Service objected and lodged their intention to appeal this decision. Bizarrely, they seem to have told a bit of a huge fib to Mark Stephens - Assange's lawyer - by telling him that the Swedish Prosecutor was the party objecting to bail, when it turns out it was the CPP all along!
Two days later their objection was tossed out by a judge at the Crown Court.
In the meanwhile, the American Government continues to behave stereotypically, and is now trying to twist and contort US law to find a plausible excuse for demanding that the bootlicking British Government hand Assange over to them so they can show him first hand how right he was to expose their lies, corruption and iniquities to the public view.
Shots from Day 11. For additional information check out Adbusters - www.adbusters.org/campaigns/occupywallstreet
Here's the series of images for Day 10.
Dec 3rd. Washington DC. Bradley Manning's attorney gave an exclusive presentation discussing the trial and the unlawful pretrial punishment of Bradley Manning. #freebrad
Photo by Bud Korotzer
Bradley Manning is a hero to many here and around the world for recoiling at the wanton killing of civilians he discovered while analyzing files in Baghdad. To the US government, which has prosecuted only a few low-level soldiers for those crimes, Bradley - who has spent 3 years in prison before trial - is the criminal, and we, the people he wanted to be informed with the true story of the wars, are the "enemy." Find out more at:
Julian Assange's supporters at Ecuador Embassy. London, 21.06.2012
Wikileaks press spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson and personal friend and surety bond-provider Sarah Saunders made staements this afternoon outside the Ecuador embassy in Hans Crescent to explain that Julian Assange is well and in good spirits as he remains inside the embassy awaiting news of his application for political asylum.
A group of supporters from the Bradley Manning campaign group Friends of Bradley Manning (UK) also arrived to begin a vigil in support of Assange. Members of hacktivist group Anonymous also attended.
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Beccles, Suffolk. Beccles Police Station where WikiLeaks Founder, Julian Assange, has to report, who's wanted by the Swedish Government in connection with sexual harassment claims by two women in Sweden, he's currently on bail at Ellingham Hall in Norfolk.
Supporting Wikileaks, protesting against racism, collecting for flood victims.
You can agree with their causes without supporting their ideology or their methods, as became apparent later in the day.
Julian Assange's supporters at Ecuador Embassy. London, 21.06.2012
Wikileaks press spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson and personal friend and surety bond-provider Sarah Saunders made staements this afternoon outside the Ecuador embassy in Hans Crescent to explain that Julian Assange is well and in good spirits as he remains inside the embassy awaiting news of his application for political asylum.
A group of supporters from the Bradley Manning campaign group Friends of Bradley Manning (UK) also arrived to begin a vigil in support of Assange. Members of hacktivist group Anonymous also attended.
All photos © 2012 Pete Riches
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Julian Assange's supporters at Ecuador Embassy. London, 21.06.2012
Wikileaks press spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson and personal friend and surety bond-provider Sarah Saunders made staements this afternoon outside the Ecuador embassy in Hans Crescent to explain that Julian Assange is well and in good spirits as he remains inside the embassy awaiting news of his application for political asylum.
A group of supporters from the Bradley Manning campaign group Friends of Bradley Manning (UK) also arrived to begin a vigil in support of Assange. Members of hacktivist group Anonymous also attended.
All photos © 2012 Pete Riches
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Julian Assange's supporters at Ecuador Embassy. London, 21.06.2012
Wikileaks press spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson and personal friend and surety bond-provider Sarah Saunders made staements this afternoon outside the Ecuador embassy in Hans Crescent to explain that Julian Assange is well and in good spirits as he remains inside the embassy awaiting news of his application for political asylum.
A group of supporters from the Bradley Manning campaign group Friends of Bradley Manning (UK) also arrived to begin a vigil in support of Assange. Members of hacktivist group Anonymous also attended.
All photos © 2012 Pete Riches
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It's funny how USA criticize Berlusconi and never care about bad enterprises as Coca Cola or McDonald's!
Assange supporters at Ecuadorean embassy fear police invasion - 16.08.2012
Following the astonishing statement on 15.08.2012 by British officials that the government is willing to revoke the diplomatic status of the Ecuadorean Embassy in Knightsbridge in order to enter it and arrest Wikileaks founder Julian Assange who is applying for political asylum from the Ecuadorean government - which is making their decision known later today - around 20 Wikileaks supporters gathered outside the embassy in the very early hours of 16.08.2012, fearful that the embassy was going to be invaded by the police.
The police had substantially increased their presence around the embassy, and I had sight of around five officers occupying the main foyer of the embassy. They were also closely guarding the fire exits in case Assange tries to make a break for freedom.
Observers say that if the British did this they would be in direct violation of the Vienna Convention, which governs the rules of diplomacy and diplomatic jurisdictions under international law. Already there have been threats to invade British emnbassies abroad should the Foreign and Commonwealth Office carries out its threat.
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Julian Assange's supporters at Ecuador Embassy. London, 21.06.2012
Wikileaks press spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson and personal friend and surety bond-provider Sarah Saunders made staements this afternoon outside the Ecuador embassy in Hans Crescent to explain that Julian Assange is well and in good spirits as he remains inside the embassy awaiting news of his application for political asylum.
A group of supporters from the Bradley Manning campaign group Friends of Bradley Manning (UK) also arrived to begin a vigil in support of Assange. Members of hacktivist group Anonymous also attended.
All photos © 2012 Pete Riches
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Accused of leaking the private military documents was Bradley Manning.
Photo from upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Bradley...; Fair Use Doctrine.
Public meeting in support of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange - London, 07/02/2011
As WikiLeaks' editor-in-chief Julian Assange fights against legal attempts this week by the Swedish prosecutor to have him extradited to Sweden from where there is a very real fear by many that he will be illegally 'rendered' to the United States where there have been many open, public calls by politicians and pundits for him to be executed or even just murdered on the street without trial, there was a public meeting in support of Assange and WikiLeaks organised by the Stop The War Coalition.
In front of a packed audience of 300 enthusiastic supporters in London's Conway Hall, the speakers were peace activist Jemima Khan, convenor of Stop The War Lindsey German , president of Stop The War Tony Benn and veteran peace activist and historian Tariq Ali, all of whom had attended Assange's first trial day at Belmarsh Magistrate's Court. Assange's legal proceedings have been moved to Belmarsh specifically to make it much more difficult and inconvenient for his supporters to gather and protest.
All photos © 2011 Pete Riches"
Julian Assange's supporters at Ecuador Embassy. London, 21.06.2012
Wikileaks press spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson and personal friend and surety bond-provider Sarah Saunders made staements this afternoon outside the Ecuador embassy in Hans Crescent to explain that Julian Assange is well and in good spirits as he remains inside the embassy awaiting news of his application for political asylum.
A group of supporters from the Bradley Manning campaign group Friends of Bradley Manning (UK) also arrived to begin a vigil in support of Assange. Members of hacktivist group Anonymous also attended.
All photos © 2012 Pete Riches
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Video of Rainey Reitman of EFF
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEeU667tsfA
The Best of Cablegate: Instances Where Public Discourse Benefited from the Leaks by Rainey Reitman
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/01/cablegate-disclosures-have-...
Description of event
www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=178950392136750
"Since its release of about 2000 diplomatic cables (as of January 7th, 2011), Wikileaks has been subject to extraordinary pressures, seemingly at the behest of the US government. Amazon and EveryDNS have denied Wikileaks internet service and Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, and Bank of America have been prevented supporters from donating money to Wikileaks. This is despite the fact that Wikileaks has not even been charged with a crime.
Unfortunately, the situation has gotten even worse. The press has been spreading lies about Wikileaks. Mainstream media outlets do not appear to be doing even the most rudimentary fact-checking. The most blatant of these lies is the idea that Wikileaks has “indiscriminately dumped 250,000 cables on the internet”. This is flat-out false.
A few news organizations, including NPR and InformationWeek, have corrected this mistake, and NPR has even offered an apology. By contrast, most news organizations ranging from the AP to the Wall Street Journal continue to print this falsehood.
We call upon all news organizations to correct previous articles and statements, to issue apologies to their readers, and to take steps to prevent this mistake from occurring in any future articles and shows.
We will be protesting outside the TransAmerica pyramid, across from a San Francisco office of the New York Times, on Saturday, January 15th, at 4pm. On that day, we will be joining in protesting against the repression of Wikileaks with many others around the world, including Washington, DC, and several cities in Canada and Australia.
To counter the New York Times’s censorship of reality, we plan to publish the released cables on the walls of their building. In addition, participants will be provided cable printouts and markers and encouraged to throw down their artistic abilities by adding a graphic representation of their favorite cable to the Cablegate Coloring Book.
References:
[1] 8 Smears and Misconceptions About WikiLeaks Spread By the Media
www.alternet.org/story/149369/8_smears_and_misconceptions...
[2] NPR Fesses Up to WikiLeaks’ Coverage Blunder, Now It’s Everyone Else’s Turn
lippmannwouldroll.com/2010/12/28/npr-fesses-up-to-wikilea...
more wikileaks photos
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Julian Assange's supporters at Ecuador Embassy. London, 21.06.2012
Wikileaks press spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson and personal friend and surety bond-provider Sarah Saunders made staements this afternoon outside the Ecuador embassy in Hans Crescent to explain that Julian Assange is well and in good spirits as he remains inside the embassy awaiting news of his application for political asylum.
A group of supporters from the Bradley Manning campaign group Friends of Bradley Manning (UK) also arrived to begin a vigil in support of Assange. Members of hacktivist group Anonymous also attended.
All photos © 2012 Pete Riches
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On February 19, 2014, at the Oxford Union, the Sam Adams Associates, a group of retired US officials dedicated to honoring Integrity in Intelligence, gave the 2014 Sam Adams Award to Chelsea Manning (formerly Bradley Manning). This is Craig Murray, the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, presenting the award to Chelsea's old friend Aaron Kirkhouse.
Pfc. Manning was given a 35-year sentence in August for the largest ever leak of classified documents -- including the Afghan and Iraq war logs, a treasure trove of diplomatic cables, and the classified military files from Guantánamo, on which I worked as a media partner -- to WikiLeaks.
See my article about the event here: www.andyworthington.co.uk/2014/02/24/in-oxford-wikileaks-...
For more on Chelsea Manning, see the website of the Private Manning Support Network: www.privatemanning.org/
And my archive of articles here: www.andyworthington.co.uk/category/bradley-manning/
Also see the "Collateral Murder" video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0
And WikiLeaks' Guantánamo Files: wikileaks.org/gitmo/
My introduction to the files: www.andyworthington.co.uk/2011/04/25/wikileaks-reveals-se...
And my ongoing series analysing the files: www.andyworthington.co.uk/category/2002-2011-the-complete...
For my most interesting photos, see: www.flickriver.com/photos/andyworthington/popular-interes...