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In media history up to now, the press is free to report on what the powerful wish to keep secret because the laws of a given nation protect it. But Wikileaks is able to report on what the powerful wish to keep secret because the logic of the Internet permits it. This is new. Just as the Internet has no terrestrial address or central office, neither does Wikileaks.

Jay Rosen, NYU Journalism school (via loveandrage) (via adailyriot)

/reblogged from A Daily Riot.

NOTES: 4 7/27/10, 5:25pm SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/Z4iyNypkQ-q FILED UNDER: #wikileaks #press freedom

Press release: Legal Fund Established to Fight Imprisonment of Accused WikiLeaks Whistleblower « Help Bradley Manning

suburbananarchist:

Washington D.C., July 27, 2010 – At 4PM EST on July 27, the Bradley Manning Support Network (www.bradleymanning.org) will begin accepting online donations for the legal defense of Private First Class Bradley Manning.

The Network, a grassroots initiative formed to defend and support accused whistleblower Pfc. Bradley Manning, has partnered with Courage to Resist, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting military objectors.

/reblogged from Suburban Left

NOTES: 8 7/27/10, 12:13pm SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/Z4iyNypgCGf FILED UNDER: #wikileaks

After several days underground, the founder of the secretive website WikiLeaks has gone public to disclose that he is preparing to release a classified Pentagon video of a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan last year that left as many as 140 civilians dead, most of them children and teenagers.

adailyriot:

clingtomymouth:

jonathan-cunningham:

(via mohandasgandhi)

Holy shit this is big (but will be ignored by all elected officials)

/reblogged from A Daily Riot.

NOTES: 108 6/16/10, 3:25pm SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/Z4iyNyg3RE- FILED UNDER: #wikileaks #pentagon

Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Hunted by Pentagon Over Massive Leak

suburbananarchist:

Pentagon investigators are trying to determine the whereabouts of the Australian-born founder of the secretive website Wikileaks for fear that he may be about to publish a huge cache of classified State Department cables that, if made public, could do serious damage to national security, government officials tell The Daily Beast.

/reblogged from Suburban Left

NOTES: 2 6/11/10, 2:37pm SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/Z4iyNyf0ANi FILED UNDER: #wikileaks #censorship