From: Israel Shamir <adam@israelshamir.
To: readers <shamireaders@
Cc: "Julian A." <julian@wikileaks.
Wikileaks is the Frontier
The battle for the right to know was always a very important one. During last century, twice the web of conspiracies was exposed: once, in 1917 by the Bolsheviks who rejected undercover diplomacy. Thanks to them we know of Sykes-Picot agreement to carve up the Middle East, among others. The second great veil removal was done by the brave Iranian students who seized the US embassy in 1979 and published everything they found. Now we are very close to the third revelation: this time by Wikileaks. The site chief editor, "Robin Hood of the Internet", Julian Assange, allegedly got hold of a real treasure of information: hundreds of thousands of communications between the US embassies. Now he is being hunted.
We are 100% on his side. Our right to know is an important right to protect and fight for. Now in many countries support groups of Wikileaks are being organized, we shall keep you informed for we are sure you support whistle-blowing like that done by courageous Vanunu.
Julian's battle is as important as anything today; wikileaks is the frontier we should defend.
Below: two recent communications from Julian:
WikiLeaks may be under attack.
You were generous enough to write to us, but we have not had the labor resources to respond.
Your support is important to us. Please read all of this email to understand what is going on. We apologize for not getting back to you before. It is not through any lack of interest on our part, but an enforced lack of resources.
One of our alleged sources, a young US intelligence analyst, Bradley Manning, has been detained and shipped to a US military prison in Kuwait, where he is being held without trail. Mr. Manning is alleged to have acted according to his conscious and leaked to us the Collateral Murder video and the video of a massacre that took place in Afghanistan last year at Garani.
The Garani massacre, which we are still working on, killed over 100 people, mostly children.
Mr. Manning allegedly also sent us 260,000 classified US Department cables, reporting on the actions of US Embassy's engaging in abusive actions all over the world. We have denied the allegation, but the US government is acting as if the allegation is true and we do have a lot of other material that exposes human rights abuses by the United States government.
Mr. Manning was allegedly exposed after talking to an unrelated "journalist" who then worked with the US government to detain him.
Some background on the Manning case:
http://fdlaction.
http://en.wikipedia
http://www.wired.
http://www.wired.
http://www.wired.
http://www.state.
[ note that there are some questions about the Wired reportage, see: http://www.boingboi
WikiLeaks a small organization going through enormous growth and operating in an adverserial, high-security environment which can make communication time consuming and the acquisition of new staff and volunteers, also difficult since they require high levels of trust.
To try and deal with our growth and the current difficult situation, we want to get you to work together with our other supporters to set up a "Friends of WikiLeaks" group in your area. We have multiple supporters in most countries and would like to see them be a strong and independent force.
Please write to friends@sunshinepre
We also have significant unexpected legal costs (for example flying a legal team to Kuwait, video production. Collateral Murder production costs were $50,000 all up).
Any financial contributions will be of IMMEDIATE assistance.
http://wikileaks.
Please donate and tell the world that you have done so. Encourage all your friends to follow the example you set, after all, courage is contagious.
Julian Assange
Editor in Chief
WIKILEAKS
FYI:
Reykjavik, Iceland; 4:00 UTC, June 16th 2010.
The WikiLeaks advised proposal to build an international
"new media haven" in Iceland, with the world's strongest
press and whistleblower protection laws, and a "Nobel" prize for
for Freedom of Expression, has unaminously passed the
Icelandic Parliament.
50 votes were cast in favor, zero against, one abstained. Twelve
members of parliament were not present. Vote results are available
at http://www.althingi
One of the inspirations for the proposal was the dramatic August 2009 gagging of
of Iceland's national broadcaster, RUV by Iceland's then largest bank, Kaupthing:
http://wikileaks.
Two changes were made to the proposal from its original form as per
the opinion of the parliament's general affairs committee
[http://www.althingi
altered slightly the wording of the first paragraph so as to widen
the arena for research. The second of these added two new items to
the list of tasks for the government:
- That the government should perform a detailed analysis,
especially with respect to operational security,
for the prospect of operating data centers in Iceland.
- That the government should organize an international conference
in Iceland regarding the changes to the legal environment being caused
by expansion of cloud computing, data havens, and the judicial state
of the Internet.
Video footage from the proposal's vote will be available at:
http://www.althingi
http://www.althingi
For details of the proposal and press contacts, please see
http://www.immi.
See more of it on http://www.guardian
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Michael Santomauro
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