The Freedom of the Press Foundation
IN FOCUS, 24 Dec 2012
Daniel Ellsberg – TRANSCEND Media Service
Today [23 Dec 2012], I join with a group of colleagues and friends to announce The Freedom of the Press Foundation. This new foundation crowd-sources funding for a number of tireless, courageous and underfunded freedom of press organizations, including WikiLeaks.
This is the first time that citizens can offer their financial support to WikiLeaks, since donation processing for the organization was shut down by extra-judicial government pressure on Bank of America, MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, and Amazon in 2010.
They’re not going to stop us this time.
Please tell the US government what you think of its attempted financial embargo of Wikileaks, by making a donation to the Freedom of Press Foundation today. You can choose how much of your money you’d like to go to WikiLeaks.
Here are related links:
Our Huffington Post op-ed announcing the new initiative
New York Times blog post about the Foundation
Glenn Greenwald’s Guardian op-ed about the Foundation
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