(2012-12-18) Freedom Of Press Foundation To Protect Wikileaks And Others

Glenn Greenwald on the Freedom Of The Press Foundation: The primary impetus for the formation of this group was to block the US government from ever again being able to attack and suffocate an independent journalistic enterprise the way it did with WikiLeaks. Government pressure and the eager compliance of large financial corporations (such as Visa, Master Card, Bank of America, etc.) has - by design - made it extremely difficult for anyone to donate to WikiLeaks, while many people are simply afraid to directly support the group... I'm very excited to have participated in its formation and will serve as an unpaid member of the Board of Directors, along with the heroic whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, 2012 Mc Arthur-fellowship-receipient and Oscar-nominated documentarian LauraPoitras, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation John Perry Barlow, the actor and civil liberties advocate John Cusack, Boing Boing co-founder Xeni Jardin, and several other passionate free press and transparency activists... We intend to raise funds ourselves and then distribute it to the beneficiaries we name... The second purpose is to ensure that truly independent journalistic outlets - devoted to holding the US government and other powerful factions accountable with transparency and real adversarial journalism - are supported to the fullest extent possible. Along those lines, we have selected three other organizations along with WikiLeaks as our initial beneficiaries: MuckrockNews, Up Take, National Security Archive.

I gave $50.