We Support WikiLeaks

Stand with Daniel Ellsberg, Barbara Ehrenreich, Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky and others--
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As journalists, activists, artists, scholars and citizens, we condemn the array of threats and attacks on the journalist organization WikiLeaks. After the website's decision, in collaboration with several international media organizations, to publish hundreds of classified State Department diplomatic cables, many pundits, commentators and prominent U.S. politicians have called for harsh actions to be taken to shut down WikiLeaks' operations.

Major corporations like Amazon.com, PayPal, MasterCard and Visa have acted to disrupt the group's ability to publish. U.S. legal authorities and others have repeatedly suggested, without providing any evidence, that WikiLeaks' posting of government secrets is a form of criminal behavior--or that at the very least, such activity should be made illegal. "To the extent there are gaps in our laws," Attorney General Eric Holder proclaimed (11/29/10), "we will move to close those gaps."

Throughout this episode, journalists and prominent media outlets have largely refrained from defending WikiLeaks' rights to publish material of considerable news value and obvious public interest. It appears that these media organizations are hesitant to stand up for this particular media outlet's free speech rights because they find the supposed political motivations behind WikiLeaks' revelations objectionable.

But the test for one's commitment to freedom of the press is not whether one agrees with what a media outlet publishes or the manner in which it is published. WikiLeaks is certainly not beyond criticism. But the overarching consideration should be the freedom to publish in a democratic society--including the freedom to publish material that a particular government would prefer be kept secret. When government officials and media outlets declare that attacks on a particular media organization are justified, it sends an unmistakably chilling message about the rights of anyone to publish material that might rattle or offend established powers.

We hereby stand in support of the WikiLeaks media organization, and condemn the attacks on their freedom as an attack on journalistic freedoms for all.

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Daniel Ellsberg
Noam Chomsky
Glenn Greenwald (Salon)
Barbara Ehrenreich
Arundhati Roy (author)
Medea Benjamin (Code Pink)
Tom Morello (musician)
John Nichols (The Nation)
Craig Brown (CommonDreams)
Glen Ford (Black Agenda Report)
DeeDee Halleck (Waves of Change, Deep Dish Network)
Norman Solomon (author, War Made Easy)
Tom Hayden
Fatima Bhutto (author)
Viggo Mortensen (actor)
Don Rojas (Free Speech TV)
Robert McChesney
Edward S. Herman (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
Sam Husseini
Jeff Cohen (Park Center for Independent Media)
Joel Bleifuss (In These Times)
Maya Schenwar (Truthout)
Greg Ruggiero (City Lights)
Thom Hartmann
Ben Ehrenreich
Robin Andersen (Fordham University)
Anthony Arnove (author, Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal)
Robert Naiman (Just Foreign Policy)
Dan Gillmor (Salon)
Michael Albert (Z Magazine)
Kate Murphy (The Nation)
Michelangelo Signorile (Sirius XM)
Lisa Lynch (Concordia University)
Rory O'Connor (Media Is a Plural)
Aaron Swartz
Peter Rothberg (The Nation)
Doug Henwood (Left Business Observer)
Barry Crimmins
Bill Fletcher, Jr (Blackcommentator.com)
Bob Harris (writer)
Jonathan Schwarz (A Tiny Revolution)
Alex Kane
Susan Ohanian
Jamie McClelland (May First/People Link)
Alfredo Lopez (May First/People Link)
Antonia Zerbisias (Toronto Star)
Mark Crispin Miller (NYU)
Jonathan Tasini
Antony Loewenstein
David Swanson

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Number	Date	Name	Location
3521	Wed Dec 15 13:30:17 EST 2010	Anonymous	NM ,
3520	Wed Dec 15 13:29:58 EST 2010	Daniel Butt	Berkeley, CA , US	"Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press, nor that be limited without danger of losing it." --Thomas Jefferson
3519	Wed Dec 15 13:29:38 EST 2010	Sean O'Neill	Grand Haven, MI , US
3518	Wed Dec 15 13:29:08 EST 2010	Joy Pereths	NY ,
3517	Wed Dec 15 13:28:56 EST 2010	Nima Shirazi	Brookyln, NY , US
3516	Wed Dec 15 13:26:05 EST 2010	Anonymous	McMurray, PA , US
3515	Wed Dec 15 13:25:55 EST 2010	Marc Weber	CA
3514	Wed Dec 15 13:25:20 EST 2010	Robert Wolfe		I will always stand with Daniel Ellsberg and Norm Chomsky for freedom of the press.
3513	Wed Dec 15 13:24:22 EST 2010	John D'Angelo	Valatie, NY , US
3512	Wed Dec 15 13:21:44 EST 2010	Robert Minson	Encinitas, CA ,	no more secrets for things that affect the general public!
3511	Wed Dec 15 13:21:38 EST 2010	Jennifer Gariepy	Warren, MI , US	Wikileaks is exposing secrets that should never have been secrets in the first place: the United States' dirty dealings in the world. Just how dirty those dealings are has been thoroughly affirmed by the More....response of American politicians: they are howling for censorship. It's time for the U.S. to get out of the empire business, out of the thug business. Wikileaks is one of the biggest assists ever given the common people of the U.S. in the struggle to bring imperialists and thugs in our government to heel. That's why the hue and cry in Washington. Keep Wikileaks alive!
3510	Wed Dec 15 13:21:09 EST 2010	Anne Williams	Washington DC, DC , US	We may (and do) dispute only the order and priorities of Wikileaks' release schedule. But THAT they be free to publish is rock-hard core principle that we must defend whatever it costs. Who's More....watching the watchers? isn't a catchy slogan, it's the foundation of all our freedoms.
3509	Wed Dec 15 13:19:53 EST 2010	Anonymous	Half Moon Bay, CA , US
3508	Wed Dec 15 13:17:30 EST 2010	David M. Perkins	Denver, CO , US
3507	Wed Dec 15 13:17:23 EST 2010	Claudia Holm	San Francisco, CA , US
3506	Wed Dec 15 13:16:23 EST 2010	carl ceaser	san luis obispo, CA ,
3505	Wed Dec 15 13:15:53 EST 2010	Mary Terchek	Takoma Park, MD , US
3504	Wed Dec 15 13:15:41 EST 2010	Robin VanTassell	San Rafael, CA , US
3503	Wed Dec 15 13:14:56 EST 2010	jeff Gere	Honolulu, HI , US
3502	Wed Dec 15 13:14:34 EST 2010	Leonard Carrier	Treasure Island, FL , US
3501	Wed Dec 15 13:14:26 EST 2010	Rob Gehrke	Paris, ot , FX
3500	Wed Dec 15 13:14:14 EST 2010	Sandra Needham Needham	Albuquerque, NM , US
3499	Wed Dec 15 13:13:58 EST 2010	Bill Vartnaw	Petaluma, CA , US
3498	Wed Dec 15 13:13:50 EST 2010	Victor Manfredi	Cambridge, MA ,
3497	Wed Dec 15 13:12:44 EST 2010	Angelo Petrigh	Brooklyn, NY , US