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The 2012 Great Northern Canada Writing Contest Deadline - April 30, 2012

2012-01-27T11:08:00.001-07:00

Annelies Pool [anneliespool@me.com] on behalf of Great Northern Canada Writing Contest has requested distribution of the following call for submissions:

The 2012 Great Northern Canada Writing Contest
Deadline - April 30, 2012

To enter, submit a piece of prose, either fiction or non-fiction, of up to 1,000 words about life in the Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut or Nunavik. Previously published items are not eligible.

Entries should be typed and double-spaced with the title, but not your name, on each numbered page. Please submit a separate cover sheet with your name, address, phone number, email address, word count and whether your piece is fiction or non-fiction.

Entries must be mailed to:

Great Northern Canada Writing Contest
Box 1256,
Yellowknife NT
X1A 2N9

We do not accept emailed or faxed entries.

Deadline is April 30, 2012. That means they must be postmarked by that date.

First Prize is $500 and publication in above&beyond, Canada's Arctic Journal.
http://www.arcticjournal.ca/

Special Emerging Writer Prize of $250 and publication in above&beyond, Canada's Arctic Journal, for writers who have never been published for payment. To qualify, identify yourself "emerging writer" on the cover sheet you submit with your entry.

Winners will be announced at the 5th Annual NorthWords Writers Festival in Yellowknife, NWT on May 31 – June 3, 2012.

The following are not eligible: Staff and contractors of above&beyond magazine and their families, writers who have been published in above&beyond in the last five years, organizers and paid staff of the NorthWords Writers Festival and their families.

Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge - I support #wikipediablackout! Show your support here

2012-01-18T01:44:00.001-07:00

I support #wikipediablackout! Show your support here http://tinyurl.com/7vq4o8g

Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge

For over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, we are blacking out Wikipedia. Learn more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more

The legal implications of tweeting

2011-08-08T09:34:00.001-06:00

The (US) legal implications of tweeting: Can tweets be libelous? It turns out they can be
http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/141987/what-journalists-need-to-know-about-libelous-tweets/

[excerpt, see original URL for embedded links]

So how can news organizations guard against libelous tweets? It's important, Ardia said, for staffers to have a basic understanding of the legal implications of tweeting.

Under section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, news organizations are protected from defamation liability for content that's created by a third party. The law protects YouTube from libel lawsuits, and it protects bloggers and news organizations from defamatory comments that users may post. The law also protects retweets. So if a journalist or news organization were to retweet a defamatory statement, they would not be held accountable. If, however, they added a defamatory remark as part of the retweet, they could be.

Generally speaking, Ardia said, a news organization would only be responsible for an employee's defamatory tweets if the employee's use of Twitter was part of their job or otherwise related to their line of work. If the defamatory tweet wasn't work-related, the employee would be the only one responsible for it.

Having social media guidelines that lay out the legal pitfalls can help. A few months after the AP was sued, the organization updated its social media guidelines. (When asked whether the lawsuit Spooner filed prompted the AP to update its social media guidelines, AP Deputy Managing Editor for Standards and Production Tom Kent said, "Not that I recall.")

The new guidelines, which were issued a week after the AP warned staffers about expressing opinions, didn't specifically mention the legal implications of tweeting.

Some organizations, such as ASNE, have been criticized for creating "strict" social media guidelines that limit journalists' ability to develop their voice and skills on social networking sites. I tend to favor guidelines that encourage experimentation rather than those that limit it. But given that tweets can be libelous, I can see the value in setting stricter parameters.

When updating its guidelines recently, the BBC instituted a rule saying "two pairs of eyes" need to look over news updates for Twitter and Facebook. The extra set of eyes could prevent the BBC from tweeting something potentially defamatory, but that's not why the BBC made the update. Kevin Marsh, a longtime BBC editor who played an advisory role in creating the guidelines, explained that the update is an extension of the more general rules and practices that the BBC follows.

"Recorded content has to go through a lengthy and comprehensive process of compliance," said Marsh, who recently left the BBC after working there for 33 years. "Live content [anything published on social networks] has to go through a different process, for obvious reasons, with the warranty from the editor in charge of the output that there are at least 'two pairs of eyes or ears' across the content, one more senior to the other, able to take action — apology, taking down, correction — if necessary."

At The Guardian, journalists who identify themselves as Guardian employees in their Twitter bios are advised to include a disclaimer such as, "These are my personal views and not those of my employer."

This can be helpful, Ardia said, but it's not a complete shield to liability.

Facebook moving to China?

2011-04-09T15:15:00.001-06:00

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Rebecca MacKinnon <rebecca.mackinnonATgmail.com>
Date: 9 April 2011 06:17
Subject: [chineseinternetresearch] Facebook moving to China?
To: chineseinternetresearch <chineseinternetresearch@yahoogroups.com>, "oni@eon.law.harvard.edu Initiative" <oni@eon.law.harvard.edu>, liberationtech <liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu>

http://mashable.com/2011/04/08/facebook-china-4/
Is Facebook Moving Into China?
[REPORT]<http://mashable.com/2011/04/08/facebook-china-4/>
15 hours ago by Charlie White
<http://mashable.com/author/charlie-white/>
14<http://mashable.com/2011/04/08/facebook-china-4/#disqus_thread>

According to the latest crop of rumors,
Facebook<http://mashable.com/category/facebook>is about to make a deal
that will bring it into the vast Chinese market.

Though such rumors have been circulating since
2007<http://mashable.com/2007/10/31/facebook-china/>,
the information is presently coming from numerous credible industry sources.

But don't expect to friend anyone in China. Keeping with the country's
closed nature, any new Facebook social network in China wouldn't be linked
with the rest of the site.

According to *TechRice<http://techrice.com/2011/04/09/blockbuster-rumor-facebook-partners-with-baidu-to-enter-china/>
*, Facebook will be partnering with
Baidu<http://mashable.com/follow/topics/baidu/?page=1>,
the largest search engine in China, valued at $50 billion. That's if Hu
Yanping, founder of the Beijing-based Data Center of the China Internet (
DCCI <http://www.dcci.com.cn/>), tweets the truth. He says Facebook has
already signed an official contract with Baidu to create a new social
network in China.

Marbridge Consulting<http://www.marbridgeconsulting.com/marbridgedaily/2011-04-08/article/45061/rumor_baidu_facebook_ally_to_launch_sns_in_china>has
also heard from multiple industry sources, which say Facebook will be
working with Baidu on the new China site, bolstered by rumors that Baidu
visited Facebook in February.

So we have tweets on top of rumors on top of blog posts. The preponderance
of evidence is that Facebook has something going on in China. But given that
China wants to prevent the kind of revolutionary fervor reaching a fever
pitch in the Middle East and Northern Africa lately, any version of Facebook
in China will likely be tightly regulated and censored.

Could this end up being like that pale imitation of
Twitter<http://mashable.com/2010/12/15/chinas-communist-twitter/>we
saw sprouting up in China late last year? And will China's penchant
for
censorship mean a Chinese version of Facebook is doomed to die? Let us know
what you think in the comments.

--
Rebecca MacKinnon
Schwartz Senior Fellow, New America Foundation
Co-founder, GlobalVoicesOnline.org
Cell: +1-617-939-3493
E-mail: rebecca.mackinnonATgmail.com
Blog: RConversation.blogs.com
Twitter: @rmack <http://twitter.com/rmack>
Facebook: facebook.com/rmackinnon

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Via

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chineseinternetresearch/

Which URL Shortener Should You Use?

2011-04-03T09:58:00.001-06:00

Which URL Shortener Should You Use? - #SocialMedia http://ow.ly/4s7tx full report http://ow.ly/4s7uR

All URL shorteners are far from equal. That’s what new data from online performance monitoring service Watchmouse finds.

WatchMouse monitored the availability (uptime) and performance (page load speed) of the most popular URL Shorteners from February 24 through March 28, 2011.

We report on the following for each of the websites:

Availability

Performance

Site Performance Index

Legal Lesson Learned: Copywriter Pays $4,000 for $10 Photo

2011-02-19T08:24:00.001-07:00

Legal Lesson Learned: Copywriter Pays $4,000 for $10 Photo | Webcopyplus Web Copywriter Blog

[excerpt]

Why would copywriters at Webcopyplus pay $4,000 for a digital photo that retails for about $10? Well, frankly, we screwed up. It's an expensive lesson on copyright laws that we wish to share with other marketers, so you don't make the same mistake.

Our web copywriters were under the impression that images on the Web without any copyright notices were "public domain" and therefore free to use. Naive? Yes. A notion limited to our copywriting firm? Definitely not. It likely has to do with the fact that works no longer need a copyright notice to have copyright protection (you can read about the Berne Convention Implementation Act, which the US adopted in 1988).

Designers, writers, developers, marketers, business owners, and ironically even photographers, use photos from the Web without permission. Sites like Google make it so convenient. Enter your keywords, do an image search, and you've got an endless photo library ripe for the picking. Woman laughing delivers 5.2 million photos. Business man offers 423 million photos. And the keyword kids brings up a whopping 778 million images. You can find pretty well anything, too, from ABBA to zombies.

The Copyright Crime

While we maintained an active stock photo account for our blog with access to an array of suitable photos, one of our copywriters grabbed a photo from the Web. The image: a colour 400 x 300 pixel beach shot with some greenery in the foreground. A nice shot, but nothing spectacular.

We posted it on a client's tourism blog to add zest to a promotional article — done. Sip some caffeine, get a little Twitter action, and then dive into the next copywriting project. Photo forgotten. That was in May, 2010.

The Lawyer's Letter

Fast forward a few months, we got a call from the client a couple of days before Christmas, and he wasn't feeling overly festive. He received a formal letter from a lawyer with the following introduction: "Cease and desist demand and offer to settle copyright infringement claim, and digital millennium copyright act claim, subject to Rule 408, Federal Rules of Evidence."

Apparently copyright infringement involving images that are registered with the U.S. Copyright Office allows for statutory damages of up to $30,000, or $150,000 if it can be demonstrated it was a willful act.

The Lawyer's Demands:

the rest at...

http://ow.ly/3ZBcI

Canadian Museums Association attacks artists' fees

2011-02-17T12:13:00.001-07:00

February 2011

Canadian Museums Association attacks artists' fees

The Canadian Museums Association told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday they would like to see the Exhibition Right "abolished". Jon Tupper, President of the CMA, also asked to be exempt from paying artist fees for things such as reproductions in catalogues, in slides for public lectures and online.

Canadian museums are the main source of copyright income for visual artists. An amendment proposed by Bill C-32 to open fair dealing to education appears to have been perceived by the museum community as an invitation to stop paying the fees that artists such as Jack Chambers fought so hard for. Although they claim their budgets are too tight, for most public galleries artists' fees represent a small portion of their budget. When faced with similar arguments back in the 1970's, artist Tony Urquhart suggested to a Montreal museum director that instead of hosting twenty contemporary exhibits in a year, he host nineteen and use the last budget to pay the artists.

Tupper insisted that museums should not have to pay artists fees for artwork which they own but recognized that more and more museums do not have the funds to purchase artwork. In Ontario alone, 98 percent of art collections are acquired by donation, meaning that visual artists would not receive any payment for these works if the CMA's recommendations were followed.

"The principle of compensating artists for the public presentation of their work has been enshrined in two Canadian laws for over twenty years," said CARFAC president Gerald Beaulieu. "Clearly our parliamentarians have supported this notion because it is sound and just public policy."

What do you think about the Canadian Museum Association's statement?

Post your comments to our Facebook group or send them to communications@carfac.ca

Schools Must Validate Artistic Expression - Creativity is a key part of the educated mind.

2011-02-11T21:46:00.001-07:00

Schools Must Validate Artistic Expression

Creativity is a key part of the educated mind.

[excerpt]

I heard a great story recently about a six-year-old girl in a drawing lesson. The teacher said this little girl hardly ever paid attention in class, but during this lesson she did. The teacher was fascinated.

She asked the girl, "What are you drawing?" And the girl said, "I'm drawing a picture of God." The teacher said, "But nobody knows what God looks like." The girl said, "They will in a minute."

[...]

...we are educating people out of their creative capacities. Picasso once said that all children are born artists. The trick is to remain an artist as we grow up. I believe this passionately: We don't grow into creativity; we grow out of it. Or, rather, we get educated out of it. Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

[...]

We have to rethink the fundamental principles on which we're educating our children. And the only way we'll do it is by seeing our creative capacities for the richness they are, and seeing our children for the hope they are. Our task is to educate our whole being so they can face this future. We may not see this future, but they will. And our job is to help them make something of it.

By Sir Ken Robinson http://sirkenrobinson.com/skr/ an international leader in creativity, innovation, and educational reform and author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative. This article is based on a talk he gave at the 2006 TED conference.

- - - -

For twelve years, he was Professor of Education at the University of Warwick in the UK and is now Professor Emeritus. He has received honorary degrees from the Open University and the Central School of Speech and Drama; Birmingham City University, Rhode Island School of Design, Ringling College of Art and Design and the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. He has been honored with the Athena Award of the Rhode Island School of Design for services to the arts and education; the Peabody Medal for contributions to the arts and culture in the United States, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Royal Society of Arts for outstanding contributions to cultural relations between the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2005 he was named as one of Time/Fortune/CNN's Principal Voices. In 2003, he received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts. He speaks to audiences throughout the world on the creative challenges facing business and education in the new global economies.

Why Paywalls Are Bad Business

2011-02-09T12:31:00.001-07:00

Why Paywalls Are Bad Business

09 Feb 2011 12:57 pm

by Zoe Pollock

Felix Salmon predicts that the NYT will lose to sites like the Huffington Post:

more at:

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/02/why-paywalls-are-bad-business.html

Original post:

Tom McGeveran asks an important question, in his analysis of the AOL-HuffPo deal:

What is it about the environment of traditional journalism that makes it so that readers are more likely to interact with the Huffington Post reblog of a New York Times article than they are with the article itself?

The answer to this question, I think, is also a key part of the reason why the NYT paywall is a bad idea.

more at:

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/02/08/why-the-nyt-will-lose-to-huffpo/

Interview: USA Today social media editor Michelle Kessler on the evolving newsroom, measuring success

2011-02-01T09:40:00.001-07:00

Interview: USA Today social media editor Michelle Kessler on the evolving newsroom, measuring success

http://socialmediatoday.com/trevorjonas/264923/interview-usa-today-social-media-editor-michelle-kessler-evolving-newsroom-measur?utm_source=smt_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter

[excerpt]

The impact of social media on the media and publishing industries has been well documented. Newspapers and magazines are increasing their focus online, which means an investment in social media channels as well as the company website.

I recently asked USA Today's new social media editor, Michelle Kessler, a few questions about the evolving state of the newsroom and how social media is impacting news gathering and reporting.

Jonas: You recently became social media editor at USA Today. How is the role currently defined and what, specifically, are you responsible for?

Kessler: My job is to help reporters and editors use social media to connect with readers and sources. That includes everything from training to maintaining feeds to helping sign partnerships.

[...]

Jonas: Generally speaking, how are your reporters and editors using social media to connect with readers and sources? What's the benefit? Or put another way, how are you tracking success?

Kessler: USA TODAY has a large social media presence, including multiple official Facebook pages and Twitter feeds. (Examples are here, here, and here.) In addition, many of our reporters and editors are extremely active on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other sites.

Social networking is just a new way of talking to people, which is what reporters have always done. It's often easier to ping someone on Facebook, or make a connection on LinkedIn, than it is to chase someone down over the phone. Twitter can be an extremely efficient way to share news or ask a question to a large audience.

And these sites also make it easier for readers to talk to us. For example, we monitor every Twitter comment that mentions @usatoday, and respond when appropriate. Last night we asked for our readers' take on the State of the Union address, and ran a few of the most interesting comments here.

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Simon Waldman on Creative Disruption - What You Need To Do To Shake Up Your Business In The Digital World

2011-01-15T23:25:00.001-07:00

Simon Waldman on Creative Disruption - Video - What You Need To Do To Shake Up Your Business In The Digital World
http://ow.ly/3EAJC

Simon Waldman - who used to run the digital business at the Guardian newspaper and is now an executive at Lovefilms - is the author of an interesting new book entitled Creative Disruption: What You Need To Do To Shake Up Your Business In The Digital World.

I caught up with Waldman earlier this month in Athens, Greece at WPP's Stream conference, where he gave a memorable presentation about his new book. Looking at disruptive digital businesses like Amazon, Skype, Google and Apple, Creative Disruption is designed as a manual for managers in companies attempting to make the transition into the digital age. Using the examples of successful reinvented businesses like IBM, Waldman's book is all about how to reinvent your business in the digital age without throwing out everything you do and everything you know.

Waldman's message is an important one. While the digital world has had a huge impact on the media industry, it is only now beginning to radically transform the broader economy. Any manager in healthcare, retail, financial services or the insurance industry needs to read Creative Disruption. The digital world is about to disrupt your business. Listening to Waldman might guarantee that this disruption won't result in destruction. –Andrew Keen

Andrew Keen is the author of The Cult of the Amateur.

Influential journal of feminist theory & innovative writing now available online open access

2011-01-08T22:11:00.001-07:00

Influential journal of feminist theory and innovative writing now available online open access

Influential journal of feminist theory and innovative writing now available online open access

The late Professor Barbara Godard of York University, elected to the Order of Canada in 2010, left the feminist scholarly community with an outstanding parting gift.

As one of the founding editors, Professor Godard secured the approval and the means to enable all 21 years of Tessera to be available online without access restrictions.

Tessera is an influential scholarly journal which published feminist theory and innovative writing by Canadian and Quebecois women. Some of the nation's most important feminist writers were published by the journal, including Nicole Brossard, Louky Bersianik, Louise Cotnoir, Linda Hutcheon, Daphne Marlatt and Marlene Nourbese Philip among others.

Tessera is hosted by the York University Libraries using Open Journal Systems software.

For more information see: http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=16191

Vladimir Putin Orders Russian Government to Switch to Free Software by 2015

2010-12-28T01:16:00.001-07:00

Vladimir Putin Orders Russian Government to Switch to Free Software by 2015
http://ow.ly/3v5yG

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has signed a government order that lays out the groundwork for the transition of federal bodies and agencies to use free software, including Linux, by 2015.

The 25-point document (available here) outlines specific steps the government must take in order to move off proprietary software and onto free and/or open source alternatives like Linux (). The government order was approved on December 17 and affects all federal agencies of the federal budget.

Each point of the document names the specific action that must be taken, the agency responsible for implementing that order, the time frame for implementation, and the expected result. For example, point #5 instructs Russia's Ministry of Communications to form, "the base package of free software solutions for typical problems of the federal executive bodies," with the expected result a free package of software that includes operating systems, drivers and application software for servers.

Order #5 calls for, "creating and maintaining a single repository of free software used in the federal bodies of executive power," while order #20 requires, "the development of departmental plans to move to the use of free software, including plans for transition of subordinate budget institutions." The final order, to be implemented in Q3 2015, calls for, "preparation of the draft orders of the Government of the Russian Federation on the adoption of a phased introduction of free software for the next planning period."

Russia has been moving in the direction of free software for the last few years. In 2008, the government ordered schools to implement free software packages in all of its computers. Schools that now want to use proprietary software have to pay for it out of their own pockets.

[Source: CNews via Open...]

Flickr

2010-12-13T00:52:00.001-07:00

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Some more Wikileaks links...

2010-12-12T19:02:00.001-07:00

---------- Forwarded message ----------

From: Frederick Noronha <fredericknoronhaATgmailDOTcom>
Date: 12 December 2010 10:10

Wikileaks links...

WikiRebels: The Documentary | WikiLeaks & Julian Assange

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPglX8Bl3Dc

wozzek22 | December 10, 2010 | 53 likes, 0 dislikes

Swedish Television's Jesper Huor and Bosse Lindquist exclusive rough-cut of first in-depth documentary on WikiLeaks and the people behind it!

"From summer 2010 until now, SVT has been following the secretive media organization WikiLeaks and its enigmatic Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange.

Reporters Jesper Huor and Bosse Lindquist have traveled to key countries where WikiLeaks operates, interviewing top members, such as Assange, new Spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson, as well as people like Daniel Domscheit-Berg who now is starting his own version - Openleaks.org."

The documentary also includes interviews with Ian Overton from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, James Ball of TBIJ and WikiLeaks, Icelandic MP Birgitta Jónsdóttir, former WikiLeaks collaborators Herbert Snorrason and Smári McCarthy, and PRQ CEO Mikael Viborg.

The documentary looks at WikiLeaks' philosophy and operations, some of its famous disclosures including the Kenya report, the Guantanamo manuals, Kaupthing, Trafigura, the Collateral Murder video, the Afghanistan and Iraq war logs, the US administration's reactions, and the lead-up to the Cablegate release.

Also available at
Wikileaks documentary by SVT | http://goo.gl/WzPtP

Utterly surreal: Pravda justifiably criticizing US for trying to stifle a free press bit.ly/hD2zst How times change.

FT: WikiLeaks - not so dull, after all | http://is.gd/iyVql

Symposium on Wikileaks and Internet Freedom (live) | http://is.gd/iyX2w

Supporters call for Justice for Assange | www.justiceforassange.com

Almost 500,000 signatures on Avaaz. KEEP US STRONG - sign here:
http://is.gd/iraFX donate here: http://is.gd/iwrh4

Sydney Protest: "C'mon Julia, which law has Assange broken?" |
http://is.gd/iwq4z

Foreign Policy: If Wikileaks makes the US government justify its
demands, is that such a bad thing? | http://is.gd/iwpQg

Cablegate: Pope wanted Muslim Turkey kept out of EU | http://is.gd/iwkXm

Cablegate: 1,269 of 251,287 embassy cables released: 0.5% down, 99.5% to
go. www.wikileaks.ch

Today is International Human Rights Day. Show you support free
expression for Wikileaks and Julian Assange here: http://is.gd/iraFX

State department republishes Wikileaks' doc. Will they now try to sue
themselves? | http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/116764.pdf

"We've done the time, we may as well do the crime": Mistaken identity
victims easyDNS support Wikileaks | http://is.gd/isz4k

Cablegate: Pfizer used dirty tricks to avoid clinical trial payout |
http://is.gd/iszst

EFF: prosecuting Wikileaks, or Julian Assange, "extremely dangerous" to
free speech | http://is.gd/isgQx

Wikipedia editors delete list of Wikileaks Mirrors | http://is.gd/is7vG

The #cablegate </#!/search?q=%23cablegate> stories they tried to censor:
Oil giants "squeeze" Hugo Chavez http://is.gd/irYKG

Petition: "Stop the crackdown on WikiLeaks and its partners." 275,000
have signed. Will you? http://is.gd/iraFX

The #cablegate </#!/search?q=%23cablegate> stories they tried to censor:
Shell has people in every Nigerian ministry http://is.gd/irYEd

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights "concerned" by #wikileaks
http://is.gd/irYbs

Brazilian President Lula speaks out in defence of Wikileaks:
http://bit.ly/foaWa5

UN Representative for freedom of expression defends Wikileaks and Julian
Assange: http://is.gd/irEQg

Support Wikileaks: sign the Avaaz petition: http://is.gd/iraFX

TIME: "Why #WikiLeaks </#!/search?q=%23WikiLeaks> Is Winning the War"
http://is.gd/ipPcn - KEEP US STRONG http://wikileaks.ch/support.html

Statement from Datacell CEO on Visa and Mastercard legal action:
http://is.gd/ipMH1

Sweden will find it 'very difficult' to extradite Julian Assange, says
expert http://is.gd/ipkbL

Wikileaks' payment processor Datacell to sue Visa and Mastercard over
account cut-off. http://bit.ly/f0YjdW

Over 4600 comments on an open letter to Australian PM Julia Gillard
signed by 185 academics, lawyers and jjournalists. http://bit.ly/gy29WZ

WikiLeaks cables: US 'lobbied Russia on behalf of Visa and MasterCard'
http://is.gd/iooG9

RT @DanielEllsberg <http://twitter.com/DanielEllsberg> "EVERY attack now
made on Assange and Wikileaks was made against me and release of
Pentagon Papers" http://bit.ly/eZnep8

STATEMENT: "We will not be gagged" #cablegate
Following the detention of Wikileaks founder and (cont) http://tl.gd/7canol

Tonight's #cablegate </#!/search?q=%23cablegate> topics: Colonel
Gaddafi; Saudi fights with Hezbollah, and US propaganda. Guardian
coverage: http://is.gd/imldT

Censorship in action - see all the attacks on wikileaks here:
http://bit.ly/ePIKfV KEEP US STRONG: http://wikileaks.ch/support.html

KEEP US STRONG COURAGE IS CONTAGEOUS DONATE
http://wikileaks.ch/support.html

Let down by the UK justice system's bizarre decision to refuse bail to
Julian Assange. But #cablegate </#!/search?q=%23cablegate> releases
continue as planned.

KEEP US STRONG - DONATE http://wikileaks.ch/support.html

RT @doctorow <http://twitter.com/doctorow> #imwikileaks
</#!/search?q=%23imwikileaks> #imassange </#!/search?q=%23imassange>
Today Westminster Magistarte's Court meet 13:30
http://www.justiceforassange.com #wikileaks </#!/search?q=%23wikileaks>
#cablegate </#!/search?q=%23cablegate>

WikiLeaks
Today's actions against our editor-in-chief Julian Assange won't affect
our operations: we will release more cables tonight as normal"

Correction, UK has only received warrant, but may issue it shortly.

WikiLeaks servers in Sweden under attack http://is.gd/iiofj

WikiLeaks now hosted at 507 locations, planet wide
http://wikileaks.ch/mirrors.html

Julian Assange leads TIME 2010 Person of the Year http://is.gd/iikeR

Same day Swiss defense fund is frozen, UK issues arrest warrant for
Julian Assange http://tl.gd/7bg5kc

PRESS RELEASE Tue 7 Dec 15.55 GMT Julian Assange Defense Fund frozen.
The Swiss Bank Post Finance today issues (cont) http://tl.gd/7bg5kc

Op Ed: WikiLeaks - The Internet Ideal Triumphs http://is.gd/ii3v8

De hemliga telegrammen 44 minuter | SVT
http://svtplay.se/v/2256485/dokument_inifran/de_hemliga_telegrammen

Iran says WikiLeaks is a US puppet in the #cablegate

Is twitter censoring WikiLeaks trends? http://is.gd/ihRmc

Cables highlight Saudi terror woes: US cables: "Donors in Saudi Arabia
constitute the most sign... http://bit.ly/foVoCS

WikiLeaks severs at Swedish ISP http://prq.se/ non-responsive. We are
investigating cause.

UAE bans WikiLeaks. China bans WikiLeaks. US megacorps ban WikiLeaks. A
new axis of intolerance? http://is.gd/ihzpe

Complaint filed over call to assassinate Julian Assange http://is.gd/ihyZH

RT @sarahpalinusa <http://twitter.com/sarahpalinusa> "I can see Julian
Assange from my house" #wikileaks </#!/search?q=%23wikileaks>

The Shameful Attacks on Julian Assange | Atlantic http://is.gd/ihkxm

WikiLeaks news roundup http://wlcentral.org/

Cablegate: Boy, the last time there was a leak like this, Noah built
himself a boat.

Australia: And so this is Christmass | ABC
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/41868.html

Only WikiLeaks can save US policy | The Diplomat http://is.gd/igUzh

WikiLeaks now has 355 sites. Thanks to YOU http://wikileaks.ch/mirrors.html

Sarah Palin says Julian should be hunted down like Osama bin Laden--so
he should be safe for at least a decade.

We will not be censored: WikiLeaks now running in over 208 locations
http://wikileaks.ch/mirrors.html

WikiLeaks: Obama must come clean or resign http://is.gd/igdw8

WikiLeaks official censorship resistant mirrors:
http://wikileaks.ch/mirrors.html

Digital McCarythism | The Hindu
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/article933915.ece

WikiLeaks news update http://wlcentral.org/

WikiLeaks strikes back. Cut us down and the stronger we become:
http://twitter.com/search?q=imwikileaks

Robert McClelland is a US suckhole, worse than Howard on Hicks, and
needs to go. http://is.gd/ibXzK

Reporters Without Borders condemns attacks on WikiLeaks
http://en.rsf.org/wikileaks-hounded-04-12-2010,38958.html

WikiLeaks at the Frontline Club (two rightmost journalists)
http://www.viddler.com/explore/frontlineclub/videos/488/

'Wikileaks' now twice as known as well known as 'Wikipedia' according to
Google.

UK Conservatives promised to run 'pro-American regime'
http://gu.com/p/2ygtt/tw #cablegate </#!/search?q=%23cablegate>

Ellsberg: Boycott Amazon
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2010/12/02/daniel-ellsberg-says-boycott-amazon/

Great summary the attacks this week on WikiLeaks http://is.gd/ibpzu

US may use Sweden to extradite Assange: Lawyer
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6B24FY20101203

Letter to Australian Prime Minister http://wlcentral.org/node/480

Sarkozy government moves to ban WikiLeaks
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90777/90853/7220892.html

An extraordinary 24 hours. Press roundup http://wlcentral.org/

Cut the spin. Julian Assange is NOT a traitor http://wlcentral.org/node/481

Digital McCarthyism: U.S. Military Tries to Intimidate Soldiers Into Not
Reading Wikileaks http://is.gd/ibdAo

Digital McCarthyism: Columbia students advised not to comment on/link to
discussions on Wikileaks. http://fb.me/AnjBDyaN

PayPal bans WikiLeaks after US government pressure http://is.gd/ibbwG

Facebook group hits 600,000 members http://facebook.com/wikileaks

TIME cover: Why WikiLeaks is good for America http://is.gd/iayRm

Ron Paul: Why we need more WikiLeaks
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/ron-paul-what-wikileaks/

WikiLeaks news roundup http://wlcentral.org/

US first amendment end times: Library of Congress blocks WikiLeaks |

WikiLeaks now available at http://wikileaks.de/ http://wikileaks.fi/
http://wikileaks.nl/

Live Q&A with Julian Assange http://j.mp/fBx8hs (fixed)

Utterly surreal: Pravda justifiably criticising US for trying to stifle
a free press bit.ly/hD2zst How times change.

State Department transcript on WikkiLeaks
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2010/12/152291.htm

wikileaks </#!/wikileaks> WikiLeaks
Amazon's press release does not accord with the facts on public record.
It is one thing to be cowardly. Another to lie about it.

RT @JPBarlow <http://twitter.com/JPBarlow>: The first serious infowar is
now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.
#WikiLeaks </#!/search?q=%23WikiLeaks>

High court of Pakistan dismisses attempt to ban WikiLeaks http://is.gd/i8g4x

WikiLeaks moves to Switzerland http://wikileaks.ch/

WIKILEAKS: Free speech has a number: http://88.80.13.160

You can also easily support WikiLeaks via
http://collateralmurder.com/en/support.html

WikiLeaks,org domain killed by US everydns.net after claimed mass
attacks KEEP US STRONG https://donations.datacell.com/

Pilger: The War You Don't See (interview on new film)
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/breakfast/stories/2010/3083583.htm

At one cable per hour, it will take WikiLeaks 28.6 years to release them
all. Speed us up! http://is.gd/i3T7U

CIA behind Hillary's "steal UN members DNA" order http://is.gd/i6MRM

Kennedy on why WikiLeaks matters (Youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhZk8ronces

WikiLeaks press roundup http://wlcentral.org/

WikiLeaks is the first global Samizdat movement. The truth will surface
even in the face of total annihilation.

KEEP WIKILEAKS STRONG: http://is.gd/i3T7U

If Amazon are so uncomfortable with the first amendment, they should get
out of the business of selling books.

WikiLeaks servers at Amazon ousted. Free speech the land of the
free--fine our $ are now spent to employ people in Europe.

Canadian Harper advisor calls for the assassination of Julian Assange
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqtIafdoH_g

Good essay on one of the key ideas behind WikiLeaks http://is.gd/i0udB

Daniel Ellsberg speaks to the BBC about Cablegate
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11879951

DDOS attack now exceeding 10 Gigabits a second.

We are currently under another DDOS attack. 30 Nov

Chinese government issues censorship order for WikiLeaks

Ecuador offers WikiLeaks save haven http://is.gd/hY73U

Hilarious cable on Prince Andrew mega corruption
http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/2008/10/08BISHKEK1095.html

WikiLeaks to bust bad banks: http://is.gd/hXQaG keep us strong:
http://is.gd/hXGAf

WikiLeaks reveals US Nuclear Weapons in the Netherlands
http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/2009/11/09BERLIN1433.html

Australia deploys Taskforce against WikiLeaks http://is.gd/hXB2g help us
deploy counter force: http://is.gd/hXGAf

Hillary says US taking "aggressive steps" against us; take some
yourself: http://wikileaks.org/media/support.html

Australia starts "whole of government" investigation into Julian Assange
http://is.gd/hWoPX

Beyond the spin: WikiLeaks v. State Dep correspondence http://is.gd/hVLap

Cablegate: What's coming up as the weeks go by
http://public.tableausoftware.com/views/tags/Subject

Tomorrow we will provide information on how other media groups can apply
to for embargo access to #cablegate </#!/search?q=%23cablegate> info.

LEAK: US Embassy Cables http://cablegate.wikileaks.org #cablegate

Guardian's Cablegate coverage is out http://www.guardian.co.uk/

Los secretos de la diplomacia de Estados Unidos, al descubierto
http://www.elpais.com/documentossecretos/ #cablegate

Tomorrow's Der Spiegel's cover today:
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gawker/2010/11/spiegelgoodbig.jpg

Please use #cablegate </#!/search?q=%23cablegate> to discuss the pending
US Embassy cables release.

El Pais, Le Monde, Speigel, Guardian & NYT will publish many US embassy
cables tonight, even if WikiLeaks goes down

We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack.
28 Nov...

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