The Fifth Estate - Julian Assange

The film "The Fifth Estate" charts the relationship between Assange and Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl), a German hacker who joined WikiLeaks in 2007 and later wrote one of the books that Mr. Condon and Mr. Singer drew upon. Daniel is initially impressed by Assange’s courage and idealism and dazzled by his charisma. Leapfrogging from city to city, sleeping on couches and living out of a backpack, Assange is like a cyber-anarchist Joan of Arc, a clean-shaven, silver-haired wizard in the kingdom of the scruffy.

He is suspicious of authority, committed to truth-telling and instinctively drawn to the side of the underdog. He also shows tendencies toward paranoia, monomania and rudeness. 

Julian Assange -Noam Chomsky and Tariq Ali

A surprise Arab drive for freedom, the West's structural crisis and new hope coming from Latin America. That's the modern world in the eyes of Noam Chomsky and Tariq Ali, two prominent thinkers and this week's guests on Julian Assange's

Julian Assange -The US's War on Terror: Guantanamo Bay

Julian Assange speaks with Moazzam Begg - former Gitmo prisoner and a rights campaigner fighting for those still trapped behind the wire, and Asim Qureshi - former corporate lawyer, whose human rights organization Cageprisoners Ltd exists solely to raise awareness of the plight of prisoners who remain in Guantanamo Bay.

Assange -Nabeel Rajab & Alaa Abd: Two leading Arab Revolutionaries

Julian Assange speaks with two leading Arab revolutionaries in the middle of conflict, Alaa Abd El-Fattah from Egypt and Nabeel Rajab from Bahrain.  Alaa Abd El-Fattah is a long time Egyptian blogger, programmer and political activist.  His parents were human rights campaigners under Anwar Sadat; his sister Mona Seif became a Twitter star during the 2011 Egyptian revolution, and is a founder of the No Military Trials for Civilians group formed under the post-Mubarak military junta.  El-Fattah was imprisoned for 45 days in 2006 for protesting under the Mubarak regime, and released after "Free Alaa" solidarity protests in Egypt and around the world.  In 2011, from abroad, El-Fattah helped route around Mubarak's internet blockade.

Nabeel Rajab is a lifelong Bahraini activist and critic of the Al Khalifa regime.  A member of a staunch pro-regime family, Rajab has agitated for reform in Bahrain since his return from university in 1988.  Along with the Bahraini-Danish human rights defender Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, he helped establish the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights in 2002. Rajab is reasonably new to the limelight -- becoming a face for the Bahrain uprising of February 14 2011, after the sit-in at Pearl Roundabout.  Since then, he has been a public face for the revolution, waging a social media war on Twitter with PR companies working for the regime.  After al-Khawaja was imprisoned, he led protests for his release.  He has endured beatings, arrests and legal harrassment for engaging in pro-democracy demonstrations. On Saturday 5th of May, he was arrested at Manama airport , and charged the next day with encouraging and engaging in "illegal protests." Nabeel Rajab remains in detention at the time of broadcast.

Moncef Marzouki -Tunisia's first post-revolution leader

Julian Assange, The World Tomorrow
The West's double standards in protecting human rights. 
During the reign of the previous President Moncef Marzouki was imprisoned and kept in solitary confinement, which he considers to be torture. Once elected Head of State, he has vowed to put an end to human rights violations in Tunisia.


http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/05/01

WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange & Philosopher Slavoj Žižek

The impact of WikiLeaks on world politics, the release of the Iraq and Afghanistan war logs, and Cablegate — the largest trove of classified U.S. government records in history.

'Dentro de Wikileaks' -Daniel Domscheit-Berg -Openleaks

WikiLeaks se ha convertido en un agente de la política, resulta importante entender a este actor de la política.

Wikileaks demuestra como un puñado de personas muy entregadas son capaces de lograr algo muy grande. También demuestra que es posible cambiar el mundo si un puñado de personas se ponen a ello. Por otra parte, es triste porque también pone de manifiesto lo que puede pasar si tu idea o tu misión se corrompe y no hay ninguna estructura que garantice tu responsabilidad.

WikiLeaks tiene que ver con los ideales de transparencia y responsabilidad ante el público. WikiLeaks ha establecido una nueva comprensión de estos ideales en la sociedad de la información globalizada. Para preservar estos ideales tenemos que respaldarlos y llevarlos al corazón mismo de nuestra sociedad. Tenemos que hacer que formen parte del "establishment" y no que simplemente dependan de una organización. El proyecto IMMI (Icelandic Modern Media Initiative) representa un esfuerzo de este tipo, que lucha por la transparencia y libertad de expresión como un elemento de nuestras leyes.

No todos vivimos en sociedades democráticas. Incluso en las sociedades democráticas tenemos ejemplos (como Italia o el Reino Unido) en los que la libertad de expresión no vale nada. Yo creo que aún nos queda mucho camino. WikiLeaks es un vehículo para este camino.

Anonymous es la analogía de las manifestaciones populares en las calles. Aunque es bueno participar en protestas y también expresar tu descontento, hay muchos otros modos eficaces para cambiar las cosas. Si todos nosotros nos negásemos a utilizar los servicios que no son moralmente aceptables, en lugar de limitarnos a atacarlos en Internet, seguro que les haríamos más daño.

Es muy importante que nosotros/nosotras, en tanto ciudadanos/ciudadanas, exijamos responsabilidades y transparencia y que no permitamos que haya un retroceso en el ritmo de publicación de informaciones.

Assange está viviendo la ola que recorre el mundo árabe como una victoria propia...

60 minutes

Julian Assange The man behind Wikileaks

disseminating

the increasingly important role of internet activism, opposition blogging and communication with democratic movements within and without the country over the web.

talking of the US State Department. Assange concedes that the cables contain "a relative honesty and directness, and quite a lot of wannabe Hemingway".

Julian Assange, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo And The Swedish Approach To Sex Crimes

Julian Assange furore deepens as new details emerge of sex crime allegations

Naomi Wolf vs. Jaclyn Friedman: Feminists Debate the Sexual Allegations Against Julian Assange

Time Magazine

Ideas worth spreading

Julian Assange: Why the

world needs WikiLeaks

Ellsberg Calls Assange a Hero

"I see Bradley Manning as a patriot, and I'm sure Julian Assange is an Australian patriot,"

"To call them terrorists is not only mistaken, it's absurd and slanderous. Neither of them are any more terrorists than I am, and I'm not."

Ellsberg's decision in 1971 to release reams of secret documents, detailing U.S. covert efforts and private doubts about the conflict in Vietnam, helped build public sentiment for the end of the war and led to his indictment. A judge ultimately dimissed all the charges.

"I have no doubt if I put out the Pentagon Papers in every detail, same as before, I would now be called a terrorist," Ellsberg said.

Ellsberg was sharply critical of President Obama, who he said "has a very personal reason to be concerned" about the exposed information. Ellsberg contended that the documents reveal torture and unnecessary fatalities at the hands of American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan -- alleged atrocities that Ellsberg says Obama should be investigating.

I am Julian Assange