2013 People’s Choice Award to Julian Assange and Wikileaks

[dixiegrrrrl]

2013 People’s Choice Award

Global Exchange is please to announce the 2013 People’s Choice Award to Julian Assange and Wikileaks

Wikileaks is a valuable tool for human rights activists the world over. Wikileaks helps whistle blowers bring forth information that is vital to public debate. They have helped push stories hidden by secretive governments or ignored by corporate oriented media to the fore.

Examples include exposure of insider trading at JP Morgan and the censorship of UK media outlets including BBC and the Independent. Wikileaks also revealed the inner dysfunction of Copenhagen climate negotiations and gave content to discontent that sparked the early Arab Spring protests. The shocking ‘Collateral Murder’ video depicted alleged war crimes by U.S. airmen, who appear to knowingly shoot innocent Iraqis from the air.
http://humanrightsaward.org/2013-peoples-choice/

(This is the entire story, but do check out the page and what the awards are all about)

[Mira]

1. A red letter day

thanks for bringing it to my attention. I was waiting for really good news. This was it, at least for starters. Recommended

[djean111]

2. Good!

Thanks for this.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Yay! Thanks for posting.

[bvar22]

4. Great News!

Assange and Manning, and ALL Whitleblowers are heroes protecting our Democracy.
Governments that operate in secrecy are not democratic.
They are Authoritarian.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Nice nice pic....

thank you.

[sabrina 1]

6. A well deserved award to add to all the others Wikileaks has been awareded.

Excellent news.