Open Letter to Trump
from leading artists, politicians, journalists: drop charges and investigation into WikiLeaks
1:20 PM - 15 May 2017
(in cache)
... We call on you as President of the United States to close the Grand Jury investigation into WikiLeaks and drop any charges planned against any member of WikiLeaks. It was a free and robust press that provided you with a platform on which to run for president. Defending a truly free press requires freedom from fear and favour and the support of journalists and citizens everywhere; for the kind of threat now facing WikiLeaks and all publishers and journalists is a step into the darkness.
Alfonso Snchez
activist
Andrej Hunko
Member of German Parliament (DIE LINKE), member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Andrew Bartlett
Former Senator in the Australian Parliament - 1997-2008
Andrew Fowler
Journalist/author
Andy Mller-Maguhn
Member of the Board, Wau Holland Foundation (WHS) / Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ)
Angela Richter
Director
Ann Wright
Col., US Army (ret.); Foreign Service Officer (resigned)
Annegret Falter
Whistleblower-Network
Annie Machon
Former British intelligence officer
Arjen Kamphuis
BeeHive4.2
Bastian Obermayer
Investigative journalist
Benet Salellas
Lawyer and Diputy in the Catalan Parliament
Brandon Bryant
Recipient of the 2015 Whistleblower of the Year Award
Brennan Novak
Transparency Toolkit
Carlos Enrique Bayo
Redactor Jefe de Investigacin e Internacional, Publico, Madrid
Carlos Latuff
Cartoonist
Christian Grothoff
Researcher
Christine Milne
Former Aust Greens Leader
Cian Westmoreland
SrA USAF (Honorable Discharge), Veterans for Peace
Coleen Rowley
FBI Special Agent and former Minneapolis Division Legal Counsel (ret.)
Costas Efimeros
The Press Project
Craig Murray
Former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan
Daniel Ellsberg
Former State and Defense Dept. official, released Top Secret Pentagon Papers in 1971
Daniel Richter
Artist
Daniel Sommer
Courage France, PDG DS Invest
David Fernndez
Journalist
David Swanson
Director of World Beyond War, campaign coordinator of RootsAction.org
Diani Barreto
Journalist, researcher, campaigner, coordinator at ExposeFacts
Dr George Gittoes AM
2015 Sydney Peace Prize, Artist,Filmmaker,War Witness,Founder Yellow House Jalalabad
Edward Snowden
President, Freedom of the Press Foundation
Elizabeth Murray
Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Near East, CIA and National Intelligence Council (ret.)
Eva Blum-Dumontet
researcher
Felicity Ruby
PhD Candidate, Sydney University
Frederik Obermaier
Investigative Journalist
Friedrich Moser
director A GOOD AMERICAN
Geoffroy de Lagasnerie
Philosopher and professor at Ecole Nationale Suprieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy (ENSAPC)
Gerard Goggin
ARC Future Fellow, Professor of Media and Communications, Department of Media and Communications
Giordano
The Juice Media
Gnter Wallraff
Investigative journalist
Harry Karanikas
Journalist
Helen Razer
Australian journalist
Ilija Trojanow
Author
J.M. Porup
Journalist
Jean-Michel Jarre
composer
Jeff Cohen
Director of Park Center for Independent Media, Ithaca College
Jeff Sparrow
Writer, editor and broadcaster
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Ph.D.
Jrmie Zimmermann
La Quadrature du Net, co-founder
Jrme Hourdeaux
Journalist
Jimmy Schulz
Chairman LOAD e.V & Vice Chairman ISOC Germany
Joan Llinares
Director of the Transparency Office of the Barcelona City Council
Johannes Wahlstrm
Investigative journalist and filmmaker
John Kiriakou
Former CIA Counterterrorism Officer
John Pilger
journalist, Courage Trustee
Jordi Angusto
Economist
Juan Branco
writer and lawyer
Ken Loach
film director
Kevin Zeese
Co-director, Popular Resistance
Kirk Wiebe
NSA Whistleblower and Retired Senior Intelligence Analyst
Leif Ryge
Researcher
Linda Lewis
WMD preparedness policy analyst, US Dept of Agriculture (ret.)
Lisa Ling
TSgt USAF (ret.)
Ludovic Courts
GNU Project
M. C. McGrath
Transparency Toolkit
Mairead Maguire
Nobel Peace Prize winner
Marie Gutbub
journalist
Marie-Agns Sommet
Courage France, Directrice Gnrale SRP
Mark Weisbrot
Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
Mary Kostakidis
Former anchor, SBS world News
Matt Kennard
Journalist
Matthew Hoh
Former Capt., US Marine Corps, Iraq & Foreign Service Officer, Afghanistan
Michael Kreil
Data journalist
Michael S. Kearns
Captain, US Air Force (Ret.)
Monika Ermert
c't/heise online
Moritz Bartl
Renewable Freedom Foundation
Natalia Uval
Journalist, La Diaria newspaper, Uruguay
Nicky Hager
Investigative journalist, New Zealand
Noam Chomsky
linguist, MIT
Norman Solomon
Coordinator, RootsAction.com
Oliver Stone
filmmaker
Pamela Anderson
Tenure Board Member
Patrick Schiffer
Chairman Pirate Party Germany
Patti Smith
artist
Peter Kofod
independent journalist
Peter Van Buren
Whistleblower, Department of State
Philip Giraldi
CIA, Operations Officer (ret.)
PJ Harvey
musician
Pratap Chatterjee
Executive Director, CorpWatch
Raimond Gaita
Professorial Fellow, Melbourne Law School & Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy, King's College London
Ray McGovern
Former US Army infantry/intelligence officer & CIA analyst (ret.) and founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity as well as Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence
Rebecca O'Brien
Producer, Sixteen Films
Renata Avila
human rights lawyer, Courage Trustee
Robert Naiman
Policy Director, Just Foreign Policy
Robert Wing
Former Foreign Service Officer (associate VIPS)
Sana Saleem
Journalist
Scott Ludlam
Australian Greens Senator for Western Australia
Senator Lee Rhiannon
Sergio Salgado
activist
Simona Levi
Theater director and Activist
Slavoj Žižek
philosopher, Birkbeck Institute for Humanities
Srećko Horvat
philosopher and co-founder of DiEM25
Stefania Maurizi
Investigative journalist, La Repubblica, Italy
Susan Benn
Senior Advisor to the Centre for Investigative Journalism, Courage Trustee
Thomas Drake
Former Senior Executive, NSA
Todd E. Pierce
MAJ, US Army Judge Advocate (ret.)
Tom Ballard
Comedian & Broadcaster
Vivienne Westwood
fashion designer, Courage Trustee
Volker Birk
pEp foundation
Will Potter
Author
William Binney
Technical Director, NSA; co-founder, SIGINT Automation Research Center (ret.)
Yanis Varoufakis
economist and co-founder of DiEM25
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