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WikiLeaks suspends publishing to fight financial blockade

Posted on October 24, 2011 by kwilder

Dear Reader: Did you know that Wikileaks was still in trouble? Not sure I realized how badly. I also did not realize that the banks and credit card companies were still wrongly blocking donations. See how to defy their blockade below. – KW

(excerpt from) Guardian UK
WikiLeaks suspends publishing to fight financial blockade
Esther Addley and Jason Deans / Monday, October 24, 2011

Julian Assange, co-founder of WikiLeaks, has announced that the whistleblowing website is suspending publishing operations in order to focus on fighting a financial blockade and raise new funds.

Assange, speaking at a press conference in London on Monday, said a banking blockade had destroyed 95% of WikiLeaks’ revenues.

He added that the blockade posed an existential threat to WikiLeaks and if it was not lifted by the new year the organisation would be “simply not able to continue”.

The website, behind the publication of hundreds of thousands of controversial US embassy cables in late 2010 in partnership with newspapers including the Guardian and New York Times, revealed that it was running on cash reserves after “an arbitrary and unlawful financial blockade” by the Bank of America, Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Western Union.

WikiLeaks said in a statement: “The blockade is outside of any accountable, public process. It is without democratic oversight or transparency…

PS: Just another reason to switch money from your megabank to a credit union. Some fans of Occupy Wall Street are celebrating “Bank Transfer Day” on November 5, 2011. Story at CNBC: here.
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