Category: Courage News
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WikiLeaks is Courage’s newest beneficiary
Trustee John Pilger: this is a campaign about “a principle of freedom so fundamental that its defeat would mean the conquest of all of us.”
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Courage Trustees on Chelsea Manning’s commutation
Vivienne Westwood, Renata Avila, and John Pilger react to the news that Obama has commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning
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Courage launches emergency fund for Justin Liverman
Courage launches an emergency defence fund for Justin Liverman, who the United States Department of Justice has accused of being associated with Crackas with Attitude (CWA), the group that claimed to have accessed emails from the AOL account of CIA Director John Brennan in late 2015, bringing to widespread attention the vulnerability of a variety…
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Courage announces new board of trustees
With Gavin MacFadyen’s passing, Courage appoints a new board: Vivienne Westwood, John Pilger, Renata Avila and Susan Benn
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Sarah Harrison on Snowden’s escape, Oliver Stone’s film, Assange, Courage and whistleblowers
Returning to the UK for the first time since 2013, when she assisted Edward Snowden in his escape from Hong Kong to Moscow, Courage director Sarah Harrison speaks to the media about the whistleblower and her work in the meantime
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Roots Action and Courage team up to help Lauri Love
Courage and US-based activist organisation Roots Action are collaborating to raise funds for British computer scientist Lauri Love as he awaits an extradition ruling on 16 September 2016
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Courage at the 2016 HOPE Conference
Courage hosted a panel discussion on our beneficiaries, featuring a statement from Chelsea Manning and a videolink discussion with Lauri Love; on another panel, Naomi Colvin and Carey Shenkman joined Jesselyn Radack to discuss leak hypocrisy
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Support Courage’s emergency funding drive to defend whistleblowers worldwide
Support Courage as we launch a major funding drive for core costs, to continue our work defending the truthtellers most at risk, including Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning (aussi en français)
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RIP Michael Ratner, 1943-2016
Michael was a tireless campaigner for civil liberties, champion of the powerless and friend to truthtellers everywhere; we thank him for his lifelong work for justice
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Courage at the 2016 Logan Symposium
At this year’s Logan Symposium in Berlin, the Courage Foundation held workshop on the issues we’ve faced in our two years as an organisation and hosted a live video call with Lauri Love