Tag: edward snowden
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CITIZENFOUR wins Oscar for Best Documentary
Laura Poitras’ film depicts Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing, courage, and escape to asylum, but it also demonstrates the dangerous gap in protections for whistleblowers
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Sarah Harrison and Grace North at the 31st Chaos Communication Congress
Courage’s Acting Director and the manager of FreeJeremy.net discuss “ethics, operational security and public protections of sources,” in addition to the need for expanding our understanding of the term “whistleblower”
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Citizenfour: why we need truthtellers, and why they need us
Laura Poitras’ acclaimed documentary shows the human cost of whistleblowing without obscuring Edward Snowden’s message, and viewers come away realising how sorely needed whistleblower protections truly are
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Press release: Top musicians, actors and Nobel laureates show support for Edward Snowden, publishers and whistleblowers
An international coalition of more than fifty actors, musicians and intellectuals announce their support for Edward Snowden, WikiLeaks, whistleblowers and publishers
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Citizenfour’s Escape to Freedom in Russia
Courage Advisory Board member Ray McGovern recounts his experience meeting Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, other fellow whistleblowers, and seeing the acclaimed documentary Citizenfour
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Obama: “If you blow the whistle, you should be thanked”
President Obama says whistleblowers should be “protected”, “thanked”, and “certainly shouldn’t be punished” – while punishing more whistleblowers than any other president in American history
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Yochai Benkler outlines public accountability defence for whistleblowers
In a new paper, Benkler details both the value and inevitability of national security disclosures, and he proposes a whistleblower defence that could have helped protect Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden
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British MPs say “whistleblowing is crucial” but fail to protect intelligence whistleblowers
A UK parliamentary committee says whistleblowers are a “crucial source of intelligence to help government identify wrongdoing” but fails to mention one significant category altogether – intelligence whistleblowers
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Press release: Courage welcomes Russia’s continued protection of Edward Snowden
Courage Acting Director Sarah Harrison says: “Although the US government has lost this round, let us not forget the stakes – last year whistleblower Chelsea Manning was sentenced to 35 years in a US military prison and the Grand Jury against both WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden continues”