Tag Archives: Wikileaks

Listen to Daniel Ellsberg, Lowell Bergman on Natl Security and Free Speech: From Wikileaks to the Pentagon Papers

May 17, 2011, 1:57 pm • Posted by Jon Brooks
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WikiLeaks' disclosure of tens of thousands of classified documents to the media has sparked passionate debate over national security and the limits of First-Amendment freedoms. On April 28, KQED News, UC Berkeley Law, and the UC Berkeley School of Information … Continue reading »

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Audio: National Security and Free Speech - From Wikileaks to the Pentagon Papers

May 5, 2011, 1:41 pm • Posted by Jon Brooks
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Last week, KQED News, Berkeley Law, and the UC Berkeley School of Information held a discussion panel on National Security and Free Speech. You can listen to the first two panels below. Panel three — moderated by KQED's Scott Shafer and made up of UC Berkeley's Lowell Bergman and Robert Cole, plus Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame — will be aired on KQED radio at 1 p.m. on May 21, then archived here.

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Videos: Obama Reacts to Singing Bradley Manning Protesters at Fundraiser in San Francisco

April 22, 2011, 9:40 am • Posted by Jon Brooks
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The group Courage to Resist has a post up from the Bradley Manning Support Network about a singing protest at President Obama's fundraiser at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco. Manning, a U.S. Army intelligence specialist, is currently incarcerated … Continue reading »

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Blog Beat: Berkeley's Wikileaks Resolution, Pillow Fight San Jose, SF Pride Update

February 11, 2011, 5:00 pm • Posted by Jon Brooks
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Berkeleyside reports that the Berkeley City Council has watered down its resolution praising Bradley Manning, the army private accused of leaking classified documents to Wikileaks. "Instead of declaring Manning a hero, the revised bill calls for Manning to be treated … Continue reading »

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Wikileaks and The Age of Transparency

November 29, 2010, 4:13 pm • Posted by Jon Brooks
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You may remember that in late 2000, while many of the world’s citizens were stockpiling batteries and bottled water in a hedge against the predicted electronic catastrophe of Y2K, a modern technological problem of another stripe reared its head. When … Continue reading »

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