Carta abierta de la Courage Foundation al Presidente Donald Trump pidiendo que cierre la investigación y retire cualquier cargo contra los miembros de Wikileaks.
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A continuación la carta traducida al Castellano, la original en Inglés, y los 107 primeros firmantes.
Puedes firmar para apoyar la carta aquí: https://iamwikileaks.org/openletter/
Carta abierta al Presidente Donald Trump:
Querido Sr. Presidente Trump:
Somos periodistas, activistas y ciudadanos de los Estados Unidos y de todo el mundo que se preocupan por la libertad de prensa y le escriben en respuesta a la última amenaza de enjuiciamiento contra WikiLeaks por su trabajo periodístico. Le pedimos que cierre inmediata,emte la investigación del Gran Jurado a WikiLeaks y descarte las acusación contra Julian Assange y otros miembros del personal de Wikileaks que el Departamento de Justicia está planeando.
Esta amenaza a WikiLeaks intensifica una larga guerra de desgaste contra la gran virtud de los Estados Unidos, la libertad de expresión. La Administración Obama procesó a más denunciantes que todos los presidentes juntos y abrió una investigación del Gran Jurado a WikiLeaks sin precedentes. Ahora parece que los EE.UU. se están preparando para dar el siguiente paso, procesar a los editores que proporcionan la «moneda» de la libertad de expresión, parafraseando a Thomas Jefferson. Se ha informado de que están siendo considerados contra miembros de WikiLeaks los cargos de conspiración, robo de propiedad del gobierno y violación de la Ley de Espionaje y que la acusación al editor de WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, es ahora una prioridad del Departamento de Justicia.
Una amenaza para el trabajo de WikiLeaks, que es publicar información bajo la protección de la Primera Enmienda, es una amenaza para todo el periodismo libre. Si el Departamento de Justicia es capaz de condenar a un editor por su trabajo periodístico, todo el periodismo libre puede ser criminalizado.
Le invitamos como Presidente de los Estados Unidos a cerrar la investigación del Gran Jurado a WikiLeaks y descartar cualquier cargo planeado contra cualquier miembro de WikiLeaks. Fue una prensa libre y robusta la que le proporcionó una plataforma en la que postularse para la presidencia. La defensa de una prensa realmente libre requiere liberarse del miedo y tener el apoyo de los periodistas y ciudadanos en todas partes; la amenaza que ahora enfrenta WikiLeaks (y todos los editores y periodistas) es un paso hacia la oscuridad.
Open Letter to President Trump:
Dear President Trump,
We are journalists, activists and citizens from the United States and around the world who care about press freedom and are writing to you in response to the latest threat of prosecution against WikiLeaks for its journalistic work. We ask you to immediately close the Grand Jury investigation into WikiLeaks and drop any charges against Julian Assange and other Wikileaks staff members which the Department of Justice is planning.
This threat to WikiLeaks escalates a long-running war of attrition against the great virtue of the United States — free speech. The Obama Administration prosecuted more whistleblowers than all presidents combined and opened a Grand Jury investigation into WikiLeaks that had no precedent. It now appears the US is preparing to take the next step — prosecuting publishers who provide the «currency» of free speech, to paraphrase Thomas Jefferson. It is reported that charges, including conspiracy, theft of government property and violating the Espionage Act are being considered against members of WikiLeaks, and that charging WikiLeaks Editor, Julian Assange, is now a priority of the Department of Justice.
A threat to WikiLeaks’ work — which is publishing information protected under the First Amendment — is a threat to all free journalism. If the DOJ is able to convict a publisher for its journalistic work, all free journalism can be criminalised.
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.
Link original: https://iamwikileaks.org/openletter/
Firmas Iniciales:
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Alfonso Sánchez
activist -
Andrej Hunko
Member of German Parliament (DIE LINKE), member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
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Andrew Bartlett
Former Senator in the Australian Parliament – 1997-2008 -
Andrew Fowler
Journalist/author
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Andy Müller-Maguhn
Member of the Board, Wau Holland Foundation (WHS) / Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) -
Angela Richter
Director
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Ann Wright
Col., US Army (ret.); Foreign Service Officer (resigned) -
Annegret Falter
Whistleblower-Network
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Annie Machon
Former British intelligence officer -
Arjen Kamphuis
BeeHive4.2
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Bastian Obermayer
Investigative journalist -
Benet Salellas
Lawyer and Diputy in the Catalan Parliament
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Brandon Bryant
Recipient of the 2015 Whistleblower of the Year Award -
Brennan Novak
Transparency Toolkit
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Carlos Enrique Bayo
Redactor Jefe de Investigación e Internacional, Publico, Madrid -
Carlos Latuff
Cartoonist
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Christian Grothoff
Researcher -
Christine Milne
Former Aust Greens Leader
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Cian Westmoreland
SrA USAF (Honorable Discharge), Veterans for Peace -
Coleen Rowley
FBI Special Agent and former Minneapolis Division Legal Counsel (ret.)
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Costas Efimeros
The Press Project -
Craig Murray
Former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan
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Daniel Ellsberg
Former State and Defense Dept. official, released Top Secret Pentagon Papers in 1971 -
Daniel Richter
Artist
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Daniel Sommer
Courage France, PDG DS Invest -
David Fernández
Journalist
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David Swanson
Director of World Beyond War, campaign coordinator of RootsAction.org -
Diani Barreto
Journalist, researcher, campaigner, coordinator at ExposeFacts
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Dr George Gittoes AM
2015 Sydney Peace Prize, Artist,Filmmaker,War Witness,Founder Yellow House Jalalabad -
Edward Snowden
President, Freedom of the Press Foundation
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Elizabeth Murray
Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Near East, CIA and National Intelligence Council (ret.) -
Eva Blum-Dumontet
researcher
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Felicity Ruby
PhD Candidate, Sydney University -
Frederik Obermaier
Investigative Journalist
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Friedrich Moser
director A GOOD AMERICAN -
Geoffroy de Lagasnerie
Philosopher and professor at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy (ENSAPC)
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Gerard Goggin
ARC Future Fellow, Professor of Media and Communications, Department of Media and Communications -
Giordano
The Juice Media
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Günter Wallraff
Investigative journalist -
Harry Karanikas
Journalist
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Helen Razer
Australian journalist -
Ilija Trojanow
Author
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J.M. Porup
Journalist -
Jean-Michel Jarre
composer
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Jeff Cohen
Director of Park Center for Independent Media, Ithaca College -
Jeff Sparrow
Writer, editor and broadcaster
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Ph.D. -
Jimmy Schulz
Chairman LOAD e.V & Vice Chairman ISOC Germany
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Joan Llinares
Director of the Transparency Office of the Barcelona City Council -
Johannes Wahlström
Investigative journalist and filmmaker
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John Kiriakou
Former CIA Counterterrorism Officer -
Jordi Angusto
Economist
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Juan Branco
writer and lawyer -
Jérémie Zimmermann
La Quadrature du Net, co-founder
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Jérôme Hourdeaux
Journalist -
Ken Loach
film director
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Kevin Zeese
Co-director, Popular Resistance -
Kirk Wiebe
NSA Whistleblower and Retired Senior Intelligence Analyst
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Leif Ryge
Researcher -
Linda Lewis
WMD preparedness policy analyst, US Dept of Agriculture (ret.)
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Lisa Ling
TSgt USAF (ret.) -
Ludovic Courtès
GNU Project
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M. C. McGrath
Transparency Toolkit -
Mairead Maguire
Nobel Peace Prize winner
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Marie Gutbub
journalist -
Marie-Agnès Sommet
Courage France, Directrice Générale SRP
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Mark Weisbrot
Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research -
Mary Kostakidis
Former anchor, SBS world News
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Matt Kennard
Journalist -
Matthew Hoh
Former Capt., US Marine Corps, Iraq & Foreign Service Officer, Afghanistan
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Michael Kreil
Data journalist -
Michael S. Kearns
Captain, US Air Force (Ret.)
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Monika Ermert
c't/heise online -
Moritz Bartl
Renewable Freedom Foundation
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Natalia Uval
Journalist, La Diaria newspaper, Uruguay -
Nicky Hager
Investigative journalist, New Zealand
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Noam Chomsky
linguist, MIT -
Norman Solomon
Coordinator, RootsAction.com
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Oliver Stone
filmmaker -
PJ Harvey
musician
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Pamela Anderson
Tenure Board Member -
Patrick Schiffer
Chairman Pirate Party Germany
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Patti Smith
artist -
Peter Kofod
independent journalist
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Peter Van Buren
Whistleblower, Department of State -
Philip Giraldi
CIA, Operations Officer (ret.)
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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
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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
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Robert Naiman
Policy Director, Just Foreign Policy -
Robert Wing
Former Foreign Service Officer (associate VIPS)
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Sana Saleem
Journalist -
Scott Ludlam
Australian Greens Senator for Western Australia
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Senator Lee Rhiannon
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Sergio Salgado
activist
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Simona Levi
Theater director and Activist -
Slavoj Žižek
philosopher, Birkbeck Institute for Humanities
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Srećko Horvat
philosopher and co-founder of DiEM25 -
Stefania Maurizi
Investigative journalist, La Repubblica, Italy
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Thomas Drake
Former Senior Executive, NSA -
Todd E. Pierce
MAJ, US Army Judge Advocate (ret.)
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Tom Ballard
Comedian & Broadcaster -
Volker Birk
pEp foundation
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Will Potter
Author -
William Binney
Technical Director, NSA; co-founder, SIGINT Automation Research Center (ret.)
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Yanis Varoufakis
economist and co-founder of DiEM25
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