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Group Finally Stepping Up to Handle Donations for Wikileaks and Others

 New Orleans   A group of folks has finally stepped into the gap and created a nonprofit channeling capacity for donations to Wikileaks and other important, but unpopular groups protecting free speech and guaranteeing more transparency for the public.  The Freedom of the Press Foundation  is pretty much just a “scarecrow” site at its current launch [...]

Whither Wikileaks? Assange Taking his Show on the Road to Ecuador?

Toronto   Quito is a fascinating mile-high city and Ecuador is a very interesting country.  I have many friends there and have worked with them for years to try and figure a way that ACORN could support organizing there.  One day, as we say!  I also have a lot of respect for President Rafael Correa [...]

Komen Continues and Whatever Happened to Assange?

Team ACORN Paterno Paolo Guarnaccia and Astrid V. Anselmi

Paterno     After days of heated discussions the leaders of La Citta finally saw that the sides might be divided on candidates for mayor but could be united on a democratic process for selecting the candidate.  Being able to put aside individual differences and preferences for the [...]

Assange is Right about Internet Archives

            New Orleans               The much maligned Julian Assange of Wikileaks on his forced sabbatical in England where he is “to the manor” adopted while awaiting extradition to Sweden to confront the errors of his ways with women, revealed an important insight in an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist that was excerpted in the recent issue [...]

Privacy? Hah! Not on the Internet in America

New Orleans Remember Wikileaks?  Yes, I know that seems so “yesterday,” but even with Julian Assange under “luxury arrest” and Wikileaks itself supposedly at death’s door because of financial attacks by its donation enablers like PayPal, the reverberations for all of us continue in our own homes and offices, and not just on the front [...]

Anonymous and Orlando: Vandalism or Appropriate Tactic?

New Orleans A group called Food not Bombs has been feeding homeless people in Orlando a couple of times per week in public parks over recent years.  The Orlando City Council after complaints from park neighbors passed a restrictive ordinance a couple of years ago requiring a $25 permit for any group to offer public [...]