Many of you that were active in the Wisconsin demonstrations
may have run into the gang from The Uptake in Minneapolis. The covered almost every minute of Madison. The Uptake is a nonprofit that does a
fantastic job of streaming/taping live news events you won’t see on MSM
Today on Common Dreams
Glenn Greenwald announced the establishment of a foundation
to provide funds to support independent journalism.
Published on Monday, December 17, 2012 by The Guardian
Nothing is more vital than enabling true transparency and
adversarial journalism, and preventing further assaults on them
The second purpose is to ensure that truly independent
journalistic outlets - devoted to holding the US government and other powerful
factions accountable with transparency and real adversarial journalism - are
supported to the fullest extent possible. Along those lines, we have selected
three other organizations along with WikiLeaks as our initial beneficiaries:
The UpTake, a Minnesota-based group that uses truly innovative means to
break "down walls of power to expose the raw truth by pushing for
transparency and access to information." They use citizen journalism,
crowd-sourcing and cutting-edge technology to film and document the bad acts of
government agents. I worked next to them when I covered the incredibly
excessive federal and local police actions and brutality against protesters at
the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, and was truly impressed
with them then, as I watched all sorts of young activists and older ones use
hand-held video cameras and phones to comprehensively cover all sorts of police
abuses being ignored by most large journalistic outlets, which were comfortably
ensconced inside the convention hall. They've expanded their operations
substantially since then, have a long list of achievements to tout, and - most
excitingly to me - can serve as a template for how to engage in real journalism
across the country using citizens and the power of technology.
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Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse
of power. Few priorities are more important, in my view, than supporting and
enabling any efforts to subvert the ability of the US government and other factions to
operate in the dark. It's particularly vital to undercut the US government's
ability to punish and kill groups that succeed in these transparency efforts.
Those are the goals to which this new press freedom foundation are devoted, and
I hope that anyone who believes these goals are important will find ways to
support this effort.
Congratulations to Mike McIntee and the folks at The Uptake –
one of my favorite nonprofits to donate to.
Please read the entire article
This new foundation is pretty amazing and your support does
not have to $$$ if you can’t afford it - they have other ways for you to help.
Read the whole thing
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