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July 30, 2012December 15, 2023

Fake Bill Keller Op-Ed Claimed by Wikileaks

Submitted by Emerson Dameron and Clark Stoeckley:

WikiLeaks claims responsibility for fake Bill Keller column, citing donation ban
by Ed Pilkington
guardian.co.uk
29 July 2012

Hoax including fake tweets and a counterfeit Times website dismissed as ‘childish prank’ by former editor Bill Keller

Bill Keller, former New York Times executive editor and current columnist, has found himself the subject of an elaborate internet hoax. Photograph: Ruth Fremson/AP
WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing site set up by Julian Assange, has claimed that it was behind the fake opinion piece circulating on the internet under the name of Bill Keller, columnist and former executive editor of the New York Times.

In a tweet, WikiLeaks said:

The organisation implied that it – or its “great supporters”, whomsoever they might be – had carried out the stunt in a bid to embarrass the Times into covering the financial blockade of WikiLeaks by US companies: Continue reading “Fake Bill Keller Op-Ed Claimed by Wikileaks”

March 2, 2012December 15, 2023

No Andy, You’re Not Paranoid. They Really ARE Watching You!

WikiLeaks: “Private Spies” Stratfor Helped Dow Chemical Monitor Bhopal Activists, The Yes Men
by Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
Democracy Now
February 28, 2012

Emails leaked by WikiLeaks from the private intelligence firm Stratfor reveal the chemical industrial giant Dow Chemical closely followed the work of activists around the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal chemical disaster, the 1984 gas leak that killed anywhere between 3,500 and 25,000 people. Of particular interest to Dow was the group, The Yes Men, the anti-corporate pranksters who pulled off a famous 2004 hoax that led the world to believe Dow had finally taken responsibility for the Bhopal tragedy. “With us, they were carefully paying attention to every move that we were making publicly, especially anything to do with Dow and Bhopal,” says Andy Bichlbaum of The Yes Men. “What surprised us in those emails, though, was that we would have assumed that Dow would be really concerned with the exact issue of Bhopal and Dow”s responsibility, stuff that could directly impact their bottom line. But what S[t]ratfor seems to be really a bit obsessed with is whether we or other organizations are going to draw this into a bigger critique of corporate power.”

January 19, 2012December 15, 2023

Collateral Torture: Clark Stoeckley’s 24 Hour Bradley Manning Performance This Weekend

Clark Stoeckley, famed most recently for his escapades with his Wikileaks truck, and EIDIA House announce this performance and in situ installation:

Collateral Torture
January 20 to February 18, 2012
Live 24-hr continuous performance
Reception: 7pm, Friday, January 20
EIDIA House Studio

Clark Stoeckley”s 24-hour live performance will portray a day of Private First Class Bradley Manning’s tortured imprisonment“”commencing at 5pm on Friday the 20th and concluding at 5pm on Saturday the 21st. This performance will be recorded, and the documentation will be projected in Plato’s Cave for the remaining duration of the exhibition.

EIDIA House
14 Dunham Place, Basement Left
Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY
646-945-3830
http://www.eidia.com/

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June 14, 2011December 15, 2023

WikiLeaks Top Secret Mobile Information Unit on the Move

From artist, Clark Stoeckley, June 14, 2011:

I started the WikiLeaks Top Secret Mobile Information Collection Unit on March 19th during a rally for Bradley Manning at the White House. My goal is to bring awareness to WikiLeaks, protest the detention of Bradley Manning, and make the government and corporations sweat when they look out the window and see me parked in front of their buildings.

Though I am not connected to WikiLeaks, I believe we are all WikiLeaks. I realize that I am not only representing WikiLeaks with this project, but everyone who supports them. I strongly believe that Bradley Manning is a hero and true patriot.

Video of the WikiLeaks truck’s maiden voyage on March 19, 2011 in Washington, DC.:

Since [March] I have been driving around New York City, Washington DC, Alexandria, Arlington and Quantico, VA, as well as Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New Jersey. Soon I would like to make a trip to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas where Bradley Manning was recently transported.

Tomorrow (Wednesday) there is a protest at the Federal Courthouse in Alexandria, VA for the WikiLeaks Grand Jury. David House (Manning’s best friend), Tyler Watkins (Manning’s boyfriend), and Nadia Heninger (WikiLeaks spokeswoman) have been subpoenaed to testify. I will be circling the square all day.

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April 21, 2011December 15, 2023

Obama Served Protest Song for Breakfast

From editor Joey Skaggs:

Naomi Pitcairn and a group of her friends staged a protest, singing a song to President Obama at his fundraising breakfast today in San Francisco to bring attention to the incarceration and unjust treatment of U.S. Army soldier Bradley Manning. Manning was arrested in Iraq in May 2010 on suspicion of having passed confidential and embarrassing government communications to WikiLeaks.

Watch the video of the protest on SF Gate, read some of the media coverage and see the song lyrics below, submitted by Mike Lehr.

Obama, Preaching to the Choir, Is Met by a Rude Chorus
by Jackie Calmes
TheCaucus.blogs at The New York Times
April 21, 2011

It was hardly a surprise that President Obama got an earful in San Francisco about frustration in his party”s left over the pace of his promised change. But it was a bit unexpected when the protest came at a high-dollar fund-raising breakfast Thursday morning.

Soon after Mr. Obama began speaking to about 150 people who had contributed up to $35,800 each, a woman at a rear table stood and announced that her group wanted to sing him a song it had written. And they did, despite Mr. Obama”s request that they wait until after his remarks.

The full lyrics were written on a menu for the event. The chorus: “We paid our dues, where”s our change?” Continue reading “Obama Served Protest Song for Breakfast”