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• International: “We demand the immediate release of Julian Assange”

  PI Council Members support the freedom of Julian Assange against the unlawful and dangerous extradition trial against him currently taking place in London.
• Hartmann: How big money controls the stories the media tells

  Investing in political media can produce a huge return on investment and transform the politics of the nation
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  Pilger: The Stalinist trial of Julian Assange

  When I first met Julian Assange more than ten years ago, I asked him why he had started WikiLeaks. He replied: “Transparency and accountability are moral issues that must be the essence of public life and journalism.”
• Schleuss: Publicly Fund News Media, Because Journalists Fight for Us All

  Newspapers are now furloughing or permanently laying off workers, slashing pay by up to 25 percent
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  Hochschild: When “Fake News” Was Banned

  An America Trump Might Have Loved
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  Koerner: How Global North’s Left Media Helped Pave Way for Bolivia Coup

  Progressive and alternative media in the Global North have long portrayed Bolivia’s deposed Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) government as repressive, pro-capitalist and anti-environment—all in the name of “left” critique
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  Goodman: “Don’t Hate the Media, Be the Media”

  Reflections on 20 Years of Indymedia, a Radical Media Movement
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  Ali: “In Defense of Julian Assange”

  Why WikiLeaks Founder’s Case Threatens Press Freedom
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  Regan: Whose News Literacy?

  Resources for teachers and students offer useful tools but reinforce status quo
• Dolack: Resisting misleading narratives about Pacifica Radio

  The counter-narratives about the recent takeover, and restoration, of New York City’s Pacifica radio station, WBAI, have apparently begun
• Tanaka: Response to Pete Dolack Articles on WBAI and Pacifica

  The real danger to Pacifica is not a ‘corporate coup’. The real danger is a financial failure which is what the current governance structure has brought about
• Paul: Can Deadspin Live Again as a Worker-Owned Website?

  The question about the former Deadspin workers isn’t just what’s next for them; it’s also about what’s next for us, the media consumers who need their voices so badly
• Levy: The Incredible Belief That Corporate Ownership Does Not Influence Media Content

  Corporate ownership of media interferes with the core societal function of the press: reporting and investigating key issues at the intersection of public need and governance
• LaChance: Mother Jones Is Failing Its Namesake

  The dismal conditions are part of the cruelty, but the existence of a place to sleep in a prison certainly does not negate the evil of its condition
• Goodale: Assange Indictment “Criminalizes the News Gathering Process”

  A London judge has ordered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to...
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  Pilger: A ‘Very Long Uphill Road’ for Assange

  It presents the most, the gravest threat to press freedom which I can remember
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  Pilger: The Global War on Assange, Journalism & Dissent

  Interview about the persecution of the WikiLeaks publisher and the rapid crackdown on investigative journalism
• Risen: The Indictment of Julian Assange

  A true democracy does not allow its government to decide who is a journalist. A nation in which a leader gets to make that decision is on the road to dictatorship
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  Pilger: The Assange arrest is a warning from history

  The glimpse of Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London is an emblem of the times.
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  Cook: Media Rendition

  Assange was reduced from one of the few towering figures of our time – a man who will have a central place in history books, if we as a species live long enough to write those books – to nothing more than a sex pest, and a scruffy bail-skipper.