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David Miranda, the partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald,
was detained for nine hours at London's Heathrow Airport. He was
questioned under a U.K. anti-terrorism law and his laptop, cellphone and other
electronic devices were confiscated.
Click here to tell the U.S. and U.K. governments to end their
intimidation of journalists and their families!
It gets even
worse: Yesterday we learned that British authorities seized and destroyed
computers at the Guardian's London headquarters in retribution for
the outlet's reporting on Edward Snowden, whose leaks revealed unchecked
surveillance programs in the United States and Great Britain.
Join RootsAction and FreePress in telling them this is an
outrageous attempt to intimidate Greenwald and all journalists who are reporting
on national security.
But it is also just the tip of the iceberg.
In recent months authorities in the U.S. have undertaken a troubling campaign to
threaten and intimidate journalists and whistleblowers who try to hold our
leaders accountable. The Justice Department has been caught spying on
journalists from the Associated Press and went so far as to label a Fox News
journalist a “co-conspirator” in a leak investigation.
Right now,
the DoJ is trying to force a New York Times reporter to reveal the source
of another leak — and threatening him with jail time if he doesn’t
comply.
And because of her own reporting on national security and
surveillance, journalist Laura Poitras — who has been working with Glenn
Greenwald on the NSA revelations — has been detained by U.S. authorities more
than 40 times.
The attacks on the press won’t stop unless the public raises
its voice. Click here to join the resistance!
Ultimately, this
isn’t about individual journalists or any specific case. It is about our rights
to share information, make media and hold our leaders accountable. It is about
journalism’s role at the center of our democracy, exposing information our
leaders would rather keep hidden.
End the Intimidation: Stop the
Attacks on Journalists and Their Families!
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widely to like-minded friends.
-- The RootsAction.org team
P.S.
RootsAction is an independent online force endorsed by Jim Hightower, Barbara
Ehrenreich, Cornel West, Daniel Ellsberg, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, Bill
Fletcher Jr., Laura Flanders, former U.S. Senator James Abourezk, Coleen Rowley,
Frances Fox Piven, and many others.
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