New donation page for Wikileaks and other projects
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The crowdfunding of Freedom of the Press works with a donation mechanism to make attractive bundled donations. (Described as an independent non-profit online publisher) next Wikileaks can donate to the American organizations Muckrock, the National Security Archive and The Uptake. The donation amounts can be split with a slider, and is a total donation for Freedom of the Press possible. Conceptually, reminds the donation site at the fundraiser who now again recognized non Wau Holland Foundation, which also collects for various projects such as Wikileaks, gate and Jabber. During the year, further projects and international nature are connected.
As founder of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, a number of prominent U.S. citizens is drawn on the action and a board seat occupied. Including Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower of the Pentagon Papers, and the filmmaker and actor John Cusack As executive director of the FPF trades Trevor Timm, an activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Timm for the action of the FPF is the "Red Cross of journalism", which aims to help all groups who care about freedom of speech and transparency. According FPF are the payments that run through the payment gateway, where anonymous, not the authorities to identify who donated how much to WikiLeaks or any other organization. On credit card bills only "Freedom of the Press" and a sum of money'm called.
In an initial statement, WikiLeaks says that it now waging a war against the banking blockade. For next Thursday a speech by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been announced at the window of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on the subject and on the planned Wikileaks party in Australia. Assange enjoys political asylum in the embassy, after the failed all his appeals against extradition to Sweden to court. Assange in Sweden to testify in a proceeding in which he is accused of rape and sexual harassment in minor cases.
Currently there are no comments from the credit card companies or by Google Checkout or Paypal. In the past there have been similar attempts to forward donations to WikiLeaks through a payment gateway. They were undermined by the credit card companies by the Financial Services were advised informally not to accept such payments. Such blockade the Icelandic-Swiss company DataCell learned with their payment gateway for Wikileaks. She won in the summer of 2012 in the first instance, the action against the responsible financial services, but this was immediately appealed.
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