- Produced by Media Reform UK
- Price Free admission, but places are limited, book through event page.
- Get ready for hard truths.
- Bring along the want/right to know.
- Surf to book tickets
- See you at Birkbeck
Democracy needs truth-telling - this is not possible when crucial (and sometimes illegal) government policies remain hidden from the public.
Whistleblowing is essential for bringing such policies into the light: exposing key information related to human rights violations, corporate malfeasance, the environment, civil liberties and war.
We must stand up for a free press, individual privacy, governmental and corporate transparency, due process and rule of law as we seek to reveal official information that the public has a right to know.
The London leg of the international Stand Up for Truth whistleblowers speaking tour is being co-organised by the Media Reform UK and the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, supported by the National Union of Journalists, the Whistleblowing International Network and Public Concern at Work.
Speakers:
Daniel Ellsberg, a former U.S. military analyst who served in Vietnam and risked decades in prison to release the top-secret Pentagon Papers to The New York Times and other newspapers in 1971.
Thomas Drake, a former senior executive at the National Security Agency who blew the whistle on massive multi-billion dollar fraud, waste and the widespread violations of the rights of citizens through secret mass surveillance programs after 9/11.
Jesselyn Radack, the director of National Security & Human Rights at the Government Accountability Project (GAP), the leading U.S. whistleblower organization.
Coleen Rowley, an attorney and former FBI special agent and division counsel whose May 2002 memo to the FBI Director exposed some of the agency’s pre-9/11 failures, was one of three whistleblowers named as Time magazine’s “Persons of the Year” in 2002.
Norman Solomon, executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, the coordinator of ExposeFacts and co-founder and coordinator of RootsAction.org.
Justin Schlosberg, Lecturer in Journalism and Media at Birkbeck College, University of London, and an Edmund J. Safra Network Fellow at Harvard University.