Why Wikileaks is worth saving
By Nicole Kobie in Editorial
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Wikileaks is in trouble. The award-winning whistleblower site is out of cash, and needs more to keep going. It’s suspended operations since December, until donations save it.
According to a note on the site, Wikileaks’ publisher Sunshine Press has raised $130,000, but needs $200,000 just to cover costs. To pay staff, they need $600,000. It’s unclear how much of the difference has been made up over the past several weeks.
The site runs entirely by donations, as taking money from government, corporations or other organisations would hurt its “absolute integrity”.
Remember the climate change emails, the hacked Palin emails, the BNP membership list? You likely saw stories about them on the evening news and in the daily papers. None of those were down to clever investigative reporting. They were all the result of documents leaked to Wikileaks.
Remember how we all applauded the Guardian and Twitter for getting the Trafigura report made public? Wikileaks posted it well before they did. A month before.
So now that the site’s down, what are we missing? According to the note on Wikileaks:
“We have received hundreds of thousands of pages from corrupt banks, the US detainee system, the Iraq war, China, the UN and many others that we do not currently have the resources to release. You can change that and by doing so, change the world. Even $10 will pay to put one of these reports into another ten thousand hands and $1000, a million.”
We all applauded the UK government — and the US administration, before that — for putting their data sets online. Wikileaks is one of the few places willing to host the data they and others don’t want you to see. You can donate here.
UPDATE: And a mere day after blogging about Wikileaks’ woes, and the group has apparently found enough funding. While the site remains offline at the moment, Wikileaks tweeted this a few hours ago:
“Achieved min. funraising goal. ($200k/600k); we’re back fighting for another year, even if we have to eat rice to do it.”
Congratulations to them, but they surely need help all through the year, so see above for the link to donate.
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