“Aaron is a hero because he refused to play along with the government’s agenda, instead he used his brilliance and passion to create a more transparent society. Through the free software movement, open publishing and file sharing, and development of cryptography and anonymity technology, digital activists have revealed the poverty of neo-liberalism and intellectual property. Aaron opposed reducing everything to a commodity to be bought or sold for a profit.”
—Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond on the late Aaron Swartz, part of his statement written from solitary confinement.
This Day in WikiLeaks: 8 May 2013
thisdayinwikileaks.orgWikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 888 days.
Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 885days.
- 323 days at the Ecuadorian Embassy.
Bradley Manning has been in prison without trial for 1080 days.
Jeremy Hammond has been in prison without trial for 431 days.
A secret Grand Jury on WikiLeaks has been active for 965 days.
Letter from Jeremy Hammond, recieved 11 hours ago
Jeremy Hammond’s experience as a prisoner at the Metropolitan Correctional Center during Hurricane Sandy:
While NYC urged residents to evacuate the city in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy, those of us imprisoned at the Metropolitan Correctional Center were going nowhere. Without announcing any plans or preparations, they locked every floor down and we were left to weather the storm not knowing what was going to go down.
The Other Bradley Manning: Jeremy Hammond Faces Life Term for WikiLeaks and Hacked Stratfor Emails
democracynow.orgA federal judge has refused to recuse herself from the closely watched trial of jailed computer hacker Jeremy Hammond, an alleged member of the group “Anonymous” charged with hacking into the computers of the private intelligence firm Stratfor and turning over some five million emails to the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. Hammond’s lawyers had asked Federal Judge Loretta Preska to recuse herself because her husband worked for a client of Stratfor, and himself had his email hacked. Hammond’s supporters say the Stratfor documents shed light on how the private intelligence firm monitors activists and spies for corporate clients. He has been held without bail or trial for more than nine months. We speak with Michael Ratner, president emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights, about Hammond’s case.
