Julian Assange (Wikileaks) to speak at HOPE Conference in NYC in 2 weeks?

http://thenexthope.org/2010/06/speaker-under-threat-by-u-s-authorities/

by waivej • 16 years ago

4 9 16 years ago

"Assange is scheduled to give The Next HOPE Saturday keynote on July 17 in New York City. To make things even more interesting, Lamo ["hacker" the April drone video was leaked to] has also been planning on appearing at the conference and may now wind up facing a hacker community who views his actions with, to put it mildly, disappointment."

tptacek• 16 years ago

Is he a journalist or is he an activist? He needs to pick one and stick with it.

brl2• 16 years ago

Since Wikileaks is intrinsically both a journalist organization and an activist organization, I'm not sure what you expect Assange to do.

Are you criticizing how the Apache helicopter attack video was handled?

pavs• 16 years ago

By being an activist, you are by definition bias to a certain cause. To me he is more of an activist then a journalist. He can call himself a journalist, but that doesn't make him so.

asdflkj• 16 years ago

And where does this "need" come from?

EvanK• 16 years ago

In the article (which is two weeks old, by the way), they say that he was scheduled to speak before all this started, but they're not encouraging him to attend given all that has happened since.

waivej2• 16 years ago

According to their radio show "Off The Hook" (July 1st - http://www.2600.com/news/view/article/11980), they might have something setup so he can still deliver the keynote.

colonelxc• 16 years ago

I thought there weren't going to be anymore HOPE conferences.

waivej2• 16 years ago

Yeah, me too. I really enjoyed listening to the recordings from "The Last Hope". http://www.thelasthope.org/talks.html

I think the hotel got "saved" by the economic downturn so they scheduled another one. (I think they talked about it on the radio show. http://www.2600.com/offthehook/)

Julian Assange (Wikileaks) to speak at HOPE Conference in NYC in 2 weeks?

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