Photos: Rally to support WikiLeaks in Vancouver
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Around 50 people came out this afternoon (January 15) to a rally held in Vancouver to support WikiLeaks.
Organized by the Pirate Party of Canada, the protest took place at Library Square.
Speakers called for open government, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and net neutrality.
They also expressed support for WikiLeaks editor in chief Julian Assange, who is under house arrest in the U.K., and Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier accused of leaking classified documents to the whistleblower website.
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Comments
13 Comments
JustAnotherWay
Jan 15, 2011 at 7:20pm
50 people?
Jhetto
Jan 16, 2011 at 2:47am
Stealing documents = freedom of speech? LMAO. We should publish private documents from some of these losers - maybe last year's income tax forms, if any of them actually filed :)
Rory
Jan 16, 2011 at 9:44am
They don't steal the documents...they are journalists that publish what is given to them. They do what any other journalist would do, they report on governments in an attempt to keep them honest.
Your comment further proves your own ignorance.
Turner12
Jan 16, 2011 at 11:19am
I wish this protest was promoted more, I think there would have been more people. I for one had no idea about it.
Oltimer
Jan 16, 2011 at 12:28pm
The small crowd present at the rally does not devalue the message that they were sending, if anything it reveals how apathy and obsessive materialism are the dominant modes of modern life.
Wikileaks only exists because of the nature of modern political and diplomatic systems.
Iain
Jan 16, 2011 at 3:35pm
There will be more protests set up in the future, there is now a face-book page which has been set up for precisely that reason. Just search "Pirate Party Vancouver", it should be an open group. If you wish invite your friends the more people the stronger the message we get across to the general public as-well as the government.
Kelwin
Jan 16, 2011 at 4:56pm
There is a difference between government transparency and personal privacy.
If the very low rated comment above was actually an expression of someone's true opinion, I pity their shallow understanding. Smells like a troll to me.
kerstin
Jan 16, 2011 at 8:29pm
wow, really good photography, clear strong messages, go wikileaks
Oliver Samuda
Jan 17, 2011 at 3:47am
There will absolutely be more rallies in the future, and if any of you want to come down we'd appreciate it to no end. Anybody wanna speak? Join the Facebook group, and just ask. We're pretty cool dudes, and we'd love some intelligent discourse. And to the poor chump that thinks releasing information that should be free is a form of theft, you should come to the rally too. We'd love to educate you. Just because you're wrong doesn't mean you're stupid.
Fan'o Truth
Jan 17, 2011 at 9:39am
We're pretty cool dudes, and we'd love some intelligent discourse.
The first half of the above statement is undoubtedly true -- arguably the real purpose of the rally -- and adheres to the urban fashion statement approach to political issue that is responsible for falling voter turnout among younger cohorts of electors.
The second half of that statement is doubtful, to say the least.