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PRISONERS-OF-DISSENT: Locked up for Exposing Crimes Grüner Salon • Weydingerstraße 14-16, 10178 Berlin PRISONERS-OF-DISSENT: Locked Up for Exposing Crimes 12 May 2017 Press Coverage Grüner Salon • Weydingerstraße 14-16, 10178 Berlin Press: “ The tone of the event urgently suggested the necessity for a global paradigm shift on the perception whistleblowers: from a prosecuted traitor to a celebrated truth-teller. Such a shift would have to be underpinned by legislative means. The suggested solution was to rewrite laws so political dissent can be protected instead of prosecuted. Looking at the legal definition of a whistleblower, it is a person that sheds light on evidence of fraud, abuse or illegality in the public interest. Why would exposing crimes be followed by imprisonment?„ Berit Gilma, Review of Prisoners of Dissent: Locked Up for Exposing Crimes, Furtherfield, 05.06.2017 “Für mich persönlich war Obama schlimmer, ja. Aber lassen Sie mich etwas ausholen. Bush war ein Kriegsverbrecher, das ist unbestritten...Aber er war der schlechteste Präsident, den wir je hatten, wenn es um das Unterdrücken von Widerspruch in Sachen Sicherheit ging. Wir haben das SpionagegesetZ. Es existiert seit 1917. Bis 2009 wurden nach diesem GesetZ nur drei Leute verurteilt, weil sie Informationen an die Presse gaben, allein unter Obama aber waren es acht. Dieses GesetZ ist eine eiserne Faust gegen jede Art von Dissenz. Nur wenige Präsidenten machten davon Gebrauch. Obama setZte es aber am häufigsten ein.„ John Kiriakou im Interview mit Tom Mustroph in Neues Deutschland, 18.05.2017 “Machon schuf den historischen Brückenschlag zwischen zunehmender Angstpolitik und der Neoliberalisierung der Gesellschaften seit Margret Thatcher, der Entsolidarisierung und dem daraus resultierenden problematischen Umgang mit Whistleblowing sowohl im Sozialen als auch im Recht. TrotZdem Machon nicht nur auf ihre individuellen Leiden fixiert blieb, sondern die historisch speZifische Situation mitreflektierte, ließ sie kein Wort zu Perspektiven der Zukunft verlautbaren.„ Alexandra Hiller, Diskussion: Eingesperrt wegen Geheimnisverrats, Netzpolitik, 13.05.2017 “Because the capture of Abu Zubaydah was so important, I was promoted: I was named Executive Assistant to the Deputy Director of Operations, and I regained access to the information. So I learned that on August 1, 2002, the CIA began to torture Abu Zubaydah, relentlessly torture him – and it's all documented now in the Senate Torture Report. To make a long story short: I objected to the torture, and was told to keep my mouth shut, which I did, for five-and-a-half years. Well, I left the CIA in 2004.„ John Kiriakou, Spy, whistleblower, storyteller (Part 1), Interview with Ruth Schneider, Exberliner, 18.05.2017 Grüner Salon • Weydingerstraße 14-16, 10178 Berlin Media Overview: Print -Exberliner vom 01.05.2017, Announcement, Calendar Internet - Furtherfield – 05.06.2017 , Review of PRISONERS OF DISSENT: Locked Up for Exposing Crimes - NetZpolitik – 13.05.2017 – Diskussion: Eingesperrt Wegen Geheimnisverrats - Neues Deutschland – 18.05.2017 – Folter und Drohnenkrieg Säen Hass, Interview with John Kirakou - Exberliner – 18.05.2017 – Spy, whistleblower, storyteller (Part 1), Interview with John Kiriakou - Exberliner – 23.05.2017 – Spy, whistleblower, storyteller (Part 2), Interview with John Kiriakou - Ask Helmut – 27.04.2017 – Announcement - Artconnected – 24.05.2017 – Announcement - Creative City Berlin – 24.05.2017 – Announcement - Exberliner – 12.05.2017 – Announcement - Resistance Study Network – 24.05.2017 – Announcement - ArtRabbit – 24.05.2017 – Announcement - TaZ – 11.05.2017 – Announcement - Club comission – 24.05.2017 – Announcement Schweinsteiger: Erst interessant, jetzt attraktiv Wie der Deutsche in Chicago seine Kritik am US-Fußball revidiert ▶ Seite 19 AUSGABE BERLIN | NR. 11327 | 20. 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Like 22 37 6 0 0 RSS Print SAT SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI June 24, 2017 LONG NIGHT OF SCIENCES Berlin and Brandenburg DIE ORDNUNG DER DINGE, TOMOMI ADACHI Heimathafen Neukölln im Saalbau THE WORLD ACCORDING TO TIEPOLO - ENSEMBLE KNM BERLIN & FRIENDS Radialsystem V MIETE ESSEN SEELE AUF Sharehaus Refugio 48 HOURS NEUKÖLLN Neukölln TILL SOMEONE SNEEZES (BERLIN INTERNATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE) English Theatre Berlin AUTORENTAGE Deutsches Theater POROUS BOUNDARIES: NEW PATHS Photo by Thomas Schmidt (Disruption Network Lab) THROUGH MEXICAN CINEMA Kino Arsenal Wednesday we celebrated Chelsea Manning's release; last week another jailed MICHEL MAJERUS: ALUMINUM PAINTINGS Neugerriemschneider whistleblower was in the Berlin spotlight: ex-CIA agent John Kiriakou. We met for a captivating talk about torture, terrorists, and sociopathic presidents. Not for the MICHEL MAJERUS: LABORATORY FOR faint of heart! 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