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Naomi Wolf responds: Case against Assange is “an insult to rape victims worldwide”

By Maya | Published: December 14, 2010

TweetLast week, Lori did a nice roundup of responses to the rape accusations against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange—including feminist Naomi Wolf’s “pretty embarrassing defense” of Assange from prosecution by the Interpol “dating police.” Today Assange was granted bail and released to “mansion arrest.” And yesterday Wolf wrote a second piece accusing Sweden, Britain, and Interpol [...]

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Wikileaks 101: Media Roundup, And Technology that Truly Empowers

By Lori | Published: December 9, 2010

Tweet For those of you who haven’t heard, Julian Assange, founder and editor-in-chief of Wikileaks, the non-profit media organization responsible for releasing a host of otherwise unavailable documents from anonymous news sources, including, most recently, thousands of classified diplomatic cables in an incident now known fondly as “Cablegate,” has been arrested for rape allegations. Whew. [...]