Past Events

Participate individually or as a group in a public webcast / phone call with whistleblowers and their supporters. These speakers are waiting to speak with you. (Click names for bios)

1. Former State Dept. official Matthew Hoh and author and RootsAction campaigner David Swanson -- 9 pm ET (Eastern Time, GMT -5) June 2  - You can listen to the webcast here.
2. Journalist, activist, and lawyer Trevor Timm and investigative journalist Tim Shorrock -- 9 pm ET June 3 - You can listen to the webcast here.
3. Director of media for the Institute for Public Accuracy Sam Husseini and author and law professor Marjorie Cohn -- 9 pm ET June 4 - You can listen to the webcast here.
4. NSA whistleblower William Binney and NSA whistleblower Kirk Wiebe -- 8 pm ET June 5 - You can listen to the webcast here.
5. Media critic and RootsAction cofounder Jeff Cohen and author and communications professor Robert McChesney -- 9 pm ET June 5 - You can listen to the webcast here.
6. Journalist Kevin Gosztola and EPA whistleblower Marsha Coleman-Adebayo -- 5 pm ET June 6 - You can listen to the webcast here.

• Hosting the calls will be David Swanson, Maura Stephens, and George Friday.
• The webcasts will each last 60 minutes. To listen and type in questions, just point your web browser to http://cast.teletownhall.us/web_client/?id=roots_action_org and turn up your volume.
• Everyone is encouraged to use the webcast and to type in questions there. If you can't use a web browser, you can phone in. Just call 1-844-472-8237 (toll-free in U.S.)
• You can also ask these whistleblowers and truth tellers questions beforehand or during the webcasts by tweeting them to @Roots_Action .
• The webcasts are sponsored by RootsAction Education Fund and ExposeFacts.

Also check out the events planned for Europe with Thomas Drake, Dan Ellsberg, Jesselyn Radack, Coleen Rowley, and Norman Solomon.

If you were unable to attend this webcast you can listen to it now right here:

Participate individually or as a group in this public webcast / phone call with whistleblowers and their supporters. These speakers are waiting to speak with you. (Click names for bios):

Former State Dept. official Matthew Hoh and author and RootsAction campaigner David Swanson -- 9 pm ET (Eastern Time, GMT -5) June 2

The webcasts will each last 60 minutes. To listen and type in questions, just point your web browser to http://cast.teletownhall.us/web_client/?id=roots_action_org and turn up your volume.

Everyone is encouraged to use the webcast and to type in questions there. If you can't use a web browser, you can phone in. Just call 1-844-472-8237 (toll-free in U.S.)

You can also ask these whistleblowers and truth tellers questions beforehand or during the webcasts by tweeting them to @Roots_Action .

The webcasts are sponsored by RootsAction Education Fund and ExposeFacts.

Here's a 12 minute summary video by Bill Sorem from the event:

And a full length video of the event:

Another video from the event (Part 1):

Video from the event (Part 2):

"William Binney stands up for truth about NSA's bulk collection of non-relevant data on Americans."

Wednesday, June 3 - 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Bent Creek Golf Club, 14490 Valley View Rd, Eden Prairie, MN.

If you were unable to attend the webcast, you can listen to it here:

Participate individually or as a group in this public webcast / phone call with whistleblowers and their supporters. These speakers are waiting to speak with you. (Click names for bios):

Director of media for the Institute for Public Accuracy Sam Husseini and author and law professor Marjorie Cohn -- 9 pm ET (Eastern Time, GMT -5) June 4

The webcasts will each last 60 minutes. To listen and type in questions, just point your web browser to http://cast.teletownhall.us/web_client/?id=roots_action_org and turn up your volume.

Everyone is encouraged to use the webcast and to type in questions there. If you can't use a web browser, you can phone in. Just call 1-844-472-8237 (toll-free in U.S.)

You can also ask these whistleblowers and truth tellers questions beforehand or during the webcasts by tweeting them to @Roots_Action .

The webcasts are sponsored by RootsAction Education Fund and ExposeFacts.

If you missed the webcast, you can listen to it here:

Participate individually or as a group in this public webcast / phone call with whistleblowers and their supporters. These speakers are waiting to speak with you. (Click names for bios):

NSA whistleblower William Binney and NSA whistleblower Kirk Wiebe -- 8 pm ET (Eastern Time, GMT -5) June 5

The webcasts will each last 60 minutes. To listen and type in questions, just point your web browser to http://cast.teletownhall.us/web_client/?id=roots_action_org and turn up your volume.

Everyone is encouraged to use the webcast and to type in questions there. If you can't use a web browser, you can phone in. Just call 1-844-472-8237 (toll-free in U.S.)

You can also ask these whistleblowers and truth tellers questions beforehand or during the webcasts by tweeting them to @Roots_Action .

The webcasts are sponsored by RootsAction Education Fund and ExposeFacts.

It's BACK! Chalkupy is coming back to LA on Saturday, June 6th at 1pm. Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles, the corner of W 6th and S Olive. 

It will take about 3 hours to complete. We provide gloves and suits for people to wear, info sheets on the topic and soap and water to wash up with. 

The theme is Stand Up For Truth! We need to help support whistleblowers as they face the most hostile environment for truth this country has ever seen. 

This chalk is tied in with a whole series of events for "Stand up for Truth" week June 1-7. 

Here is the artwork. We will map it to the pavers. That is what the lines you see there are.

It's easy to do and we'll show you how. If you think you are a good artist, you can work on the harder parts, if not, you can fill in.

For the latest updates, please follow us on twitter @Chalkupy or facebook https://www.facebook.com/chalkupyla right before the event begins.

Here is an artist's conception of what it might look like finished:

Stand Up For Truth

Thomas Drake  *  Daniel Ellsberg  *  Jesselyn Radack  *  Coleen Rowley  *  Norman Solomon

Sunday, June 7, starting at 3 pm

The Digital Surveillance State – Quo vadis, Democracy?
 

Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin
info@hkw.de

On the current waves of surveillance, censorship, the erosion of civil rights and the need for political control of intelligence services

How have these times of mass surveillance, data espionage and cooperation between the BND and NSA altered our established understanding of democracy? How was the NSA scandal perceived in the United States and in Germany and what can – and must – we learn from it? These questions will be discussed by the prominent U.S. whistleblowers Thomas Drake, Daniel Ellsberg, Jesselyn Radack and Coleen Rowley with Konstantin von Notz, Martina Renner (both in the NSAUA), Joseph Foschepoth, German historian and Peter Schaar, former Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information. The round of talks will be opened by the economist, peace activist and former military analyst Daniel Ellsberg and the former FBI agent Coleen Rowley, along with introductory remarks by the American journalist and Editorial board member of ExposeFacts.org, Norman Solomon.

The discussion will be moderated by Sarah Harrison, journalist and director of the Courage Foundation. A Q & A session is scheduled for after the panel discussion. During the exchange, the public is invited to take part in the discussion by sending in their questions or comments on Twitter using the hashtag #­­­­qvdemocracy.

In cooperation with the Courage Foundation, ExposeFacts.org, DIE ZEIT, ZEIT Online and Transmediale.

The event will be simultaneously translated from English to German and vice versa.

Sonntag, den 07.06. ab 15.00 Uhr

The Digital Surveillance State – Quo vadis, Democracy?

Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin
info@hkw.de

Über aktuelle Strömungen von Überwachung, Zensur und den Abbau von Bürgerrechten – und die Notwendigkeit politischer Kontrolle von Geheimdiensten

Wie verändert sich der klassische Begriff der Demokratie in Zeiten von Massenüberwachung, Datenspionage und der Zusammenarbeit von BND und NSA? Wie wurde der NSA-Skandal in den USA und in Deutschland aufgenommen und was können – und müssen – wir daraus lernen? Über diese Fragen diskutieren die prominenten amerikanischen Whistleblower*innen Thomas Drake, Daniel Ellsberg, Jesselyn Radack und Coleen Rowley mit Konstantin von Notz, Martina Renner (beide Mitglieder im NSA-Untersuchungsausschuss), dem deutschen Historiker Joseph Foschepoth und dem ehemaligen Bundesbeauftragten für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit, Peter Schaar. Eröffnet wird die Diskussionsrunde von dem Ökonom, Friedensaktivist und ehemaligen Militäranalyst Daniel Ellsberg und der ehemaligen FBI-Agentin Coleen Rowley, sowie durch einführende Worte von dem amerikanischen Journalisten Norman Solomon.

Moderiert wird die Diskussion von Sarah Harrison, Journalistin und Direktorin der Courage Foundation. Im Anschluss an die Diskussionsrunde findet eine Q&A-Session statt. Schon während der Diskussion kann das Publikum durch Fragen oder Kommentare über Twitter interaktiv am Gespräch teilnehmen: #­­­­qvdemocracy In Kooperation mit der Courage Foundation, ExposeFacts.org, DIE ZEIT, ZEIT Online und der Transmediale.

Mit schriftlicher Simultanübersetzung englisch-deutsch

http://standupfortruth.org/german
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