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You wouldn't expect the head of Tata Group, India's largest conglomerate, to say the rich are boring. But Ratan Tata comes close. Acting rich doesn't interest him. "I've never had the desire to own a yacht, to flaunt," he says. "It's not really [the point]." Nor does the Prada-wearing class excite him as a marketing opportunity. China and India, with their growing ranks of tycoons, should attract multinational businesses not because of the spare million in a few fat wallets, he argues, but because of the spare change in a billion slim ones. "Everyone is catering to the top of the pyramid," says the 68-year-old at his office in Bombay House, Tata Group's elegant Edwardian headquarters in India's business capital. "The challenge we've given to all our companies is to address a different market. Pare your margins. Create new markets." The Tata Group's global clout means its chairman's thoughts on the world economy are worth listening to. The group comprises 93 companies, including the world's second largest tea business (Tata Tea); Asia's largest software firm (Tata Consultancy Services); a steel giant (Tata Steel); a worldwide hotel chain (Indian Hotels); and a sprawling vehicle-manufacturing arm (Tata Motors) that includes a bicycle factory in Zambia and a project to make a car selling for $2,200. Since Ratan Tata became chairman in 1991, he has multiplied Tata group revenues seven times to an annual $21.7 billion. Since 2000, the group's market value has jumped 14 times to $39.9 billion. And over the past six years Tata has been on a $1.9 billion acquisition spree that has netted Britain's Tetley Tea, South Korea's Daewoo Commercial Vehicles, Singapore's NatSteel and New York's The Pierre hotel, among 14 others. "Nothing succeeds like success," says Sanjay Bhandarkar, managing director of N.M. Rothschild in India. "All credit goes to Ratan Tata. He clearly has a vision and knows what he's doing." Tata is one of Asia's most influential businessmen. And perhaps more than any other company, Tata Group exemplifies India's metamorphosis into a modern economy. For much of their 138-year history, the Tata family companies were the heart of India's insular business establishment-the last business group you'd have turned to for radical thinking, or owning anything abroad. The group's founder, J.N. Tata, was a nationalist driven by the idea of a strong, self-reliant India. He gave the country its first steel plant, first hydroelectric plant, first textile mill, first shipping line, first cement factory, first science university, even its first world-class hotel. His successors-among them J.R.D. Tata, India's first pilot-created the first airline, first motor company, first bank and first chemical plant. But after independence in 1947, the group came to symbolize all that was bad about Indian business. It lost its airline and insurance arm to nationalization. To avoid giving up more to the Congress Party socialists who ruled India for half a century, J.R.D. Tata, a distant cousin of Ratan Tata, emphasized individual companies over the group, keeping the conglomerate's stakes small and demanding little coordination. Meanwhile, shielded from competition by the restrictive bureaucracy of the "license Raj," Tata's companies became bloated and calcified. "We weren't driving ourselves hard enough in a protected environment," says Ratan Tata. Ratan took over from J.R.D. in 1991. India was beginning economic reforms, and, with state-sponsored monopolies on the way out, the new chairman saw the need to overhaul the firm's culture. He raised the conglomerate's stake in all its companies to a minimum 26%. And he ordered each to meet performance targets-to be first or second in its industry, and to meet quantified goals for leadership and innovation-or be sold. Most shaped up. Tata Steel, for example, shed half its 78,000 workers between 1994 and 2005 using retirement and voluntary redundancies to lower costs and boost productivity. "The Tata group's relationship with its employees changed from the patriarchal to the practical," reads the Tata Code of Honor, which sets group-wide standards of conduct. Subir Gokarn, chief economist at ratings agency Crisil, says Ratan Tata read the runes of change and largely avoided the rash of business failures in India that followed reform: "He survived the bloodbath. Those who made no changes became extinct." After nine years of consolidation and streamlining, Tata signaled a new prominence for the emerging Asia conglomerate in 2000 when the most Indian of brands bought one of the most English, Tetley Tea. At $435 million, the deal was the biggest in Indian history, and it presaged a wave of international expansion by Indian and Chinese businesses like Mittal Steel and Lenovo. For Tata, entering the West was not an end in itself. Buying Tetley was simply a way to grow Tata Tea. "We look for the acquisition of companies that fill a product gap or have a strategic connection with what we do, wherever that company might be," says Tata. Says Rothschild's Bhandarkar: "Other Indian groups look at things opportunistically. Tata is the only one with an international strategy." If the group has a geographical tilt, it is towards the developing world. And that's based on a business approach that has not changed since its foundation. The son of a Parsi trader from Bombay, group founder Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata knew how to turn a profit. But J.N. also had a patrician vision of spreading wealth and lifting a nation. In a 1902 letter to his son about building a workers' city around his Tata Steel works, he deplored the squalor of industrial England and anticipated what would become a standard for urban planning: "Be sure to lay wide streets planted with shady trees, every other of a quick-growing variety. Be sure that there is plenty of space for lawns and gardens." After his death in 1904, the city took his name, becoming Jamshedpur. Tata Steel introduced a series of worker benefits that would become common only much later in the West, such as the eight-hour working day in 1912, maternity benefits in 1928 and profit-sharing in 1934. Today Jamshedpur, with free housing, free hospitals and free schools, sports stadiums and clean streets, remains the envy of the country. In 2004, the U.N. chose it-along with Melbourne and San Francisco-as one of six examples of urban-planning excellence. J.N. Tata's ideals survive today. Tata Sons, the holding company that manages the group, is 65.8% owned by 11 charitable trusts, which spent $379.2 million on social causes in 2003-04 alone. Over the following 12 months, Tata companies donated another $97.8 million. Beneficiaries range from a host of Tata educational, health and scientific institutes that dot India to the Ganges River's giant mahseer fish, saved from extinction by a Tata-funded breeding program. The group's corporate piety extends to the boss' pay. Though the business house carries his name, Ratan Tata merely draws a salary from Tata Sons. And while hardly poor, he takes personal modesty seriously. Tall, guarded and retaining the outsider's accent he picked up in an earlier life as a trainee architect in the U.S., he is famously private. He lives with his two German shepherds, Tito and Tango, in the same second-floor apartment in Bombay that he has kept for 20 years. He is one floor below his stepmother, and neighbors say they have never known him to throw a party. His one indulgence apart from his dogs-he is frequently spotted muddying his pinstripes as he plays with them in a park near his home-is a collection of cars. Apparently embarrassed by the extravagance, he excuses his interest as stemming from a love of design, not show. "I drive them periodically," he says, "and then back to the garage." What really excites Tata is his ability to combine the group's philanthropic heritage with modern business sense. Targeting the bottom of the income pyramid — a lot of people with a little, rather than a few with a lot — ticks both boxes. It's almost as if he's reciting from last year's hit book, C.K. Prahalad's The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid — Eradicating Poverty Through Profits. Tata points out that consumption, as it is understood in the West, is still a dream for all but a fraction of 3 billion people in the developing world. Only 58 million Indians, out of the country's 1.1 billion population, earn more than $4,400 a year, according to Delhi's National Council of Applied Economic Research. The challenge is to make consumers out of people whose disposable income would be pocket money for many American children. One of Tata's answers is the $2,200 car, a four-door, rear-engine runabout that he designed himself and that is currently under development (he aims to sell a million of them a year in India after its release in 2008). Another is the Ace, a 700cc truck that Tata Motors sells for less than $5,000 and, since its launch in southern India in May 2005, has accounted for two-thirds of all trucks sold domestically. Purchases of these vehicles are supported by low-interest consumer loans from Tata Finance. Following the same model, Tata's hotel chain is building 200 hotels across India under the brand Ginger, offering rooms with wireless Internet access, air conditioning and ensuite bathrooms for 1,000 rupees ($22), a fifth of the cost of a room paid by budget business travelers in India today. Tata is also eyeing low-cost housing. That same desire to market to, and invest in, some of the world's poorest countries is behind Tata's affinity for Bangladesh and Africa. Tata group recently finalized a $3 billion power, steel and coal deal in Bangladesh, the biggest investment in that country's history. In South Africa, the group has investments in mining, tourism and engine manufacturing. There is an instant-coffee plant in Uganda, a bus factory in Senegal and a phosphate plant in Morocco. "We look at countries where we can play a role in development," says Tata. "Our hope in each is to create an enterprise that looks like a local company, but happens to be owned by a company in India." Tata says the group's success proves his approach is good business, as well as good karma: "We are not in anything for charity." And lest this all sounds too good to be true, the group is not free from controversy. In 2001, Tata Finance sacked its managing director and five other senior managers over alleged financial irregularities. In January, Tata Steel's plans to build a mill in the eastern state of Orissa went tragically awry when police fired on protesters who were accusing the state government — acting as a broker in the development — of making profits on the sale of their land. Twelve were killed. But to shed 40,000 employees at Jamshedpur, Tata Steel offered to pay their current salaries until retirement age along with free health care for life, and allowed them to keep their company houses for three years. Initiatives like these have kept the group free of strikes and other industrial actions for 77 years. After 15 years as chairman, Tata is thinking of retiring. Asked how he would spend his days, he says he gave up golf long ago and has almost no free time outside the business. On rare evenings off, he says he takes a half-hour boat ride across Bombay harbor to a small, scruffy beach house. "It seldom had power, so I had to put in a small generator," he says. "It's quiet and away from everywhere. There is a town and there are neighbors, but I go quietly on my own. I walk the beach and I read and I think about what I should do." It's not how you conventionally picture a tycoon's life. That's his point.

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Secretary-General of the United Nations
Emblem of the United Nations
Incumbent Ban Ki-moon since 1 January 2007
Residence	Sutton Place, Manhattan, New York, US
Term length	Five years, renewable indefinitely
Inaugural holder	Gladwyn Jebb 24 October 1945 (Acting) Trygve Lie 1 February 1946
Formation	United Nations Charter, 26 June 1945
Website	UN Secretary-General webpage

The Secretary-General of the United Nations is the head of the Secretariat of the United Nations, one of the principal organs of the United Nations. The Secretary-General also acts as the de facto spokesperson and leader of the United Nations.
The current Secretary-General is Ban Ki-moon of South Korea, who took office on 1 January 2007. His first term will expire on 31 December 2011. He was re-elected, unopposed, to a second term on 21 June 2011.^[1]

Contents  [hide]  1 Role 2 Term and selection 3 Secretaries-General 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Role

The Secretary-General was envisioned by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a "world moderator," but the office was defined in the UN Charter as the organization's "chief administrative officer" (Article 97). Nevertheless, this more restricted description has not prevented the office holders from speaking out and playing important roles on global issues, to various degrees.
The official residence of the Secretary-General is a five-story townhouse in the Sutton Place, Manhattan, in New York City, USA. The townhouse was built for Anne Morgan in 1921, and donated to the United Nations in 1972.^[2]

[edit] Term and selection

Dag Hammarskjöld was a particularly active UN Secretary-General from 1953 until his death in 1961. Hammarskjöld acted as a mediator during the Suez Crisis and the 1960 capture of a US reconnaissance plane by the USSR. He also established the first UN peacekeeping force that had been proposed by Canadian Minister of External Affairs, Lester B. Pearson.

See also: United Nations Secretary-General selection, 2006

Secretaries-General serve for five-year terms that can be renewed indefinitely, although none so far has held office for more than two terms.^[3] The United Nations Charter provides for the Secretary-General to be appointed by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council. As a result, the selection is subject to the veto of any of the five permanent members of the Security Council.
The UN Charter's terse language has since been supplemented by other procedural rules and also accepted practices. In practice, the Secretary-General cannot be a national of any of the Permanent Members of the Security Council. An accepted practice of regional (continental) rotation has also been adopted in the selection of successive candidates. The ability of candidates to converse in both English and French is also considered an unofficial qualification for the office.
Most Secretaries-General are compromise-candidates from middle powers and with little prior fame. High-profile candidates are often touted for the job, but are almost always rejected as unpalatable to some. For instance, figures like Charles de Gaulle, Dwight Eisenhower, and Sir Anthony Eden were considered for the first Secretary-General position, but were rejected in favour of the uncontroversial Norwegian Trygve Lie. Dag Hammarskjöld remains the only Secretary-General to have died in office.
In the early 1960s, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev led an effort to abolish the Secretary-General position. The numerical superiority of the Western powers combined with the one state, one vote system meant that the Secretary-General would come from one of them, and would typically be sympathetic towards the West. Khrushchev advanced a proposal to replace the Secretary-General with a three-person leading council (a "troika"): one member from the West, one from the Communist states, and one from the Non-Aligned powers. This idea failed because the neutral powers failed to back the Soviet proposal.^[4][5]

[edit] Secretaries-General

Note: Alger Hiss was Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on International Organization, held in April to June 1945.

#	Portrait	Secretary-General	Dates in office	Country of origin	Reason of withdrawal	Ref.
–		Gladwyn Jebb	24 October 1945 – 1 February 1946	United Kingdom	Served as Acting Secretary-General until Lie's election
		After World War II, he served as Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations in August 1945, being appointed Acting United Nations Secretary-General from October 1945 to February 1946 until the appointment of the first Secretary-General Trygve Lie.[6]
1		Trygve Lie	1 February 1946 – 10 November 1952	Norway	Resigned	[7]
		Lie, a foreign minister and former labour leader, was recommended by the Soviet Union to fill the post. After the UN involvement in the Korean War, the Soviet Union vetoed Lie's reappointment in 1951. The US circumvented the Soviet Union's veto and recommended reappointment directly to the General Assembly. Lie was reappointed by a vote of forty-six to five, with eight abstentions. The Soviet Union remained hostile to Lie, and he resigned in 1952.[8]
2		Dag Hammarskjöld	10 April 1953 – 18 September 1961	Sweden	Died in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), while on a peacekeeping mission to the Congo	[9]
		After a series of candidates were vetoed, Hammarskjöld emerged as an option that was acceptable to the Security Council. Hammarskjöld was re-elected unanimously to a second term in 1957. The Soviet Union was angered by Hammarskjöld's leadership of the UN during the Congo Crisis, and suggested that the position of Secretary-General be replaced by a troika, or three-man executive. Facing great opposition from the Western nations, the Soviet Union gave up on its suggestion. Hammarskjöld was killed in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) in 1961.[8] US President John F. Kennedy called Hammarskjöld "the greatest statesman of our century."[10]
3		U Thant	30 November 1961 – 31 December 1971	Burma	Declined to be considered for a third term.	[11]
		In the process of replacing Hammarskjöld, the developing world insisted on a non-European and non-American. U Thant was nominated. However, due to opposition from the French (Thant had chaired a committee on Algerian independence) and the Arabs (Burma was supporting Israel), Thant was only appointed for the remainder of Hammarskjöld's term. Thant was the first Asian Secretary General. The following year, Thant was unanimously re-elected to a full five-year term. He was similarly re-elected in 1966. Thant did not seek a third term.[8]
4		Kurt Waldheim	1 January 1972 – 31 December 1981	Austria	China vetoed his third term.	[12]
		Waldheim launched a discreet but effective campaign to become the Secretary-General. Despite initial vetoes from China and the United Kingdom, in the third round Waldheim was selected to become the new Secretary-General. In 1976, China initially blocked Waldheim's re-election, but it relented on the second ballot. In 1981, Waldheim's re-election for a third term was blocked by China, which vetoed his selection through 15 rounds. In the mid 1980s, it was revealed that a post-World War II UN War Crimes Commission had labeled Waldheim as a suspected war criminal – based on his involvement with the Nazi German army. The files had been stored in the UN archive.[8]
5		Javier Pérez de Cuéllar	1 January 1982 – 31 December 1991	Peru	Refused to be considered for a third term.	[13]
		Pérez de Cuéllar was selected after a five-week deadlock between the re-election of Waldheim and China's candidate, Salim Ahmed Salim of Tanzania. Pérez de Cuéllar, a Peruvian diplomat, was a compromise candidate, and the first Secretary General from Latin America. He was re-elected unanimously in 1986.[8]
6		Boutros Boutros-Ghali	1 January 1992 – 31 December 1996	Egypt	The United States vetoed his second term.	[14]
		The 102 member Non-Aligned Movement insisted that the next Secretary-General come from Africa. With a majority in the General Assembly and the support of China, the Non-Aligned Movement had the votes necessary to block any unfavourable candidate. The Security Council conducted five anonymous straw polls – a first for the council. Boutros-Ghali emerged with 11 votes on the fifth round. In 1996 the US vetoed the re-appointment of Boutros-Ghali, claiming he had failed in implementing necessary reforms to the UN.[8]
7		Kofi Annan	1 January 1997 – 31 December 2006	Ghana	Retired after two full terms	[15]
		On 13 December 1996, the United Nations Security Council recommended Annan.[16][17] Confirmed four days later by the vote of the General Assembly,[18] he started his first term as Secretary-General on 1 January 1997.
8		Ban Ki-moon	1 January 2007– present	South Korea	Incumbent	[19]
		Ban became the second Asian to be selected as the Secretary-General. He was unanimously elected to a second term by the General Assembly on June 21, 2011. His second term begins January 1, 2012.[20] Prior to his selection, he was the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea from January 2004 to November 2006.

UN Regional Group	Secretaries-General	Terms
Western European and Others	4	7
Eastern European Group	0	0
Latin American and Caribbean Group	1	2
Asian Group	2	4
African Group	2	3

A map showing what nations have had a national serving as Secretary-General of the United Nations

[edit] See also

• Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
• List of Secretaries-General of the United Nations by longevity
• Global democracy
• International Court of Justice
• League of Nations
• Mundialization
• Presidential election
• Reform of the United Nations
• United Nations Economic and Social Council
• United Nations General Assembly
• United Nations Secretariat
• United Nations Security Council
• United Nations Trusteeship Council
• Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
• United Nations System
• World government

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13868655
    
   Ban Ki-moon wins second-term as UN Secretary General
2. ^ Teltsch, Kathleen. "Town House Offered to U. N."
    
   , The New York Times, 15 July 1972. Accessed 27 December 2007.
3. ^ Secretary-General Appointment Process
    
4. ^ "
    
   Nikita Khrushchev, Address to the UN General Assembly" (Press release). Fordham University. 23 September 1960. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
5. ^ "
    
   BBC On This Day 1960: Khrushchev anger erupts at UN" (in English). BBC Online (United Kingdom: BBC News). 23 September 1960. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
6. ^ Stout, David (26 October 1996). "Lord Gladwyn Is Dead at 96; Briton Helped Found the U.N."
    
   . NY Times. Retrieved 31 October 2008.
7. ^ The United Nations: Trygve Haldvan Lie (Norway)
    
   . Accessed 13 December 2006.
8. ^ ^{a b c d e f} "An Historical Overview on the Selection of United Nations Secretaries-General"
    
   . UNA-USA. Archived from the original
    
   on 25 October 2007. Retrieved 30 September 2007.
9. ^ The United Nations: Dag Hammarskjöld (Sweden)
    
   . Accessed 13 December 2006.
10. ^ Linnér, S. (2007). Dag Hammarskjöld and the Congo crisis, 1960–61
     
    . Page 28. Uppsala University. (22 July 2008).
11. ^ The United Nations: U Thant (Myanmar)
     
    . Accessed 13 December 2006.
12. ^ The United Nations: Kurt Waldheim (Austria)
     
    . Accessed 13 December 2006.
13. ^ The United Nations: Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (Peru)
     
    . Accessed 13 December 2006.
14. ^ The United Nations: Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Egypt)
     
    . Accessed 13 December 2006.
15. ^ The United Nations: The Biography of Kofi A. Annan
     
    . Accessed 13 December 2006.
16. ^ "BIO/3051 - "Kofi Annan of Ghana recommended by Security Council for appointment as Secretary-General of United Nations""
     
    (Press release). United Nations. 1996-12-13. Retrieved 2006-12-12.
17. ^ Traub, James (2006). The Best Intentions
     
    . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp. 66–67. ISBN 978-0-374-18220-5.
18. ^ "GA/9208 -"General Assembly appoints Kofi Annan of Ghana as seventh Secretary-General""
     
    (Press release). United Nations. 1996-12-17. Retrieved 2006-12-12.
19. ^ Ban Ki-moon is sworn in as next Secretary-General of the United Nations
     
20. ^ [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/ban-ki-moon-gets-second-term-as-un-chief/article2070407/
     
    "Ban Ki-moon gets second term as UN chief", Globe and Mail, June22, 2011

[edit] External links

• UN Secretary-General webpage
   
  • How is the Secretary-General appointed?
     
• Global Policy Forum – UN Secretary-General
   
• Report on the process of appointing a new Secretary-General
   
• Who Will be the Next Secretary-General?
   
  (website on the 2006 campaigns)
• UNSGselection.org
   
  – a campaign for a more democratic selection process

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Associate Professor in Anthropology, Concordia University. Follows WikiLeaks and Assange issues closely
+1 (514) 848-2424 ext. 5567, mforte@alcor.concordia.ca, max.forte@openanthropology.org
Larry Flynt
American publisher and the president of Larry Flynt Publications (LFP). Free Speech Activist. He comments on freedom of speech issues. He pledged $50k to defend Julian
+1 (212)-586-2711
Antony Loewenstein
Political activist, freelance journalist, author and blogger based in Sydney, Australia. He comments on how the Australian government should support Australian citizens, free speech issues globally and censorship in democratic and repressive states,
antloew@gmail.com
Brett Solomon
Spokesperson for Get up
+61 415 182 402, media@getup.org.au
Christian Christensen
Associate Professor, Uppsala Universitet/Author. Current research includes studies on social media and conflict. He can comment on WikiLeaks
+46 18-471 7113, christian.christensen@im.uu.se
Dave Winer
Visiting scholar at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. Pioneered the development of weblogs; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine and comments on WikiLeaks
+1 (212)-998-7980, scriptingnews1mail@gmail.com

Julian Assange

Geoffrey Robertson QC
An Australian-born human rights barrister, academic, author and broadcaster. Has acted for Julian Assange.
g.robertson@doughtystreet.co.uk
Helena Kennedy QC
Is a leading barrister and an expert in human rights law, civil liberties and constitutional issues. She has adivsed extensively in Julian Assange’s case.
info@helenakennedy.co.uk, +44 (0)20 7840 8540
Robert Stary
An Australian criminal defence lawyer and is a vocal critic of the legislation and speaks out regularly against the issue
+61 (03) 8622 8200
John Pilger
Journalist/Writer/Documentary/Filmmaker. Has called the case a ’political stunt’. He has also helped raise bail for Assange.
pilgereditor@gmail.com
Gavin MacFadyen
Director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism in London. Supporter of WikiLeaks and personal friend of Julian Assange
+44 (0) 20 7040 8526, gavin@tcij.org
Daniel Ellsberg
The famous Pentagon Papers leaker/Retired military analyst/Political activist). He is a friend and support of both Julian and WikiLeaks
ellsbergpress@gmail.com
Alan Dersowitz
Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, interested in press inquiries related to litigation/Trials/Criminal Process and freedom of speech.
dersh@law.harvard.edu
Julian Burnside QC
Lawyer and defender of universal human rights under the law. While specialising in commercial litigation, Mr Burnside has acted pro bono in many human rights cases. He said that Assange and WikiLeaks had “done nothing wrong” in publishing leaked documents. The Gillard government, he said, had “betrayed one of our own citizens.”
burnside@vicbar.com.au
Mwali Mati
Director of Mars Group Kenya, Ltd. a Leadership, Governance and Accountability Organization that is dedicated to ending dictatorial impunity and re-establishing democratic accountability in Kenya.
mmati@marsgroupkenya.org
Tim Wu
Professor at Columbia Law School, chair of media reform organization Free Press, and writes for Slate magazine. Wrote “Drop the case against Assange” in Foreign Policy
www.timwu.org, go@timwu.org
John Jones
London lawyer specialising in the law of extradition, war crimes and counter-terrorism.
enquiries@doughtystreet.co.uk, +44 (0) 20 7404 1313
Glenn Greenwald
Columnist/Blogger/Constitutional lawyer. Has a very strong understanding of WikiLeaks issues and Manning case.
+1 (646) 400-5600 (Salon New York office) ggreenwald@salon.com
Greg Mitchell
Writer for The Nation. Writes a lot on WikiLeaks and wrote the first book to be published on WikiLeaks
+1 212-209-5400, epic1934@aol.com
Jemima Goldsmith
Political activist, campaigner and journalist. Believes it is the citizen’s right to be told the truth.
Ray McGovern
Retired CIA officer/Political activist. Can comment on attacks by the US administration against Assange and WikiLeaks
+1 (707) 629-3683, rmcgovern@slschool.org, vips@counterpunch.org
Rick Falkvinge
Rick Falkvinge is the founder of the Swedish and first Pirate Party, which has representation in the European parliament.
rick.falkvinge@piratpartiet.se
Julie Turner
Julie Turner is a lawyer who has been representing both plaintiffs and defendants in intellectual property and commercial litigation matters. She has litigated numerous patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret cases. She can be contacted to discuss freedom of speech and technology.
jturner@julieturnerlaw.com, +1 650-494-1530
Bianca Jagger
Is known for her dedicated commitment and campaigning for human rights, social justice and environmental protection.. She has said she is "very concerned this case has been politicised"
Andrew Wilkie MP
A well-known campaigner for truth in politics. He has published a best-selling book – Axis of Deceit – about the dishonesty behind the Iraq war and undertaken numerous speaking engagements in Australia, the UK, the US and New Zealand. He defended Julian Assange and said "Whistleblowers like WikiLeaks need protection"
andrew.wilkie.mp@aph.gov.au, www.greenleft.org.au
Louise Connor
Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance. Secretary of the Victoria Branch of the union, the main body representing Australian journalists and Julian’s journalist union, who has publicly campaigned for him
+61 1300 656 512
Richard Renner
National Whistleblower Legal Defense & Education Fund. He can comment on whistleblowers
+1 (202) 342-1903, rr@whistleblowers.org
Maximilian C. Forte
Associate Professor in Anthropology, Concordia University. Follows WikiLeaks and Assange issues closely
+1 (514) 848-2424 ext. 5567, mforte@alcor.concordia.ca, max.forte@openanthropology.org
Antony Loewenstein
Political activist, freelance journalist, author and blogger based in Sydney, Australia. He comments on how the Australian government should support Australian citizens, free speech issues globally and censorship in democratic and repressive states,
antloew@gmail.com
Michael Moore
Filmmaker. He believes WikiLeaks performs an important public service
+1 (310) 248-2000 (Ari Emanuel, Endeavor Agency), mike@michaelmoore.com

Freedom of the Press

Geoffrey Robertson QC
An Australian-born human rights barrister, academic, author and broadcaster. Has acted for Julian Assange.
g.robertson@doughtystreet.co.uk
Helena Kennedy QC
Is a leading barrister and an expert in human rights law, civil liberties and constitutional issues. She has adivsed extensively in Julian Assange’s case.
info@helenakennedy.co.uk, +44 (0)20 7840 8540
Robert Stary
An Australian criminal defence lawyer and is a vocal critic of the legislation and speaks out regularly against the issue
+61 (03) 8622 8200
John Pilger
Journalist/Writer/Documentary/Filmmaker. Has called the case a ’political stunt’. He has also helped raise bail for Assange.
pilgereditor@gmail.com
Gavin MacFadyen
Director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism in London. Supporter of WikiLeaks and personal friend of Julian Assange
+44 (0) 20 7040 8526, gavin@tcij.org
Daniel Ellsberg
The famous Pentagon Papers leaker/Retired military analyst/Political activist). He is a friend and support of both Julian and WikiLeaks
ellsbergpress@gmail.com
Tim Wu
Professor at Columbia Law School, chair of media reform organization Free Press, and writes for Slate magazine. Wrote “Drop the case against Assange” in Foreign Policy
www.timwu.org, go@timwu.org
Glenn Greenwald
Columnist/Blogger/Constitutional lawyer. Has a very strong understanding of WikiLeaks issues and Manning case.
+1 (646) 400-5600 (Salon New York office) ggreenwald@salon.com
Louise Connor
Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance. Secretary of the Victoria Branch of the union, the main body representing Australian journalists and Julian’s journalist union, who has publicly campaigned for him
+61 1300 656 512
Stefania Maurizi
Italian journalist at L’Espresso. Has worked with WikiLeaks on many releases and is a big free speech and transparency advocate.
Jemima Goldsmith
Political activist, campaigner and journalist. Believes it is the citizen’s right to be told the truth.
Ray McGovern
Retired CIA officer/Political activist. Can comment on attacks by the US administration against Assange and WikiLeaks
+1 (707) 629-3683, rmcgovern@slschool.org, vips@counterpunch.org
Rick Falkvinge
Rick Falkvinge is the founder of the Swedish and first Pirate Party, which has representation in the European parliament.
rick.falkvinge@piratpartiet.se
Bianca Jagger
Is known for her dedicated commitment and campaigning for human rights, social justice and environmental protection.. She has said she is "very concerned this case has been politicised"
Andrew Wilkie MP
A well-known campaigner for truth in politics. He has published a best-selling book – Axis of Deceit – about the dishonesty behind the Iraq war and undertaken numerous speaking engagements in Australia, the UK, the US and New Zealand. He defended Julian Assange and said "Whistleblowers like WikiLeaks need protection"
Michael Moore
Filmmaker. He believes WikiLeaks performs an important public service
+1 (310) 248-2000 (Ari Emanuel, Endeavor Agency), mike@michaelmoore.com
Evgeny Morozov
Author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom. Morozov is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University and a Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation. He is a contributing editor to Foreign Policy and Boston Review and was formerly a Yahoo! fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University and a fellow at George Soros’s Open Society Institute, where he remains on the board of the Information Program
evgeny.morozov@gmail.com
Oliver Spencer
ARTICLE 19
Global Campaign for Free Expression
+44 (0)20 7324 2517, info@article19.org
Larry Flynt
American publisher and the president of Larry Flynt Publications (LFP). Free Speech Activist. He comments on freedom of speech issues. He pledged $50k to defend Julian
+1 (212)-586-2711
Mwali Mati
Director of Mars Group Kenya, Ltd. a Leadership, Governance and Accountability Organization that is dedicated to ending dictatorial impunity and re-establishing democratic accountability in Kenya.
mmati@marsgroupkenya.org
Greg Mitchell
Writer for The Nation. Writes a lot on WikiLeaks and wrote the first book to be published on WikiLeaks
+1 212-209-5400, epic1934@aol.com
Richard Renner
National Whistleblower Legal Defense & Education Fund. He can comment on whistleblowers
+1 (202) 342-1903, rr@whistleblowers.org
Antony Loewenstein _Political activist, freelance journalist, author and blogger based in Sydney, Australia. He comments on how the Australian government should support Australian citizens, free speech issues globally and censorship in democratic and repressive states,
antloew@gmail.com
Paul Alan Levy
Lawyer, Public Citizen Litigation Group. He acted in the Bank Julius Baer case and is also a strong free speech laywer for Ralf Nader’s Citizen.org
+1 (202) 588-1000, plevy@citizen.org
Ann Brick
Representative/American Civil Liberties Union. Believes in the public’s right to know and spoke out in favour of WikiLeaks in the Julius Baer case
+1 (415) 621-2493, abrick@aclunc.org
Clay Shirky
Writer/Consultant/Lecture
+1 (718) 928-6567, clay@shirky.com, info@shirky.com
International Freedom of Expression eXchange
+1 416 515 9622, ifex@ifex.org
Naomi Wolf
Feminist, rape crisis specialist, US author and political consultant. Has expressed the strong view that the Assange case is an abuse of process and that injustice for men does not bring justice for women.
+44 20 7911 8069/ +44 20 7911 8068 (Time Warner Books)
Jay Rosen
Professor of Journalism/Author of PressThink and journalism comentator. (Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute/New York University)
+1 (212) 998-7980, jr3@nyu.edu
Brett Solomon
Spokesperson for Get up
+61 415 182 402, media@getup.org.au

Sweden

Geoffrey Robertson QC
An Australian-born human rights barrister, academic, author and broadcaster. Has acted for Julian Assange.
g.robertson@doughtystreet.co.uk
Helena Kennedy QC
Is a leading barrister and an expert in human rights law, civil liberties and constitutional issues. She has adivsed extensively in Julian Assange’s case.
info@helenakennedy.co.uk, +44 (0)20 7840 8540
Robert Stary
An Australian criminal defence lawyer and is a vocal critic of the legislation and speaks out regularly against the issue
+61 (03) 8622 8200
John Jones
London lawyer specialising in the law of extradition, war crimes and counter-terrorism.
enquiries@doughtystreet.co.uk, +44 (0) 20 7404 1313
Professor Andrew Ashworth
Professor of English Law at University of Oxford. He is an expert on Criminal Law, Criminal Justice and European Human Rights Law.
andrew.ashworth@all-souls.ox.ac.uk
Per E. Samuelson
Swedish Lawyer. He has been critical of the justice system and the rule of law in Sweden. He believes there is an abuse of process in the Assange case,
+46 40-30 80 90
John Pilger
Journalist/Writer/Documentary/Filmmaker. Has called the case a ’political stunt’. He has also helped raise bail for Assange.
pilgereditor@gmail.com
Naomi Wolf
Feminist, rape crisis specialist, US author and political consultant. Has expressed the strong view that the Assange case is an abuse of process and that injustice for men does not bring justice for women.
+44 20 7911 8069/ +44 20 7911 8068 (Time Warner Books)
Bianca Jagger
Is known for her dedicated commitment and campaigning for human rights, social justice and environmental protection.. She has said she is "very concerned this case has been politicised"
Christian Christensen
Associate Professor, Uppsala Universitet/Author. Current research includes studies on social media and conflict. He can comment on WikiLeaks
+46 18-471 7113, christian.christensen@im.uu.se
Gavin MacFadyen
Director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism in London. Supporter of WikiLeaks and personal friend of Julian Assange
+44 (0) 20 7040 8526, gavin@tcij.org
Daniel Ellsberg
The famous Pentagon Papers leaker/Retired military analyst/Political activist). He is a friend and support of both Julian and WikiLeaks
ellsbergpress@gmail.com
Michael Moore
Filmmaker. He believes WikiLeaks performs an important public service
+1 (310) 248-2000 (Ari Emanuel, Endeavor Agency), mike@michaelmoore.com
Glenn Greenwald
Columnist/Blogger/Constitutional lawyer. Has a very strong understanding of WikiLeaks issues and Manning case.
+1 (646) 400-5600 (Salon New York office) ggreenwald@salon.com
Jemima Goldsmith
Political activist, campaigner and journalist. Believes it is the citizen’s right to be told the truth.
Larry Flynt
American publisher and the president of Larry Flynt Publications (LFP). Free Speech Activist. He comments on freedom of speech issues. He pledged $50k to defend Julian
+1 (212)-586-2711

Greg Mitchell
Writer for The Nation. Writes a lot on WikiLeaks and wrote the first book to be published on WikiLeaks
+1 212-209-5400, epic1934@aol.com