LIVE: A Conversation with WikiLeaks' Julian Assange, Slavoj Zizek & Amy Goodman (4pm to 6pm BST)

Poslal-a kaptive, Pet, 01/07/2011 - 16:55

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Amy Goodman, the award-winning journalist and host of Democracy Now!, will moderate a conversation with WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange and renowned Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek.

Sponsored by Frontline Club, the event will be broadcast from the Troxy in London on the Democracy Now! live stream at www.democracynow.org from 11am to 1pm EDT (4pm to 6pm BST).

Within the past year, the whistleblower website WikiLeaks has released three of the most significant leaks of classified information in world history: the Iraq War Logs, the Guantánamo Bay files and Cablegate. Since then, the world has undoubtedly changed. Ambassadors have resigned amid scandals exposed by leaked cables; governments have ordered reviews of their computer security; and pro-democracy movements have swept across the Middle East and North Africa—in part fueled, some believe, by WikiLeaks revelations.

Focusing on the ethics and philosophy behind WikiLeaks' work, the talk will provide a rare opportunity to hear two of the world's most prominent thinkers discuss some of the most pressing issues of our time.

It will also mark the publication of the paperback edition of Slavoj Žižek's book, Living in the End Times, in which he argues that new ways of using and sharing information, in particular WikiLeaks, are one of a number of harbingers of the end of global capitalism as we know it.

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Click here to see Democracy Now!'s extensive coverage of WikiLeaks, including several interviews with Julian Assange: http://www.democracynow.org/tags/wikileaks

Click here to see Slavoj Žižek Interviews on Democracy Now!: http://www.democracynow.org/appearances/slavoj_zizek

ABOUT DEMOCRACY NOW!:
Democracy Now! is an independent, global, daily news hour broadcast in English and in Spanish on more than 900 public television and radio stations in 35 countries around the world.

ABOUT AMY GOODMAN:
Amy Goodman is an award-winning investigative journalist, syndicated columnist, author and the host of Democracy Now! Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize" for "developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media." The Independent of London named Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! "an inspiration"; pulsemedia.org placed Goodman at the top of their 20 Top Global Media Figures. Goodman is the author of four New York Times bestsellers. Her latest book, Breaking the Sound Barrier, proves the power of independent journalism in the struggle for a better world.

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