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Julian Assange (Wikileaks) to speak at HOPE Conference in NYC in 2 weeks?
"Assange is scheduled to give The Next HOPE Saturday keynote on July 17 in New York City. To make things even more interesting, Lamo ["hacker" the April drone video was leaked to] has also been planning on appearing at the conference and may now wind up facing a hacker community who views his actions with, to put it mildly, disappointment."
- colonelxc 16y agoI thought there weren't going to be anymore HOPE conferences.
- waivej 16y agoYeah, me too. I really enjoyed listening to the recordings from "The Last Hope". http://www.thelasthope.org/talks.html http://www.thelasthope.org/talks.html I think the hotel got "saved" by the economic downturn so they scheduled another one. (I think they talked about it on the radio show. http://www.2600.com/offthehook/ http://www.2600.com/offthehook/)
- tptacek 16y agoIs he a journalist or is he an activist? He needs to pick one and stick with it.
- brl 16y agoSince Wikileaks is intrinsically both a journalist organization and an activist organization, I'm not sure what you expect Assange to do. Are you criticizing how the Apache helicopter attack video was handled?
- pavs 16y agoBy being an activist, you are by definition bias to a certain cause. To me he is more of an activist then a journalist. He can call himself a journalist, but that doesn't make him so.
- brl 16y agoDoes having a transparent political agenda disqualify somebody from being a journalist? Should Amy Goodman and Geraldo Rivera be stripped of their credentials?
- asdflkj 16y agoAnd where does this "need" come from?
- EvanK 16y agoIn the article (which is two weeks old, by the way), they say that he was scheduled to speak before all this started, but they're not encouraging him to attend given all that has happened since.
- waivej 16y agoAccording to their radio show "Off The Hook" (July 1st - http://www.2600.com/news/view/article/11980 http://www.2600.com/news/view/article/11980), they might have something setup so he can still deliver the keynote.