Thread by @pisces_uprising

#WhyILoveWikileaks
#1

Wikileaks challenges the old order of power in politics and in journalism.

“We are all engaged in a generational struggle for a proposition that citizens have a right and duty to scrutinise the state”
- Julian Assange

Happy 13th Bday @wikileaks
❤️🎈

#WhyILoveWikileaks
#2

@wikileaks brings forth information from whistleblowers vital to public debate and is a great tool for human rights activists. It was the only organisation willing to publish US military were knowingly shooting civilians seen in “Collateral Murder”video

#WhyILoveWikileaks
#3

I learnt that Google and Facebook were collecting our data and selling it advertisers.
“Every time you take a picture and post it to Facebook, you’re being a rat.”
“People who use Google are the product.”
- Julian Assange

#WhyILoveWikileaks
#4

We learnt about the secret multi-trillion$ international TTIP & TTP treaties that allows transnational corps to bypass domestic courts, regulate labour, police the internet, evade environmental protections and limit each countries legislative sovereignty.

#WhyILoveWikileaks
#5

The DNC emails showed us into the murky world of HRC and associates and how Bernie Sanders run for presidential candidacy was stolen

#WhyILoveWikileaks
#6

Despite editor #JulianAssange being arbitrarily detained since 2012, despite banking blocks, despite multi governmental harassment and hostility @wikileaks still continues to publish important documents including Vault 7 which reveals CIA handiwork.

#WhyILoveWikileaks
#7

@wikileaks has been nudging us to wake up and see what these unaccountable powers are up to. We have a library stacked with datasets and information to draw on, showing us what our governments did and are planning

The revolution will not be televised...