Event: Whistleblowing, Dissent, Accountability Int’l festival
WHISTLEBLOWING, DISSENT, ACCOUNTABILITY Saturday 8 May
Join distinguished international speakers
- Sami Al-Arian, Academic
- Michael Albert, Author and activist
- Mads Andenæs, Lawyer
- Diani Barreto, Painter and activist
- Somerset Bean, Graphic designer
- Max Blumenthal, Investigative journalist and author
- Jonathan Cook, Journalist and author
- John Christensen, Tax justice campaigner
- Eileen Chubb, Whistleblower and founder of Compassion in Care
- Marjorie Cohn, Lawyer, academic and writer
- Michel Collon, Author and journalist
- Naomi Colvin, Whistleblower advocate
- Sevim Dagdelen, Politician and German MP
- Clare Daly, Politician and Irish MEP
- Viktor Dedaj, Author and activist
- Kareem Dennis (Lowkey), Rapper and activist
- John Doe, Hacktivist
- Davide Dormino, Sculptor
- Suelette Dreyfus, Technology researcher, journalist and writer
- Rod Driver, Writer
- Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers whistleblower
- Andrew Feinstein, Writer, campaigner and former politician
- Denzil Forrester, Artist
- Marianna Fotaki, Academic and public health expert
- Andrew Fowler, Investigative journalist
- Nathaniel Frank, Source protector and facilitator
- Nathan Fuller, Writer and campaigner
- John Furse, Filmmaker
- George Galloway, Politician, broadcaster and writer
- Chamira Gamage, Campaigner and entrepreneur
- Martin Garbus, Attorney and author
- Cristina Godoy-Navarrete, Human rights activist
- Kevin Gosztola, Journalist and filmmaker
- Deepa Govindarajan Driver, Academic and trade unionist
- Tareq Haddad, Writer and investigative journalist
- Nicky Hager, Author and investigative journalist
- Jeremy Hammond, Hactivist
- Charles Hector, Lawyer and human rights activist
- Nancy Hollander, Lawyer
- Selma James, Writer and activist
- Lissa Johnson, Psychologist and writer
- Eva Joly, Lawyer and former magistrate and politician
- John Jones, Journalist
- Ögmundur Jónasson, Politician and former interior minister of Iceland
- Torsten Jurell, Visual artist
- Peter Kennard, Artist and professor of visual art
- Kate Kenny, Academic specialising in whistleblowing
- John Kiriakou, Author and CIA whistleblower
- Niki Konstantinidou, Screenwriter, lawyer and novelist
- Niels Ladefoged, Filmmaker
- Richard Lahuis, Photographer
- Joe Lauria, Journalist and author
- Lisa Longstaff, Women’s rights activist
- Clara López Rubio, Filmmaker
- Lauri Love, Activist and technology expert
- David McBride, Lawyer and whistleblower
- Ray McGovern, Activist and former CIA officer
- Alan MacLeod, Journalist
- Franck Magennis, Lawyer and activist
- Stefania Maurizi, Investigative journalist
- Barbara Meister, Journalist and author
- Nils Melzer, Lawyer
- David Miller, Academic
- Federica Morelli, Journalist and activist
- Moritz Mueller, Journalist
- Iain Munro, Academic
- Craig Murray, Author, journalist and human rights activist
- Fidel Narvaez, Human rights activist
- Peter Oborne, Journalist
- Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Former Guantanamo detainee, engineer and writer
- Iain Overton, Investigative journalist
- Jose Passarelli, Filmmaker and animator
- Juan Passarelli, Filmmaker
- John Pilger, Journalist and author
- Margaret Prescod, Author and radio host
- Sami Ramadani, Academic and anti-war activist
- Afshin Rattansi, Journalist
- Margaret Ratner Kunstler, Attorney and author
- John Rees, Anti-war activist and journalist
- Piers Robinson, Academic
- Stephen Rohde, Writer and political activist
- Maggie Ronayne, Academic, trade unionist and women’s rights campaigner
- John Russell, Academic and artist
- Arne Ruth, Retired editor
- Justin Schlosberg, Academic and media activist
- Prem Sikka, Academic and tax justice campaigner
- Norman Solomon, Journalist
- Jeffrey Sterling, Lawyer and CIA whistleblower
- Serena Tinari, Investigative journalist
- Fred Turnheim, Journalist and academic
- Cathy Vogan, Journalist and academic
- Sam Weinstein, Social justice campaigner and trade unionist
- Chris Williamson, Politician
- Asa Winstanley, Journalist
- Andy Worthington, Journalist
- NHS Whistleblower
- Probation Whistleblower
- Support Not Separation
Times, speakers and how to participate: www.whistleblowingfest.org
Organised by the Centre for Global Justice, Peace and Accountability
Global Women’s Strike panel:
Sex, Race & Class – blowing the whistle on the criminality of the state
Time: 16:45 – 18:15 BST Online speakers & discussion
Participate here: https://gavin.whistleblowingfest.org
· Selma James, Wages for Housework Campaign & Global Women’s Strike – A care income for people and planet vs policies of poverty and destruction
· Anne Neale, Support Not Separation (UK) – Mothers and children vs the family courts and the ‘child protection’ industry
· Margaret Prescod, Women of Colour-GWS (US) – Today’s Black Jacobins vs the USA: supporting the grassroots Haitian movement
· Maggie Ronayne, GWS (Galway Ireland) and trade unionist – The fight for pay equity vs class divisions among women
Also recommended:When the oppressors control the law 14:00 – 15:45 BST
Participate here: https://gavin.whistleblowingfest.org
Speakers include:
· Charles Hector, human rights lawyer defending Malaysian villagers vs corporate loggers’ pollution and destruction
· Sam Weinstein, Payday men’s network UK – Blowing the whistle on prisons: UK & US
See also forthcoming Webinar:
12 May 2021, 19:00 – 20:30 BSTSolitary Confinement is a Crime, more info at www.refusingtokill.net