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WikiLeaks & Assange “Banking Blockade” Busted (For Now) — Supporters Now Able to Make Visa, MasterCard and American Express Contributions

July 7, 2011 By Jacob Andrews Leave a Comment
"The WikiCard" by Michael Parenti aka @exiledsurfer

At least for the time being, the WikiLeaks financial and “banking blockade” has been busted. In what many have termed a clear case of financial censorship, major financial institutions and credit card companies such as PayPal, Visa and MasterCard have for months erected a donation blockade, preventing WikiLeaks supporters and donors from making even modest contributions to WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.

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The WikiLeaks Fundraising & Donations Quest: From a VIP “Lunch with Assange” to “BitCoin Virtual Currency”

June 14, 2011 By Jacob Andrews Leave a Comment
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The WikiLeaks fundraising & donations effort continues to evolve just as the Federal Grand Jury investigation of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange swings into gear in Alexandria, Virginia. The fundraising effort by WikiLeaks, which is in need of funds to sustain itself organizationally, includes an exclusive Lunch with Assange eBay auction as well as the use of controversial new Bitcoin virtual currency. With regards to the “Lunch with Assange,” a small group of “Eight admirers of Julian Assange can bid on a 3 hour dinner ‘in one of the best restaurants in London’.” Interested bidders and donors are making bids now at eBay. This is something donors interested in the WikiLeaks cause and looking for time with Assange will appreciate. But what about the menu? Greg Mitchell, as always, has something to say. He says, “What’s on the menu? Should be braised leeks.” At the same time WikiLeaks recently via Twitter today that the organization is now accepting Bitcoin virtual currency donations as a part of the ongoing WikiLeaks fundraising effort. Bitcoins, Andy Greenberg notes, are “a wholly digital and theoretically untraceable currency.” The adoption of Bitcoins by WikiLeaks comes at a moment when this form of virtual currency is both hotly contested and adopted.

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