Archinect - News2024-11-15T02:26:28-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/126380297/ai-weiwei-jacob-appelbaum-and-the-dissident-experience
Ai Weiwei, Jacob Appelbaum and the dissident experience Alexander Walter2015-04-28T20:20:00-04:00>2015-04-29T19:02:49-04:00
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On a whim, Ai suggests that they call Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has been living for the last two years at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. [...]
Ai and Assange talk for several minutes about the mundanities of the dissident life.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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https://archinect.com/news/article/5882123/wikileaks-julian-assange-given-peace-prize
WikiLeaks: Julian Assange given peace prize Paul Petrunia2011-05-10T16:36:27-04:00>2011-05-10T17:01:22-04:00
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The Sydney Peace Foundation said that it was making the award to recognise Mr in recognition of the need “for greater transparency and accountability of governments”.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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