Secret Power – Wikileaks and Its Enemies: Book Tour Stop
Date and Time
Jan 19, 2023 12:00 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Jan 19, 2023 12:00 pm
14th & V
'I want to live in a society where secret power is accountable to the law and to public opinion for its atrocities, where it is the war criminals who go to jail, not those who have the conscience and courage to expose them.'
It is 2008, and Stefania Maurizi, an investigative journalist with a growing interest in cryptography, starts looking into the little-known organization WikiLeaks. Through hushed meetings, encrypted files and explosive documents, what she discovers sets her on a life-long journey that takes her deep into the realm of secret power.
Working closely with WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange and his organization for her newspaper, Maurizi has spent over a decade investigating state criminality protected by thick layers of secrecy, while also embarking on a solitary trench warfare to unearth the facts underpinning the cruel persecution of Assange and WikiLeaks.
Join Stefania Maurizi, Chip Gibbons (Jacobin USA), Ryan Grim (The Intercept) and Shaun Waterman (Newsweek) to discuss her newly released book "Secret Power. WikiLeaks and Its Enemies", foreword by Ken Loach, Pluto Press, and why secret power wants to destroy Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.
