A “wiki” is a collaborative web-site to which many people contribute — as in wikipedia.org the well known on-line encyclopedia. Wikileaks.org was recently created to “develop[ing] an uncensorable system for untraceable mass document leaking and public analysis. Our primary interests are in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we expect to be of assistance to peoples of all countries who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their governments and corporations.

Among other things that have been leaked and published on-line are the U.S. Rules of Engagement, and the Camp Delta at Guantanamo, Standard Operating Procedure.

Well, a big Swiss bank, Bank Julius Baer, which does a fine business of hiding the assets of the ultra-rich, didn’t like Wikileaks leaking of internal documents showing just that. Prevailing on Bush appointee, Judge Jeffrey White of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California for a permanent injunction, wikileaks.org has been shut down.

The new guerilleros of the internet, however, are not letting this pass. Mirror sites have sprung up all over — and you can be part of the action!

1. Get Those Files, Spread Em

Go to one of the mirrors and start downloading. Start sharing, start uploading. Throw it in your Samba shares and put that shit on Limewire. Post it on your site. Feel free to share them! Get a nice little zip archive of some recently leaked documents, including the documents in question, at here and here.

A mirror of some of the Bank-related documents has been provided by Matt, a member of BinaryFreedom
http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~mflaschen3/banned/julius-baer-stalking.zip

UPDATE: Full archive now available at http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4034919/WikileakS.org_mirror_archive_(Feb_10th_2008)

2. WTF CALIFORNIA????
Call the governor or California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, at 916-445-2841 and tell him to IMMEDIATELY make this a major issue and do whatever he can to get the ruling reversed.

Update: The judge who issued the ruling that shut down wikileaks.org has been shown to be anti-information and anti-reporter before. Here’s a few things that Jeffery White has done before:
He sentenced the reporters who blew open the drugs in baseball scandal to 18 months in prison for failing to reveal their sources
He also fined the San Francisco Chronicle $1000/day until the names were turned over to the court
Also, he was appointed by Bush in 2002. We need this judge OUT OF OFFICE! Bring it on Jeffery, you can’t censor us!

3. Call Your Senators
Call your senators. If you don’t know their numbers, you can find them at here.

Here are a few talking points:
- The Injunction against Wikileaks is illegal, unconstitutional, and unethical.
- He/She has a duty to uphold the constitution
- TIME said that wikileaks could become as important as the Freedom of Information Act as a journalistic tool.
- We need to protect whistleblowers and transparency organizations so we can have an open and democratic government

4. No one goes untold
Spread this story as quickly and accurately as you can. Digg it, slashdot it, newspaper it, flyer it, banner drop it, write it, speak it, spread it.

Keep fighting, keep winning. Direct action gets the goods. Send any updates to my email at 2600denver@gmail.com
in solidarity with those at Wikileaks,
Comrade Ringo Kamens
Armed Division, 35th parallel

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