Report: American Library Assn. Takes Up Resolutions in Support of WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning

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Report: American Library Assn. Takes Up Resolutions in Support of WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning

Friday, June 24, 2011

By Susan Jones

(CNSNews.com) - At its annual convention in New Orleans, the American Library Association is expected to vote on a resolution calling on the U.S. military to release Bradley Manning, the American soldier accused of leaking more than 250,000 classified diplomatic memos to Wikileaks, Fox News reported.

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Fox News reported that resolution is based on the American Library Association's strong support for "the principle of government accountability and the protection of whistleblowers."

Another resolution expected to come up for a vote supports WikiLeaks' "rights" to publish leaked government documents and urges libraries to "link their websites to the WikiLeaks website."

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An ALA blog quotes Executive Director Keith Michael Fiels as saying that "WikiLeaks raises many policy issues including, but not limited to, access to government information, censorship and the blocking of websites, government secrecy and the over-classification of government information, treatment of whistleblowers, government transparency, and the legalities surrounding classified information."

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1. Resolutions on WikiLeaks issues for Annual membership meeting

by Lynne Bradley E. (staff) on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 10:10am

FYI: Attached are three resolutions proposed by Al Kagan and Tom Twiss that will be presented to the ALA membership meeting in NOLA ...

2011 Annual Resolution on WikiLeaks and Fed Agencies a.doc 30 KB
2011 Annual Resolution in Support of WikiLeaks a.doc 25.5 KB
2011 Annual RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF BRADLEY MANNING a.docx 16.84 KB

http://connect.ala.org/node/147977

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