Bulletin N°470

 

Subject : FREEDOM OF THE PRESS --AN URGENT CALL TO ACTION.


3 December 2010
Grenoble, France
 
Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
We urge you to write immediately Amazon.com Incorporated to express your concern that they have censored Wikileaks' publications at the behest of one of the most reactionary and dangerous lawmakers in US history, Joe Lieberman, US Senator from Connecticut.

Below, please read the New Yorker editorial by Amy Davidson, senior editor at The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2010/12/banishing-wikileaks.html#ixzz171w73Oae

and register your disapproval with Amazon.com at the addresses given below.


Sincerely,
Francis McCollum Feeley
Professor of American Studies
Director of Research
Université Stendhal Grenoble 3
http://www.ceimsa.org/


P.S. Please see below a copy of my letter to the Amazon administrators concerning this scandal + contact information, in case you wish also to register you concerns with the managers of Amazon.com.


COPY:

Dear Amazon.com administers,
As a teacher who has used your services many times in the past and has sent hundreds of students over the years to use your services, as well, I am deeply disturbed by your decision to remove Wikileaks publications from your server. My understanding is that you caved in to the demands of the American Oligarch, Joe Lieberman. This, I believe, is a serious mistake on your part, and a grave danger to American democracy.
I recommend that you correct this mistake immediately to avoid a massive international boycott of your business.
Sincerely,
Francis Feeley
Professor of American Studies
The University of Grenoble
Grenoble, France
Joe Lieberman Knocks WikiLeaks Off Amazon Servers
by Amy Davidson, The New Yorker



Excerpt: "One wonders if Lieberman feels that he, or any Senator, can call in the company running The New Yorker's printing presses when we are preparing a story that includes leaked classified material, and tell it to stop us."
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