Yesterday morning the Bradley Manning Support Network organized a press call which was attended by such notables as Daniel Ellsberg and Julian Assange. The full audio recording of the press call is now available online: Link.

Following the PBS interview with Julian Assange that was conducted for the WikiSecrets documentary, Assange released the full, unedited video of the interview online. It’s actually fascinating, and brings up issues left out of the documentary:

“WikiSecrects” Julian Assange Full Interview Footage 04/04/2011 from Winston Burrows on Vimeo.

In the video, Assange discusses how the U.S. attempt to use the Espionage Act of 1917 would have a chilling effect on investigative journalism. He further commented that coverage of Bradley Manning has been “appalling” and that “four-and-a-half years ago, we embarked on a mission to bring the 1st Amendment to the world, Little did we realize that our greatest struggle would come in 2010 as we tried to bring the 1st Amendment to the United States:” Link.

At the end of the WikiSecrets documentary, it is mentioned that the release of the documents helped fuel the protest in Tunisia, which arguably had a domino affect on the rest of the Arab Spring. A profoundly inspiring video clip was recently released that show what four miles of Yemeni protesters look and sound like. When people come together united by a common ideal they can accomplish amazing things. Hopefully Americans will follow the example of the Arab spring in coming together to demand greater protections for whistleblowers.