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'''Heather Marsh''' is a [[human rights]] and [[internet activist]], [[programmer]] and [[political theorist]].
'''Heather Marsh''' is a [[human rights]] and [[internet activist]], [[programmer]] and [[political theorist]].


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== Human Rights Activism ==
== Human Rights Activism ==


Primarily a human rights activist, she has been active in freedom of information, anti-poverty, justice related cases and all forms of 'human dignity' as well as advocating for individual rights ahead of all systems of governance.<ref>{{cite web|last=Marsh|first=Heather|title=Individuals in Society|url=http://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/individuals-in-society/|accessdate=September 17, 2012}}</ref> She has been associated with [[Guantanamo]] activism, primarily for Canadian POW [[Omar Khadr]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Omar Khadr|url=http://georgiebc.wordpress.com/category/omar-khadr/|publisher=GeorgieBC's Blog}}</ref> and [[Anonymous]] activity, particularly as a means of stopping pedophiles or censorship.
Primarily a human rights activist, she has been active in freedom of information, anti-poverty, justice related cases and all forms of 'human dignity' as well as advocating for individual rights ahead of all systems of governance.<ref>{{cite web|last=Marsh|first=Heather|title=Individuals in Society|url=http://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/individuals-in-society/|accessdate=September 17, 2012}}</ref> She has been associated with [[Guantanamo]] activism, primarily for Canadian POW [[Omar Khadr]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Omar Khadr|url=http://georgiebc.wordpress.com/category/omar-khadr/|publisher=GeorgieBC's Blog}}</ref> and [[Anonymous]] activity, particularly as a means of stopping pedophiles or censorship.{{cn}}




== Privacy, Free Internet Activist ==
== Privacy, Free Internet Activist ==


She has been ''"active in human rights and freedom of information for years"''.<ref name="wlcentral" /> She is known to use many online identities, and has said they are ""usually sexually ambiguous or male"" to circumvent online sexism. She asserts that anonymous identities allow for ""pure thought exchange ... unclouded by preconceived judgements based on unrelated data.""<ref>{{cite web|title=Resources: International Messages|url=https://cryptoparty.org/wiki/International_Messages|accessdate=September 1, 2012}}</ref> Her work on WL Central advocated transparency for actions and organizations that affect the public and privacy for individuals.
She has been ''"active in human rights and freedom of information for years"''.<ref name="wlcentral" /> She is known{{cn}} to use many online identities, and has said they are ""usually sexually ambiguous or male"" to circumvent online sexism. She asserts that anonymous identities allow for ""pure thought exchange ... unclouded by preconceived judgements based on unrelated data.""{{cn}} Her work on WL Central advocated transparency for actions and organizations that affect the public and privacy for individuals.


== Controversy ==
== Controversy ==


The Canadian [[Defence League]] have targeted her for her activism for [[Guantanamo]] POW [[Omar Khadr]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Canadian Defence League|url=http://www.facebook.com/pages/Canadian-Defence-League/196328817044491|accessdate=September 1, 2012}}</ref>
The Canadian [[Defence League]] have targeted her for her activism for [[Guantanamo]] POW [[Omar Khadr]].{{cn}}


Web blog Pressstorm, known to be affiliated with US FBI agent Sabu,<ref>{{cite web|title=Conversation 1 sabu phone number: Sabu and Jamie|url=http://pastebin.com/HBzGqKja|publisher=Pastebin|accessdate=August 29, 2011}}</ref> made many attempts to 'dox' or discredit her personally, and the website WL Central.
Web blog Pressstorm, known to be affiliated with US FBI agent Sabu,<ref>{{cite web|title=Conversation 1 sabu phone number: Sabu and Jamie|url=http://pastebin.com/HBzGqKja|publisher=Pastebin|accessdate=August 29, 2011}}</ref> made many attempts to 'dox' or discredit her personally, and the website WL Central.{{cn}}




Revision as of 08:23, 8 October 2012

Heather Marsh is a human rights and internet activist, programmer and political theorist.

In 2010 she became administrator, editor in chief and domain holder for the Wikileaks endorsed[1] news site Wikileaks Central. She used WL Central to tie Wikileaks releases to current events and advocate for social change under the slogan "News, analysis, action." The Action section contained protest calendars, petitions, and information for activists. The site published in 16 languages and protests were listed for over one hundred countries.

As editor/administrator of WL Central, she created a community for 70+ activists around the world to provide a new hard news organization, covering only "the news people require in order to govern themselves"[2] and working towards the Wikileaks model of scientific journalism. WL Central rapidly became an internationally very widely read news site.[3] Influential net critic Geert Lovink called WL Central the fourth website he visits every day: "WL Central turned into an alternative news aggregator and a kind of alternative CNN a.k.a. follow-up of Indymedia in the good old days of 2000-2001. it’s gone down a bit but still can up with amazing stories from its own correspondents. WL Central shows what the Web is capable of doing beyond the 140 characters of Twitter and the informal chit-chat on Facebook."[4]

A Canadian activist, she created Take the Square Canada and worked with activists around the world to "encourage and facilitate connection and communication for the revolution"[5]. Some of those groups were the South Korean Hope Riders, the North African Day of Rages, the Chinese Jasmine Revolution, the Spanish Indignados/Take the Square movement and the US Occupy movement.[5].

As editor in chief and administrator of Wikileaks Central she used the media attention on Wikileaks in 2010 to 2012 to shine light on human rights and transparency issues and support revolutions around the world.[6] "As Georgie she has been writing about the revolution since before the beginning, starting with A Stateless War[7] in September 2010."[6] She wrote the first article referencing what became the US Occupy movement on the day it started, March 10, 2011[8] [5], and covered many other day of rages within hours of their beginnings.

She resigned as editor in chief, administrator and domain holder of Wikileaks Central on March 8, 2012.[9]

Political Theorist

She has been primarily associated with concepts such as stigmergy as a system of mass collaboration, concentric user groups, epistemic communities with knowledge bridges and other political theories which relate to horizontal collaboration.[10] Through Global Square she formed a partnership with the Tribler and other projects to code her ideas for mass collaboration. In 2011 she began "A Proposal for Governance"[11] and from there developed concepts which were the foundation for the Global Square, a technological solution to the problems outlined in A Proposal for Governance and and the subsequent Governance and Other Systems of Mass Collaboration.[12] [13][14] Through Wikileaks, the project went viral in the international media.[15][16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21][22] [23][24] [25] [26][27] [28] [29][30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35][36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] [50] [51]

Human Rights Activism

Primarily a human rights activist, she has been active in freedom of information, anti-poverty, justice related cases and all forms of 'human dignity' as well as advocating for individual rights ahead of all systems of governance.[52] She has been associated with Guantanamo activism, primarily for Canadian POW Omar Khadr,[53] and Anonymous activity, particularly as a means of stopping pedophiles or censorship.[citation needed]


Privacy, Free Internet Activist

She has been "active in human rights and freedom of information for years".[6] She is known[citation needed] to use many online identities, and has said they are ""usually sexually ambiguous or male"" to circumvent online sexism. She asserts that anonymous identities allow for ""pure thought exchange ... unclouded by preconceived judgements based on unrelated data.""[citation needed] Her work on WL Central advocated transparency for actions and organizations that affect the public and privacy for individuals.

Controversy

The Canadian Defence League have targeted her for her activism for Guantanamo POW Omar Khadr.[citation needed]

Web blog Pressstorm, known to be affiliated with US FBI agent Sabu,[54] made many attempts to 'dox' or discredit her personally, and the website WL Central.[citation needed]


References

  1. ^ "Supporters". Wikileaks.
  2. ^ "Contact". WL Central.
  3. ^ "Check WL Central". Check-Tools. Retrieved 30 September 2012.
  4. ^ Lovink, Geert. "Geert Lovink's First Five". First Five.
  5. ^ a b c Dorling, Philip. "Building on WikiLeaks". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved October 29, 2011.
  6. ^ a b c "2011-10-25 Thoughts on revolution from Take the Square, WL Central and a member of US Day of Rage (AUDIO)". WL Central. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
  7. ^ Marsh, Heather. "A Stateless War". Retrieved September 12, 2010.
  8. ^ GeorgieBC. "@USDayofRage is on facebook #USDOR". WL Central. Retrieved March 10, 2011.
  9. ^ Marsh, Heather. "To Whom It May Concern". WL Central. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
  10. ^ Marsh, Heather. "Governance and other systems of mass collaboration". GeorgieBC's blog.
  11. ^ Marsh, Heather. "A proposal for governance in the post 2011 world". WL Central. Retrieved December 24, 2011.
  12. ^ Knowles, Jamillah (February 22, 2012). "Outriders". BBC.
  13. ^ Roos, Jerome (February 18, 2012). "Virality: international media coverage of The Global Square". ROAR Mag.
  14. ^ Roos, Jerome. "BBC covers The Global Square: a grassroots social network". ROAR Mag. Retrieved February 22, 2012.
  15. ^ "Would you join a Facebook-style Occupy social network?". CBC. December 28, 2011.
  16. ^ Fox, Zoe (December 28, 2011). "Occupy Facebook: Social Network for Protesters in the Works". Mashable.
  17. ^ John, Constine (December 29th, 2011). "Good Luck Occupiers, But Here's Why "Facebook For Protesters" Won't Work". TechCrunch. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  18. ^ Captain, Sean (December 27, 2011). "Occupy Geeks Are Building a Facebook for the 99%". Wired.
  19. ^ Chanda, Devin (December 29, 2011). "'Occupy' Protestors Building Activist-Only Facebook". Complex Tech.
  20. ^ Baylen, Ashley (December 28th, 2011). "Occupy Facebook: A New Social Network". Shalom Life. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  21. ^ Crow, Lorien (January 02, 2012). "Occupy Wall Street Builds Facebook Alternative". Mobiledia. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  22. ^ Hartmann, Thom (February 16, 2012). "Wikileaks is dabbling in social networking". Truthout.
  23. ^ Ribiero, John (February 15, 2012). "Wikileaks-backed Global Square P2P activist platform due in March". PC World, Computer World, UK Computer World, TechWorld.
  24. ^ Gutiérrez, Bernardo (February 17, 2012). "Trends 2012: La fusión definitiva de lo virtual y lo real". TicBeats Trends.
  25. ^ "Los indignados de Wall Street tendrán su proprio Facebook". ABC. December 29, 2012.
  26. ^ "La red social de 'Occupy Wall Street'". El Mundo. December 29, 2011.
  27. ^ "Global Square: los indignados de EEUU trabajan en su proprio Facebook'". El Confidencial. December 29, 2011.
  28. ^ "Nace Global Square la red social de los indignados". TechWeekEurope, The Inquirer. December 30, 2011.
  29. ^ ROMÁN, JOSE FERNÁNDEZ (December 29, 2011). "Global Square, la red social de los indignados de EEUU". El Referente.
  30. ^ "Occupy Wall Street prepara su propia red social: «Global Square»". Canal331. January 3, 2012.
  31. ^ "The Global Square: o Facebook dos Indignados". Dinheiro Vivo. December 30, 2011.
  32. ^ Machado, Paulo Maurício (December 29, 2011). "The Global Square – a rede social do movimento Occupy Wall Street". Matéria Incógnita.
  33. ^ "Street cria rede alternativa ao Facebook". TVI24 Occupy. December 29, 2012.
  34. ^ "Global Square, a futura rede social do movimento Occupy Wall Street". Fibra. December 29, 2011.
  35. ^ Franc de Ferrière, Jacques (December 28, 2011). "Wall Street ne veut plus occuper Facebook et crée son réseau alternatif". ITEspresso.
  36. ^ Guerin, Hélene (February 17, 2012). "Global Square, la nouvelle plate-forme de Wikileaks". Studio Vitamine.
  37. ^ "La plateforme d'échanges de Wikileaks sortira en mars". Le Monde Informatique. February 15, 2012.
  38. ^ GUERRINI, FEDERICO (December 30, 2011). "Square, gli attivisti di Occupy Wall Street lavorano a un loro Facebook". La Stampa.
  39. ^ Deotto, Fabio (December 28, 2011). "Occupy Wall Street lavora a Global Square, un Facebook al riparo da occhi indiscreti". Panorama.
  40. ^ Knoke, Felix (December 29, 2011). "Neue Internet-Plattform: Occupy Facebook". Der Spiegel.
  41. ^ Gehl, Christian (December 29, 2011). "Global Square: Occupy-Bewegung startet soziales Nerzwerk". Werben & Verkaufen.
  42. ^ "The Global Square, Jejaring Sosial untuk Aktivis dan Demonstran". December 30, 2011.
  43. ^ "http://nasional.topikutama.com/detail/berita/33731/2011-12/The_Global_Square_Jejaring_Sosial_untuk_Aktivis_dan_Demonstran". Massimo. December 29, 2011. {{cite news}}: External link in |title= (help)
  44. ^ "Сеть оккупантам". Коммерсантъ (Citizen K). February 6, 2012.
  45. ^ "http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1862178". IT Tech Blog. December 29, 2011. {{cite news}}: External link in |title= (help)
  46. ^ Michalik, Łukasz (December 29, 2011). "Oburzeni uruchamiają Global Square – własny serwis społecznościowy". VBeta.
  47. ^ "Nova društvena mreža za prosvjednike koji ne vjeruju Facebooku". Net.hr. December 30, 2011.
  48. ^ "The Global Square za generaciju prosvjednika". ZaMirZINE. December 30, 2011.
  49. ^ "'Global Square': Wikileaks-Backed Activist Platform Launching in March". Common Dreams. February 15, 2012.
  50. ^ "Occupy Facebook: Protesters Planning Their Own Social Network". Slate. December 29, 2011.
  51. ^ Roos, Jerome (February 18, 2012). "Virality: international media coverage of The Global Square". ROAR.
  52. ^ Marsh, Heather. "Individuals in Society". Retrieved September 17, 2012.
  53. ^ "Omar Khadr". GeorgieBC's Blog.
  54. ^ "Conversation 1 sabu phone number: Sabu and Jamie". Pastebin. Retrieved August 29, 2011.

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