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She gives talks about mass collaboration, democracy, economy and other societal issues. She has spoken about Getgee and the need for a global data commons at various software conferences. She gave a keynote speech on approval economy at the Alternate G8 summit in 2013[67]. She was invited to the 2012 Berlin Biennale as part of their Occupy art exhibition. She represented the Berlin Biennale hackathon at the World Free Media Forum in Rio in June 2012. As a journalist, she has written articles and given many interviews to mainstream media and from 2010 to 2012 she was the sole editor and administrator for the Wikileaks sponsored news site, Wikileaks Central. As an activist, she has started many very successful human rights campaigns. |
She gives talks about mass collaboration, democracy, economy and other societal issues. She has spoken about Getgee and the need for a global data commons at various software conferences. She gave a keynote speech on approval economy at the Alternate G8 summit in 2013[67]. She was invited to the 2012 Berlin Biennale as part of their Occupy art exhibition. She represented the Berlin Biennale hackathon at the World Free Media Forum in Rio in June 2012. As a journalist, she has written articles and given many interviews to mainstream media and from 2010 to 2012 she was the sole editor and administrator for the Wikileaks sponsored news site, Wikileaks Central. As an activist, she has started many very successful human rights campaigns. |
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⚫ | She has been primarily associated with concepts such as approval economy, [[stigmergy]] as a system of mass collaboration, concentric user groups, epistemic communities with knowledge bridges and other political theories which relate to horizontal collaboration. She has also written a great deal about global power structures and what she sees as the "ponzi schemes" of power, celebrity and wealth, how they are created and upheld and the roles which contribute to oligarchy. |
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⚫ | 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"''<ref>{{cite web |
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⚫ | She rejects [[John Locke#Influence|Lockean libertarianism]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://storify.com/GeorgieBC/a-parable-of-lions-and-tygers|title=A parable of lions and tygers.|work=Storify}}</ref> as "societal self destruction"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://storify.com/GeorgieBC/response-to-libertarians|title=Response to libertarians|work=Storify}}</ref> and is in favour of individual rights, governance by user group and overlapping societies with clearly defined social contracts. She is against all forms of trade economy including [[peer-to-peer]] and gift economies. She advocates an economy with societal approval as currency. She calls both democracy and communist government "failed concepts" and recommends stigmergy, concentric circles and knowledge bridges as methods of mass collaboration. |
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⚫ | WL Central rapidly became an internationally very widely read news site,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.check-tools.com/domains/w/wlcentral.org.html|title=Check domain wlcentral.org - WL Central - WikiLeaks news, analysis, action and authorities site audit results sem seo report url information stats Report|work=check-tools.com}}</ref> broke several important stories such as the secret CIA prisons in Poland<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wlcentral.org/category/content-topics/cia-prison-poland|title=CIA prison in Poland|work=wlcentral.org}}</ref> and provided the most in depth coverage of many uprisings. 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."''<ref>{{cite web |
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⚫ | 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"''<ref name="proposal">{{cite web|last=Marsh|first=Heather|title=A proposal for governance in the post 2011 world|url=http://wlcentral.org/node/2389|publisher=WL Central|accessdate=December 24, 2011}}</ref> 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<ref name="proposal" /><ref>{{cite web|last=Carson|first=Kevin|title=The Stigmergic Revolution|url=http://desktopregulatorystate.wordpress.com/|publisher=Desktop Regulatory State|accessdate=2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Hickey|first=Tom|title=Sample proposal for governance in a digital world|url=http://mikenormaneconomics.blogspot.ca/2011/12/sample-proposal-for-governance-in.html|publisher=Mike Norman Economics|accessdate=December 27, 2011}}</ref> and the subsequent Governance and Other Systems of Mass Collaboration.<ref name="bbc">{{cite news|last=Knowles|first=Jamillah|title=Outriders|url=http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/fivelive/pods/pods_20120221-0400a.mp3|newspaper=BBC|date=February 22, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Roos|first=Jerome|title=Virality: international media coverage of The Global Square|url=http://roarmag.org/2012/02/global-square-wikileaks-media-social-network/|newspaper=ROAR Mag|date=February 18, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Roos|first=Jerome|title=BBC covers The Global Square: a grassroots social network|url=http://roarmag.org/2012/02/bbc-outriders-the-global-square-heather-marsh/|publisher=ROAR Mag|accessdate=February 22, 2012}}</ref> Through Wikileaks, the project went viral in the international media.<ref>{{cite news|title=Would you join a Facebook-style Occupy social network?|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2011/12/would-you-join-a-facebook-style-occupy-social-network.html|newspaper=CBC|date=December 28, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Fox|first=Zoe|title=Occupy Facebook: Social Network for Protesters in the Works|url=http://mashable.com/2011/12/28/occupy-facebook/|newspaper=Mashable|date=December 28, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=John|first=Constine|title=Good Luck Occupiers, But Here’s Why "Facebook For Protesters" Won’t Work|url=http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/29/occupy-facebook/|newspaper=TechCrunch|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Captain|first=Sean|title=Occupy Geeks Are Building a Facebook for the 99%|url=https://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/occupy-facebook/|newspaper=Wired|date=December 27, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Chanda|first=Devin|title='Occupy' Protestors Building Activist-Only Facebook|url=http://www.complex.com/tech/2011/12/occupy-protestors-building-activist-only-facebook|newspaper=Complex Tech|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Baylen|first=Ashley|title=Occupy Facebook: A New Social Network|url=http://www.shalomlife.com/news/16417/occupy-facebook-a-new-social-network/|newspaper=Shalom Life|date=December 28, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Crow|first=Lorien|title=Occupy Wall Street Builds Facebook Alternative|url=http://www.mobiledia.com/news/122216.html|newspaper=Mobiledia|date=January 2, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Hartmann|first=Thom|title=Wikileaks is dabbling in social networking|url=http://truth-out.org/news/item/6741:on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-gov-rick-scott%E2%80%99s-plan-to-imprison-floridians-for-profit-derailed-by-his-own-party-and-more|newspaper=Truthout|date=February 16, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Ribeiro|first=John|title=Wikileaks-backed Global Square P2P activist platform due in March|url=http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/applications/3337689/wikileaks-backed-global-square-p2p-activist-platform-due-in-march/|newspaper=PC World, Computer World, UK Computer World, TechWorld|date=February 15, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Gutiérrez|first=Bernardo|title=Trends 2012: La fusión definitiva de lo virtual y lo real|url=http://trends.ticbeat.com/trends-2012-fusion-definitiva-virtual-real/|newspaper=TicBeats Trends|date=February 17, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Los indignados de Wall Street tendrán su proprio Facebook|url=http://www.abc.es/fotos-medios-redes/20111229/indignados-wall-street-tendran-1502233032202.html|newspaper=ABC|date=December 29, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=La red social de ‘Occupy Wall Street’|url=http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2011/12/29/navegante/1325164134.html|newspaper=El Mundo|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Global Square: los indignados de EEUU trabajan en su proprio Facebook'|url=http://www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/2011/12/30/emprendimiento-civil-los-indignados-de-eeuu-trabajan-en-su-propio-facebook-1620/|newspaper=El Confidencial|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Nace Global Square la red social de los indignados|url=http://www.theinquirer.es/2011/12/30/nace-global-square-la-red-social-de-los-indignados.html|newspaper=TechWeekEurope, The Inquirer|date=December 30, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=ROMÁN|first=JOSE FERNÁNDEZ|title=Global Square, la red social de los indignados de EEUU|url=http://www.elreferente.es/tecnologia/redessociales/global-square-la-red-social-de-los-indignados-de-eeuu-17510|newspaper=El Referente|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Occupy Wall Street prepara su propia red social: "Global Square"|newspaper=Canal331|date=January 3, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The Global Square: o Facebook dos Indignados|url=http://www.dinheirovivo.pt/Buzz/Artigo/CIECO028209.html|newspaper=Dinheiro Vivo|date=December 30, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Machado|first=Paulo Maurício|title=The Global Square – a rede social do movimento Occupy Wall Street|url=http://www.materiaincognita.com.br/the-global-square-a-rede-social-do-movimento-occupy-wall-street/#axzz28dzBTC6Z|newspaper=Matéria Incógnita|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Street cria rede alternativa ao Facebook|url=http://www.tvi24.iol.pt/tecnologia/global-square-occupy-rede-social-facebook-tvi24/1313031-4069.html|newspaper=TVI24 Occupy|date=December 29, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Global Square, a futura rede social do movimento Occupy Wall Street|url=http://www.fibra.pt/redes-sociais/4114-global-square-a-futura-rede-social-do-movimento-occupy-wall-street|newspaper=Fibra|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Franc de Ferrière|first=Jacques|title=Wall Street ne veut plus occuper Facebook et crée son réseau alternatif|url=http://www.itespresso.fr/occupy-wall-street-ne-veut-plus-occuper-facebook-et-cree-son-reseau-alternatif-49799.html|newspaper=ITEspresso|date=December 28, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Guerin|first=Hélene|title=Global Square, la nouvelle plate-forme de Wikileaks|url=http://blog.studiovitamine.com/actualite,107,fr/global-square-la-nouvelle-plate-forme-de-wikileaks,304,fr.html?id=966|newspaper=Studio Vitamine|date=February 17, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=La plateforme d’échanges de Wikileaks sortira en mars|url=http://www.lemondeinformatique.fr/actualites/lire-la-plateforme-d-echanges-de-wikileaks-sortira-en-mars-47797.html|newspaper=Le Monde Informatique|date=February 15, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=GUERRINI|first=FEDERICO|title=Square, gli attivisti di Occupy Wall Street lavorano a un loro Facebook|url=http://blog.lastampa.it/_web/cmstp/tmplrubriche/tecnologia/grubrica.asp?ID_blog=30&ID_articolo=9924&ID_sezione=38|newspaper=La Stampa|date=December 30, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Deotto|first=Fabio|title=Occupy Wall Street lavora a Global Square, un Facebook al riparo da occhi indiscreti|url=http://mytech.panorama.it/Occupy-Wall-Street-lavora-a-Global-Square-un-Facebook-al-riparo-da-occhi-indiscreti|newspaper=Panorama|date=December 28, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Knoke|first=Felix|title=Neue Internet-Plattform: Occupy Facebook|url=http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/netzwelt-ticker-forscher-finden-neue-hinweise-auf-stuxnet-familie-a-806208.html|newspaper=Der Spiegel|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Gehl|first=Christian|title=Global Square: Occupy-Bewegung startet soziales Nerzwerk|url=http://www.wuv.de/digital/global_square_occupy_bewegung_startet_soziales_netzwerk_im_januar|newspaper=Werben & Verkaufen|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The Global Square, Jejaring Sosial untuk Aktivis dan Demonstran|url=http://nasional.topikutama.com/detail/berita/33731/2011-12/The_Global_Square_Jejaring_Sosial_untuk_Aktivis_dan_Demonstran|date=December 30, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Cоциальная сеть «The Global Square» от движения «Occupy Wall Street»|url=http://massimo.in.ua/?p=1213|newspaper=Massimo|date=December 29, 2011|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605150449/http://massimo.in.ua/?p=1213|archivedate=June 5, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Сеть оккупантам|url=http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1862178|newspaper=Коммерсантъ (Citizen K)|date=February 6, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Facebookowi nie można już ufać – twierdzą aktywiści. Stworzą własny portal|url=http://ittechblog.pl/2011/12/29/ffacebookowi-nie-mozna-juz-ufac-twierdza-aktywisci-stworza-wlasny-portal/|newspaper=IT Tech Blog|date=December 29, 2011|language=Polish}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Michalik|first=Łukasz|title=Oburzeni uruchamiają Global Square – własny serwis społecznościowy|url=http://internet.gadzetomania.pl/2011/12/29/%E2%80%9Eoburzeni-uruchamiaja-global-square-wlasny-serwis-spolecznosciowy|newspaper=VBeta|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Nova društvena mreža za prosvjednike koji ne vjeruju Facebooku|url=http://tehnoklik.net.hr/nova-drustvena-mreza-za-prosvjednike-koji-ne-vjeruju-facebooku|newspaper=Net.hr|date=December 30, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The Global Square za generaciju prosvjednika|url=http://www.zamirzine.net/spip.php?article11155|newspaper=ZaMirZINE|date=December 30, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title='Global Square': Wikileaks-Backed Activist Platform Launching in March|url=https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/02/15-4|newspaper=Common Dreams|date=February 15, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Occupy Facebook: Protesters Planning Their Own Social Network|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5aEVWLgoS0|newspaper=Slate|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Roos|first=Jerome|title=Virality: international media coverage of The Global Square|url=http://roarmag.org/2012/02/global-square-wikileaks-media-social-network/|newspaper=ROAR|date=February 18, 2012}}</ref> She gave a keynote speech on approval economy at the Alternate G8 summit in 2013<ref>{{cite web|url=https://soundcloud.com/georgiebc/berlin-radio-2012-05-29|title=Berlin radio 2012-05-29 talking about Global Square|work=SoundCloud}}</ref> and represented the Berlin Biennale hackathon at the World Free Media Forum in Rio in June 2012.<ref>http://www.alternateg8.com/assets/Uploads/zine.pdf</ref> |
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⚫ | Her writings on the site covered investigations of leaked material, both from [[Wikileaks]] and other sources such as [[al Jazeera]] and [[Anonymity|anonymous]], coverage of revolutions and protests in live blog and investigative format, and coverage of individual human rights cases, including interviews. In one unpublished interview with [[Guantanamo]] defence attorney [[Dennis Edney]], the two discuss blackmail attempts of witnesses by the FBI and the possibility that [[Omar Khadr]]'s plea deal was signed without legal counsel. The interview was subsequently leaked to Cryptome.<ref>{{cite web |
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== Internet and Journalism == |
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As both a journalist and a media critic, she has often combined the two in articles such as The Guardian: Redacting, Censoring or Lying?,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/2011-03-19-the-guardian-redacting-censoring-or-lying/|title=2011-03-19 The Guardian: Redacting, censoring or lying?|work=GeorgieBC's Blog}}</ref>(the topic of an interview between Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger and Julian Assange in the documentary Mediastan), [[Toronto Star]] Coverage of Omar Khadr since his trial week<ref>{{cite web|url=http://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/toronto-star-coverage-of-omar-khadr-since-his-trial-week-oct-25-2010/|title=Toronto Star coverage of Omar Khadr since his trial week (Oct 25, 2010)|work=GeorgieBC's Blog}}</ref> and Zimbabwe election, Reuters and the troll who accidentally won the Internet.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://storify.com/GeorgieBC/zimbabwe|title=Zimbabwe election, Reuters and the troll who accidentally won the Internet.|work=Storify}}</ref> |
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⚫ | She has been ''"active in human rights and freedom of information for years"''.<ref name="wlcentral">{{cite web|url=http://wlcentral.org/node/2312|title=2011-10-25 Thoughts on revolution from Take the Square, WL Central and a member of US Day of Rage (AUDIO)|publisher=WL Central|accessdate=25 October 2011}}</ref> 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 name="CryptoParty">{{cite web|url=https://soundcloud.com/cryptoparty|title=CryptoParty International Messages of Support|publisher=CryptoParty|accessdate=October 23, 2012}}</ref> Her work on WL Central advocated transparency for actions and organizations that affect the public and privacy for individuals. She was an early supporter of [[CryptoParty]] and provided an international message of support by audio to the first events.<ref name="CryptoParty" /><ref>{{cite book|url=https://cryptoparty.org/wiki/CryptoPartyHandbook|title=The CryptoParty Handbook|publisher=Lulu|year=2012|pages=392}}</ref> |
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⚫ | She is against control and ownership of knowledge by copyrights and patents but writes "Privacy and ownership of personal stories are closely related to human dignity" and credit (although not ownership) for ideas and intellectual labour is essential in an approval economy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2013/04/16/our-right-to-communicate/|title=Our right to communicate|work=GeorgieBC's Blog}}</ref> |
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⚫ | She resigned as editor in chief, administrator and domain holder of Wikileaks Central on March 8, 2012.<ref>{{cite web |
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⚫ | In 2010 she became administrator, editor in chief and domain holder for the [[Wikileaks]] endorsed<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wikileaks.org/Supporters.html|title=Supporters|publisher=Wikileaks}}</ref> 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. |
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⚫ | 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,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://storify.com/GeorgieBC/how-to-create-a-campaign-for-a-guantanamo-detainee|title=How to create a campaign for a Guantanamo detainee #OpGTMO|work=Storify}}</ref> 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 (group)|Anonymous]] activity, particularly human rights issues.<ref name="bbc" /><ref name="globalpost.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/the-grid/myanmar-anonymous-rallies-around-rohingya-prepares-june-operation|title=Myanmar: Anonymous rallies around Rohingya, prepares for online operation|work=GlobalPost}}</ref><ref name="dailydot.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.dailydot.com/society/anonymous-oprohingya-burma-myanmar-twitter/|title=How Anonymous gamed Twitter to shed light on a hidden massacre|work=The Daily Dot}}</ref><ref>http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/the-rohingya-movement-as-seen-by-a-journalist-in-burma http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/25/anonymous-puts-plight-of-rohingya-people-in-twitter-spotlight/</ref><ref name="ReferenceB">{{cite web|url=http://www.dailydot.com/politics/anonymous-opgabon-bongo-murder-africa/|title=Anonymous challenges crisis in West Africa with OpGabon|work=The Daily Dot}}</ref><ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web|url=http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/the-grid/opgabon-anonymous-attacks-gabon-government-protest-ritual-killings|title=OpGabon: Anonymous attacks Gabon government sites in protest of ritual killings|work=GlobalPost}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://asherwolf.net/passive-spectators-and-engaged-newshapers-hacking-news-coverage-of-violence/315/|title=Passive spectators vs. engaged news-shapers |accessdate=September 28, 2013 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002162021/http://asherwolf.net/passive-spectators-and-engaged-newshapers-hacking-news-coverage-of-violence/315/ |archivedate=October 2, 2013 }}</ref> She has reported and campaigned extensively against human trafficking and violations committed by global resource corporations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lavaca.org/mu/mu-83-podemos/|title=Mu 83: Podemos|work=lavaca}}</ref> |
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⚫ | She has written extensively on her activism including investigative reports and interviews<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blogtalkradio.com/canadianglen/2015/01/15/the-view-up-here-and-heather-marsh-talk-21st-century-torture-and-omar-khadr|title=The View Up Here and Heather Marsh talk 21st Century torture and Omar Khadr|date=15 January 2015|work=BlogTalkRadio}}</ref> on Canadian juvenile Omar Khadr, one of the youngest prisoners of Guantanamo Bay. Her popular blog is well-received globally.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/approval-economy-in-practice/|title=Approval Economy: In Practice|work=GeorgieBC's Blog}}</ref> She is the national spokesperson for the Free Omar Khadr<ref name="freeomarakhadr.com">{{cite web|url=http://freeomarakhadr.com/|title=FREE Omar Khadr NOW|work=FREE Omar Khadr NOW}}</ref> group in Canada, spending her time writing, speaking, advocating for Omar's release.<ref name="gorilla-radio.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.gorilla-radio.com/index.php?id=668|title=Gorilla Radio|work=gorilla-radio.com}}</ref> One of her most recent interviews were published in ''The Diplomat''<ref name="thediplomat1">{{cite web|url=http://thediplomat.com/|title=The Diplomat|author=The Diplomat|work=The Diplomat}}</ref> related to her work about Omar Khadr.<ref name="thediplomat.com">{{cite web|url=http://thediplomat.com/the-pulse/2013/06/03/freeing-omar-khadr-an-interview-with-guantanamo-bay-activists/|title=Freeing Omar Khadr: An Interview with Guantanamo Bay Activists|author=Sonya Rehman, The Diplomat|work=The Diplomat}}</ref> |
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⚫ | 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.<ref name="wlcentral" |
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⚫ | 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"''.<ref name="smh" /> Some of those groups were the South Korean [[Hope Riders]], the North African [[Arab Spring|Day of Rage]]s, the Chinese [[2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests|Jasmine Revolution]], the Spanish [[Indignados]]/Take the Square movement and the US [[Occupy movement]].<ref name="smh" /> |
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She wrote the first English media articles about [[Abdulelah Haider Shaye]], a Yemeni journalist ordered imprisoned by Obama, a year and a half before any report appeared in the US.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/2011-02-01-yemens-day-of-rage-and-abdul-ilah-shayi/|title=2011-02-01 Yemen’s Day of Rage and Abdul Ilah Shayi - GeorgieBC's Blog|work=GeorgieBC's Blog}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/2011-02-12-obama-overrules-amnesty-international-president-of-yemen-journalist-remains-imprisoned/|title=2011-02-12 Obama overrules Amnesty International & President of Yemen, Journalist remains imprisoned|work=GeorgieBC's Blog}}</ref> She brought global awareness to topics such as the Rohingya genocide in Burma<ref name="globalpost.com" /><ref name="dailydot.com" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/the-rohingya-movement-as-seen-by-a-journalist-in-burmahttp://venturebeat.com/2013/03/25/anonymous-puts-plight-of-rohingya-people-in-twitter-spotlight/|title=VICE - United States - The Definitive Guide to Enlightening Information|work=VICE}}</ref> and ritual killings in Gabon<ref name="ReferenceB" /><ref name="ReferenceA" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailydot.com/news/anonymous-op-gabon-returns/|title=Anonymous' OpGabon returns ahead of Gabon's municipal elections|work=The Daily Dot}}</ref> |
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== Political theorist == |
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⚫ | She has been primarily associated with concepts such as approval economy, [[stigmergy]] as a system of mass collaboration, concentric user groups, epistemic communities with knowledge bridges and other political theories which relate to horizontal collaboration. She has also written a great deal about global power structures and what she sees as the "ponzi schemes" of power, celebrity and wealth, how they are created and upheld and the roles which contribute to oligarchy. |
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⚫ | She began a research project to map connections between the people behind resource corporations, militias, spies and prisons ”to remove the corporate boxes and see who is behind everything and what else they are involved in,” in response to a fracking protest in New Brunswick.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/the-grid/opfrackoff-anonymous-canada-Elsipogtog-anti-fracking-protest|title=OpFrackOff: Anonymous pledges support to Canada anti-fracking protesters|work=GlobalPost}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pearltrees.com/#/N-u=1_1575878&N-fa=9552919&N-s=1_9552919&N-f=1_9552919&N-p=92825825%7ctitle=Pearltrees%7cwork=pearltrees.com%7ctitle=Pearltrees%7cwork=pearltrees.com|title=Pearltrees|work=pearltrees.com}}</ref> She started the OpDeathEaters campaign to inform the public of high level complicity in the human trafficking and 'paedosadism'<ref>{{cite web|url=http://youranoncentral.tumblr.com/post/109147760279/opdeatheaters-faq|title=YourAnonCentral|work=tumblr.com}}</ref> industries with a goal of independent inquiries to investigate and a change in public discourse around these crimes.<ref name="stefanmey">{{cite web|url=http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Anonymous-und-die-Todesser-Jagd-auf-Paedophilen-Netzwerke-2548518.html|title=Anonymous und die Todesser: Jagd auf Pädophilen-Netzwerke|author=Stefan Mey|date=12 February 2015|work=heise online}}</ref><ref name="stefanmey" /><ref name="newsweek.com">http://www.newsweek.com/anonymous-call-uk-protest-against-paedophiles-establishment-304342</ref><ref name="newsweek.com" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/behind-anonymouss-operation-to-reveal-britains-elite-child-rape-syndicate-273?utm_source=vicetwitterca|title=Behind Anonymous’s Operation to Reveal Britain’s Elite Child-Rape Syndicate|work=VICE}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ibt.uk/A006EPp|title=Anonymous OpDeathEaters campaign calls for people to expose paedophile networks around the world|work=International Business Times UK}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/anonymous-calls-for-activists-to-help-expose-international-paedophile-networks-with-operation-deatheaters-9998350.html|title=Anonymous calls for activists to help expose international paedophile networks with 'Operation DeathEaters'|work=The Independent}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/anonymous-hacktivists-target-paedophile-networks-5029544|title=Anonymous 'hacktivists' target paedophile networks with Harry Potter-inspired #OpDeathEaters campaign|author=Jeff Parsons|date=23 January 2015|work=mirror}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11363303/Anonymous-hackers-turn-fire-on-global-paedophile-menace.html|title=Anonymous hackers turn fire on global paedophile menace|date=23 January 2015|work=Telegraph.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/operation-deatheaters-anonymous-calls-for-activists-to-help-expose-international-paedophile-networks-30931991.html|title=Operation DeathEaters: Anonymous calls for activists to help expose international paedophile networks|work=BelfastTelegraph.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://es.rt.com/3iqg|title=Anonymous apunta sus armas contra la pedofilia|work=RT en Español}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://rt.com/news/225807-anonymous-operation-against-pedophiles/#.VMM4VSvO8ZE.twitter#OpDeathEaters|title=Anonymous asks activists to help fight pedophiles in ‘Operation DeathEaters’|work=rt.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2924864/Hacking-group-Anonymous-target-paedophiles.html|title=Hacking group Anonymous to target paedophiles|work=Mail Online}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/01/25/2123226/anonymous-asks-activists-to-fight-pedophiles-in-operation-deatheaters|title=Anonymous Asks Activists To Fight Pedophiles In 'Operation Deatheaters' - Slashdot|work=slashdot.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hackread.com/opdeatheaters-anonymous-gearing-up-to-expose-pedophile/|title=OpDeathEaters: Anonymous Gearing up to Expose Global Pedophile Networks|author=Waqas|work=HackRead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/01/23/394473/Anonymous-targets-pedophile-networks|title=PressTV-Anonymous targets pedophile networks|work=presstv.ir}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://m.spitsnieuws.nl/geek/2015/01/anonymous-gaat-pedofielen-slopen|title=Anonymous gaat pedofielen slopen|work=spitsnieuws.nl}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dagbladet.no/2015/01/23/nyheter/anonymous/pedofili/overgrep/utenriks/37343135/|title=Først angrep Anonymous IS. Nå skal "Operasjon Dødsetere" knuse pedofiliringer|work=Dagbladet.no}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.inquisitr.com/1784457/heard-of-opdeatheaters-anonymous-movement-seeks-end-to-child-sex-trafficking-justice-for-victims/|title=Heard of #OpDeathEaters? Anonymous Movement Seeks End To Child Sex Trafficking; Justice For Victims|work=The Inquisitr News}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.techworm.net/2015/01/anonymous-operation-death-eaters-to-expose-international-paedophile-networks.html#sthash.lNxM8BmU.dpuf|title=Anonymous relaunch Operation Death Eaters to expose international paedophile networks|author=Vijay|work=TechWorm}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150124/1017301478.html|title=Anonymous Hacktivist Group Now Gunning for Powerful Pedophile Networks|author=Sputnik|date=24 January 2015|work=sputniknews.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.administradores.com.br/noticias/cotidiano/anonymous-pretende-expor-redes-internacionais-de-pedofilia/97395/|title=Anonymous pretende expor redes internacionais de pedofilia|work=Administradores.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://glo.bo/1CliFd1|title=Grupo de hackers Anonymous mira expor redes internacionais de pedofilia|author=O GLOBO, COM SITES|date=23 January 2015|work=O Globo}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://elcomercio.pe/redes-sociales/youtube/youtube-anonymous-planea-atacar-redes-pedofilia-noticia-1786800|title=YouTube: Anonymous planea atacar a redes de pedofilia|author=El Comercio|date=4 July 2015|work=EL COMERCIO}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.correodelorinoco.gob.ve/comunicacion-cultura/anonymous-apunta-sus-armas-contra-pedofilia/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter|title=Anonymous apunta sus armas contra la pedofilia|work=correodelorinoco.gob.ve}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cna.com.tw/news/firstnews/201501240198-1.aspx|title=駭客組織新目標:戀童網站|work=cna.com.tw}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ettoday.net/news/20150124/458237.htm|title=「匿名者」爆全球戀童網站 對抗主流漠視兒少性侵案件|author=ETtoday 新聞雲|date=24 January 2015|work=ETtoday 東森新聞雲}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zaobao.com.sg/realtime/world/story20150124-439068|title=黑客组织新目标:恋童网站|work=联合早报网}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://dailynews.sina.com/gb/news/int/cna/20150124/00596409836.html|title=骇客组织新目标:恋童网站|work=sina.com}}</ref><ref>http://bbs.tiexue.net/post2_8509389_1.html</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.africanseer.com/index.php?news=392791|title=Hacking group Anonymous to target paedophiles|work=AfricanSeer}}</ref> She started Gaza Rebirth, "a new paradigm for recovery activism" to establish direct aid to Gaza in 2014 and "to start a dialogue about this cycle of destruction and ‘rebuilding’ where corporate empires are feeding off real human torment as a growth industry to enrich themselves."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thecryptosphere.com/2014/10/20/an-interview-with-gazarebirth-a-new-paradigm-for-recovery-activism/|title=An interview with #GazaRebirth: a New Paradigm for Recovery Activism|work=The Cryptosphere}}</ref> She has frequently called for the abolishment of NGOs which she considers part of the "systems of dissociation" which stand between people and prevent creation of healthy society.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2013/11/02/news-analysis-action/|title=News, analysis, action|work=GeorgieBC's Blog}}</ref> |
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⚫ | She rejects [[John Locke#Influence|Lockean libertarianism]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://storify.com/GeorgieBC/a-parable-of-lions-and-tygers|title=A parable of lions and tygers.|work=Storify}}</ref> as "societal self destruction"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://storify.com/GeorgieBC/response-to-libertarians|title=Response to libertarians|work=Storify}}</ref> and is in favour of individual rights, governance by user group and overlapping societies with clearly defined social contracts. She is against all forms of trade economy including [[peer-to-peer]] and gift economies. She advocates an economy with societal approval as currency. She calls both democracy and communist government "failed concepts" and recommends stigmergy, concentric circles and knowledge bridges as methods of mass collaboration. |
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== WikiLeaks, Anonymous, Occupy and more == |
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⚫ | 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"''<ref name="proposal">{{cite web|last=Marsh|first=Heather|title=A proposal for governance in the post 2011 world|url=http://wlcentral.org/node/2389|publisher=WL Central|accessdate=December 24, 2011}}</ref> 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<ref name="proposal"/><ref>{{cite web|last=Carson|first=Kevin|title=The Stigmergic Revolution|url=http://desktopregulatorystate.wordpress.com/|publisher=Desktop Regulatory State|accessdate=2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Hickey|first=Tom|title=Sample proposal for governance in a digital world|url=http://mikenormaneconomics.blogspot.ca/2011/12/sample-proposal-for-governance-in.html|publisher=Mike Norman Economics|accessdate=December 27, 2011}}</ref> and the subsequent Governance and Other Systems of Mass Collaboration.<ref name="bbc">{{cite news|last=Knowles|first=Jamillah|title=Outriders|url=http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/fivelive/pods/pods_20120221-0400a.mp3|newspaper=BBC|date=February 22, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Roos|first=Jerome|title=Virality: international media coverage of The Global Square|url=http://roarmag.org/2012/02/global-square-wikileaks-media-social-network/|newspaper=ROAR Mag|date=February 18, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Roos|first=Jerome|title=BBC covers The Global Square: a grassroots social network|url=http://roarmag.org/2012/02/bbc-outriders-the-global-square-heather-marsh/|publisher=ROAR Mag|accessdate=February 22, 2012}}</ref> Through Wikileaks, the project went viral in the international media.<ref>{{cite news|title=Would you join a Facebook-style Occupy social network?|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2011/12/would-you-join-a-facebook-style-occupy-social-network.html|newspaper=CBC|date=December 28, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Fox|first=Zoe|title=Occupy Facebook: Social Network for Protesters in the Works|url=http://mashable.com/2011/12/28/occupy-facebook/|newspaper=Mashable|date=December 28, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=John|first=Constine|title=Good Luck Occupiers, But Here’s Why "Facebook For Protesters" Won’t Work|url=http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/29/occupy-facebook/|newspaper=TechCrunch|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Captain|first=Sean|title=Occupy Geeks Are Building a Facebook for the 99%|url=https://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/occupy-facebook/|newspaper=Wired|date=December 27, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Chanda|first=Devin|title='Occupy' Protestors Building Activist-Only Facebook|url=http://www.complex.com/tech/2011/12/occupy-protestors-building-activist-only-facebook|newspaper=Complex Tech|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Baylen|first=Ashley|title=Occupy Facebook: A New Social Network|url=http://www.shalomlife.com/news/16417/occupy-facebook-a-new-social-network/|newspaper=Shalom Life|date=December 28, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Crow|first=Lorien|title=Occupy Wall Street Builds Facebook Alternative|url=http://www.mobiledia.com/news/122216.html|newspaper=Mobiledia|date=January 2, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Hartmann|first=Thom|title=Wikileaks is dabbling in social networking|url=http://truth-out.org/news/item/6741:on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-gov-rick-scott%E2%80%99s-plan-to-imprison-floridians-for-profit-derailed-by-his-own-party-and-more|newspaper=Truthout|date=February 16, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Ribeiro|first=John|title=Wikileaks-backed Global Square P2P activist platform due in March|url=http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/applications/3337689/wikileaks-backed-global-square-p2p-activist-platform-due-in-march/|newspaper=PC World, Computer World, UK Computer World, TechWorld|date=February 15, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Gutiérrez|first=Bernardo|title=Trends 2012: La fusión definitiva de lo virtual y lo real|url=http://trends.ticbeat.com/trends-2012-fusion-definitiva-virtual-real/|newspaper=TicBeats Trends|date=February 17, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Los indignados de Wall Street tendrán su proprio Facebook|url=http://www.abc.es/fotos-medios-redes/20111229/indignados-wall-street-tendran-1502233032202.html|newspaper=ABC|date=December 29, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=La red social de ‘Occupy Wall Street’|url=http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2011/12/29/navegante/1325164134.html|newspaper=El Mundo|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Global Square: los indignados de EEUU trabajan en su proprio Facebook'|url=http://www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/2011/12/30/emprendimiento-civil-los-indignados-de-eeuu-trabajan-en-su-propio-facebook-1620/|newspaper=El Confidencial|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Nace Global Square la red social de los indignados|url=http://www.theinquirer.es/2011/12/30/nace-global-square-la-red-social-de-los-indignados.html|newspaper=TechWeekEurope, The Inquirer|date=December 30, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=ROMÁN|first=JOSE FERNÁNDEZ|title=Global Square, la red social de los indignados de EEUU|url=http://www.elreferente.es/tecnologia/redessociales/global-square-la-red-social-de-los-indignados-de-eeuu-17510|newspaper=El Referente|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Occupy Wall Street prepara su propia red social: "Global Square"|newspaper=Canal331|date=January 3, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The Global Square: o Facebook dos Indignados|url=http://www.dinheirovivo.pt/Buzz/Artigo/CIECO028209.html|newspaper=Dinheiro Vivo|date=December 30, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Machado|first=Paulo Maurício|title=The Global Square – a rede social do movimento Occupy Wall Street|url=http://www.materiaincognita.com.br/the-global-square-a-rede-social-do-movimento-occupy-wall-street/#axzz28dzBTC6Z|newspaper=Matéria Incógnita|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Street cria rede alternativa ao Facebook|url=http://www.tvi24.iol.pt/tecnologia/global-square-occupy-rede-social-facebook-tvi24/1313031-4069.html|newspaper=TVI24 Occupy|date=December 29, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Global Square, a futura rede social do movimento Occupy Wall Street|url=http://www.fibra.pt/redes-sociais/4114-global-square-a-futura-rede-social-do-movimento-occupy-wall-street|newspaper=Fibra|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Franc de Ferrière|first=Jacques|title=Wall Street ne veut plus occuper Facebook et crée son réseau alternatif|url=http://www.itespresso.fr/occupy-wall-street-ne-veut-plus-occuper-facebook-et-cree-son-reseau-alternatif-49799.html|newspaper=ITEspresso|date=December 28, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Guerin|first=Hélene|title=Global Square, la nouvelle plate-forme de Wikileaks|url=http://blog.studiovitamine.com/actualite,107,fr/global-square-la-nouvelle-plate-forme-de-wikileaks,304,fr.html?id=966|newspaper=Studio Vitamine|date=February 17, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=La plateforme d’échanges de Wikileaks sortira en mars|url=http://www.lemondeinformatique.fr/actualites/lire-la-plateforme-d-echanges-de-wikileaks-sortira-en-mars-47797.html|newspaper=Le Monde Informatique|date=February 15, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=GUERRINI|first=FEDERICO|title=Square, gli attivisti di Occupy Wall Street lavorano a un loro Facebook|url=http://blog.lastampa.it/_web/cmstp/tmplrubriche/tecnologia/grubrica.asp?ID_blog=30&ID_articolo=9924&ID_sezione=38|newspaper=La Stampa|date=December 30, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Deotto|first=Fabio|title=Occupy Wall Street lavora a Global Square, un Facebook al riparo da occhi indiscreti|url=http://mytech.panorama.it/Occupy-Wall-Street-lavora-a-Global-Square-un-Facebook-al-riparo-da-occhi-indiscreti|newspaper=Panorama|date=December 28, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Knoke|first=Felix|title=Neue Internet-Plattform: Occupy Facebook|url=http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/netzwelt-ticker-forscher-finden-neue-hinweise-auf-stuxnet-familie-a-806208.html|newspaper=Der Spiegel|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Gehl|first=Christian|title=Global Square: Occupy-Bewegung startet soziales Nerzwerk|url=http://www.wuv.de/digital/global_square_occupy_bewegung_startet_soziales_netzwerk_im_januar|newspaper=Werben & Verkaufen|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The Global Square, Jejaring Sosial untuk Aktivis dan Demonstran|url=http://nasional.topikutama.com/detail/berita/33731/2011-12/The_Global_Square_Jejaring_Sosial_untuk_Aktivis_dan_Demonstran|date=December 30, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Cоциальная сеть «The Global Square» от движения «Occupy Wall Street»|url=http://massimo.in.ua/?p=1213|newspaper=Massimo|date=December 29, 2011|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605150449/http://massimo.in.ua/?p=1213|archivedate=June 5, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Сеть оккупантам|url=http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1862178|newspaper=Коммерсантъ (Citizen K)|date=February 6, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Facebookowi nie można już ufać – twierdzą aktywiści. Stworzą własny portal|url=http://ittechblog.pl/2011/12/29/ffacebookowi-nie-mozna-juz-ufac-twierdza-aktywisci-stworza-wlasny-portal/|newspaper=IT Tech Blog|date=December 29, 2011|language=Polish}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Michalik|first=Łukasz|title=Oburzeni uruchamiają Global Square – własny serwis społecznościowy|url=http://internet.gadzetomania.pl/2011/12/29/%E2%80%9Eoburzeni-uruchamiaja-global-square-wlasny-serwis-spolecznosciowy|newspaper=VBeta|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Nova društvena mreža za prosvjednike koji ne vjeruju Facebooku|url=http://tehnoklik.net.hr/nova-drustvena-mreza-za-prosvjednike-koji-ne-vjeruju-facebooku|newspaper=Net.hr|date=December 30, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The Global Square za generaciju prosvjednika|url=http://www.zamirzine.net/spip.php?article11155|newspaper=ZaMirZINE|date=December 30, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title='Global Square': Wikileaks-Backed Activist Platform Launching in March|url=https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/02/15-4|newspaper=Common Dreams|date=February 15, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Occupy Facebook: Protesters Planning Their Own Social Network|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5aEVWLgoS0|newspaper=Slate|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Roos|first=Jerome|title=Virality: international media coverage of The Global Square|url=http://roarmag.org/2012/02/global-square-wikileaks-media-social-network/|newspaper=ROAR|date=February 18, 2012}}</ref> She gave a keynote speech on approval economy at the Alternate G8 summit in 2013<ref>{{cite web|url=https://soundcloud.com/georgiebc/berlin-radio-2012-05-29|title=Berlin radio 2012-05-29 talking about Global Square|work=SoundCloud}}</ref> and represented the Berlin Biennale hackathon at the World Free Media Forum in Rio in June 2012.<ref>http://www.alternateg8.com/assets/Uploads/zine.pdf</ref> |
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⚫ | 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"''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wlcentral.org/q-a|title=Contact|publisher=WL Central|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101123105353/http://wlcentral.org:80/q-a|archive-date=2010-11-23|dead-url=yes}}</ref> and working towards the Wikileaks model of scientific journalism. |
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⚫ | WL Central rapidly became an internationally very widely read news site,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.check-tools.com/domains/w/wlcentral.org.html|title=Check domain wlcentral.org - WL Central - WikiLeaks news, analysis, action and authorities site audit results sem seo report url information stats Report|work=check-tools.com}}</ref> broke several important stories such as the secret CIA prisons in Poland<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wlcentral.org/category/content-topics/cia-prison-poland|title=CIA prison in Poland|work=wlcentral.org}}</ref> and provided the most in depth coverage of many uprisings. 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."''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://first-5.tumblr.com/post/18435466015/geertlovink|title=Geert Lovink's First Five|last=Lovink|first=Geert|publisher=First Five}}</ref> |
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⚫ | 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,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://storify.com/GeorgieBC/how-to-create-a-campaign-for-a-guantanamo-detainee|title=How to create a campaign for a Guantanamo detainee #OpGTMO|work=Storify}}</ref> 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 (group)|Anonymous]] activity, particularly human rights issues.<ref name="bbc"/><ref name="globalpost.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/the-grid/myanmar-anonymous-rallies-around-rohingya-prepares-june-operation|title=Myanmar: Anonymous rallies around Rohingya, prepares for online operation|work=GlobalPost}}</ref><ref name="dailydot.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.dailydot.com/society/anonymous-oprohingya-burma-myanmar-twitter/|title=How Anonymous gamed Twitter to shed light on a hidden massacre|work=The Daily Dot}}</ref><ref>http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/the-rohingya-movement-as-seen-by-a-journalist-in-burma http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/25/anonymous-puts-plight-of-rohingya-people-in-twitter-spotlight/</ref><ref name="ReferenceB">{{cite web|url=http://www.dailydot.com/politics/anonymous-opgabon-bongo-murder-africa/|title=Anonymous challenges crisis in West Africa with OpGabon|work=The Daily Dot}}</ref><ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web|url=http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/the-grid/opgabon-anonymous-attacks-gabon-government-protest-ritual-killings|title=OpGabon: Anonymous attacks Gabon government sites in protest of ritual killings|work=GlobalPost}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://asherwolf.net/passive-spectators-and-engaged-newshapers-hacking-news-coverage-of-violence/315/|title=Passive spectators vs. engaged news-shapers |accessdate=September 28, 2013 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002162021/http://asherwolf.net/passive-spectators-and-engaged-newshapers-hacking-news-coverage-of-violence/315/ |archivedate=October 2, 2013 }}</ref> She has reported and campaigned extensively against human trafficking and violations committed by global resource corporations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lavaca.org/mu/mu-83-podemos/|title=Mu 83: Podemos|work=lavaca}}</ref> |
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⚫ | Her writings on the site covered investigations of leaked material, both from [[Wikileaks]] and other sources such as [[al Jazeera]] and [[Anonymity|anonymous]], coverage of revolutions and protests in live blog and investigative format, and coverage of individual human rights cases, including interviews. In one unpublished interview with [[Guantanamo]] defence attorney [[Dennis Edney]], the two discuss blackmail attempts of witnesses by the FBI and the possibility that [[Omar Khadr]]'s plea deal was signed without legal counsel. The interview was subsequently leaked to Cryptome.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2013/11/02/how-canada-has-hidden-the-truth-about-omar-khadr-us-war-crimes-institutional-racism-and-media-failures/|title=How Canada Has Hidden the Truth About Omar Khadr: US War Crimes, Institutional Racism and Media Failures|}}</ref> The interview discusses the delaying of publication until after Edney returns from Guantanamo; when he returned from Guantanamo he was fired from the case and forbidden to speak of it. |
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⚫ | She has written extensively on her activism including investigative reports and interviews<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blogtalkradio.com/canadianglen/2015/01/15/the-view-up-here-and-heather-marsh-talk-21st-century-torture-and-omar-khadr|title=The View Up Here and Heather Marsh talk 21st Century torture and Omar Khadr|date=15 January 2015|work=BlogTalkRadio}}</ref> on Canadian juvenile Omar Khadr, one of the youngest prisoners of Guantanamo Bay. Her popular blog is well-received globally.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/approval-economy-in-practice/|title=Approval Economy: In Practice|work=GeorgieBC's Blog}}</ref> She is the national spokesperson for the Free Omar Khadr<ref name="freeomarakhadr.com">{{cite web|url=http://freeomarakhadr.com/|title=FREE Omar Khadr NOW|work=FREE Omar Khadr NOW}}</ref> group in Canada, spending her time writing, speaking, advocating for Omar's release.<ref name="gorilla-radio.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.gorilla-radio.com/index.php?id=668|title=Gorilla Radio|work=gorilla-radio.com}}</ref> One of her most recent interviews were published in ''The Diplomat''<ref name="thediplomat1">{{cite web|url=http://thediplomat.com/|title=The Diplomat|author=The Diplomat|work=The Diplomat}}</ref> related to her work about Omar Khadr.<ref name="thediplomat.com">{{cite web|url=http://thediplomat.com/the-pulse/2013/06/03/freeing-omar-khadr-an-interview-with-guantanamo-bay-activists/|title=Freeing Omar Khadr: An Interview with Guantanamo Bay Activists|author=Sonya Rehman, The Diplomat|work=The Diplomat}}</ref> |
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As both a journalist and a media critic, she has often combined the two in articles such as The Guardian: Redacting, Censoring or Lying?,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/2011-03-19-the-guardian-redacting-censoring-or-lying/|title=2011-03-19 The Guardian: Redacting, censoring or lying?|work=GeorgieBC's Blog}}</ref>(the topic of an interview between Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger and Julian Assange in the documentary Mediastan), [[Toronto Star]] Coverage of Omar Khadr since his trial week<ref>{{cite web|url=http://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/toronto-star-coverage-of-omar-khadr-since-his-trial-week-oct-25-2010/|title=Toronto Star coverage of Omar Khadr since his trial week (Oct 25, 2010)|work=GeorgieBC's Blog}}</ref> and Zimbabwe election, Reuters and the troll who accidentally won the Internet.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://storify.com/GeorgieBC/zimbabwe|title=Zimbabwe election, Reuters and the troll who accidentally won the Internet.|work=Storify}}</ref> |
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⚫ | She resigned as editor in chief, administrator and domain holder of Wikileaks Central on March 8, 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wikileaks.theblogger.com.au/2012/03/08/to-whom-it-may-concern/|title=To Whom It May Concern|last=Marsh|first=Heather|publisher=WL Central|accessdate=March 8, 2012}}</ref> |
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⚫ | She began a research project to map connections between the people behind resource corporations, militias, spies and prisons ”to remove the corporate boxes and see who is behind everything and what else they are involved in,” in response to a fracking protest in New Brunswick.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/the-grid/opfrackoff-anonymous-canada-Elsipogtog-anti-fracking-protest|title=OpFrackOff: Anonymous pledges support to Canada anti-fracking protesters|work=GlobalPost}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pearltrees.com/#/N-u=1_1575878&N-fa=9552919&N-s=1_9552919&N-f=1_9552919&N-p=92825825%7ctitle=Pearltrees%7cwork=pearltrees.com%7ctitle=Pearltrees%7cwork=pearltrees.com|title=Pearltrees|work=pearltrees.com}}</ref> She started the OpDeathEaters campaign to inform the public of high level complicity in the human trafficking and 'paedosadism'<ref>{{cite web|url=http://youranoncentral.tumblr.com/post/109147760279/opdeatheaters-faq|title=YourAnonCentral|work=tumblr.com}}</ref> industries with a goal of independent inquiries to investigate and a change in public discourse around these crimes.<ref name="stefanmey">{{cite web|url=http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Anonymous-und-die-Todesser-Jagd-auf-Paedophilen-Netzwerke-2548518.html|title=Anonymous und die Todesser: Jagd auf Pädophilen-Netzwerke|author=Stefan Mey|date=12 February 2015|work=heise online}}</ref><ref name="stefanmey"/><ref name="newsweek.com">http://www.newsweek.com/anonymous-call-uk-protest-against-paedophiles-establishment-304342</ref><ref name="newsweek.com"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/behind-anonymouss-operation-to-reveal-britains-elite-child-rape-syndicate-273?utm_source=vicetwitterca|title=Behind Anonymous’s Operation to Reveal Britain’s Elite Child-Rape Syndicate|work=VICE}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ibt.uk/A006EPp|title=Anonymous OpDeathEaters campaign calls for people to expose paedophile networks around the world|work=International Business Times UK}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/anonymous-calls-for-activists-to-help-expose-international-paedophile-networks-with-operation-deatheaters-9998350.html|title=Anonymous calls for activists to help expose international paedophile networks with 'Operation DeathEaters'|work=The Independent}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/anonymous-hacktivists-target-paedophile-networks-5029544|title=Anonymous 'hacktivists' target paedophile networks with Harry Potter-inspired #OpDeathEaters campaign|author=Jeff Parsons|date=23 January 2015|work=mirror}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11363303/Anonymous-hackers-turn-fire-on-global-paedophile-menace.html|title=Anonymous hackers turn fire on global paedophile menace|date=23 January 2015|work=Telegraph.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/operation-deatheaters-anonymous-calls-for-activists-to-help-expose-international-paedophile-networks-30931991.html|title=Operation DeathEaters: Anonymous calls for activists to help expose international paedophile networks|work=BelfastTelegraph.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://es.rt.com/3iqg|title=Anonymous apunta sus armas contra la pedofilia|work=RT en Español}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://rt.com/news/225807-anonymous-operation-against-pedophiles/#.VMM4VSvO8ZE.twitter#OpDeathEaters|title=Anonymous asks activists to help fight pedophiles in ‘Operation DeathEaters’|work=rt.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2924864/Hacking-group-Anonymous-target-paedophiles.html|title=Hacking group Anonymous to target paedophiles|work=Mail Online}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/01/25/2123226/anonymous-asks-activists-to-fight-pedophiles-in-operation-deatheaters|title=Anonymous Asks Activists To Fight Pedophiles In 'Operation Deatheaters' - Slashdot|work=slashdot.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hackread.com/opdeatheaters-anonymous-gearing-up-to-expose-pedophile/|title=OpDeathEaters: Anonymous Gearing up to Expose Global Pedophile Networks|author=Waqas|work=HackRead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/01/23/394473/Anonymous-targets-pedophile-networks|title=PressTV-Anonymous targets pedophile networks|work=presstv.ir}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://m.spitsnieuws.nl/geek/2015/01/anonymous-gaat-pedofielen-slopen|title=Anonymous gaat pedofielen slopen|work=spitsnieuws.nl}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dagbladet.no/2015/01/23/nyheter/anonymous/pedofili/overgrep/utenriks/37343135/|title=Først angrep Anonymous IS. Nå skal "Operasjon Dødsetere" knuse pedofiliringer|work=Dagbladet.no}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.inquisitr.com/1784457/heard-of-opdeatheaters-anonymous-movement-seeks-end-to-child-sex-trafficking-justice-for-victims/|title=Heard of #OpDeathEaters? Anonymous Movement Seeks End To Child Sex Trafficking; Justice For Victims|work=The Inquisitr News}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.techworm.net/2015/01/anonymous-operation-death-eaters-to-expose-international-paedophile-networks.html#sthash.lNxM8BmU.dpuf|title=Anonymous relaunch Operation Death Eaters to expose international paedophile networks|author=Vijay|work=TechWorm}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150124/1017301478.html|title=Anonymous Hacktivist Group Now Gunning for Powerful Pedophile Networks|author=Sputnik|date=24 January 2015|work=sputniknews.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.administradores.com.br/noticias/cotidiano/anonymous-pretende-expor-redes-internacionais-de-pedofilia/97395/|title=Anonymous pretende expor redes internacionais de pedofilia|work=Administradores.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://glo.bo/1CliFd1|title=Grupo de hackers Anonymous mira expor redes internacionais de pedofilia|author=O GLOBO, COM SITES|date=23 January 2015|work=O Globo}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://elcomercio.pe/redes-sociales/youtube/youtube-anonymous-planea-atacar-redes-pedofilia-noticia-1786800|title=YouTube: Anonymous planea atacar a redes de pedofilia|author=El Comercio|date=4 July 2015|work=EL COMERCIO}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.correodelorinoco.gob.ve/comunicacion-cultura/anonymous-apunta-sus-armas-contra-pedofilia/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter|title=Anonymous apunta sus armas contra la pedofilia|work=correodelorinoco.gob.ve}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cna.com.tw/news/firstnews/201501240198-1.aspx|title=駭客組織新目標:戀童網站|work=cna.com.tw}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ettoday.net/news/20150124/458237.htm|title=「匿名者」爆全球戀童網站 對抗主流漠視兒少性侵案件|author=ETtoday 新聞雲|date=24 January 2015|work=ETtoday 東森新聞雲}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zaobao.com.sg/realtime/world/story20150124-439068|title=黑客组织新目标:恋童网站|work=联合早报网}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://dailynews.sina.com/gb/news/int/cna/20150124/00596409836.html|title=骇客组织新目标:恋童网站|work=sina.com}}</ref><ref>http://bbs.tiexue.net/post2_8509389_1.html</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.africanseer.com/index.php?news=392791|title=Hacking group Anonymous to target paedophiles|work=AfricanSeer}}</ref> She started Gaza Rebirth, "a new paradigm for recovery activism" to establish direct aid to Gaza in 2014 and "to start a dialogue about this cycle of destruction and ‘rebuilding’ where corporate empires are feeding off real human torment as a growth industry to enrich themselves."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thecryptosphere.com/2014/10/20/an-interview-with-gazarebirth-a-new-paradigm-for-recovery-activism/|title=An interview with #GazaRebirth: a New Paradigm for Recovery Activism|work=The Cryptosphere}}</ref> She has frequently called for the abolishment of NGOs which she considers part of the "systems of dissociation" which stand between people and prevent creation of healthy society.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2013/11/02/news-analysis-action/|title=News, analysis, action|work=GeorgieBC's Blog}}</ref> |
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⚫ | In 2010 she became administrator, editor in chief and domain holder for the [[Wikileaks]] endorsed<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wikileaks.org/Supporters.html|title=Supporters|publisher=Wikileaks}}</ref> 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. |
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⚫ | 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 name="CryptoParty">{{cite web |
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⚫ | 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.<ref name="wlcentral" /> ''"As Georgie she has been writing about the revolution since before the beginning, starting with A Stateless War<ref>{{cite web|url=http://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2010/09/12/a-stateless-war/|title=A Stateless War|last=Marsh|first=Heather|accessdate=September 12, 2010}}</ref> in September 2010."''<ref name="wlcentral" /> She wrote the first article referencing what became the US Occupy movement on the day it started, March 10, 2011,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wlcentral.org/node/1454|title=@USDayofRage is on facebook #USDOR|last=GeorgieBC|publisher=WL Central|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110314164538/http://wlcentral.org:80/node/1454|archive-date=March 14, 2011|dead-url=yes|accessdate=March 10, 2011}}</ref><ref name="smh">{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/building-on-wikileaks-20111028-1mo38.html|title=Building on WikiLeaks|last=Dorling|first=Philip|publisher=Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=October 29, 2011}}</ref> and covered many other day of rages within hours of their beginnings. |
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⚫ | She is against control and ownership of knowledge by copyrights and patents but writes "Privacy and ownership of personal stories are closely related to human dignity" and credit (although not ownership) for ideas and intellectual labour is essential in an approval economy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2013/04/16/our-right-to-communicate/|title=Our right to communicate|work=GeorgieBC's Blog}}</ref> |
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Heather Marsh is a human rights and internet activist, programmer and philosopher. She is the author of Binding Chaos, a study of methods of mass collaboration[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] and the founder of Getgee, a project to create a global data commons and trust network.
She gives talks about mass collaboration, democracy, economy and other societal issues. She has spoken about Getgee and the need for a global data commons at various software conferences. She gave a keynote speech on approval economy at the Alternate G8 summit in 2013[67]. She was invited to the 2012 Berlin Biennale as part of their Occupy art exhibition. She represented the Berlin Biennale hackathon at the World Free Media Forum in Rio in June 2012. As a journalist, she has written articles and given many interviews to mainstream media and from 2010 to 2012 she was the sole editor and administrator for the Wikileaks sponsored news site, Wikileaks Central. As an activist, she has started many very successful human rights campaigns.
Philosophy
She has been primarily associated with concepts such as approval economy, stigmergy as a system of mass collaboration, concentric user groups, epistemic communities with knowledge bridges and other political theories which relate to horizontal collaboration. She has also written a great deal about global power structures and what she sees as the "ponzi schemes" of power, celebrity and wealth, how they are created and upheld and the roles which contribute to oligarchy.
She rejects Lockean libertarianism[8] as "societal self destruction"[9] and is in favour of individual rights, governance by user group and overlapping societies with clearly defined social contracts. She is against all forms of trade economy including peer-to-peer and gift economies. She advocates an economy with societal approval as currency. She calls both democracy and communist government "failed concepts" and recommends stigmergy, concentric circles and knowledge bridges as methods of mass collaboration.
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"[10] 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[10][11][12] and the subsequent Governance and Other Systems of Mass Collaboration.[13][14][15] Through Wikileaks, the project went viral in the international media.[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][52] She gave a keynote speech on approval economy at the Alternate G8 summit in 2013[53] and represented the Berlin Biennale hackathon at the World Free Media Forum in Rio in June 2012.[54] She is the author of Binding Chaos, a study of methods mass collaboration.
Internet and Journalism
She has been "active in human rights and freedom of information for years".[55] 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.""[56] Her work on WL Central advocated transparency for actions and organizations that affect the public and privacy for individuals. She was an early supporter of CryptoParty and provided an international message of support by audio to the first events.[56][57]
She is against control and ownership of knowledge by copyrights and patents but writes "Privacy and ownership of personal stories are closely related to human dignity" and credit (although not ownership) for ideas and intellectual labour is essential in an approval economy.[58]
Human rights
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.[59] She has been associated with Guantanamo activism,[60] primarily for Canadian POW Omar Khadr,[61] and Anonymous activity, particularly human rights issues.[13][62][63][64][65][66][67] She has reported and campaigned extensively against human trafficking and violations committed by global resource corporations.[68]
She has written extensively on her activism including investigative reports and interviews[69] on Canadian juvenile Omar Khadr, one of the youngest prisoners of Guantanamo Bay. Her popular blog is well-received globally.[70] She is the national spokesperson for the Free Omar Khadr[71] group in Canada, spending her time writing, speaking, advocating for Omar's release.[72] One of her most recent interviews were published in The Diplomat[73] related to her work about Omar Khadr.[74]
She wrote the first English media articles about Abdulelah Haider Shaye, a Yemeni journalist ordered imprisoned by Obama, a year and a half before any report appeared in the US.[75][76] She brought global awareness to topics such as the Rohingya genocide in Burma[62][63][77] and ritual killings in Gabon[65][66][78] as well as many other individual and group cases through both activism and journalism.[79]
She began a research project to map connections between the people behind resource corporations, militias, spies and prisons ”to remove the corporate boxes and see who is behind everything and what else they are involved in,” in response to a fracking protest in New Brunswick.[80][81] She started the OpDeathEaters campaign to inform the public of high level complicity in the human trafficking and 'paedosadism'[82] industries with a goal of independent inquiries to investigate and a change in public discourse around these crimes.[83][83][84][84][85][86][87][88][89][90][91][92][93][94][95][96][97][98][99][100][101][102][103][104][105][106][107][108][109][110][111] She started Gaza Rebirth, "a new paradigm for recovery activism" to establish direct aid to Gaza in 2014 and "to start a dialogue about this cycle of destruction and ‘rebuilding’ where corporate empires are feeding off real human torment as a growth industry to enrich themselves."[112] She has frequently called for the abolishment of NGOs which she considers part of the "systems of dissociation" which stand between people and prevent creation of healthy society.[113]
WikiLeaks, Anonymous, Occupy and more
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"[114] and working towards the Wikileaks model of scientific journalism.
WL Central rapidly became an internationally very widely read news site,[115] broke several important stories such as the secret CIA prisons in Poland[116] and provided the most in depth coverage of many uprisings. 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."[117]
Her writings on the site covered investigations of leaked material, both from Wikileaks and other sources such as al Jazeera and anonymous, coverage of revolutions and protests in live blog and investigative format, and coverage of individual human rights cases, including interviews. In one unpublished interview with Guantanamo defence attorney Dennis Edney, the two discuss blackmail attempts of witnesses by the FBI and the possibility that Omar Khadr's plea deal was signed without legal counsel. The interview was subsequently leaked to Cryptome.[118] The interview discusses the delaying of publication until after Edney returns from Guantanamo; when he returned from Guantanamo he was fired from the case and forbidden to speak of it.
As both a journalist and a media critic, she has often combined the two in articles such as The Guardian: Redacting, Censoring or Lying?,[119](the topic of an interview between Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger and Julian Assange in the documentary Mediastan), Toronto Star Coverage of Omar Khadr since his trial week[120] and Zimbabwe election, Reuters and the troll who accidentally won the Internet.[121]
She resigned as editor in chief, administrator and domain holder of Wikileaks Central on March 8, 2012.[122]
In 2010 she became administrator, editor in chief and domain holder for the Wikileaks endorsed[123] 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 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.[55] "As Georgie she has been writing about the revolution since before the beginning, starting with A Stateless War[124] in September 2010."[55] She wrote the first article referencing what became the US Occupy movement on the day it started, March 10, 2011,[125][126] and covered many other day of rages within hours of their beginnings.
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".[126] 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.[126]
She began writing A Proposal for Governance in November 2011 and was invited to the Berlin Biennale from April - June 2012 to work with other hackers on creation of the Global Square. She represented the Berlin Biennale hackathon at the World Free Media Forum in Rio in June 2012.
References
- ^ "Article: Binding Chaos: Meditations on the Work of Heather Marsh - OpEdNews". OpEdNews.
- ^ "Thoughts on Travel and Heather Marsh's Binding Chaos - Off the Blueprint". Off the Blueprint.
- ^ "'Binding Chaos': a compassionate vision for a future society - ROAR Magazine". roarmag.org.
- ^ "Towards a new political model". lausti.com.
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