Via Anarcho-Capitalists' Forum: Julian Assange spearheads funding drive for public artwork described as a “a monument to courage”

He has been holed up inside the Ecuadorian Embassy for the past two and a half years to avoid being arrested and extradited to Sweden. But that has not stopped Julian Assange from courting publicity, whether from the balcony or from behind his computer.

Via Anarcho-Capitalists' Forum: Julian Assange spearheads funding drive for public artwork described as a “a monument to courage” Web-assange-statue-2

Via Anarcho-Capitalists' Forum: Julian Assange spearheads funding drive for public artwork described as a “a monument to courage” Web-assange-statue-2

The WikiLeaks founder has used the whistleblowing website’s official Twitter account to publicise a funding drive for the creation of a life-size bronze public artwork featuring himself, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, described as a “a monument to courage”.

The proposed statue by Italian sculptor Davide Dormino, entitled Anything to Say?, will depict the trio standing on chairs, with another empty seat beside them onto which members of the public will be encouraged to climb – allowing them to stand shoulder to shoulder with the whistleblowers. Organisers need £100,000 to complete the project, a sum they hope to raise by 1 January through the crowd-funding website Kickstarter. With just 21 days to go, only £19,360 has been pledged – perhaps explaining why Mr Assange chose to alert WikiLeaks’ 2.4 million Twitter followers to the campaign.

According to the Kickstarter page, the statue “is not a simple homage to individuals, but to courage and to the importance of freedom of speech and information”. “This is the reason for the empty chair,” it continues. “Each of us can climb onto it, however uncomfortable and vulnerable, and change our point of view. The work of art will travel from country to country and offer the opportunity for us to hear each other out and think.”

More: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/julian-assange-spearheads-funding-drive-for-lifesize-statue-of-himself-9916496.html

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Quote :: “If you look at the statues we do have, they’re mostly of people who’ve done various things during our past in conflict and killed rather a lot of people. I think it’s refreshing to have a statue that’s perhaps owned by the public a little bit more.”

Via Anarcho-Capitalists' Forum: Julian Assange spearheads funding drive for public artwork described as a “a monument to courage”

Via Anarcho-Capitalists' Forum: Julian Assange spearheads funding drive for public artwork described as a “a monument to courage”

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