
Parker Higgins is an activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in issues at the intersection of freedom of speech and copyright, trademark, and patent law. He talks about EFF role on the legal front of battles to protect online rights, including the Bills Anonymous opposed in OpBlackout, ACTA, SOPA and PIPA. Parker explains the risks of censorship and broad over reach of the Blacklist Bills hiding behind the the deceptive names of Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP. We are introduced to Aarons Law, inspired by the loss of Aaron Swartz who personifies the cost of judicial abuses for digital activists championing Internet freedoms.


Travis McCrea & Charles Sheehan Miles - Great Copyright Debate
Charles Sheehan Miles is a writer and activist who traveled throughout the Middle East on his own in the 1980’s and returned with the US Army, Gulf War (…)
3 May 2013

Alexa O’Brien - Manning Trial Week 8 - State Department/Wikileaks harm
Alexa updates the week’s events in the courtroom which was dominated by testimony from the State Department regarding the impact of the leaks. Government (…)
9 August 2013

JD Nero - We Are Legion - Songwriter Rapper
J.D. Nero talks about the power of music and its place in educating the public. Nero is a life-long native of Brooklyn, N.Y. with a deep passion for music (…)
26 October 2012

Alexa O’Brien - Week 6 Manning Trial - The Defense Rests
Alexa gives us an overview of the Bradley Manning trial from an historic perspective and explains how circumstances make the trial so different from other (…)
13 July 2013

Leah Bolger - President Veterans for Peace
Leah Bolger is a retired Navy Commander with 20 years of US Military Service, a full time Peace Activist and President of Veterans for Peace. VFP works to (…)
21 December 2012

Serge Bakalian - Filmmaker - Default: Student Debt Crisis
Serge Bakalian is a San Francisco-based filmmaker, the Producer and Writer of "Default: the Student Loan Documentary." Krotala Films He exposes the disaster (…)
15 June 2012

Dennis P. McCann - Green Revolution Art, Activism & Anonymous
Dennis McCann is an artist and political activist living in Turkey. He interned with Andy Warhol and has had awards and exhibits worldwide. As an American (…)
15 December 2012

Alexa O’Brien - Week 9 Manning Trial Ends - Verdict Looms
Alexa O’Brien is a journalist, film-maker & digital media strategist who has provided extensive archives & only available transcripts of Wikileaks (…)
16 August 2013