After over two years of being frozen out of the financial system, WikiLeaks can once again get contributions by credit cards and PayPal.
An article in today's New York Times,
Group Aims to Be a Conduit for WikiLeaks Donations
By DAVID CARR
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/...
has the details.
Here's a link to the donation page:
https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/
A group advocating a more transparent government has formed a nonprofit organization called the Freedom of the Press Foundation to serve as a conduit for donations to organizations like WikiLeaks. The goal is to insulate those groups’ fund-raising efforts from political and business pressures.
In December 2010, Visa, MasterCard and PayPal announced that they would no longer accept transactions for WikiLeaks, the online leak group that released thousands of secret documents from the American government. The move to cut off donations, which came after vocal protests against the organization’s activities from members of Congress, eliminated the vast majority of financing for WikiLeaks.
Board members of the Freedom of the Press Foundation include Daniel Ellsberg, the whistle-blower who disclosed the Pentagon Papers; Glenn Greenwald, a journalist who writes about civil liberties for The Guardian; John Perry Barlow, a co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation; Xeni Jardin of the Web site Boing Boing; and John Cusack, an actor who has been a vocal opponent of government secrecy.
I have no idea how well the privacy of donors will be protected on this web site. But I just sent a donation -- not enough to keep any organization going for very long, but probably enough to get me on the NSA's shit list.
UPDATE: Jesselyn Radack just posted a diary about Freedom of the Press Foundation.
http://www.dailykos.com/...
She's an expert on this, from first hand experience.