Inaugeral event, 5-7 December 2014: Logan Symposium at The Barbican, London.

The Logan Symposium brings together key figures in the fight against invasive surveillance, secrecy and censorship. Organised by the Centre for Investigative Journalism and generously funded by The Reva and David Logan Foundation, this year’s inaugural event features leading journalists and hacktivists. They form a natural alliance committed to a world free of authoritarian invasions of individual privacy and free speech. Seeking common ground, journalists offer hacktivists a social and political context, as well as expertise in evidence-based storytelling. Hacktivists, expert in accessing, exposing and protecting critical evidence-based material, bring their own set of formidable skills.

Joined by artists, lawyers and whistleblowers, these communities will offer each other, and the general public, charged, highly informed debate. Now that the Snowden disclosures have sunk in, it’s time for uncensored talk about the immediate threats we face.

Speakers will include: John Pilger, Julian Assange, Seymour Hersh, Laura Poitras, Lowell Bergman, Charles Lewis, Jacob Appelbaum, Duncan Campbell, Annie Machon, Sarah Harrison, James Bamford, Susan Schuppli, Richard Stallman, Beatrice Edwards, Nicky Hager, Andy Müller-Maguhn, Olia Lialina, Karin Spaink, Ross Anderson.

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