Free Barrett Brown

Barrett was moved to a new facility at the end of last week—FCI Seagoville. This is an upgrade in all aspects: more cell space, better meals, easier to sleep at night, amenities etc. He is doing fine, just reading a book about the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Everyone please make note of his new address as there's no guarantee that mail will be automatically forwarded. We encourage all to write him and wish him well, as he's been detained for nearly 14 months now.

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Federal Correctional Institution Seagoville
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Seagoville, TX Protected content

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Barrett Brown is an American activist, author, and freelance writer/journalist. His work has appeared in the Guardian, Vanity Fair, Huffington Post, Businessweek, True/Slant, Skeptical Inquirer and many other outlets. He has appeared as a guest on MSNBC, Fox News and Russia Today and as an interviewee in three recent documentary films: We Are Legion, Future Radicals, and Terms and Conditions May Apply.

He is the founder of Project PM, a distributed think-tank which researches and reports on matters related to the intelligence contracting industry. More recently, he has been misrepresented in the media as a spokesperson for the hacktivist collective known as Anonymous. He’s a co-author on Flock of Dodos: Behind Modern Creationism, Intelligent Design and the Easter Bunny, and had been working on additional books, with topics such as the failures of American media punditry and the early history of Anonymous, while maintaining a blog. Previously, Barrett had served as Communications Director for Enlighten the Vote.

Although Barrett had a serious side, he was also noted for his irreverence and use of humor, satire and hyperbole, demonstrated through writings for National Lampoon and The Onion and is often described as a modern-day Hunter S. Thompson.

Having previously been raided by the FBI on March 6, Protected content not arrested or charged, on September 12, Protected content Brown was again raided and this time arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation while he was online participating in a Tinychat session. He was subsequently denied bail and detained without charge and adequate medical treatment for over two weeks while in the custody of US Marshals. In the first week of October Protected content , he was finally indicted on three counts. related to alleged activities or postings on popular websites such as Twitter and YouTube.

On December 4, Protected content was indicted by a federal grand jury on twelve additional counts related to data from the Stratfor breach. Despite his lack of direct involvement in the operation and stated opposition to it, he faces these charges simply for allegedly pasting a hyperlink online. On January 23rd, Protected content was indicted a third time on two more counts, relating to the March Protected content raid(s) on his apartment and his mother’s house.

Barrett has pleaded not guilty in all three cases. He is currently incarcerated while awaiting trial in Mansfield, TX. At this critical time, with such a prominent internet activist facing an extremely difficult legal battle and uncertain future, he needs our unwavering help and support. We encourage you to donate to his defense, so that he may have the resources he needs to fight these charges. Your prospective contribution has significance in a wider campaign for free speech and transparency both on the internet and across the world.

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Jailed activist Barrett Brown's mother given probation for helping son

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