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<td width="630" align="left"><!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="content" --><p>Wednesday, May 7, 2013<br>
CONTACT: Nikolina Lazic, <a href="mailto:nikolina@prwatch.org">nikolina@prwatch.org</a></p>
<center><h2>Take a Stand Now for a Free Press<br>
<font size="2"><i>Tell President Obama America's Best Reporters Should Be on the Beat, Not in Jail</i></font></h2></center>
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<p>Please join with Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg to <strong>take action now for freedom of the press.</strong></p>
<p>He’s working with us to launch an urgent petition -- at this crucial time for the First Amendment.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" title="To join with Ellsberg in signing the petition, click here" href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=mZ%2BR0hpjNrULM84ICg45WC5n5bq39Ge4">To join with Ellsberg in signing the petition, click here</a>. </p>
<p>The U.S. government is insisting that award-wining <i>New York Times</i> "national security" reporter James Risen reveal a confidential source -- or go to jail. Risen says he won’t capitulate.</p>
<p><strong>Now you can let this journalist and top government officials know that you’re in solidarity with his brave stand for a free press. </strong><a target="_blank" title="Sign the petition "We Support James Risen Because We Support a Free Press."" href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=s1APgJgxzmWE8qm9Ko8c4RyM7HuAcHxO">Sign the petition "We Support James Risen Because We Support a Free Press</a>."</p>
<p>The Freedom of the Press Foundation has called the government's effort to force Risen to reveal a source "<strong>one of the most significant press freedom cases in decades.</strong>"</p>
<p>Why is your support so important?</p>
<p>A recent brief from the Obama administration to the nation’s top court "is <strong>unflinchingly hostile</strong> to the idea of the Supreme Court creating or finding protections for journalists," <i>Politico</i> reported.</p>
<p>The newspaper added that Risen "might be sent to jail or fined if he refuses to identify his sources or testify about other details of his reporting."</p>
<p>Daniel Ellsberg says: "The pursuit of Risen is a warning to potential sources that journalists cannot promise them confidentiality for disclosing Executive Branch criminality, recklessness, deception, unconstitutional policies or lying us into war. <strong>Without protecting confidentiality, investigative journalism required for accountability and democracy will wither and disappear</strong>."</p>
<p><a target="_blank" title="Sign the petition "Amplify our combined voices. Click here to sign the petition to President Obama and Attorney General Holder" href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=IU50vW9qVTGApUBZM%2Bo3sC5n5bq39Ge4">Amplify our combined voices. Click here to sign the petition to President Obama and Attorney General Holder</a>.</p>
<p><strong>So much is at stake: for whistleblowers, freedom of the press and the public’s right to know. And for democracy.</strong></p>
<p>That’s why our team at The Progressive/Center for Media and Democracy is joining forces with Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), the Freedom of the Press Foundation and </i>The Nation</i> magazine and others to insist on protection for the confidentiality of journalists’ sources.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" title="Learn more about this troubling case here" href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3y9ekLWr5jzHmAhpnvcVEhyM7HuAcHxO">Learn more about this troubling case here</a>.</p>
<p>Thank you for taking action!</p>
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<p>--- Matt Rothschild <br>
The Progressive/Center for Media and Democracy</p>
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