Assange's ballad: Album released to raise funds for WikiLeaks

Published time: July 02, 2012 14:42
Edited time: July 02, 2012 18:42
Wikileaks: Beat the Blockade cover

Julian Assange’s colleagues from WikiLeaks have decided to support the founder's cause with music. A special collection of songs titled Beat the Blockade has been released in order to raise funds.

­The WikiLeaks album contains 12 songs about WikiLeaks and the hardships in the lives of the project’s main supporters, such as US soldier Bradley Manning, Anonymous hackers group and Julian Assange.

The recording is already available online for a price of $24.99. The collection includes such tracks as Wikileaks Anthem: We Want the Truth, The Ballad of Julian Assange, WikiLeaks Samba and others.

The Wikileaks album is another measure to help support the website following the financial blockade by major US financial institutions such as Bank of America, Visa, MasterCard, Western Union and PayPal. The chiefs of the notorious website believe that this decision was a political one and was illegal.

“We are forced to put all our efforts into raising funds to ensure our economic survival. For almost a year we have been fighting an unlawful financial blockade. We cannot allow giant US financial companies to decide how the whole world votes with its pocket,”
WikiLeaks website says.

British rapper Dan Bull and American singer David Rovics have participated in the recording.

Comments (4)

Kahn (unregistered) 25.07.2012 00:13

Some People will never face the fact that all Political and hence Legal Power comes from the nuzzle of the Gun..Might is always Right.. So, being right without might, guns, is futile and dangerous, as Assange can tell you now. And that is why all Social, Political, changes are done with guns, Revolutions..

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Karsten Hansen (unregistered) 03.07.2012 00:14

So,who remember? Bradley Manning?the man in the own,at the US bakery of people.Besides,,Assa nge dont lack money,he was prepaid a kings ransom, for his book,nobel, as he might be!

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RogueFailedWest (unregistered) 02.07.2012 22:23

Assange has been showing very clearly how Rogue and Failed Western governments are: vassals of the banks and the financial world, claiming to have the high moral ground in just everything yet massacring, murdering and bombing any country which refuses to be their vassal with their so-called humanitarian interventions and wasting billions in wars they cannot win (Afghanistan), passing laws aiming at spiying and curtailing everyone's freedoms, both online and not online, and giving the fascist treatment of tear gas, truncheons and rubber bullets (and more) to the dozens of millions who have had their life destroyed courtesy of the criminal nazi financial fascists while the latter gets bonuses upon bonuses of millions of dollars for their incredible skills of destroying economically the so-called "free world". Music may not change the world, but definitely it could help people getting a different message from the stupid brainwashing mass-produced pop music which nowadays dumbs and numbs a lot of young people

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