The Pursuance Project: transgressively transparent about protecting privacy
Or: Making the world safer for activism, one rubber ducky at a time
“No activist should have to entrust their life to Facebook. No one should
have to choose between security and the ability to organize large numbers
of people. No one should have to use platforms designed to waste your time
in the course of trying to make their lives count. When Pursuance launches,
things will be different.”
Barrett Brown
Barrett Brown is a gadfly. An author. A fameball. An activist. And a
National Magazine Award-winning journalist whose credits include the
Guardian, Businessweek, Al Jazeera, The Intercept, Vice, and Vanity Fair.
He’s a felon, thanks to, among other things, sharing a URL in a web chat.
He is also the founder of the Pursuance Project.
That’s an untraditional resume, so it’s not completely out of character for
him to announce the launch of the Kickstarter to support Pursuance
<https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/85883596/barrett-browns-pursuance-proj…>
from the acoustically advantageous confines of his bathtub, nor for him to
do so via livestream while actually enjoying a bath. It’s a throwback to
his previous bubbles-and-Cab Sauv press conference for Project PM, which
tracked the big players in the global security industry before anyone had
ever heard of Cambridge Analytica.
Come on in, the water’s subversive!
Kickstarter rewards include the standard hoodies, tees, and stickers, sure,
but also “literary cruelty” (i.e. having your own original writing
critiqued by Barrett), and a live role playing session of Shadowrun
conducted either remotely or, if you come to Dallas, in Barrett’s living
room. His mom will bring snacks.
At just under halfway into the Kickstarter, almost 400 supporters from
around the world have banded together to raise over 55% of the $48,000US
goal, the crowdfunder has made it to Kickstarter’s list of “New and
Popular,” and is the most popular top software project on the site. The
event ends July 15.
And naturally we take cryptocurrency and Paypal donations
<https://pursuanceproject.org/donate.html> as well. Privacy is important!
Pursuance Project Contacts:
Contact: team(a)pursuanceproject.org / +47 407 67 074 For interviews with
Barrett or his core team please contact Pursuance at
onray(a)pursuanceproject.org / Raymond Johansen +47 407 67 074
The Pursuance Board of Directors includes luminaries from the worlds of
whistleblowing, digital privacy, documentary filmmaking, human rights
activism, and more: Thomas Drake, Birgitta Jonsdottir, Mano Singham, Alex
Winter, John Kiriakou, Robert Tynes, Jay Leiderman, Barry Eisler, Russ
Baker, and Raymond Johansen.
Barrett Brown is available to meet with media in Dallas, Texas or worldwide
via teleconference through our video conference solution.
Videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPOCibJUeuKRJT-sdc9t9Ew/videos
“If you had told me back when I was following the early days of Anonymous
that I would now have semi-regular drinks with @BarrettBrown_ and that we'd
be promoting an insurgent organizing tool with Bill S. Preston, Esq., I'd
have backed away from you slowly. Link
We're not asking for money so we can solve a specific problem. We're asking
for money so we can enable people to solve all of them, eventually—US
journalist & activist @BarrettBrown_. Link
On behalf of Team Pursuance
Global Pirate Activist
Raymond Johansen
Norway +47 407 67 074 | U.S. +1 (716) 202-0040
