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-project> 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@pursuanceproject.org / +47 407 67 074 For interviews with Barrett or his core team please contact Pursuance at onray@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