Supporters of the Stand With Snowden Campaign
We are some of the lawyers, policymakers, technologists, civil rights advocates, artists, and cryptographers who support Edward Snowden and a world free of mass surveillance.
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Supporters
Steve Wozniak
Co-Founder, Apple
George Soros
Founder and Chair of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Foundations
Jack Dorsey
Co-Founder and CEO, Twitter and Square
Daniel Ellsberg
Pentagon Papers Whistleblower
Timothy Edgar
Former White House National Security Privacy Director; Senior Fellow, Watson Institute, Brown University
Bruce Ackerman
Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University
Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor of the World Wide Web
Valerie Plame
Former Covert CIA Operations Officer
Ron Rivest
Cryptographer; Founder, RSA Data Security; Institute Professor at MIT
Neil Gaiman
Writer
Joyce Carol Oates
Writer
Michael Chabon
Writer
Anthony Romero
Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union
Salil Shetty
Secretary General, Amnesty International
John Napier Tye
Former State Department Official
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Actor
Viggo Mortensen
Actor
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Actor
Danny Glover
Actor, Producer
Mark Ruffalo
Actor
Patricia Arquette
Actor
Daniel Radcliffe
Actor
Ken Roth
Executive Director, Human Rights Watch
Lili Taylor
Actor
Jimmy Wales
Founder, Wikipedia
Susan Sarandon
Actor
Teju Cole
Writer
Linda Sarsour
Co-founder, MPowerChange.org
John Cusack
Actor
Alan Rusbridger
Former Editor-in-Chief, The Guardian
Eve Ensler
Playwright
Alex Gibney
Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker
Laura Poitras
Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker
Martin Sheen
Actor
Mark Weinstein
Founder and CEO of MeWe
Malkia Cyril
Executive Director, Center for Media Justice
Jonathan Lethem
Writer
Cheryl Strayed
Writer
Lawrence Lessig
Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School
Alex Soros
Founder of The Alexander Soros Foundation
Erwin Chermerinsky
Dean of the University of California, Irvine, School of Law
Lydia Millet
Writer
Melvin Goodman
Former Division Chief and Senior Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency; Author
Colm Tóibín
Writer
Baratunde Thurston
Comedian, Writer, and Cultural Critic
Barry Eisler
Former CIA officer; best-selling author
Jeffrey Sachs
PhD, University Professor, Columbia University
Esther Dyson
Chairman, HICCup
Ann Cavoukian
Three-Term Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada
Glenn Greenwald
Founding Editor, The Intercept
Rosie O'Donnell
Actor, Comedian, and Author
Sophie in 't Veld
Member of the European Parliament
Ancilla van de Leest
Party Front Runner, Dutch Pirate Party
Peter Saarsgaard
Actor
Birgitta Jonsdottir
Member of the Icelandic Parliament
Brewster Kahle
Founder, Internet Archive
Michael Moore
Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker
Peter Gabriel
Musician
Matthew Green
Cryptographer and Security Technologist, Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute
Joshua Bloch
CMU professor of computer science, former Google Chief Java Architect, author of "Effective Java"
Christopher H. Pyle
Consultant to the Church Committee; Professor of Law and Politics, Mount Holyoke College
Gerbenjan Gerbrandy
Member of the European Parliament
Marietje Schaake
Member of the European Parliament
Wallace Shawn
Playwright
Noam Chomsky
Professor, MIT, Retired
Matthijs van Miltenburg
Member of the European Parliament
Janine Gibson
Editor-in-Chief, Buzzfeed UK
Kate Crawford
Academic and Author
Jan Philipp Albrecht
Member of European Parliament
Phil Giraldi
Former CIA Officer; Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest
Eileen Myles
Poet
Konstantin von Notz
Member of German Bundestag
Vince Warren
Executive Director, The Center For Constitutional Rights
Michael Cunningham
Writer
Malte Spitz
Board Member Alliance 90/The Greens
Oliver Stone
Film Director
Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo
Chancellor, Pontifical Academy of Sciences
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Naomi Shihab Nye
Writer
Rebecca Solnit
Writer
John Perry Barlow
Co-Founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation
David Talbot
Author and Founder of Salon
Kyp Malone
Musician
Rachel Kushner
Writer
David Strathaim
Participant, Theater of War/Outside the Wire
Michael Lerner
Rabbi and Writer
Francine Prose
Writer
Amanda Palmer
Musician
Michael German
Writer, Former FBI Special Agent
Megan Price
Executive Director, Human Rights Data Analysis Group
Geoff Dyer
Writer
Maggie Nelson
Writer
Joshua Cohen
Writer
Nicholson Baker
Writer
Cory Doctorow
Co-Editor, Boing Boing
Alison Bechdel
Cartoonist
Laurie Anderson
Artist
Gus Hosein
Executive Director, Privacy International
Ursula Le Guin
Writer
Micah Sifry
Co-Founder, Personal Democracy Media
Perry Chen
Founder, Kickstarter
Anna Galland
Executive Director, MoveOn.org Civic Action
James Bamford
Author of A Trilogy on NSA; Foreign Policy Columnist
Lisa Lucas
Executive Director, National Book Foundation
Ronald Deibert
Director, The Citizen Lab, University of Toronto
Trevor Timm
Executive Director, Freedom of the Press Foundation
Christophe
Musician
Xeni Jardin
Co-Editor, Boing Boing
Jerry Taylor
President, Niskanen Center
Norman Rush
Writer
Gary Numan
Musician
Ilya Sheyman
Executive Director, MoveOn.org Political Action
Craig Aaron
President and CEO, Free Press
Rivka Galchen
Writer
Neil Tennant
Musician
Jeremy Scahill
Founding Editor, The Intercept
Moxie Marlinspike
Founder, Open Whisper Systems
Jean Stein
Writer
Nick Flynn
Writer
Mona Eltahawy
Columnist
Mike Harris
CEO, 89up
Micah Lee
Technologist, The Intercept
Sam Lipsyte
Writer
Phillip Rogaway
Author, The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work
Jen Indovina
CEO & Founder at Tenrehte Technologies
Francisco Goldman
Writer
Jean-Michel Jarre
Musician and Activist
Yana Buhrer Tavanier
Co-Founder and CEO of Fine Acts
Mela London
Film Editor
Joseph O'Neill
Writer
Morgan Marquis-Boire
Director of Security, First Look Media
Deborah Eisenberg
Writer
Brenda Coughlin
Film Producer
Yvette Alberdingk Thijm
Executive Director, Witness
Andrew Rasiej
Co-Founder, Personal Democracy Media
Max Temkin
Designer
Astra Taylor
Filmmaker
Ricken Patel
Co-Founder and CEO, Avaaz
David Lyon
Director, Surveillance Studies Centre
Ethan Zuckerman
Director, MIT Center for Civic Media
Duriel E. Harris
Ph.D.
Nikil Saval
Editor
Michael Stipe
Musician
Rainey Reitman
Activism Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Joslyn Barnes
Film Producer
Leigh Honeywell
Technologist
Richard Beck
Writer and n+1 Editor
Jessamyn West
Librarian; Founder of librarian.net
Alison Macrina
Founder, Library Freedom Project
Meghan O’Rourke
Poet
Joel Whitney
Author and Founder of GuernicaMag.com
Isis Agora Lovecruft
Lead Software Developer, the Tor Project
John Sullivan
Executive Director, Free Software Foundation
Anne Carson
Poet
Danielle Trussoni
Writer
Mary Jo Bang
Poet
Farid Matuk
Poet
Robin Doherty
Co-Founder, Hack for Privacy
Adam Hochschild
Writer
José Ugaz
Chair, Transparency International
Katie Ford
Poet
Norman Solomon
Author
Cobus de Swardt
Managing Director, Transparency International
Lucy R. Lippard
Writer
Fanny Howe
Writer
Wojtek Bougusz
Digital Security Expert
Sari Botton
Writer
Marie Howe
Poet
Mishi Choudhary
Technology Lawyer; Legal Director, Software Freedom Law Center; Executive Director, SFLC India
Pamela Yates
Filmmaker
Anna Stein
Literary Agent
Asher Wolf
Journalist
Robert Currie
Artist
Carolyn Forche
Poet, University Professor, Georgetown University
Valerie Aurora
Co-Founder, Ada Initiative
Jamie Quatro
Writer
Matthew Rohrer
Poet
Terry Tempest Williams
Writer
Michael Maren
Writer
Regan Good
Poet
Paul La Farge
Writer
Michael Klein
Poet and Writer
Paco De Onis
Filmmaker
Joshuah Bearmar
Writer
Graham Foust
Poet
Joni Wallace
Poet
Fred Marchant
Poet
James Lecesne
Writer
Paul Lazar
Writer
Peter Cameron
Writer
Elliott Holt
Writer
Bob Holman
Poet
Andrew Ross
Sociologist
Wendell Potter
Author
Jeff Sharlet
Writer
Martin Moran
Author and Actor
Dennis Nurkse
Poet, Teacher at Sarah Lawrence College
Immy Humes
Filmmaker
Susan Griffin
Author of “A Chorus of Stones”
Annie-B Parson
Choreographer and Dancer
Thisbe Nissen
Writer
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