It’s only a matter of time before Hollywood makes the Edward Snowden movie; people have been comparing the instantly notorious NSA leaker to Jason Bourne since the story initially broke. And while we don’t have that big-budget blockbuster quite yet (Who would play Snowden? My money’s on Tobey Maguire), there is this sorta-charming, sorta-terrible five-minute short from […]
Ray Kelly, the commissioner of a police department that’s currently awaiting the decision in a federal trial over the constitutionality of its stop-and-frisk practice, a department that ran a massive program of spying on New York City’s muslim community, made statements condemning the NSA for the secrecy of its phone and electronic communications surveillance programs, […]
Last month, artists affixed a bust of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to a war monument in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene Park. On May 6, the artists behind the bust released a file so anyone can make their own 3D printed version of the bust. Now, a different crew of artists sympathetic to the cause have gone […]
The bust of Edward Snowden in Fort Greene Park seems to have inspired a trend: artists and activists erected statues of Snowden, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning in Berlin’s Alexanderplatz Square on Friday as part of May Day celebrations, Newsweek reports. The sculptures were created by Italian sculptor Davide Dormino […]
The Intercept released the latest of Edward Snowden’s NSA document leaks early Wednesday morning, making it the first time that a Canadian agency has been implicated as a key player in global mass surveillance. According to the Intercept: The LEVITATION program can monitor downloads in several countries across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and North […]
ANIMAL will be bringing you continuing coverage from The New York Film Festival, which rans Sep 26 – Oct 12 at Film Society of Lincoln Center. Citizenfour will be released on October 24th in New York. Citizenfour, the latest documentary by Laura Poitras, attempts to give us an overview of the NSA’s shocking invasions into […]
Ron Paul is putting his money where his civil-liberties-minded mouth is. The Libertarian stalwart started a petition to give Edward Snowden clemency for leaking classified information about the NSA’s massive surveillance operation. Snowden’s year of asylum in Russia ends this July, and Paul says he hopes his petition will show the U.S. government that “Mr. Snowden […]
Within this 12-year run, minus a few distractions, ANIMAL has afforded me an unprecedented opportunity to throw art parties, get a tiny bit of free shit — we totally should have asked PR firms for more stuff — and most importantly, promote hundreds and hundreds of artists. Although I like to think of ANIMAL as […]
Artists snuck a 100-pound bust of Edward Snowden into Fort Greene Park just before dawn on Monday morning. By the afternoon, NYC Parks Department workers and NYPD had removed the sculpture. RIP Edward Snowden’s bust. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
At this point in America’s ongoing loss of privacy, it’s becoming clear that if one can imagine a way for an agency to spy, it’s probably happening. Hot on the heels of the recent announcement that the DEA collects call data on citizens, the ACLU has discovered that the drug agency is tracking millions of peoples’ […]
