Pedro Noel

Pedro Noel is a Brazilian Internet media activist.[1] He is a philosopher at the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain. He is known by Romanian media as 'one of those who made 700 thousand Spaniards take the streets'.[2]

Spanish Indignados and Occupy movement

Along with Santiago Carrion, Noel founded the news portal EuropeanRevolution.net , a portal conceived as an informative platform for activists, having as first goal to translate into English what was happening with the 15 May movement and in the squares occupations around Europe in order to expand its impact worldwide.

This led Noel to collaborate[3] with TakeTheSquare.net [4] [5] project, originally formed as an extension of the International Committee of the camp that started in Puerta del Sol, Madrid, Spain. The project was aimed to create a task-force seeking structured change of the worldwide political reality- designed to bring the May 15th ideals to a global context.

Noel and other were the responsible[6] for the worldwide campaign on Intenet which culminated in the global day of action on October 15th 2011 in more than 950 cities in 82 countries and its main website 15October.net .

Whistleblowing and investigative journalism

Along with Santiago Carrion, in November 2010 Noel created the website WikileaksWorld in order to expose analysis and news on whistleblowing and cyberwar/infowar.

In December 2010, under the handle of 'FuturePress', Noel and Carrion started to write to the Wikileaks news portal WLCentral.org where they exposed in different languages and using different approaches for more than one year analysis on whistleblowing material, articles and reports on human-rights violations, civic-movements and net-neutrality.

In the late 2011, Pedro Noel along with other activists started the Associated Whistleblowing Press,[7] a media agency focused on whistle-blowing to be based in Iceland.[8]

Social networks

In 2011, along with other Internet activists and researchers, Pedro Noel started[9][10] the project TheGlobalSquare in partnership with TU Delft and its project Tribler. The social network is focused on attack and censorship resilient P2P information broadcasting and social systems.

Surveillance

According to a public personal statement[11] and an interview[12] to an independent web-magazine in Brazil, "Pedro Noel (...) was personally interrogated by two anonymous sub-contractors in Brussels. Both of them boarded him knowingly on the street, showing that they knew exactly who he was. One of them claimed to be part of the local police department and the other an international sub-contractor agent.They suggested to be there in the name of IMF interests. During the ‘conversation’, one of them assured that our projects “would not move forward”."

The same public statement points out that Noel assures that he has been "- at least for a number of times - followed and monitored while performing daily and quotidian actions in Europe".

See also

References

  1. ↑ Matzal, Andra. "Guverne" de cartier și colonii ecologice. Ce avem de învățat de la mișcarea Occupy". Bucharest: Think Outside The Box. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
  2. ↑ Zoltan, Petru. "Omul care a scos 700.000 de spanioli în stradă: <<În statul român, represiunile şi supravegherea sunt mai puternice>>". Bucharest: Jornalul. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
  3. ↑ Hérard, Pascal. "Les indignés européens marchent sur Paris". Paris: TV5 Monde. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
  4. ↑ Moreira, Ana Beatriz. "¿Qué futuro tenemos?". Sao Paulo, Brazil: Contra mare. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  5. ↑ Noel, Pedro. "WL Central: An endorsed WikiLeaks resource". Online magazine: wlcentral.org. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  6. ↑ Zoltan, Petru. "Omul care a scos 700.000 de spanioli în stradă: <<În statul român, represiunile şi supravegherea sunt mai puternice>>". Bucharest: Jornalul. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
  7. ↑ Andersen, Anna. "Shine a light". Reykjavik: Reykavik Grapevine. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
  8. ↑ Veal, Lowana. "Alternative to Wikileaks Arises in Iceland". Reykjavik: IPS International Press News. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
  9. ↑ Roos, Jerome. "Virality: international media coverage of The Global Square". Online magazine.: RoarMag.org. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
  10. ↑ "Redes sociais sem censura e com privacidade". Brasilia,Brazil: Jornal do Engenheiro. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
  11. ↑ "FuturePress Profile". Online news portal: WLCentral.org.
  12. ↑ Moreira, Ana Beatriz. "¿Qué futuro tenemos?". Sao Paulo, Brazil: Contra mare. Retrieved 29 May 2012.

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