Sometimes it might feel like we're a small city in a small country, but together we're more powerful then the powers that be. WikiLeaks shows that people, acting in the best interests of all, can take on even the might of the US of A.

I went to the film night at the Cube (earlier this year http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/693558) and saw the film about Afghanistan and what a total mess that war is - yet our rulers do not want up to know the corruption of the regime for which our taxes and our citizens are being sacrificed.
So I ask my fellow Bristolians to join me in supporting WikiLeaks! Here's is one reason why... (from http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010...leaks)

One thing that might explain the official hysteria about the revelations is the way they expose how political elites in western democracies have been deceiving their electorates.

The leaks make it abundantly clear not just that the US-Anglo-European adventure in Afghanistan is doomed but, more important, that the American, British and other Nato governments privately admit that too.

The problem is that they cannot face their electorates – who also happen to be the taxpayers funding this folly – and tell them this. The leaked dispatches from the US ambassador to Afghanistan provide vivid confirmation that the Karzai regime is as corrupt and incompetent as the South Vietnamese regime in Saigon was when the US was propping it up in the 1970s. And they also make it clear that the US is as much a captive of that regime as it was in Vietnam.

The WikiLeaks revelations expose the extent to which the US and its allies see no real prospect of turning Afghanistan into a viable state, let alone a functioning democracy. They show that there is no light at the end of this tunnel. But the political establishments in Washington, London and Brussels cannot bring themselves to admit this.

Afghanistan is, in that sense, a quagmire in the same way that Vietnam was. The only differences are that the war is now being fought by non-conscripted troops and we are not carpet-bombing civilians.

It also shows how commercial interests, are not interested in anything else but money and 'protecting thier brand'; (from http://www.buzzmachine.com/2010/12/07/just-saying/)

I can use Visa and Mastercard to pay for porn and support anti-abortion fanatics, Prop 8 homophobic bigots, and the Ku Klux Klan. But I can’t use them or PayPal to support Wikileaks, transparency, the First Amendment, and true government reform.

So what can you do? Wikileaks have put out a file, the insurance file, what is encrypted. If you download this to your computer, then when they put the password out we all get to see what the state does not want us to see... (more here http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/wikileaks-insu...file/)

If you are new to torrent programs, then here's some help.
1. Download some torrent software - http://www.utorrent.com/downloads
2. Download the torrent file - http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5728614/Wikileaks__insu..._file
3. Use the torrent software to open the torrent file and off you go!

More to follow...

C'mon Bristol!