{"id":27227,"date":"2014-11-07T03:46:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T08:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=27227"},"modified":"2014-11-07T03:46:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T08:46:36","slug":"julian-assange-to-deliver-video-remarks-at-l-a-s-pen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/julian-assange-2\/julian-assange-to-deliver-video-remarks-at-l-a-s-pen.php","title":{"rendered":"Julian Assange to Deliver Video Remarks at L.A.&#8217;s PEN &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder who has    been living in asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since    June 2012, will deliver real-time video remarks at 24th Pen    Literary Awards.  <\/p>\n<p>    The event, hosted by Aisha Tyler, is scheduled    for Nov. 11 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Assange has been    living in the embassy to avoid possible U.S. prosecution for    his role in leaking documents supplied by Chelsea    Manning (formerly Bradley Manning).    In The Fifth Estate, a 2013 film about the case,    Benedict Cumberbatch played Assange.  <\/p>\n<p>    Pen Center USA also announced that VICE Media will be presented    with the organizations prestigious Award of Honor for its    excellent writing.  <\/p>\n<p>    Writer-director Chris Weitz (About a    Boy, The Twilight Saga: New Moon) will present    the Freedom to Write Award to Jose Antonio    Vargas, who won a Pulitzer for being part of the team    at the Washington Post that covered the Virginia Tech    shootings and who revealed his status as an undocumented    immigrant in a powerful 2011 New York Times essay.  <\/p>\n<p>    Amy Poehler will present Norman    Lear with the Lifetime Achievement Award.  <\/p>\n<p>    Other previously announced Literary Award winners include    Gretel Ehrlich; Octavio    Solis; Lindsay Hill; Craig    Malisow; Victoria Chang; Bill    Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis;    Ben Coccio, Derek Cianfrance    and Darius Marder; Judd    Apatow and Lena Dunham; Wayne    A. Rebhorn; Margarita Engle; and    Mimi Pond. In addition, Glenn    Greenwald and Laura Poitras will    receive the First Amendment Award.  <\/p>\n<p>    Read more Julian Assange Says He is to Leave London's    Ecuadorian Embassy \"Soon\"  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Go here to read the rest:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/julian-assange-deliver-video-remarks-746834\" title=\"Julian Assange to Deliver Video Remarks at L.A.'s PEN ...\">Julian Assange to Deliver Video Remarks at L.A.'s PEN ...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder who has been living in asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since June 2012, will deliver real-time video remarks at 24th Pen Literary Awards. The event, hosted by Aisha Tyler, is scheduled for Nov. 11 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1599],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-julian-assange-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}