About: Press Uncuffed

An Entity of Type: Thing, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Press Uncuffed, founded in 2015 by the Washington Post's Dana Priest and several of her students at the University of Maryland in collaboration with the Committee to Protect Journalists, is a campaign to help free imprisoned journalists throughout the world. The nonprofit organization centers fundraising around selling bracelets bearing the names of imprisoned journalists. Eight of the journalists profiled were released, including the Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian. Priest and the students used Indiegogo to fund the original bracelets. They surpassed their flexible goal of $30,000 by almost $1,500 within the time limit of the campaign. The organization's mission statement is: "Our mission is to advocate for and support imprisoned journalists overseas. If a journalist somewhere st

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Press Uncuffed, founded in 2015 by the Washington Post's Dana Priest and several of her students at the University of Maryland in collaboration with the Committee to Protect Journalists, is a campaign to help free imprisoned journalists throughout the world. The nonprofit organization centers fundraising around selling bracelets bearing the names of imprisoned journalists. Eight of the journalists profiled were released, including the Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian. Priest and the students used Indiegogo to fund the original bracelets. They surpassed their flexible goal of $30,000 by almost $1,500 within the time limit of the campaign. The organization's mission statement is: "Our mission is to advocate for and support imprisoned journalists overseas. If a journalist somewhere still wears a cuff, so will we." The campaign was launched at the Newseum in 2015. (en)
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 52595604 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 9486 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1108934132 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
rdfs:comment
  • Press Uncuffed, founded in 2015 by the Washington Post's Dana Priest and several of her students at the University of Maryland in collaboration with the Committee to Protect Journalists, is a campaign to help free imprisoned journalists throughout the world. The nonprofit organization centers fundraising around selling bracelets bearing the names of imprisoned journalists. Eight of the journalists profiled were released, including the Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian. Priest and the students used Indiegogo to fund the original bracelets. They surpassed their flexible goal of $30,000 by almost $1,500 within the time limit of the campaign. The organization's mission statement is: "Our mission is to advocate for and support imprisoned journalists overseas. If a journalist somewhere st (en)
rdfs:label
  • Press Uncuffed (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:homepage
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License