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It has been suggested that Disinformation (company) be merged into this article. (Discuss) Proposed since June 2021. Russ Kick Born Russell Charles Kick III July 20, 1969 Tuscaloosa, Alabama, U.S. Died September 12, 2021 (aged 52) Tucson, Arizona, U.S. Occupation Writer, editor in chief, FOIA advocate, animal rights activist, publisher Russell Charles Kick III (July 20, 1969 – September 12, 2021) was an American writer, editor, and publisher. Russell Charles Kick III was born on July 20, 1969, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.[1] Early in his career, Kick wrote articles, a column, and a cover story for The Village Voice. He was the founder and editor of The Memory Hole, Memory Hole 2,[2] and Altgov2,[3] which published and archived U.S. government documents, including scientific studies, documents received under FOIA and civil rights-related reports, intelligence and covert action reports, consumer safety reports, and images including photographs of flag-draped coffins of American military personnel. These photographs of the war dead garnered worldwide media attention, including heavy rotation on all 24-hour news channels and front-page coverage on major newspapers, including The New York Times.[4] The Memory Hole also gained attention for posting a completely uncensored version of a Justice Department report about its internal hiring practices, leading to a front-page story in The New York Times.[5] Kick was editor-at-large for The Disinformation Company and he wrote three books and edited six anthologies for them, including You Are Being Lied To and 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know. He also was editing an anthology of classic and contemporary poems about death for Disinformation and Red Wheel/Weiser. He compiled and edited a three-volume, 1,600-page anthology set entitled The Graphic Canon from Seven Stories Press. The series features the world's great literature interpreted by more than 120 artists and illustrators such as R. Crumb, Maxon Crumb, Will Eisner, Molly Crabapple, Sharon Rudahl, Dame Darcy, S. Clay Wilson, Gris Grimly, Roberta Gregory, Kim Deitch, and Tara Seibel. [6][7] The first volume,[8] From The Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons (spring 2012), covers literature from ancient times through the end of the eighteenth century. The second volume,[9] Kubla Khan to the Brontë Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray (fall 2012), is devoted completely to the nineteenth century. The third volume,[7]
From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (spring 2013), covers the entire twentieth century.
From 2018 to 2021, he was the director of open records for Rise for
The next volume in the continuing project, The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature, was published in November 2014.[10] The last volume completed in the series, Graphic Canon of Crime and Mystery was published in November 2017 by Seven Stories Press.[11] It expanded the Graphic Canon series into the genres of crime and mystery. the Animals[12] where he expanded the ARLO (Animal Research Laboratory Overview) database [13] to include information obtained through FOIA and public records requests related to animal experimentation and research facilities. At the age of 52, Kick died on September 12, 2021, in Tucson, Arizona.[1][14] Books 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know, The Disinformation Co. 2003. ISBN 0-9713942-8-8 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know, Vol. 2, The Disinformation Co. 2005. ISBN 1-932857-02-8 100 Things You're Not Supposed to Know, The Disinformation Company 2008. ISBN 1-932857-62-1 Abuse Your Illusions: The Disinformation Guide to Media Mirages and Establishment Lies (editor), The Disinformation Co. 2003. ISBN 0-9713942-4-5 Death Poems: Classic, Contemporary, Witty, Serious, Tear-Jerking, Wise, Profound, Angry, Funny, Spiritual, Atheistic, Uncertain, Personal, Political, Mythic, Earthy, and Only Occasionally Morbid (editor), Disinformation and Red Wheel/Weiser, November 2013. ISBN 978-1938875045 The Disinformation Book of Lists: Subversive Facts and Hidden Information in Rapid-fire Format, The Disinformation Co. 2004. ISBN 0-9729529-4-2 Everything You Know About God Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion (editor), The Disinformation Co. 2007. ISBN 978-1-932857-59-7 Everything You Know About Sex Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to the Extremes of Human Sexuality (and Everything in Between) (editor), The Disinformation Co. 2005. ISBN 1-932857-17-6 Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies (editor), The Disinformation Co. 2002. ISBN 0-9713942-0-2 Flash Wisdom: A Curated Collection of Mind-Blowing, Perspective-Changing Quotes (editor), Disinformation and Red Wheel/Weiser, March 2015. ISBN 978-1938875120 The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature (editor), Seven Stories Press, summer 2014. The Graphic Canon: The World's Great Literature as Comics and Visuals, Volume One: From The Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons (editor), Seven Stories Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-60980-376-6 The Graphic Canon: The World's Great Literature as Comics and Visuals, Volume Two: From Kubla Khan to the Brontë Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray (editor), Seven Stories Press, 2012. The Graphic Canon: The World's Great Literature as Comics and Visuals, Volume Three: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (editor), Seven Stories Press, 2013. Hot off the Net: Erotica and Other Sex Writings from the Internet (editor), Black Books. 1999. ISBN 1-892723-00-X Outposts, Carroll & Graf and Masquerade Books, 1995. Psychotropedia: A Guide to Publications on the Periphery, Critical Vision, 1998. ISBN 1-900486-03-2 You Are Being Lied To: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths (editor), The Disinformation Co. 2001. ISBN 0-9664100-7-6 References Seelye, Katharine Q. (October 14, 2021). "Russ Kick, 'Rogue Transparency Activist,' Is Dead at 52". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 14, 2021. "The Memory Hole 2" http://thememoryhole2.org/ "Altgov2" https://altgov2.org/ Pentagon Ban on Pictures of Dead Troops Is Broken. The New York Times, April 23, 2004. https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/23/national/23PHOT.html "Unediting the Editing of Federal Report. The New York Times,". October 31, 2003. "Graphic Canon: Comics Meet the Classics". "Seven Stories Press". "Seven Stories Press". "Seven Stories Press". "Seven Stories Press". "The Graphic Canon of Crime and Mystery, Vol. 1". sevenstories.com. Retrieved December 13, 2017. "Rise for Animals" https://web.archive.org/web/20210628134914/https://riseforanimals.org/our-st... "Animal Research Laboratory Overview" https://arlo.riseforanimals.org/ "Russ Kick, writer, editor and 'rogue transparency activist,' dies at 52". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved September 25, 2021. External links The Graphic Canon The MemoryHole @ Internet Archive Russ Kick @ MuckRock Russ Kick @ YouTube Authority control Edit this at Wikidata General ISNI 1 VIAF 1 WorldCat National libraries Norway France (data) Germany United States Czech Republic Korea Netherlands Poland Categories: 1969 births 2021 deaths 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers American book editors American online publication editors American print editors American publishers (people) Navigation menu Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Article Talk Read Edit View history Search Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages Add links This page was last edited on 17 October 2021, at 02:16 (UTC). 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http://russkick.com/about/ http://thememoryhole2.org/ https://www.muckrock.com/accounts/profile/russkick/ https://archive.org/details/thememoryhole/ https://altgov2.org/counterspy/ The Memory Hole 2 New Donate Resources About Contact "Russ Kick is good at saving stuff that the government wants hidden." --Rachel Maddow [video link] The Memory Hole 2 - run by writer and anthologist Russ Kick - saves important documents from oblivion. Its predecessor, The Memory Hole (2002-2009), posted hundreds of documents, many of which will be reposted on the new site. Some of the highlights: * Most famously, obtaining and posting Pentagon-banned photos of flag-draped coffins of the fallen coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan. This led to worldwide front-page coverage, heavy rotation on the 24-hour news channels, and a statement from the Pentagon that the release had been "a mistake" and would never happen again. * Removing the redactions from an embarrassing Justice Department report on diversity among its legal workforce, then posting it with the previously censored portions highlighted in yellow. This led to a front-page story in the New York Times. * Obtaining and posting the full, uncut footage of President George W. Bush in that Florida classroom during the 9/11 attacks. We posted it for the first time, exactly one year before Michael Moore used it in Fahrenheit 9/11, claiming that his was the first public airing of the full footage. At that point, it had been viewed well over 100,000 times on The Memory Hole. * Scanning and posting asset-forfeiture manuals that the Justice Department ordered libraries to destroy, saying they had been mistakenly released. Most libraries complied. * The entire release of the 9/11 firefighter, EMT, and Port Authority radio dispatches, which had appeared only in fragments online. * The FBI's entire file on Martin Luther King, Jr. (all 16,000+ pages of it). * The hopelessly rare Kerry hearing transcripts on government cooperation in the global drug trade. * All the images from Tommy Chong's "Chong Glass" website, which was pulled down by the Drug Enforcement Administration after they arrested him for selling drug paraphernalia. * Lots of previously unposted documents on the US biological and chemical warfare program. * 1,200 pages of previously unavailable reports from the State Department's "Future of Iraq" project. * Deleted websites of the notorious Information Awareness Office, the Air Intelligence Agency, and the Justice Department's Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training, as well as deleted portions of the websites of the Department of Education, the Texas Department of Corrections, and the FDA. * The Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Lost Workday Injury and Illness Database, which identified tens of thousands of companies by name. OSHA fought in court for two years to keep this database secret. * Dozens of on-the-ground photos of the 1979 takeover of the American embassy in Iran. These photos had previously not been seen outside of Iran. * Dozens of previously unseen internal forms used by the NSA and the IRS. * Unreleased FBI maps of the Columbine massacre. * Sensitive documents from tobacco, pharmaceutical, and chemical corporations. The Memory Hole 2 achieves its mission in several ways: * Discovering what documents the US government has pulled offline, recovering them, and reposting them here. In this way, The Memory Hole 2 is the reverse of its namesake in George Orwell's 1984, in which official documents that were no longer convenient for the powers-that-be were sent to a furnace through a hole in the wall. * Digitizing and posting important documents that previously existed only on paper. * Filing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for documents across the federal government (including Cabinet-level departments, regulatory agencies, intelligence agencies, and the military), then posting the results. I also sometimes file at the state and local levels, as well as with governments outside the US. * Posting documents obtained by other researchers. * Proactively mirroring important documents that seem in danger of being pulled offline. * Posting documents that are available but are languishing in obscurity. This may include documents buried in huge search-only archives (not browsable), forgotten news reports, startling passages from books, court decisions, etc. * Converting documents from inconvenient or cumbersome formats into convenient ones. This might include taking hundreds of one-page and two-page PDF files and merging them into a single document, or making a photo gallery out of images in scattered locations. * I do some behind-the-scenes work by downloading gigabytes' worth of documents from government websites that use dirty tricks to block automatic archiving and caching, As long as the documents stay on the official sites, I may not post them, but if they ever go missing, I have copies. Russ Kick, Proprietor Please let me know if you notice the disappearance of government documents, webpages, or websites. If you see something, say something! Enter your email address to receive weekly updates powered by TinyLetter
https://www.archive-it.org/collections/924 http://thememoryhole2.org/resources http://altgov2.org/wp-content/uploads/CounterSpy_2-1-Weisberg.pdf Counter-Spy begins a series of in-depth analyses of the role of Central Intelligence in the international labor movement. Besides obviously targeting labor for dirty tricks, this Clandestine Services program... https://altgov2.org/doi-records-destruction/ https://altgov2.org/wp-content/uploads/DAA-0048-2015-0003_Appraisal_Memo.pdf http://altgov2.org/pai-disclosures/ https://altgov2.org/microgram/ altgov2 is a "rogue transparency activist" org that files hundreds of FOIA requests to the US government. This is "Microgram," the Drug Enforcement Administration's deleted internal newsletter on drug busts distributed to law enforcement. https://www.sevenstories.com/blogs/231-remembering-russ-kick-1969-2021 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCerLg4obHnN4m5e6MSjMtHw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Memory_Hole_(website) The Memory Hole (website)
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The Memory Hole was a website edited by Russ Kick; launched on July 10, 2002, last post on May 11, 2009,[1] with a successor website appearing in June 2016. Before being hacked in June 2009,[2] the site was devoted to preserving and publishing material that is in danger of being lost, is hard to find, or is not widely known. Topics include government files, corporate memos, court documents, police reports and eyewitness statements, Congressional testimony, reports from various sources, maps, patents, web pages, photographs, video, sound recordings, news articles, and books. The name is a tribute to the "memory hole" from George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, a slot into which government officials deposit politically inconvenient documents and records for destruction.[3] One of the most noticeable actions was the publication of several hundred photos depicting the coffins of U.S. soldiers fallen in Iraq. These were obtained by Kick by filing a request based on the Freedom of Information Act. The photos sparked a controversy regarding the publication of war photos, public opinion and the behavior of the U.S. government.[4] The website is the 2005 winner of the Project on Government Oversight's "Beyond the Headlines" Award.[5] A successor website, The Memory Hole 2, was launched by Kick on June 16, 2016. See also WikiLeaks Notes Kick, Russ. "About The Memory Hole". The Memory Hole. Archived from the original on 2010-04-23. Retrieved 2010-11-28. Kick, Russ (1 June 2009). "Both my WP sites - Memory Hole and Books Are People Too - have been hacked, turned into attack sites". Twitter. Archived from the original on 29 November 2010. Retrieved 29 November 2010. McNichol, Tom (2003-11-13). "Peeking Behind the Curtain of Secrecy". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2010-11-29. Retrieved 2009-06-08. Shanker, Thom; Carter, Bill (2004-04-24). "Photos of Soldiers' Coffins Spark a Debate Over Access". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-05-06. "Beyond the Headlines Award Project On Government Oversight". Project On Government Oversight. Archived from the original on November 16, 2012. Retrieved 2010-06-25. External links http://thememoryhole.org/ - Freedom of Information (FOIA) Web Archive The Memory Hole The Memory Hole - Internet Archive The Memory Hole 2 Stanford University's collection of sites that deal with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and documents Stub icon This website-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Categories: 2007 establishments in Sweden Classified documents Information sensitivity Internet censorship Internet properties established in 2002 National security Online archives of the United States Whistleblowing Website stubs Navigation menu Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Article Talk Read Edit View history Search Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages Add links This page was last edited on 4 June 2021, at 05:07 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers Contact Wikipedia Mobile view Developers Statistics Cookie statement Wikimedia Foundation Powered by MediaWiki
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