Help A Kiwi Journalist Take On The Spies – #1vs5i

The 1vs5i campaign launched in late 2019 to support Kiwi journalist Suzie Dawson through her NZ legal complaints processes which were unfortunately profoundly impeded by the early 2020 global pandemics and subsequent lockdowns. Suzie does hope to one day be able to achieve justice for the abuses she has suffered. However, there is a bright spark: Suzie has returned to her software development career with her project Panquake.com and is working with talented developers around the world to revolutionise the social media space. This means that at this time she no longer needs financial contributions to be a component of supporting her, and has requested the donate functions on her campaign be shut down. Suzie and her family deeply thank all who have been so supportive of her to date and who continue to walk alongside and support her into the future.

Background:

Kiwi journalist Suzie Dawson is a prominent defender of famous whistleblowers and parties targeted by the US, such as Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Kim Dotcom and WikiLeaks. For nearly a decade her journalism and activism has taken on some of the worlds most powerful actors. She has fought against unlawful spying by intelligence agencies on citizens. She combatted unfair power-grabs like the Trans-Pacific Partnership. She has consistently sided with the people, speaking truth to power, and had the courage to speak up where citizens rights and freedoms have been eroded.

Since 2012, Suzie's journalism warned that global intelligence agencies were targeting every day citizens, including New Zealanders. As a result, she became a target of intelligence agencies - the very people she had warned about - and in 2015 was forced into exile by their orchestrated campaign of harassment, intimidation and sabotage.

In December 2018, a State Services Commission Report in New Zealand provided conclusive evidence that security services were, at times, out of control - confirming what Suzie had been saying all along. The report found that up to a dozen government agencies hired private intelligence companies to target journalists, activists, political parties and insurance claimants in retaliation for their dissent. The targeted groups included multiple political movements with which Suzie had been involved.