Whistleblower All-Star Event

Participant Media and The Informant!, are hosting a whistleblower all-star event. This event is the kick off to our national campaign to obtain stronger protections for whistleblowers, and is taking place in New York City on February 17th. The event will be broadcast into over 450 universities and will be streamed online at Livestream.com/TheInformant and Facebook.com/TheInformant.

The following whistleblowers are participating in the event and panel:

• Daniel Ellsberg (Vietnam whistleblower who exposed deceit within the Dept. of Defense via the Pentagon Papers)
• Cathy Harris (U.S. Customs whistleblower on racial profiling)
• Babak Pasdar (telecommunications whistleblower on the illegal spying by the Bush administration on Americans)
• Mike German (FBI whistleblower and now with the ACLU)
• Frank Serpico (testified against police corruption) • Colleen Rowley (Time Magazine Person of the Year: 2002)
• David Graham (FDA whistleblower on Vioxx and other drugs)
• Kit Foshee (whistleblower from the meat industry on ammoniated beef, New York Times front page stories October 4, 2009 and December 31, 2009)
• Participants also include former FDA Commissioner Dr. David Kessler, who worked with The Insider Jeff Wigand challenging tobacco companies.

The Informant! is a true tale of Mark Whitacre (played by Matt Damon), an Ivy League Ph.D. who was a rising star at Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in the early 1990s. The bipolar hero wound up blowing the whistle on the company's price fixing tactics and became the highest-ranked executive to ever turn whistle blower in US history. Whitacre secretly gathered hundreds of hours of video and audio tapes over several years to present to the FBI which became one of the largest price fixing cases in history.