This year’s National Whistleblower Assembly is organized by the Make it Safe Coalition. Individual co-sponsors include:

• Government Accountability Project (GAP)
• International Association of Whistleblowers (IAW)
• National Whistleblowers Center (NWC)
• University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law (UDC-DCSL).

This year’s Assembly has four cornerstone objectives:

1. Matchmaking for solidarity and ongoing working relationships between whistleblowers and those who should benefit from their dissent, such as NGO’s, investigative journalists and government investigators;
2. Lobbying Congress to upgrade its rhetorical commitments for stronger whistleblower protection into reality, from completion of legislation pending nine years to overhaul the Whistleblower Protection Act, to comprehensive corporate rights expanding on five precedents in the last Congress
3. Providing "street law" so that whistleblowers learn how to use and act on their rights under new whistleblower laws; and
4. Providing a living history forum where whistleblowers can make a record of why they risked their careers to defend the public, and what happened.

The National Whistleblower Assembly will kick-off with a plenary session comprised of whistleblowers and government leaders. The Assembly will strategize on how to assist and help hold our leaders to President Obama’s commitment made his first day in office:

“Starting today, every agency and department should know that this administration stands on the side not of those who seek to withhold information, but those who seek to make it known.”

National Whistleblower Assembly updates, including workshops, speakers and hotel information, can be found at: http://www.makeitsafecampaign.org.