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Blackwater Watch
Blackwater Watch (then known as Xe Watch to match a change in Blackwater's company name, now known a Academi Watch after yet another name change) is a non-profit, non-governmental watchdog organization derived, in 2007, from the grassroots North Carolina Stop Torture Now!. They monitor Blackwater Worldwide (later known as Xe, now known as Academi), plus private armies and mercenaries with respect to human rights, legal immunity, cronyism, war profiteering, lobbying, war, and conflict.
In September 2007 the organization brought investigative journalist and Blackwater author Jeremy Scahill to North Carolina Central University. In October 2007 Blackwater Watch and the Catholic Worker Movement staged the first-ever demonstration at Blackwater headquarters in Moyock, North Carolina.[1][2]
The headquarters of the lobbying firm Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice was the target of a Blackwater Watch-organized protest and held on the one-year anniversary of the Nisour Square massacre of September 16, 2007. Headquartered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, WCSR is the third lobbying firm hired by Blackwater since October 2007.
Blackwater Watch representatives have been quoted in The Seattle Times,[3], the Chicago Tribune[4] and The Guardian.[5]
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Xe, previously Blackwater, has changed its name AGAIN to Academi (WP). Academi Watch has the same website and website name as they did at the beginning, see below. What can I say, I can't be everywhere at once, and I missed the AfD for Xe Watch. The AfD was a joke, with Tokyogirl saying that the only articles written about the group was its formation. It was not formation, it was name change, to keep up with Blackwater/Xe/Academi. So badly informed, so opinionated. Or more likely, deliberately misleading. And a ditto from a user who has since been banned as a sockpuppet. And that's all, for an article about the only watchdogs dedicated to eyes on the most dangerous military force in the world. But that's AfD for you.
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Inasmuch as this rationale was true, it highlights a terrible flaw in the Notability system. Organizations using this brand of Black public relations are hampering the ability of the press and public to be informed about them. Instead of the obfuscation being itself a notable topic, and the subject more worthy thereby of inclusion the black PR makes the press more likely to be kept further in the dark.
Where the press IS informing the public of Blackwater's name changes, it has less space to devote to Academi Watch and its prior incarnations.
References
- ↑ press coverage
- ↑ film of the event on YouTube
- ↑ "Blackwater shooting incident — bane or boon?" Seattle Times, 20 September 2007
- ↑ "Blackwater in gray area again", the Chicago Tribune 19 September 2007
- ↑ "Iraq's hired hands under fire as the pot of gold starts to run low", the Guardian, 22 September 2007
External links
- Blackwater Watch official website
- Human Rights First; Private Security Contractors at War: Ending the Culture of Impunity (2008)
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