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Subject: The public just elected [NAME] as this month's Truth Icon — interview available

Dear [EDITOR],

Each month the public elects a Truth Icon at TruthIcons.com: the person judged to have done the most for the truth, and to have risked the most for it. Nominations are open to anyone, from any country, and the vote is public.

This month's elected icon is [NAME], [ONE LINE ON WHAT THEY REVEALED AND WHAT IT COST THEM]. They received [NUMBER] votes from [NUMBER] countries. We are sending them a printed award and a letter of congratulation this week.

[NAME] has agreed to speak to press and is available [DATES]. I can also offer:
· the vote breakdown and the citation, under embargo until [DATE];
· photographs of the award, free to use;
· background from [MEMBER ORGANISATION] on the legal situation.

The Truth Teller Society is a worldwide network of organisations that protect, defend and support whistleblowers, journalists and truth tellers. The monthly icons form the shortlist for the Pnyx Aletheia annual prize.

Would this be of interest? I can have everything with you within the hour.

[YOUR NAME], [ROLE]
Truth Teller Society · truthtellersociety.org · [PHONE] · [SIGNAL/EMAIL]

Subject: Founding the Pnyx Aletheia Prize — a proposal for [FOUNDATION]

Dear [NAME],

I am writing about a gap that [FOUNDATION]'s work on [PRESS FREEDOM / ANTI-CORRUPTION / HUMAN RIGHTS] already touches, and that a modest endowment could close permanently.

There is no global prize of real weight for truth tellers. There are excellent journalism prizes and excellent human-rights prizes, but the whistleblower, the witness, the scientist who refused to sign — the person who takes the first and most costly step — is honoured almost nowhere. Recognition for these people is not ceremonial. It is documented protection: attention changes how employers, prosecutors and courts behave.

We have built the mechanism and it is already running:
· TruthIcons.com — the public elects one Truth Icon every month. Free, open to every country, no committee.
· Truth Teller Society — the network of organisations that protect truth tellers, and the public voice of the field.
· Pnyx Aletheia — the annual prize, awarded to one of the twelve icons the public itself named.

What is missing is the endowment. We are seeking [NUMBER] founding donors at [AMOUNT] to establish:
· the annual laureate award of [AMOUNT], paid directly and unconditionally;
· twelve monthly awards, production and international delivery;
· a small emergency fund, disbursed through vetted member organisations;
· independent administration of the vote and the council.

Founding donors are named permanently — or remain anonymous, entirely as they prefer — and hold no influence whatsoever over who is honoured. That independence is written into our charter and is not negotiable, for reasons I think [FOUNDATION] would insist on itself.

Could I send the two-page brief, or take twenty minutes of your time in [MONTH]?

With respect,
[YOUR NAME], [ROLE]
Truth Teller Society · truthtellersociety.org

Subject: Adding [ORGANISATION] to the global truth teller directory

Dear [NAME],

[ORGANISATION]'s work on [SPECIFIC PROGRAMME] is exactly what most people in trouble never manage to find in time. That is the problem we are trying to fix.

The Truth Teller Society is building an open, multilingual directory of every organisation that supports, protects, funds, litigates for or shelters truth tellers — searchable by region and by the kind of help given. It is free, there is no membership fee, and there is no editorial control over your entry beyond a short charter on safety and consent.

Being listed means:
· someone in [REGION] searching at 3am finds you in one click;
· you receive network alerts when a truth teller or a member organisation is threatened;
· you can put cases forward for public recognition through TruthIcons.com, which several of our members already use as a protective measure for clients at risk;
· you help shape the shortlist for the Pnyx Aletheia annual prize.

The form takes about five minutes: truthtellersociety.org/join.html — and nothing is published until you approve the wording.

Would you like me to draft your entry for you to review?

[YOUR NAME], [ROLE]
Truth Teller Society · truthtellersociety.org

Subject: [NAME], elected Truth Icon for [MONTH] — a request from your constituency

Dear [TITLE] [NAME],

This month the public elected [PERSON] as Truth Icon for revealing [SUBJECT]. [NUMBER] people in [NUMBER] countries voted. [PERSON] is currently [FACING PROSECUTION / UNEMPLOYED AND UNPROTECTED / IN EXILE].

I am writing to ask you to do three things that cost nothing:
1. Acknowledge the award publicly — a sentence on the record is a documented protection.
2. Ask [RELEVANT MINISTER OR BODY] what protection [PERSON] is entitled to under [LAW], and place the answer on the record.
3. Support [SPECIFIC REFORM: transposition of the whistleblower directive / an anti-SLAPP provision / a public interest defence].

Whistleblower protection in [COUNTRY] currently fails at [SPECIFIC POINT]. The case of [PERSON] shows precisely how.

I would be glad to brief your office, and to put you in contact with legal specialists from our network in [COUNTRY].

Respectfully,
[YOUR NAME], [ADDRESS / CONSTITUENCY]
On behalf of the Truth Teller Society · truthtellersociety.org

Subject: Pro bono capacity for truth tellers — a specific ask for [FIRM]

Dear [NAME],

A short and specific request. The Truth Teller Society is a global network of organisations defending whistleblowers, journalists and witnesses. The commonest reason a case is lost is not that it is weak — it is that nobody took it in the first ten days.

We are looking for [FIRM] to commit one of the following for the coming year:
· [NUMBER] hours of pro bono employment or media law capacity, drawn on through our vetted member organisations;
· sponsorship of the monthly Truth Icon awards — production, engraving and international delivery, roughly [AMOUNT] a year;
· translation, secure-communications or design support in kind.

Sponsors are acknowledged publicly and have no role in selecting who is honoured. Our charter makes that separation explicit.

May I send the one-page outline?

[YOUR NAME], [ROLE]
Truth Teller Society · truthtellersociety.org

Subject: You have been elected Truth Icon for [MONTH]

Dear [NAME],

I am writing with something that is entirely yours to accept or refuse.

This month, members of the public around the world nominated and elected you Truth Icon of [MONTH] [YEAR], in recognition of [WHAT THEY DID]. [NUMBER] people in [NUMBER] countries voted. Nobody applied on your behalf for anything, and nothing is expected of you in return.

We would like to send you a printed award, engraved with your name and the citation below, to any address you choose — including care of a lawyer, an organisation or a third party if that is safer. There is no cost to you.

    "[CITATION]"

Please tell us which of these you would prefer:
· Publish your name and the citation. This is the default, and for many people the visibility itself is a form of protection.
· Publish the citation without your name, described only as [ANONYMISED DESCRIPTION].
· Publish nothing at all. We will withdraw the nomination and keep no record.

Your answer can change at any time, in either direction, and we will follow it without asking why.

If it would help, we can also connect you with organisations in our network offering legal, financial, digital-security or psychological support in [COUNTRY]. That offer stands whatever you decide about the award.

Thank you for what you did. It was not owed by you, and a great many people are better off for it.

With respect,
[YOUR NAME], [ROLE]
Truth Teller Society · truthtellersociety.org

Subject: URGENT — [NAME] detained/charged in [COUNTRY]: coordinated response

Colleagues,

At [TIME] on [DATE], [NAME] was [DETAINED / CHARGED / DISMISSED / RAIDED] in [COUNTRY], in connection with [DISCLOSURE].

Verified by: [MEMBER ORGANISATION] and [SECOND SOURCE].
Immediate needs: [LEGAL REPRESENTATION / EMERGENCY FUNDS / RELOCATION / DIGITAL FORENSICS].

What we are asking of the network in the next 48 hours:
1. Public statement from your organisation, using the citation below.
2. Referral of any counsel or safe accommodation you have in [COUNTRY].
3. Amplification of the case page: [URL].
4. If you are in [COUNTRY]: contact [LOCAL AMBASSADOR] before acting publicly, so we do not increase the risk.

Please do not publish operational details of [NAME]'s location, family or travel.

Coordination point: [NAME AND SECURE CONTACT]

Truth Teller Society · truthtellersociety.org