In terms of world-wide assistance - this is an interesting web-site: Project Camelot Project Camelot ...
• Will enable activists in paradigm-challenging fields to make a firm statement about their work, their intentions, and their positive state of mind.
• Will offer protection in the forms of;
a) a foundation
b) legal protection
c) personal and logistical support
• Will provide access to all forms of media. The objective is to get the truth out... and facilitate appropriate, secure publicity for all those with information to share, but who fear reprisals for their stand.
And more interestingly the comment shown as to be have been made by Gandhi on its home page:First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)