Breaking Australia's silence: WikiLeaks and freedom' was a public forum held on 16 March 2011 at the Sydney Town Hall. The event was staged by the Sydney Peace Foundation, Amnesty, Stop the War Coalition, and supported by the City of Sydney.
Chaired by Mary Kostakidis, it featured speeches by John Pilger, Andrew Wilkie MP (the only serving Western intelligence officer to expose the truth about the Iraq invasion) and Julian Burnside QC, defender of universal human rights under the law.
The public meeting was attended by over 2000 people. The public meeting was in support of Wikileaks, Julian Assange and alleged whistleblower Bradley Manning
Video of the event on VIMEO
Breaking Australia's silence: WikiLeaks and freedom from John Pilger on Vimeo.
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Good account of the meeting from World Socialist Web
Australia: Thousands turn out in support of WikiLeaks, Assange and Manning
By James Cogan
18 March 2011
Close to 2,000 people attended a public meeting at the Sydney Town Hall on Wednesday in support of WikiLeaks’ editor and Australian citizen Julian Assange and alleged American whistleblower, Private Bradley Manning. The meeting was sponsored by Amnesty International and other civil liberties organisations, with the assistance of the Sydney City Council. The large attendance demonstrated the outrage felt by a broad cross-section of the Australian population over the collaboration of the Labor government of Prime Minister Julia Gillard with the US-led persecution of Assange and WikiLeaks
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/mar2011/pilg-m18.shtml