Julian Assange: the price of being a Western dissident
Submitted by Wei Ling Chua on Tue, 19/06/2012 - 9:13pmJulian Assange is doing humanity a favour by exposing through the US Embassy Cables that “Oil motivates U.S.
Julian Assange is doing humanity a favour by exposing through the US Embassy Cables that “Oil motivates U.S.
Below is a number of videos of the Melbourne solidarity action for Julian Assange the day after his appeal against his extradition was rejected in London (May 31st 2012)
The Socialist Equality Party will be holding public meetings in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth on Sunday, June 10, to defend WikiLeaks’ editor and Australian citizen Julian Assange. The British Supreme Court has rejected his appeal against attempts to extradite him to Sweden on dubious sexual assault allegations, for which he has not even been charged. The Swedish authorities are functioning as nothing more than a tool of the US Obama administration, which wants to force Assange to Sweden.
“To radically shift regime behaviour we must think clearly and boldly for if we have learned anything, it is that regimes do not want to be changed. We must think beyond those who have gone before us and discover technological changes that embolden us with ways to act in which our forebears could not, “ Julian Assange.
Julian Assange is a 'war' hero in the battle of words and concepts, the argument for freedom of speech and the pursuit of various justices – however all sides, and there are many, in this war have their various heroes, some heralded like Julian, others not.
It has just been announced that Julian Assange has lost his appeal in the UK High Court against his extradition to Sweden. He legal team however has been granted a two week period to consider an appeal to have the case reopened on a technicality.
BRING JULIAN ASSANGE HOME!
Stating that a decision on Julian Assange's extradition will likely be issued in the next 6 days, Julian's mother, Christine Assange is calling on Australians to get ready for snap rallies across the country, as the decision should come down between March 6 - 14th 2012. This is close to home. When someone is dragged from the pack, we go back for them. It is expected that the appeal outcome to extradite Julian Assange to Sweden will be announced between March 6 - 14.
Amazing revelations about the depth of privatized spy agencies. And the co-ordinated effort to silence Australian Julian Assange for life.
Stratfor hires former U.S. government agents, and bribes insiders and journalists (possibly in contravention to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act).
Wikileaks announces the initial release from a trove of 5 million Stratfor emails hacked by the group Anonymous.
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WikiLeaks held a press conference after it began releasing The Global Intelligence Files, or G.I. Files, a collection of over 5 million emails from intelligence company Stratfor on the 27/2/2012
By Ciaron O'Reilly
By the time I lived in community with Phil Berrigan, he was a wise old man. He had served many years in U.S. prisons for his nonviolent resistance to the Vietnam War and nuclear weapons - initiating the draft board raids and plowshares movements. After I moved on, he would serve many more years. He was in the very best sense disillusioned with popular American pretensions. He suffered from few illusions.