Julian Assange

WGAR News: Gerry Georgatos, WikiLeaks Party WA Senate candidate, speaks out for First Nations Peoples

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 02:11:18 +0000

Newsletter date: 1 September 2013

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WGAR News: Australia's First Nations Political Party proudly announces pre-selection of candidates

WGAR - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights - Australia — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 03:06:39 +0000

Newsletter date: 12 August 2013

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Australia's First Nations Political Party

Paul Wiles

Ken Lechleitner

Election material related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

Aunty Rosalie Kunoth Monks

Arrende-Alyawarra Elder speaks out against intervention

Rosalie Kunoth Monks from Australia's First Nations Political Party runs for a seat in the Senate

The Return of Jedda

Australia's First Nations candidate Ken Lechleitner is running for the Seat of Lingiari

what the WikiLeaks Party will mean to Aboriginal peoples

Make your vote count

Central Desert Arrernte man Warren H. Williams is standing for the Australian Greens for a Senate spot from the Northern Territory in the federal election

Australian Greens Policy - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

Melbourne UK consulate rally and occupation (17th August 2012)

Anonymous — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 04:36:21 +0000

On Friday 17th August, in response to the UK Government threats against the Ecuadorean Embassy and there refusal to allow Assange safe passage to Ecuador where he has been given political asylum, a protest was held at the UK Consulate in Melbourne. Three protestors entered the consulate and tried to talk to staff about the treatment of Assange. Staff hid from the protestors and Federal Police and local police entered the Consulate. One protestor was arrested when he tried to bring water to those inside the Consulate. The video's below give a good account of what happened on the day.

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Something stinks - Ecuador has the right to grant Julian Assange Asylum - Ecuador's humanity verse the UK's inhumanity

Gerry Georgatos — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:59:54 +0000

Below are three key speeches in the evolving Assange extradition case, Ecuador's Foreign Minister granting Assange asylum, UK's Foreign Minister rejection of this claim and Julian Assange's speech from the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy.

The first speech below is translation of the statement from the Ecuadorean Foreign Minister arguing the case for their right to grant Julian Assange asylum. At the end of this statement follows the UK Foreign Minister's statement suprisingly arguing their case against ensuring Julian Assange's safe passage and exposing an intention to apprehend and extradite Julian Assange (and in what goes against the UK's history and respect at all costs in adhering to the right to all forms of asylum despite their most recent statement). The last speech is by Julian Assange from the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy on the 19th August 2012.

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Australian rallies to demand Britain allow Assange safe passage to Ecuador

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:55:23 +0000

On 16th August 16th the Ecuadorean Government announced it was granting political asylum to Julian Assange, under international law, on the grounds he has well founded fears of persecution for his journalism by the U.S.A., including threats to his life. They also stated Australia had failed to cover protection to Assange. Read full statement here. Meanwhile the British police surrounded the Ecuadorean Embassy in London and threatened to temporarily revoke its diplomatic status and raid it to arrest Assange and extradite him to Sweden. A series of protests were called at UK consulates and the Embassy in Australia to occur on Friday 17th August. These included Sydney -- Melbourne and Canberra and Adelaide

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Declaration by the Government of the Republic of Ecuador on Julian Assange’s asylum application

Flowerpower — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:43:24 +0000

On June 19, 2012, the Australian national Mr. Julian Assange appeared at the premises of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to request that the Ecuadorean State provide him with diplomatic protection, thus invoking the existing Diplomatic Asylum rules. The applicant had made his asylum request based on his fear of eventual political persecution by a third country, the same country whom could use his extradition to the Kingdom of Sweden to enable an expedited subsequent extradition.

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Sydney rally for Julian Assange at UK Consulate

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 08:22:24 +0000

16 August 2012 Extraordinary scenes are unfolding in London as UK authorities are reported to have entered the Knightsbridge building which houses the Ecuadorian Embassy, in defiance of more than 100 years of tradition which treats diplomatic compounds as sovereign territory of the Embassy’s government.

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WIKILEAKS Statement on UK threat to storm Ecuadorian embassy and arrest Julian Assange

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 08:08:15 +0000

Source: Wikileaks.org Thursday 16th August, 3:00am UTC In a communication this morning to the government of Ecuador, the UK threatened to forcefully enter the Ecuadorian embassy in London and arrest Julian Assange.

The UK claims the power to do so under the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987.

This claim is without basis.

By midnight, two hours prior to the time of this announcement, the embassy had been surrounded by police, in a menacing show of force.

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Melbourne solidarity for Julian Assange

Sasha Brown — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 08:56:06 +0000

Around 200 people turned out in the Melbourne rain to show solidarity for Julian Assange (1st July 2012) at a rally organized by Wikileaks Australian Citizens Alliance/ The crowd heard from a range of speakers including Greens MP Adam Bandt, SEP Melbourne by-election candidate Patrick O’Connor, Wikileaks co-founder

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from Ecuadorian embassy

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:09:56 +0000

Reprinted from the WSWS

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador.

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Julian Assange: the price of being a Western dissident

Wei Ling Chua — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:13:33 +0000

Julian Assange is doing humanity a favour by exposing through the US Embassy Cables that “Oil motivates U.S.

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Video footage of Melbourne May 31st Julian Assange solidarity rally

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 11:43:46 +0000

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)

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SEP meetings on June 10th: Defend Wikileaks editor Julian Assange

Anonymous — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 10:39:26 +0000

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.

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Justice for all: WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, the rights of the two women

Gerry Georgatos — Thu, 31 May 2012 01:12:40 +0000

“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.

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Julian Assange loses appeal against extradition - rallies to occur on the 31st of May

Anonymous — Wed, 30 May 2012 09:19:11 +0000

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.

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