'Boston Free Assange Rally' at Faneuil Hall, Dec 6th!
👉Call out to MA senators @ewarren @SenMarkey to raise awareness of #AssangeCase in Congress.
👉Call out to AG Merrick Garland @TheJusticeDept to #DropAllCharges
#FreeAssangeNOW
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"[US prosecution] is trying to placate the UK court...saying "we won't put Assange in Special Administrative Measures, SAMs, you can count on us - don't worry - unless he does something to make us do that" ...
We have to get Julian Assange out of prison!"
Activist Susan McLucas, co-organizer of 'Boston Area Assange Defense'.
#AssangeDefenseBoston
Activist Jeanne Winner on #Assange being charged under Espionage act:
"His crime was passing info to us the public..you're seen as potentially an enemy of the state...important to protect 1st Amend rights..& make clear that the state shld not regard its own citizens as the enemy"
"When govts lie, democracy dies. We have to save #JulianAssange! Call President Biden and AG Merrick Garland, let them know to #DropTheCharges ... if Assange gets extradited it will be a dark day for the American Bill of Rights with no press freedom" Joe Kebartas, Vet, activist
Peace activist James Van Looy on recent war crimes explained by the US military "as a 'righteous kill' but the reality is of course it was all a big coverup. These kind of coverups have been going on for 20 years."
"Julian Assange’s crime is that he laid out the memos which allowed journalists to prove that we were systematically torturing people in Iraq. We were taking the information we got from that torture & we were assassinating people in their home" James Van Looy, Veteran, activist
"This is about democracy, the rule of law, and the need to defend it. This case is emblematic - a precedent. If telling the truth becomes a crime, this will not just have a chilling effect on journalism- it will do away with it."
@Plucille54 quotes @NilsMelzer on #AssangeCase
"Journalists should not be put in prison for doing their job. The big picture here is that the prosecution of #JulianAssange is a threat to democracy & to journalism & to people's right to know. #JournalismIsNotACrime & we must all step up & defend our truthtellers" @Plucille54
Free Assange! Contact your reps to #DropAllCharges #FreeAssangeNOW!
#AssangeDefenseBoston
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