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23 Dec 20, 8 tweets, 6 min read
@ScottShaneNYT thanks for your acknowledgement of the truth - grudging though your phrasing seems .

As one of many ordinary citizens who understood the world better because of @wikileaks' & #JulianAssange’s courage, here are some thoughts on "what we think of" him

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#Wikileaks & #JulianAssange revolutionised journalism by making it possible for citizens to look at the real data behind the slanted & constrained world-views presented by mainstream journalists.

fair.org/extra/amplifyi…

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#Wikileaks' revelations reshaped our understanding of the #Iraq war & cut through the simplistic image painted by military PR - a sunny picture of a well-meaning US army saving the world one war at a time. #Wikileaks made #BlackLivesMatter

latimes.com/archives/la-xp…

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Among #Wikileaks' innovations was the use of a secure, encrypted & anonymous dropbox-like tool protecting sources & the documents they released. Today there are 70+ variations of the Wikileaks model use by anti-corruption campaigners in 29 countries
computerweekly.com/news/252490046…

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Corrupt & malicious anti-democratic forces have tried to smear & misrepresent the good work of #Wikileaks who continue to have a 100% accuracy record. See aei.org/politics-and-p…
Wikileaks allowed sources to protect themselves from accidentally revealing digital breadcrumbs .
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#Wikileaks mainstreamed "data journalism" & profoundly shaped global collaborative journalism. They enabled international reach & local sensitivity, combatted the power of large online advertisers in shaping the news cycle & facilitated archival. mediareform.org.uk/blog/a-secret-…

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#Wikileaks turned the tables on surveillance capitalism, allowing ordinary citizens to know about the crimes our governments & large corporations committed with our money and in our name but against our interests.
#JulianAssange cares about democracy!
theconversation.com/julian-assange…

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So thanks to the #JournalistsSpeakUpForAssange
blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/les-in…
Your work is crucial for accountability, which is why you must
a) acknowledge & value #JulianAssange's contribution to the ecosystem of journalism.
b) see past the smears of those who fear the light
8/

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Dr Deepa Govindarajan Driver Profile picture
8 Jan
I was a legal observer at the #Assange hearings on behalf of @SocialistLawyer.
Here is a 🧵 capturing my feelings & impressions.

(I speak as an individual- my formal report will follow in a few weeks)

#WeAreAllAssange

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The daily experience was upsetting & sad.
For me there was physical tiredness from queueing (every day for 3 weeks in Sep) in the wee hours in the 🥶
Julian has a chronic lung condition; he’s depressed & has osteoporosis made worse by lack of sunlight.
He’s been MADE ill
2/
Being driven over from Belmarsh in the early hours in a manky SERCO van after being strip searched and X-rayed was yet another brutality inflicted on him.
They seemed to use process at every point to grind him down & remind him that they didn’t find him worthy of humanity.
3/
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11 Dec 20
#WeAreAllAssange

1/ The case of #JulianAssange can be depressing & overhwhelming. The persecution has cost this man & his family a decade of their lives. So here is a short thread (with cartoons) summarising the key reasons, Britain must not continue to be America's lapdog Image
2/ This prosecution is politically motivated. The US wants to hide its horrendous record of murder, rape & torture of innocent civilians like ElMasri therenditionproject.org.uk/prisoners/khal… .
It does not want to be embarrassed for the incompetence & warmongering that destroyed entire nations. Image
3/ It is astounding that even though the defendant's conversations with his lawyers were spied upon and the prosecuting team is revealed to have conspired to kill / harm the defendant, the trial continues without any impediment.
thegrayzone.com/2020/05/14/ame…

#WeAreAllAssange
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22 Feb 20
An all-women delegation has delivered a letter from international jurists to Prime Minister Boris Johnson at 10, Downing Street today. The letter sets out how the rule of law has been undermined in the case of #JulianAssange
link.medium.com/9owkhp8Bh4

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The letter then details numerous violations of the law in the #Assange case, and ask for the rule of law to be upheld.
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The jurists call on the UK authorities to deny the US extradition request and urge the UK government to immediately release Mr Assange.
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18 Feb 20
On 24th Feb, the extradition hearings in the case of #JulianAssange begin. This week, I will be tweeting out the articles that weren't just great at the time of publication but are worth re-reading now, to get a real handle on the case

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@LissaKJohnson 's 'The Psychology of Getting Julian Assange' explores the psychological dimensions of the CIA decision of "taking down Wikileaks". Remember, these are the same CIA who use / approve in Guantanamo of the professional psychologists who destroyed people by .....
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"rectally force feeding victims with hummus, pasta and nuts; sexually assaulting them with broomsticks; locking them in boxes of insects; threatening to harm their children and slit their mothers throats, or rape their mothers in front of them."
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21 Oct 19
#JulianAssange #Assange
1/ Today, I went to a court for the very first time & I’d like to share some thoughts.

Let me start by talking about the courageous, ordinary citizens who protested outside and/or queued from the early hours in the cold & rain to support Julian
#JulianAssange #Assange

2/ In the crowd you could hear people speaking in South American Spanish, German, French, accented English from New Zealand, Australia, the Americas& the Uk, Polish, Greek and more!
3/
Some were supporters who have stood outside the Ecuadorean embassy for years recognising early how Julian was being framed .

Others were those who stand outside Belmarsh today shining a light on the UK govt’s role in torturing the world’s most important political prisoner
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