Thread by @Plucille54

'Justice for Julian' at @TheJusticeDept
Friday January 21st, 2-4pm
Time to sound the alarm, once again, in #DC to #DropTheCharges #FreeAssangeTODAY!
Join us, invite people, RT!
@DefenseAssange info:
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Randy Credico opens the 'Justice for Julian' Dept of In-Justice action!
Thanks to all who weathered the cold to standout for #JulianAssange!
@CredicoRandy
@TheJusticeDept
#FreeAssangeNOW
This thread for photos and video clips.👇👇

"Without people organizing & doing the work day to day change doesn't happen...big movements don't just drop from the sky they come about as a consequence of this day-to-day, rain or shine activism." @BrianBeckerDC
'Justice for Julian'
#FreeAssange
#DropTheCharges Merrick Garland

"As the govt decided to persecute and prosecute Assange & WikiLeaks, the so-called free press abandoned them. Instead of showing journalistic integrity & courage & basic decency they allowed Julian to be taken down" @BrianBeckerDC
#FreeAssangeNOW
#DropTheCharges Merrick Garland

"If the Dept of Justice wants to even pretend to have the name 'justice' in the name of the agency there can be no other course but to free Julian Assange." @BrianBeckerDC
#FreeAssangeNOW
#DropTheCharges Merrick Garland
@TheJusticeDept

Randy talks about @vanitaguptaCR
"parachuting' in to the Tulia, Texas case, using the press to gain notoriety, leading up to her high position at @TheJusticeDept and she remains silent as the "press is snuffed out". @CredicoRandy
#FreeAssangeNOW
#DropTheCharges Merrick Garland

"Julian Assange exposed the US in real time..wasn't these cases where we're waiting 20, 30, 40, 50 yrs for FOIA requests to go through when you learn the truth long after anyone involved is dead, long after anyone involved can be prosecuted." @LeonardoEFA @codepink
1/2

"Julian exposing [US imperialism brutality] is really encouraging to see because it makes it clear what we're fighting against in a very real way. And that's why they're going after Julian Assange in such a brutal way." @LeonardoEFA @codepink
#FreeAssangeNOW
2/2

"The prosecution & persecution of Assange is not just directed at him, it is directed to all activists...what's happening here is officialdom sees Assange as a "line' they're choosing to draw. And we're here because Assange is a line that we are choosing to draw" @marwilliamson

"The profound of eloquence and graciousness of @StellaMoris1
Is such a beacon of light; such an example of womanhood at our best, refusing to go away, refusing to shut up but also refusing to, in any way deviate from the best & most gracious that is within her"
@marwilliamson
2/3

"This [Assange]case is a vortex..it's not only someone who revealed the crimes of the US war machine but it is someone being punished criminally. The punishment is what is criminal here..the persecution of him is what is criminal here. He is not the criminal." @marwilliamson
3/3

"@TheJusticeDept has a history
of...going after those who demand & facilitate transparency, who demand accountability, human rights..
WikiLeaks & Assange brought this kind of terrorism to light &that's why they are the enemies of empire &the allies of the people" @RadicalEleanor

Eleanor Goldfield performs her 'Free Assange' spoken word:
"...They'll say, he's an arrogant ass, a pig, don't give him a pass,
and yet here he is - a hostage of Holy Rome, a rattler of thrones.
Either way his fate we do own." @RadicalEleanor
#FreeAssange

Eleanor Goldfield performs 'Free Assange':

"Here is the Empire's swan song
A failing and flailing hegemony
A machiavellian tragedy
A grotesque dark comedy
...
I don't know this man but I don't want his blood on my hands
As a child of Empire I'm already soaked" @RadicalEleanor

"We call for dropping the charges & the immediate release of Julian Assange. Stop the torture! Defend free speech! Defend journalism! A free press!
And @nytimes expose the CIA plots against Assange and discussions to assassinate Julian Assange!"
Marty Goodman, member @AssangeNY

"None of us are free
None of us are free
None of us are free
If one of us is chained
None of us are free ...
We got to feel for each other
Let our brothers know we're here
Got to get the message! Send it out all loud and clear!" Luci Murphy
#FreeAssangeNOW
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"If you just look around you
You're going to see what I say
That the world is getting smaller each passing day
Now it's time to make some changes
It's time we all realize
That the truth is shining right before our eyes" Luci Murphy
#FreeAssangeNOW

"But for Julian Assange you can play any piano"
(tuned or untuned) @CredicoRandy

"Where's the media today?...the media that..feasted off of WikiLeaks for so many front page stories..that infuriated the CIA and led them on an insane revenge mission..that media is directly threatened by the case against Assange..they are absent" @MaxBlumenthal 1/4
#FreeAssange

"I called up natl security reporters who met w/ Assange at the embassy..and had their devices opened & hacked by CIA assets..none of them said a word..so they've sided w/ Assange's would-be assassins over the 1st Amendment..Then we got Congress..." @MaxBlumenthal 2/4
#FreeAssange

"They are trying to extradite someone who is not a US citizen to the US w/ the consent of his own govt..Australia, w/ the consent..of the UK. You can see how these govts exercise their sovereignty, they don't...and Assange is collateral damage" @MaxBlumenthal 3/4
#FreeAssange

"This is mafia law being applied against someone who has effectively been stripped of his citizenship to destroy the 1st Amendment..The stakes are the life of the bravest journalist of our time who was willing to go to the mat for his principles."
@MaxBlumenthal 4/4
#FreeAssange

"I don't...understand why the Biden admin doesn't just say,

'Look [Assange] has essentially been locked up for a dozen years,... We declare victory, we drop the charges...'

So in the meantime,, it's up to us to keep fighting, get the word out!" @JohnKiriakou
#FreeAssangeNOW

"The Dept of Justice doesn't have standing [to prosecute Jan 6 insurrection] because they in fact are committing an insurrection against the Constitution of this country, the Bill of Rights, the 1st Amendment. That is an insurrection." @CredicoRandy
#FreeAssange
@TheJusticeDept

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