"We got to break through that trust in the mainstream..have some courage & curiosity to look behind it. Most people are good-hearted but the machine isn't good hearted. They're fooling & deceiving us..We got to look through it & decide for ourselves. WikiLeaks helped us do that."
Activist and Co-organizer of Boston Area Assange Defense talks about @NilsMelzer new book and his advocacy for #JulianAssange.
Susan asks others to get informed, speak up for Assange and join us in the fight to #FreeAssange!
Peace Activist, James Van Looy on the vendetta against Assange by the two corporate parties who are both heavily invested in the military industrial complex. The whole legal case against Assange has unraveled - there is no case against Julian Assange - he has committed no crime!
"We have to work for truth and make sure that people who tell the truth aren't punished...Julian Assange is a truthteller who brought out, through WikiLeaks, many many truths that shamed the United States and now he's being punished" Joe Kebartas, Veteran, Peace Activist
"Assange didn't shoot down civilians like our troops shot down unarmed civilians. He didn't shoot down two Reuters' journalists. He did not pull the trigger. But our United States government is pulling the trigger on Julian Assange...shut him up for good" Jane Binkerd, Activist
"Reason Assange is in jail..because we cannot be propped up to go to war if we know the truth...people trying to unionize but if you look at the press, you don't see 200K workers in Starbucks -you don't hear their voices, you hear the voice of the owner" Ed Childs Union organizer
Two men joined today's action bc @WZBC_Live Truth & Justice radio host Bob Funke announced our demo Sunday morning! Real time evidence of the power of the media to enact change!
"Assange is a victim of torture. Julian Assange is being tortured and it's outrageous!" John Robinson
'Boston College's premier student-run radio station' wzbc.org 90.3FM @WZBC_Live
'Truth and Justice' Sunday mornings 6-10am, host Bob Funke - thanks for announcing #AssangeDefenseBoston action!
"If you want to protect free speech...we must work to free Julian Assange - because Julian Assange exercised free speech...I will try to get [Nils Melzer's] book 'The Trial of Julian Assange'. Everybody should educate themselves about Assange..to survive in the 21C" John Robinson
"@NilsMelzer concludes that the #AssangeCase is of extreme societal importance because a country can't have legitimate dissent & expose war crimes resulting in impunity for the officials & life sentences for the whistleblowers and journalists." @Plucille54#AssangeDefenseBoston
"In 2010-11 Assange released the Iraq War Logs,Guantanamo Files & Diplomatic Cables...so the US is embarrassed, too bad they shouldn't have done those things. Being embarrassed is no reason to put someone away for life...they're trying to make an example out of him" Susan McLucas
"If media covered #AssangeCase, you would know prominent civil liberties & press freedom org have written to Biden & Garland demanding they #DropTheCharges against Assange..in light of @YahooNews story..heightens our concerns abt motivations behind this prosecution" @Plucille54
Feb 7th, Boston showed up to defend press freedom and #FreeAssangeNOW!
Good turnout - new supporters!
Good speeches and lots of handouts distributed!
👉Calling on the Biden administration to #DropTheCharges@POTUS AG Merrick Garland #AssangeDefenseBoston
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"We are here not only for the freedom of Julian Assange, we are here to support the journalists.We are here to support the truth. We are here to support the freedom of expression. That's why we are asking the US to #DropAllCharges against Assange.
Massoudeh Edmond, Peace Activist
"[Our reps] should be hearing from us every day. They need to #DropTheCharges - it would be as simple as that ... Assange has lost 10 yrs of his life ...it's been 3 yrs of murder by process ...@NilsMelzer says it's insane for Julian to be in jail."
Susan McLucas, Peace Activist
"Assange's only crimes are exposing the crimes of the war makers, of the genocidal war machine that exploits and oppresses working people in countries around the world. ...He is our hero. Please join us in the campaign to #FreeJulianAssange." John Harris, bostonmayday.org
"Here we are New Year Eve's day as part of #FirstNightBoston. We are very concerned about Julian Assange. He just lost his case...who knows how long he'll be in jail?...@POTUS & Merrick Garland could just #DropTheCharges & the case would go away" Susan McLucas, Activist Organizer
"Assange stuck his neck out & released the Iraq War Logs, Afghan Diaries, Guantanamo Files..& he is paying the consequences.He had a stroke in prison..he is in frail health..if he dies, it will be on the @JoeBiden administration.
Susan McLucas Co-organizer #AssangeDefenseBoston
"Assange shouldn't be under the jurisdiction of the US at all. He's not an American citizen, he didn't do any of his work publishing in the US, & yet somehow he's the one who's threatened. The threat is that any of us who publish info might be prosecuted." Jeanne Winner, activist
"[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