Boston Free Assange Rally 2023 Updates: DC Natl Press Club Belmarsh Tribunal - GITMO Open 21 Years!
Schedule
Sat Jan 21 2023 at 11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Location
Park St Station Boston | Boston, MA
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Supporters of Julian Assange will gather at Park Street Station on the Boston Common on Saturday, January 21 from 11:30 to 12:30 to raise their voices for the embattled and endangered journalist and publisher Julian Assange. For this rally, a special focus will be on the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, marking the 21st anniversary of its opening on January 11, 2002. This symbol of US lawlessness is still open despite WikiLeaks publishing the GITMO Files in 2011 showing the awful abuses of the detainees. Assange suffers similarly to the detainees as he is held in limbo, tortured, uncharged, unconvicted, and his dire situation under reported. If our media faithfully reported on Guantanamo and Assange’s incarceration it could quickly put an end to both. https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1613083421332455424?s=20&t=lY8Ab1zSXuNdvuzPPhcJcAThe founder of WikiLeaks is awaiting word about whether the UK will hear his appeal of their decision to extradite him to the US, where he faces 175 years under the Espionage Act. His only “crime” is to have published evidence of US war crimes in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other matters.
Please register for the 'Belmarsh Tribunal' hosted by the National Press Club in Washington, DC on Jan 20th at 2pm. UK Labour politician Jeremy Corbyn is coming in for it! Inspired by the Russell-Sartre Tribunals of the Vietnam War, the Belmarsh Tribunal will bring expert witnesses together to present evidence of the attacks and crimes against Julian Assange and to remind President Biden to protect the First Amendment and drop the charges against Assange.
https://act.progressive.international/belmarsh-tribunal-dc/
Julian Assange has support around the world. The Australian Parliament, for years, has shown cross-party support for bringing their fellow countryman home. As German member of Parliament Sevim Dagdelen explained at the NYC Assange rally on Human Rights Day, December 10, the German Parliament has passed a cross-party resolution of support for freedom for Assange, with the vast majority in favor, including ministers of the current government calling for Assange’s release. (See minute 6:03 in video.)
The Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese has finally come out strongly with the Biden administration, saying that they should drop the charges.
Mexican president Manuel Lopez Obrador has offered Assange asylum and all Latin America’s leftist presidents are helping lead the campaign to free Julian Assange. The WikiLeaks journalist has the support of Brazil’s Lula da Silva, Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Argentina’s Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Colombia’s Gustavo Petro, Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega, Bolivia’s Evo Morales, and Honduras’ Manuel Zelaya. https://scheerpost.com/2022/12/07/free-julian-assange-say-latin-americas-leftist-leaders-lula-amlo-petro-maduro-ortega-kirchner-evo-zelaya/
A major journalist at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, John Lyons, said recently that he firmly expects Julian Assange to be released within two months: https://twitter.com/AssangeCampaign/status/1609463864537796611?s=20&t=8wAuLuEHdAsMaoVnn7f6NQ
At the end of November, 5 major newspapers came out with a joint Open Letter saying that publishing is not a crime and Assange should be released:
https://www.nytco.com/press/an-open-letter-from-editors-and-publishers-publishing-is-not-a-crime/
Both Daniel Ellsberg and John Young of Cryptome, who published the same documents unredacted just before Assange released them, redacted, have asked the Department of Justice to indict them along with Assange, leading Newsweek to write this article strongly supporting him.
https://www.newsweek.com/i-am-assange-daniel-ellsberg-other-allies-demand-us-prosecute-them-too-1766616
MSNBC, the Chicago Tribune, and the Miami Herald all recently had opinion pieces supporting freeing Assange.
https://twitter.com/GabrielShipton/status/1603630018915364864?s=20&t=1rh2-Lf21oJbZ3FUA5gwMw
With all these major press outlets having taken a stand, we call on corporate media to report on the Assange case. We ask if they are waiting until Julian Assange dies in prison to report about his case? It is not a far-fetched possibility. He had a stroke over a year ago and solitary confinement wears people down, physically and psychologically.
Julian Assange’s fate is the fate of a free press.
This is an important story.
We strongly encourage media outlets to cover it!
You can help stop this injustice by calling the Dept of Justice 202-353-1555 and tell Atty General Merrick Garland to drop all charges against Julian Assange.
Please join us at Park St Station, Saturday, January 21, 11:30-12:30 (new winter day/time!)
Contact Susan McLucas, 617-501-9125, [email protected], and
Paula Iasella, [email protected]
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