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Great New Video from the Free Julian Assange Campaign! A Song for Julian: Lyrics by Dennis Bernstein, Sung by Francisco Herrera It’s a shame that they have classified this video to make it unavailable to show an embed. I suppose the restraint might be justified by the scenes from the ‘Collateral Murder’ video, but it’s also something they don’t want[…]
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by Stansfield Smith, published on Chicago Alba Solidarity, January 5, 2023 On January 8, 2023 the US has to release one of its many political prisoners, most being fighters against its repression of Third World peoples. Ana Belén Montes, heroic defender of Cuba’s sovereignty, will be freed after over 21 years in a federal military prison. She was a top[…]
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published on The Orinoco Tribune, December 24, 2022 Caracas, December 24, 2022 (OrinocoTribune.com)—On Friday, December 23, US Federal Judge Robert Scola of the Southern District of Florida ruled that the Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab does not have the right to diplomatic immunity, as the US government does not recognize the government of President Nicolás Maduro. “The Maduro regime has been[…]
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by Staff at Fightback News, published December 27, 2022 Miami, FL – A Miami judge ruled against freedom for Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab on December 24. In a two-week-long hearing to determine Saab’s diplomatic status and his right to immunity from prosecution, Saab’s defense team presented stacks of evidence proving his status as a special envoy. The defense even used[…]
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by Ellen E. Taylor, published on Socialist Action, December 18, 2022 On November 28th the New York Times, Der Spiegel, the Guardian, Le Monde and El Pais sent an Open Letter to the world, stating that, “The US government should end its prosecution of Julian Assange for publishing secrets.” This letter is unforgivably late. Julian has been buried alive for over a[…]
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by Stephen Rohde, published on Socialist Action, December 1, 2022 I can’t give too much credit given that these same publishers sat back and watched Julian Assange be persecuted on these accounts for a decade. However, better late than never. We can, at this point, hope that the demands of these paragons of capitalism get more respect than the rest[…]
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by Noelle Hanrahan, published on Socialist Action, October 27, 2022 Dear Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal and social justice, Here’s an excellent article by Prison Radio’s Noelle Hanrahan on yesterday’s, October 26, racist court ruling in Philadelphia that effectively, and once again, denied innocent and racist police frame-up victim and political prisoner, Mumia Abu-Jamal, justice and a new trial. Hanrahan recounts the[…]
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by Chris Hedges, published on The Chris Hedges Report, October 8, 2022 This is the talk given by Chris Hedges outside the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. on Saturday October 8 at a rally that called on the U.S. to revoke its extradition request for Julian Assange. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Merrick Garland and those who work in the Department[…]
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by Kenny Stancil, published on Common Dreams, October 8, 2022 Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange held a massive transatlantic protest on Saturday to demand freedom for the incarcerated journalist. In London, thousands of people formed a giant human chain around Britain’s parliament and called for Assange’s immediate release from the nearby maximum-security Belmarsh prison, where he has suffered for[…]
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By William Camacaro, published on Workers World, September 22, 2022 This article was first published by Orinoco Tribune. William Camacaro is a Venezuelan-American, National Co-Coordinator in the Alliance for Global Justice and was a co-founder of the Bolivarian Circle of New York “Alberto Lovera” and Senior Analyst for the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA). After more than two years questioning[…]
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