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DESCRIPTION:7/8/19 SF Protest At Twitter-Stop Blocking Tweets To Free Julian Assange & 
 Chelsea Manning\n\nWhere:  Twitter World HQ 1355 Market St #900, San 
 Francisco, CA 94103\n\nWhen:   Monday July 8th 2019 4:00 PM\n\nWhat:    
 Protest Against Twitter Blocking Of Tweets To Free Julian Assange and 
 Chelsea Manning\n\n\nTwitter while not banning the racist reactionary lies 
 of Trump has blocked the tweets of activists who are fighting for the 
 freedom of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning.\nThis rally will protest the 
 banning of Free Julian Assange sites and othe sites critical of US and 
 Israeli actions. The collusion and collaboration of the owners of Twitter 
 with the same US intellligence agencies that\nhave been involved in the 
 very crimes that Julian Assange and WikiLeaks has exposed is not 
 surprising. The real criminals of US war crimes in Iraq and the crimes of 
 Hillary Clinton in overthrowing the Honduran goverment\nare unprosecuted 
 but the whisltelbowers Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning are 
 imprisoned.\n\n\nSponsored by\nBay Action To Free Julian 
 Assange\nHttps://bayaction2freeassange.org\nEndorsed by\nUnited Public 
 Worker For 
 Action\nwww.upwa.info\n\nhttps://classconscious.org/2019/06/29/protest-at-twitter-hq-july-8th-against-censorship-of-pro-assange-accounts/ 
 \n\nProtest at Twitter HQ called to demand end to censorship of pro-Assange 
 accounts\n\n June 29, 2019 News\n\nIn response to the June 18th suspension 
 of the Twitter accounts of classconscious.org (@classconscious1) and 
 PhillipAdams (@Phillip Adams64) on June 18th, the Bay Area Free Assange 
 Committee has announced a protest at Twitter HQ in San Francisco on Monday 
 July 8th at 4PM. The protest demands an end to the censorship and the 
 increasing move to censor pro-Assange accounts and protests on Twitter and 
 Facebook.\n\n As Julian languishes in Belmarsh Prison, the US Government 
 and other governments conspiring to persecute him are well aware of the 
 growing support for him around the world. It is in this context that moves 
 are being made to sabotage the growth of this global movement.\n\nOn June 
 18th, the Twitter accounts of Phillip Adams (@PhillipAdams64) and 
 classconscious.org (@ClassConscious1) were suspended without warning or 
 justification. \n\nThe account of Phillip Adams had just tweeted that the 
 change.org petition he began and manages had reached 150,000 signatures. 
 This petition has become a powerful representation of the mass support for 
 Assange.\n\nThe suspension of the classconscious.org Twitter account came 
 hours after it had tweeted out numerous tweets linking to its article 
 covering the global solidarity protests occurring between the 12th and 14th 
 June – called out by classconscious.org to coincide with Assange’s most 
 recent extradition hearing in London. The photo in these tweets shows the 
 unprovoked, violent police arrests of two peaceful Assange demonstrators at 
 the Melbourne June 14th protest outside the UK consulate. This intensified 
 repression of the Assange/Manning campaign in real life is being mirrored 
 online.\n\nClassconscious.org after appealing their suspension was informed 
 they had repeatedly broken Twitter’s rules but were not told which rules 
 were broken and no specific tweets were referred to. This is a complete 
 abrogation of due process. Phillip Adams is yet to receive any 
 communication from Twitter justifying his suspensions. \n\nSubsequent to 
 these suspensions, other incidents of Twitter censorship include the 
 suppressing of the sharing of tweets promoting the #Candles4Assange 
 international actions to mark Julian Assanges 48th Birthday on 3rd July. 
 Facebook also recently suppressed an advertisement for a public meeting of 
 the PES, Socialist Equality Party in France. Other pro-Assange accounts 
 report their follower list being purged by Twitter. \n\nA line must 
 therefore be drawn in the sand. We cannot allow pro-Assange Twitter 
 accounts to be picked off a few at a time. If the banning of the 
 classconscious.org and Phillip Adams’ accounts on the same day is part of 
 an escalating purge of pro-Assange accounts by Twitter, then it poses an 
 existential threat to this international campaign. It is not hard to 
 imagine if these suspensions are allowed to stand, that, in the future 
 crucial months of the battle to save the lives of Assange and Manning, more 
 will soon follow. This targeted censorship will inevitably ensnare higher 
 profile accounts, even @Wikileaks itself.\n\nJust last week the high 
 profile account of award winning US journalist Barrett Brown, and his 
 associated organisation Pursuance, were suspended by Twitter. Barrett 
 served time for his role in helping to publish information on the Stratfor 
 leaks, (published on Wikileaks) which shed light on the way private 
 security firms work with government to repress dissent. Twitter suspended 
 Brown after he was reported by a far-right account which targetted Brown 
 for exposing the role of private firms in the atrocities being committed in 
 US migrant concentration camps and by ICE.\n\nBrown was also accused of 
 breaking Twitter’s rules, but they reversed the decision after a public 
 outcry. The whole episode demonstrates how the seemingly neutral rules of 
 Twitter are applied selectively and highly politically to remove high 
 profile left-wing voices from the public sphere.\n\nFree speech is needed 
 to win this free speech campaign! We cannot allow such censorship to become 
 the “new normal”. It must be politically confronted at every turn and 
 exposed. Solidarity must be shown to all targets of this censorship by the 
 broader campaign defending Assange. \n\nSo much of the international 
 campaign to free Assange and Manning is organised online and via social 
 media and, therefore, crucial to the task of building the global protests 
 that will be necessary to free them both. However, the close cooperation, 
 indeed the integration, of the corporate social media giants (Facebook, 
 Google and Twitter) with the US military/intelligence complex poses a 
 direct threat to the efforts to free Assange and Manning, and to free 
 speech in general.\n\nUPDATE JULY 1ST – @PhillipAdams64 account has been 
 restored – @classconsious1 still suspended – Read full details 
 here\n\nClassconsciuos.org calls on all defenders of Free Speech to endorse 
 and support the protest of the Bay Area Free Assange Committee (BAFAC). 
 Please send statements of endorsements to BAFAC via their Facebook or 
 Twitter page. \n\nIndividuals and organisations can also add their name to 
 the Open Letter published by classconcsious.org to demand the 
 reinstatements of @classconcsious1 and @PhillipAdams64 and all censorship 
 of pro-Assange activity on social media. \n\nREINSTATE CENSORED 
 ACCOUNTS!\n\nEND CENSORSHIP ON SOCIAL MEDIA OF THE FREE ASSANGE CAMPAIGN 
 \n\nPROTEST AT TWITTER HQ\n\nWHEN: JULY 8TH AT 4 PM\n\nWHERE: Twitter HQ 
 – 1355 Market St #900, San Francisco, CA 94103\n\nOrganised by  Bay Area 
 Free Assange Committee \n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/07/18824518.php
SUMMARY:SF Protest Against Twitter Blocking of Tweets To Free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
LOCATION:Twitter World HQ 1355 Market St #900, San Francisco, CA 94103
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/07/18824518.php
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