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DESCRIPTION:We must stand/speak out in solidarity on this GLOBAL day of protest for 
 NO.MORE.WAR!  \nWe the People stand against DIRECT THREAT to 
 FreePress/FreeSpeech by oligarchy INTIMIDATION, SILENCING and WAR 
 distraction!  WE ARE FIGHTING FOR OUR VERY DEMOCRACY ON TRIAL, while 
 truth-tellers Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning sit jailed for revealing 
 WAR CRIMES!  \n\nPlease join us Saturday, Jan. 25 at 11:00 AM at 
 Powell/Market in San Francisco as we stand/speak out in solidarity on this 
 GLOBAL day of protest for NO.MORE.WAR!  \n\nWe the People stand against 
 root threat to FreePress/FreeSpeech by oligarchy silencing!  WE ARE 
 FIGHTING FOR OUR VERY DEMOCRACY ON TRIAL!  We demand the perpetual war 
 machine and the killing, torture and jailing of truth-tellers to STOP!  We 
 demand the freedom of multi-award-winning journalist, publisher and 
 Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange.  We demand the release of whistle-blower 
 Chelsea Manning who revealed war crimes (https://youtu.be/5rXPrfnU3G0) that 
 go unpunished to this day. Please see Defend dot Wikileaks dot org for 
 facts.\n\nWe speak out for OUR RIGHT TO KNOW and against the PERSECUTION of 
 all Journalists and Whistleblowers!  This is not something you hear about 
 on Main Stream Media (MSM) because MOST of those reporters are only 
 reporting the acceptable narrative full of lies and smears of truth-tellers 
 and independent journalists.  Variations to the acceptable narrative are 
 now punishable by jailing and death in the U.S.  The U.S. feels it can 
 extend its claw of power to control journalists anywhere in the world for 
 any actions not compliant with its acceptable narrative, as evidenced by 
 the Julian Assange case.\n\nThe attack and arrest by the British government 
 and police on Julian Assange with the direct support of the US-controlled 
 ($4.2 BILLION PAID in IMF to:) Ecuadoran government and the US government 
 is an attack on all journalists, whistleblowers, and democracy. It is aimed 
 at closing down all alternative media. The news We the People hear shall 
 only be controlled by the government, says the government.  There is NO 
 PROSECUTION of the war criminals exposed by WikiLeaks, Assange, Chelsea 
 Manning or other journalists and whistleblowers- now under attack and 
 imprisoned; property seized without warrants, homes invaded and turned 
 over- regularly- IN THIS COUNTRY!\n \nStats as of 01/01/2020: 294 DAYS in 
 jail and $185,000 in fines for Chelsea Manning\n- 265 Days since the brutal 
 arrest of Wikileaks dot org Publisher & Multi-Award Winning Journalist, 
 Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy after Ecuador's government 
 illegally terminated his Asylum.\n- 3312 Days of the unlawful trafficking 
 and arbitrary detention of WikiLeaks Publisher & Multi-Award Winning 
 Journalist Julian Assange in the UK. \nNils Melzer has not received a 
 response to his letter from the UK Govt in 60 days; https://twitter dot 
 com/NilsMelzer/status... \nOPCW Drops: https://wikileaks dpt 
 org/opcw-douma/#OPC... \n\n**PLEASE BRING signs and any bull horns you have 
 to this NON-VIOLENT PROTEST.** \n\nWHO IS POSTING THIS:\n\nBay Area Action 
 Committee To Free Julian Assange (BAACFJA) via BayAction2FreeAssange dot 
 com.\n\nWe are people, as in - We the People- uniting the international 
 working class and anyone interested in PRESERVING HUMANITY before it is too 
 late. Attacks on the media by governments throughout the world have grown 
 exponentially over the years with journalists are facing threats, torture, 
 and even murder. The U.S. is no exception and IS CULPRIT INSTIGATOR and 
 CONTROLLER of this despicable activity.\n\nWe must engage and mobilize to 
 join in the fight to protect press freedom, freedom of speech, our 
 democracy as it is being now truly stripped away, and our very LIVES. The 
 right of people to have information about their governments, and 
 governments around the world, is vital to protect the conditions and lives 
 of humans globally. \n\nThis website and mobilization are being coordinated 
 by average citizens.  Of note: TheUnited Public Workers for Action recently 
 helped have a resolution passed in defense of Assange at the San Francisco 
 Labor Council,  and the Pacifica Foundation recently announced support of 
 Julian Assange: See Pacifica National Board asks for Freedom for 
 Whistleblower 
 https://pacifica.org/documents/Press%20Release-Pacifica%20supports%20Julian%20Assange%202018-10-07%20(1) 
 dot htm) \n\nIt reads as follows:\nOct. 11, 2018 \nFor Immediate Release 
 \nNancy Sorden Email: nsordenPFW [at] gmail.com \nAlex Steinberg Email: 
 pnbalex [at] gmail.com \n\n(Berkeley) - The National Board of the Pacifica 
 Foundation passed a resolution supporting the journalist and whistle blower 
 Julian Assange at its October 4 meeting. The resolution said, “The 
 Pacifica National Board calls for the freedom of Julian Assange and an end 
 to the harassment of Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.” 
 \n\nThe resolution noted that Assange has been deprived of access to the 
 outside world, including the use of the Internet, in the past few months. 
 It called for the end of efforts to imprison Assange by the governments of 
 the United States and the United Kingdom and an end to the attacks on 
 journalists and whistle blowers by these governments. \n\nAssange, the 
 founder of the WikiLeaks, has been residing in the Ecuadorian Embassy in 
 London since 2012 when he was first given asylum. Ecuadorian President 
 Lenín Moreno has been under pressure from the United States to hand 
 Assange over to the British authorities. That pressure intensified after a 
 meeting between Moreno and U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence in June of this 
 year. \n\nBritish authorities have repeatedly stated that if Assange steps 
 one foot out of the Ecuadorian Embassy he will be immediately arrested and 
 would then very likely be extradited to the United States, where he faces 
 criminal charges that could put him in jail for the rest of his life. 
 Assange continues to face a secret grand jury trial in Virginia, home of 
 the Pentagon and CIA, on multiple charges under the 1917 Espionage Act. The 
 charges against Assange are linked to special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s 
 investigation into collusion of Trump’s campaign with Russia to influence 
 the 2016 elections. WikiLeaks has been accused of knowingly accepting 
 hacked emails from Russian espionage agents stolen from the Clinton 
 campaign. Assange has denied these charges. \n\nThe moves against Assange 
 are aimed at denying free speech to Assange and WikiLeaks, who over the 
 last decade have exposed the war crimes, coup plots and the mass 
 surveillance carried out by the US government and its allies. \n\nOver the 
 years WikiLeaks has published reams of documents supplied by whistleblowers 
 that chronicle the secret machinations of the U.S. and other governments 
 behind the backs of its people. These included documentation of equipment 
 expenditures and holdings in the Afghanistan war and a report informing a 
 corruption investigation in Kenya. In April 2010, WikiLeaks released the 
 so-called Collateral Murder footage from the 12 July 2007 Baghdad airstrike 
 in which Iraqi journalists were among those killed. Other releases in 2010 
 included the Afghan War Diary and the "Iraq War Logs". The latter allowed 
 the mapping of 109,032 deaths in "significant" attacks by insurgents in 
 Iraq that had been reported to Multi-National Force – Iraq, including 
 about 15,000 that had not been previously published. In 2010, WikiLeaks 
 also released the US State Department diplomatic "cables", classified 
 cables that had been sent to the US State Department. In April 2011, 
 WikiLeaks began publishing 779 secret files relating to prisoners detained 
 in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. WikiLeaks received much of this 
 material from whistleblower Chelsea Manning. \n\nIn addition to publishing 
 the hacked emails from the Democratic Presidential campaign of Hillary 
 Clinton in 2016, WikiLeaks published a trove of material from the CIA in 
 2017 exposing the cyber tools used by that agency to compromise the privacy 
 of data on iPhones and other personal communications devices. \n\nThe 
 defense of Julian Assange has received the support of a number of 
 journalists and prominent individuals. Among those who have spoken up in 
 defense of Assange has been the journalist Chris Hedges, the film maker Ken 
 Loach as well as the film maker Oliver Stone. Oliver Stone sent a letter to 
 the Pacifica National Board in the days leading up to its Oct. 4 meeting 
 asking that the organization go on record defending Assange. \n\nThe motion 
 was brought forth by Pacifica Board member Alex Steinberg who represents 
 radio station WBAI in New York. Steinberg stated that, \n\n“The Julian 
 Assange case is a key case for freedom of the press. Assange has been 
 hunted by the U.S. government and the government of the UK and it now looks 
 like the government of Ecuador is getting ready to hand him over to the 
 tender mercies of the U.S. Justice Department. His “crime” is very 
 simple - he exposed the secret machinations of the U.S. government through 
 the whistle-blowing activities of WikiLeaks. Mainstream news organizations 
 like the New York Times and the Washington Post have not only refused to 
 defend Assange but instead have echoed some of the accusations against him. 
 This is in sharp contrast to their defense of another whistleblower decades 
 ago, Daniel Ellsberg, when they published the Pentagon Papers. ” \n\nIn 
 standing up for the freedom of Julian Assange and of all whistle blowers 
 the Pacifica Foundation reiterates its commitment to the principle of 
 freedom of the press and the right of the public to know what its 
 governments are doing no matter who is embarrassed by the release of this 
 information. In doing so Pacifica is following in the traditions of its 
 founder, Lew Hill, who as a pacifist, stood up to the U.S. government 
 during World War II. \n\nPacifica calls on other media organizations and 
 individuals to join us in defending Julian Assange and WikiLeaks and the 
 principle of Freedom of the Press. \n\n### \n\nStarted in 1946 by 
 conscientious objector Lew Hill, Pacifica’s storied history includes 
 impounded program tapes for a 1954 on-air discussion of marijuana, 
 broadcasting the Seymour Hersh revelations of the My Lai massacre, bombings 
 by the Ku Klux Klan, going to jail rather than turning over the Patty 
 Hearst tapes to the FBI, and Supreme Court cases. Those cases include the 
 1984 decision that noncommercial broadcasters have the constitutional right 
 to editorialize, and the Seven Dirty Words ruling following George 
 Carlin’s incendiary performances on WBAI. \n\nThe Pacifica Foundation 
 operates noncommercial radio stations in five major metropolitan areas, 
 operates the Pacifica Radio Archives with decades of historical audio, and 
 syndicates content to over 250 affiliate stations. It invented 
 listener-sponsored radio. \n\nKPFA - Northern California, KPFK - Southern 
 California, WPFW - Washington DC, \nKPFT-Houston, WBAI-New York, Pacifica 
 Radio Archives, Pacifica.org 
 Pacificanetwork.org\n\nhttp://sflaborcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/02-11-19Resolution-in-Support-of-the-Defense-of-WhistleblowerAssange.pdf\n\nAssange 
 and WikiLeaks Have Exposed US and Gov War Crimes Around the World\n\nThe US 
 government and the UK government are angry that WikiLeaks has exposed the 
 many war crimes by these governments. The arrest of Assange is to silence 
 all journalists and whistleblowers who are exposing these crimes and 
 corruption.\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/12/18829698.php
SUMMARY:Global No More War! Free Assange & Manning Solidarity
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