[Sundaycommunity] Fwd: [unac] Antiwar Statement for Julian Assange - please sign

Wed Jan 5 16:21:36 PST 2022

Please sign the petition for Julian Assange who exposed American war crimes
and now suffers torture and imprisonment for standing for truth.  Remember
Mike Pompeo attempted to plan his murder with the CIA in a staged street
battle.  This is the type of leadership that wants to hide its crimes of
violence behind state institutions.

Thank you

Greg

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Date: Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 4:36 PM
Subject: [unac] Antiwar Statement for Julian Assange - please sign
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*Please add your name to the statement below in support of Julian Assange
and spread it widely to your email lists and through social media.  The
statement was initiated by UNAC and initially signed by the bulk of peace
organizations in the US.  The attack on Julian Assange is an attack on
freedom of the press, freedom of speech and an attack on all of us.*

*Click here to add your name to the statement*
<https://unac.notowar.net/peace-and-justice-organizations-call-for-freedom-for-julian-assange/>

*Peace and Justice Organizations call for Freedom for Julian Assange*

Imprisoned Wikileaks founder, journalist and free speech champion Julian
Assange today faces life imprisonment for telling the truth about U.S. war
crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan and at the U.S. torture base in Guantanamo Bay.

Assange faces charges under the 1917 U.S. Espionage Act. Prosecution under
that WWI anti-democratic law placed thousands of antiwar activists in
prison for exercising their free speech right to protest WWI.

Ironically, the Dec 19, 2021 New York Times front-page two-part series
entitled, Hidden Pentagon Records Reveal Patterns of Failure in Deadly
Airstrikes, follows in Assange’s footsteps in reporting U.S. war crimes,
yet The Times staff writers remain free.

Some 100 Times reporters evaluated Pentagon confidential documents obtained
under the Freedom of Information Act. These included reports on 50,000 U.S.
airstrikes on Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan conducted under the Obama and
Trump administrations. The Times on-the-scene reporters subsequently
confirmed tens of thousands of civilian casualties – collateral damage.

“The [Pentagon] documents,” according to The Times, “identify children
killed or injured in 27 percent of cases; in The Times’s ground-breaking
reporting it was 62 percent.”

The Times and several other major publications worldwide reprinted much of
the same Pentagon material that Assange’s Wikileaks released to the world.
Yet Assange faces a life in prison for publishing the truth.

The persecution of Julian Assange by the U.S. government is a threat
against free speech and free press. It is also a threat to the Peace
Movement and all movements for social change since without information and
the ability to speak and write freely about U.S. wars and war crimes we are
greatly limited, and the people of the world are kept in the dark.

*Therefore,* Peace and Justice organizations and activists demand:

   - Free Julian Assange!
   - No to U.S. wars!
   - Freedom of the press!
   - Free journalists!
   - Free speech!

*Initial signers:*

*Organizations: ** United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC), United for
Peace and Justice (UFPJ), ANSWER coalition, Code Pink, Black Alliance for
Peace, International Action Center, US Peace Council, Veterans for Peace,
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), World Beyond
War, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, Popular
Resistance, Alliance for Democracy, Ban Killer Drones, People’s Opposition
to War, Imperialism and Racism, Free Palestine Movement, International
Solidarity Movement (Northern Calif), Palestine Children’s Welfare Fund,
Syria Solidarity Movement, NakbaTour, Resumen Latinoamericano, One State
Assembly, Association for Investment in Popular Action, Upstate NY
Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars, Hamilton Coalition to Stop
the War, Sanctions kill Coalition.*

*Individuals:**  Margaret Kimberley, Ann Wright, Ajamu Baraka, Madea
Benjamin, Gerry Condon, Joe Lombardo, Kathy Kelly, Cindy Sheehan, Margaret
Flowers, Bahman Azad, Sara Flounders, David Swanson, Brian Becker, Jeff
Mackler, Jodie Evans, Bruce Gagnon, Nancy Price, Darien De Lu, Cassia
Laham, Judy Bello, Rhonda Ramiro*

*Click here to add your name to the statement
<https://unac.notowar.net/peace-and-justice-organizations-call-for-freedom-for-julian-assange/>*

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