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

Wed Jan 5 16:48:52 PST 2022

Thanks Greg. It is  pleasure to support you in the just causes you are
associated with.
Peace and my encouragement to others to also sign. Dwyer

On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 11:22 AM Mr. Gillis via Sundaycommunity <
sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

> 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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> From: UNAC <unac at lists.riseup.net>
> Date: Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 4:36 PM
> Subject: [unac] Antiwar Statement for Julian Assange - please sign
> To: unac at lists.riseup.net <unac at lists.riseup.net>
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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.*
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> *Click here to add your name to the statement*
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> <https://unac.notowar.net/peace-and-justice-organizations-call-for-freedom-for-julian-assange/>
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> *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*
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> *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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