[grc] Julian Assange

[Sam Oser]

YES PLEASE.

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On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 10:57 PM, Arnold Levine via grc <
grc at maillist.peak.org> wrote:

> Thanks for the conversation…
> ..I know from my own experience in the London of the 1970s when running a
> pirate radio station. Then, there was only the three BBC channels, no
> commercial stations. We broke stories like the big secret of the high
> number of British soldier desertions from the Northern Ireland conflict,
> and the like. My phone, (actually my parents, because none of us had a
> phone back then), and others were tapped, and big raids happened at our
> broadcasts to stop us.
> ...Yes, ultimately it just depends how far any individual or group is
> willing to go for their beliefs and principles…
> Arnold
>
> > On Jul 30, 2018, at 5:25 PM, Carolyn Birden via grc <
> grc at maillist.peak.org> wrote:
> >
> > For real, indeed, Ann:  if anyone should be concerned about the attacks
> on freedom of the
> > press as exemplified by the attacks on Julian Assange, it should be
> Pacifica.
> >
> > I hope the PNB does not wait to hear you ask:  if Pacifica means
> anything, it means the right
> > of the press - radio, tv, print, online, whatever - to receive, accept,
> and broadcast the truth.
> >
> > The U.S. wants to quell Assange for disseminating the information that
> the US government
> > killed civilians - murdered them - and has not disowned the policies
> that created those murders.
> >
> > We all owe Assange a great debt:  he is a hero for what he has done for
> the freedom of information
> > that every “democracy” must exemplify or else give up the title and
> admit their true nature.
> >
> > And if Pacifica cannot support him, and Snowden, it should indeed fold
> its shutters and go out of business.
> >
> > Carolyn
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Jul 30, 2018Monday, at 6:48 PM, Ann Garrison via grc <
> grc at maillist.peak.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Last week I shared a KPFA News story about Julian Assange on the
> >> Audioport's NewsUp section. I then elaborated on it for the Black Agenda
> >> Report.
> >> https://blackagendareport.com/strange-days-indeed.  The reports that
> >> Ecuador is about to expel him from their London Embassy that appear on
> the
> >> Web every few hours now seem like a death watch. Most are just rehashes
> of
> >> the story that he could be expelled in a matter of days, weeks, months.
> >>
> >> If I can find time—always a big if—I'm going to ask a Pacifica National
> >> Board member to introduce a PNB resolution in support of Assange and
> >> Wikileaks.
> >>
> >> --
> >> For real,
> >> @AnnGarrison <https://twitter.com/AnnGarrison?lang=en>
> >> Independent Journalist,
> >> SKYPE: Ann Garrison, Oakland
> >> 415-503-7487
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