[act-ma] Please share/post Assange rally Aug 22 on Boston Common

[Susan McLucas]

Monday, August 22nd, 11am-12:30pm, Boston Area Assange Defense and fellow
supporters will rally at Park St. Station to raise awareness of the US
government’s war on publisher Julian Assange and its war on investigative
journalism. The Biden administration continues with Trump’s
unconstitutional prosecution of a journalist under the Espionage Act.


Here is the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/734324537864614



The government and its media would like us to believe Assange is a
’national security terrorist’ instead of a publisher of truth and defender
of human rights. Assange didn't publish National Security 'secrets', he
published US 'war crimes'.



It’s unlikely that Americans will know how WikiLeaks publications are used
in thousands of court cases globally to right corporate and government
wrongs! For example, the US Senate last week passed the Burn Pits
restitution Act (akaPACT Act). Assange’s contribution to this case cannot
be denied! It was Julian Assange through WikiLeaks that published a memo in
2009 (that was suppressed by the Pentagon!) which revealed the US military
was exposing its personnel and civilians to lethal toxic fumes. President
Biden’s son Beau developed brain cancer because of exposure to burn pits
when he served in Iraq.



https://twitter.com/StellaMoris1/status/1341798438510465024?s=20&t=DkmUMHDw37ilaJPLvYh81g



https://nytimes.com/2022/08/10/us/politics/biden-burn-pits.html



Roger Waters is touring this year with Pink Floyd’s ‘This Is Not A Drill’.
A long-time supporter of Julian Assange, he creatively presents WikiLeaks’
‘Collateral Murder’ in a series of light projections which show US soldiers
gunning down innocent civilians in Iraq. Text across the video footage
reveals that only those who exposed these crimes have been punished while
no one was court martialed for the killing spree. Roger Waters has invited
#FreeAssange activists to set up information tables nationally at EVERY
venue!!

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1546420512741625857?s=20&t=Xk2uw8VdNjz4ApEZx73ugw



Breaking News! Watch for the August 15th Press Conference which unveils
Assange’s US lawyers suing Mike Pompeo, ex-CIA head, and the CIA’s
contracted security firm for stealing lawyer-client privileged
communications.
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1546420512741625857?s=20&t=Xk2uw8VdNjz4ApEZx73ugw



Please join us on Monday, August 22nd at Park St. Station, 11-12:30pm. We
must all stand up and fight to stop this US extradition because journalism
is not a crime, and the prosecution of Julian Assange will criminalize
investigative journalism and threaten any person handling classified
material. The decision to extradite Assange to the country which plotted to
assassinate him hovers like a stake over the heart of press freedom which
is essential to a true democracy.

Contact:
Paula Iasella AssangeBoston at gmail.com or SusanBMcL at gmail.com 617-501-9125



Susan McLucas
617-776-6524, cell: 617-501-9125
14 William St, Somerville, MA 02144