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Dec 3rd. Washington DC. Bradley Manning's attorney gave an exclusive presentation discussing the trial and the unlawful pretrial punishment of Bradley Manning. #freebrad
Bradley Manning is a hero to many here and around the world for recoiling at the wanton killing of civilians he discovered while analyzing files in Baghdad. To the US government, which has prosecuted only a few low-level soldiers for those crimes, Bradley - who has spent 3 years in prison before trial - is the criminal, and we, the people he wanted to be informed with the true story of the wars, are the "enemy." Find out more at:
London, UK – Wikileaks founder Julian Assange hopes that his self-imposed imprisonment, under threat of arrest and extradition, could finally be at an end in the aftermath of the Brexit vote.
Assange has been living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since seeking asylum there in June 2012 a...
www.hopegirlblog.com/brexit-to-set-julian-assange-free-wi...
The 39-year-old Australian was detained by Scotland Yard officers at around 9.30am after he voluntarily went to a police station in central London.
Police contacted Mr Assange's lawyer last night after receiving a fresh European arrest warrant from the Swedish authorities, as anger grows in the US over the latest leaked embassy cables by the whistleblowing website
Crowd jubilant as Ecuador grants Julian Assange political asylum - 16.08.2012
A large crowd of supporters of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and US soldier Bradley Manning descended on the Ecuador embassy on 16.08.2012 to wait for news of a decision by the Ecuadorean government on Assange's application for political asylum.
At 1:30pm word came through embassy oficials that the government in Quito had granted asylum to Assange on humanitarian grounds. Despite cheering and applause from the crowd, it was widely accepted that Assange's problems are far from over, and this might just be a pyrrhic victory.
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Crowd jubilant as Ecuador grants Julian Assange political asylum - 16.08.2012
A large crowd of supporters of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and US soldier Bradley Manning descended on the Ecuador embassy on 16.08.2012 to wait for news of a decision by the Ecuadorean government on Assange's application for political asylum.
At 1:30pm word came through embassy oficials that the government in Quito had granted asylum to Assange on humanitarian grounds. Despite cheering and applause from the crowd, it was widely accepted that Assange's problems are far from over, and this might just be a pyrrhic victory.
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Assange supporters at Ecuadorean embassy fear police invasion - 16.08.2012
Following the astonishing statement on 15.08.2012 by British officials that the government is willing to revoke the diplomatic status of the Ecuadorean Embassy in Knightsbridge in order to enter it and arrest Wikileaks founder Julian Assange who is applying for political asylum from the Ecuadorean government - which is making their decision known later today - around 20 Wikileaks supporters gathered outside the embassy in the very early hours of 16.08.2012, fearful that the embassy was going to be invaded by the police.
The police had substantially increased their presence around the embassy, and I had sight of around five officers occupying the main foyer of the embassy. They were also closely guarding the fire exits in case Assange tries to make a break for freedom.
Observers say that if the British did this they would be in direct violation of the Vienna Convention, which governs the rules of diplomacy and diplomatic jurisdictions under international law. Already there have been threats to invade British emnbassies abroad should the Foreign and Commonwealth Office carries out its threat.
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Public meeting in support of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange - London, 07/02/2011
As WikiLeaks' editor-in-chief Julian Assange fights against legal attempts this week by the Swedish prosecutor to have him extradited to Sweden from where there is a very real fear by many that he will be illegally 'rendered' to the United States where there have been many open, public calls by politicians and pundits for him to be executed or even just murdered on the street without trial, there was a public meeting in support of Assange and WikiLeaks organised by the Stop The War Coalition.
In front of a packed audience of 300 enthusiastic supporters in London's Conway Hall, the speakers were peace activist Jemima Khan, convenor of Stop The War Lindsey German , president of Stop The War Tony Benn and veteran peace activist and historian Tariq Ali, all of whom had attended Assange's first trial day at Belmarsh Magistrate's Court. Assange's legal proceedings have been moved to Belmarsh specifically to make it much more difficult and inconvenient for his supporters to gather and protest.
All photos © 2011 Pete Riches"
The Frontline Club/New Statesman debate with WikiLeaks’s Julian Assange.
Kensington Town Hall, London - April 2011
It took place before Chelsea Manning released her statement
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Ecuador has granted political asylum to Julian Assange; who has been inside the embassy since June.
Here's some options about how he could leave
www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/aug/16/julian-assange-ecuad...
Crowd jubilant as Ecuador grants Julian Assange political asylum - 16.08.2012
A large crowd of supporters of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and US soldier Bradley Manning descended on the Ecuador embassy on 16.08.2012 to wait for news of a decision by the Ecuadorean government on Assange's application for political asylum.
At 1:30pm word came through embassy oficials that the government in Quito had granted asylum to Assange on humanitarian grounds. Despite cheering and applause from the crowd, it was widely accepted that Assange's problems are far from over, and this might just be a pyrrhic victory.
All photos © 2012 Pete Riches
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Crowd jubilant as Ecuador grants Julian Assange political asylum - 16.08.2012
A large crowd of supporters of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and US soldier Bradley Manning descended on the Ecuador embassy on 16.08.2012 to wait for news of a decision by the Ecuadorean government on Assange's application for political asylum.
At 1:30pm word came through embassy oficials that the government in Quito had granted asylum to Assange on humanitarian grounds. Despite cheering and applause from the crowd, it was widely accepted that Assange's problems are far from over, and this might just be a pyrrhic victory.
All photos © 2012 Pete Riches
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Crowd jubilant as Ecuador grants Julian Assange political asylum - 16.08.2012
A large crowd of supporters of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and US soldier Bradley Manning descended on the Ecuador embassy on 16.08.2012 to wait for news of a decision by the Ecuadorean government on Assange's application for political asylum.
At 1:30pm word came through embassy oficials that the government in Quito had granted asylum to Assange on humanitarian grounds. Despite cheering and applause from the crowd, it was widely accepted that Assange's problems are far from over, and this might just be a pyrrhic victory.
All photos © 2012 Pete Riches
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WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange's bail hearing, 14.12.2010
I know this is definitely old news as Assange is now out on bail and is holed up in the countryside on mansion-arrest with an electronic tag, but I still wanted to post my own personal record of the day, as a large, international Press scrum and a group of enthusiastic WikiLeaks supporters gathered outside Westminster Magistrates' Court whilst Assange's fate was decided inside.
As we know, he was granted bail, but was sent back to prison because the Crown Prosecution Service objected and lodged their intention to appeal this decision. Bizarrely, they seem to have told a bit of a huge fib to Mark Stephens - Assange's lawyer - by telling him that the Swedish Prosecutor was the party objecting to bail, when it turns out it was the CPP all along!
Two days later their objection was tossed out by a judge at the Crown Court.
In the meanwhile, the American Government continues to behave stereotypically, and is now trying to twist and contort US law to find a plausible excuse for demanding that the bootlicking British Government hand Assange over to them so they can show him first hand how right he was to expose their lies, corruption and iniquities to the public view.
Public meeting in support of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange - London, 07/02/2011
As WikiLeaks' editor-in-chief Julian Assange fights against legal attempts this week by the Swedish prosecutor to have him extradited to Sweden from where there is a very real fear by many that he will be illegally 'rendered' to the United States where there have been many open, public calls by politicians and pundits for him to be executed or even just murdered on the street without trial, there was a public meeting in support of Assange and WikiLeaks organised by the Stop The War Coalition.
In front of a packed audience of 300 enthusiastic supporters in London's Conway Hall, the speakers were peace activist Jemima Khan, convenor of Stop The War Lindsey German , president of Stop The War Tony Benn and veteran peace activist and historian Tariq Ali, all of whom had attended Assange's first trial day at Belmarsh Magistrate's Court. Assange's legal proceedings have been moved to Belmarsh specifically to make it much more difficult and inconvenient for his supporters to gather and protest.
All photos © 2011 Pete Riches"
On Feb 23, 2013 supporters organized more than 70 events in solidarity with Bradley Manning's 1000th day in prison without trial. Free Bradley Manning!
Audience at the Frontline Club/New Statesman debate with WikiLeaks’s Julian Assange.
Kensington Town Hall, London - April 2011
I think the government likes you.
He's looking at you
News:
Australia-wide protests support of Wikileaks founder after his arrest today in London - by kimk, IndyMedia, Wed 08 Dec 2010
- BRISBANE - 12 noon, this Friday December 10
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 295 Ann Street, City.
- SYDNEY- Sydney Town Hall @ 1pm, Friday December 10.
- MELBOURNE - Facebook event: Defend Assange and WikiLeaks on Human Rights Day in Melbourne: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=182297491780623
Melbourne Protest to defend Julian Assange at State Library, Melbourne 4.30pm, this Friday, Dec 10
- HOBART: Saturday, December 11, noon at the Hobart Parliament Lawns
Facebook page www.facebook.com/home.php?#%21/event.php?eid=171620612868329
- ADELAIDE: Sunday, December 12, 1:00pm at Parliament House.
Facebook page www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=182236928453862
- PERTH: Friday 10th December, 6:00PM Wesley Church,
corner Hay and Williams St,
Human Rights Day Vigil to support Freedom of Speech and Wikileaks
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Julian Assange's supporters at Ecuador Embassy. London, 21.06.2012
Wikileaks press spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson and personal friend and surety bond-provider Sarah Saunders made staements this afternoon outside the Ecuador embassy in Hans Crescent to explain that Julian Assange is well and in good spirits as he remains inside the embassy awaiting news of his application for political asylum.
A group of supporters from the Bradley Manning campaign group Friends of Bradley Manning (UK) also arrived to begin a vigil in support of Assange. Members of hacktivist group Anonymous also attended.
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Dec 3rd. Washington DC. Bradley Manning's attorney gave an exclusive presentation discussing the trial and the unlawful pretrial punishment of Bradley Manning. #freebrad
News:
Australia-wide protests support of Wikileaks founder after his arrest today in London - by kimk, IndyMedia, Wed 08 Dec 2010
- BRISBANE - 12 noon, this Friday December 10
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 295 Ann Street, City.
- SYDNEY- Sydney Town Hall @ 1pm, Friday December 10.
- MELBOURNE - Facebook event: Defend Assange and WikiLeaks on Human Rights Day in Melbourne: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=182297491780623
Melbourne Protest to defend Julian Assange at State Library, Melbourne 4.30pm, this Friday, Dec 10
- HOBART: Saturday, December 11, noon at the Hobart Parliament Lawns
Facebook page www.facebook.com/home.php?#%21/event.php?eid=171620612868329
- ADELAIDE: Sunday, December 12, 1:00pm at Parliament House.
Facebook page www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=182236928453862
- PERTH: Friday 10th December, 6:00PM Wesley Church,
corner Hay and Williams St,
Human Rights Day Vigil to support Freedom of Speech and Wikileaks
kabo-wiki-hive - wikileaks-wiki - web-site feeds [en]+[xx]-
The feeds for the web-sites about wikileaks or whistleblowing with a home page in the wikileaks-wiki. Links to the web-sites are listed on the web-site list.
→ = is included into the home page in the wikileaks-wiki
center-wikis:
kabo-list-wiki - wikileaks-wiki
→ wikileaks-wiki - wikileaks-wiki
feeds for official web-sites by wikileaks:
facebook-page-WikiLeaks-Cablegate-feed
→ facebook page WikiLeaks Cablegate
facebook-page-wikileaks-feed
→ facebook page wikileaks
facebook-page-WikiLeaks-The-Global-Intelligence-Files-feed
→ facebook page WikiLeaks The Global Intelligence Files
twitter-wikileaks-feed
→ twitter wikileaks
no wikileaks.org-feed
→ WikiLeaksOrg
feeds for other web-sites about wikileaks or whistleblowing:
facebook-group-Adelaide-Friends-of-WikiLeaks-feed
→ Adelaide FoWL
twitter-AusFOWL-feed
→ Australian FoWL
ampedstatus.org-network-feed
+ ampedstatus.org-network-group-wikileaks-wiki-feed
→ AmpedStatus network
facebook-group-ArgosIs-WikiLeaks-feed
→ ArgosIs WikiLeaks
cablesearch.org-feed
→ cablesearch
cablewiki.net-recent-changes-feed
+ twitter-CableWiki-feed
→ CableWiki
facebook-page-crowdleaks-feed
→ CrowdLeaks
cryptome.org-feed
→ cryptome
CyberLaw-blog-category-wikileaks-feed
→ CyberLaw blog category wikileaks
facebook-group-Brisbane-Wikileaks-Defence-feed
→ facebook group Brisbane Wikileaks Defence
facebook-group-Dagestan-WikiLeaks-feed
→ facebook group Dagestan WikiLeaks
facebook-group-I-Support-Wikileaks-feed
→ facebook group I Support Wikileaks
facebook-group-svetu-treba-vikiliks-feed
→ facebook group svetu treba vikiliks
facebook-group-Wikileaks-Fan-Club-(Bangladesh)-feed
→ facebook group Wikileaks Fan Club (Bangladesh)
facebook-group-WikiLeaks-Fans-feed
→ facebook group WikiLeaks Fans
facebook-group-wikileaks-in-Arabian-feed
→ facebook group wikileaks in Arabian
facebook-group-wikileaks-indígena-feed
→ facebook group wikileaks indígena
facebook-group-Wikileaks-La-verità-ci-rende-liberi-tieni-duro-Assange-feed
→ facebook group Wikileaks La verità ci rende liberi, tieni duro Assange
facebook-group-Wikileaks-Support-feed
→ facebook group Wikileaks Support
facebook-group-wikileaks-tagramet-feed
→ facebook group wikileaks tagramet
facebook-group-Wikileaks-Tetouan-feed
→ facebook group Wikileaks Tetouan
facebook-page-Aussies-for-Assange-feed
→ facebook page Aussies for Assange
facebook-page-Generation-Wikileak-feed
→ facebook page Generation Wikileak
facebook-page-The-WikiLeaks-Trap-feed
→ facebook page The WikiLeaks Trap
facebook-page-Wikileaks-Free-Julian-Assange-feed
→ facebook page Wikileaks Free Julian Assange
facebook-page-WikiLeaks-Yemen-feed
→ facebook page WikiLeaks Yemen
fairwhistleblower.ca-feed
→ federal accountability initiative for reform
facebook-page-FinFoWL-feed
→ Finland FoWL
facebook-page-FoWL-feed
→ FoWL
facebook-page-FoWL-Austria-feed
→ FoWL Austria
facebook-page-FoWL-Berlin-feed
→ FoWL Berlin
facebook-page-FoWL-São-Paulo-feed
→ FoWL São Paulo
facebook-page-FoWL-Serbia-feed
→ FoWL Serbia
facebook-page-FFMFoWL-feed
→ Frankfurt (Main) FoWL
facebook-free-WikiLeaks-feed
→ free WikiLeaks
freedominfo.org-search-WikiLeaks-feed
→ freedominfo search WikiLeaks
whistleblower.org-feed
→ government accountability project
no gulli.com-tag-WikiLeaks-feed
→ gulli tag WikiLeaks
leaksfree.com-feed
→ LeaksFree
leaksource.wordpress.com-feed
→ LeakSource
meta-leaks-wiki-recent-changes-feed
→ meta-leaks-wiki
twitter-StopFraud-feed
→ national whistleblowers center
netzpolitik.org-search-wikileaks-feed
→ netzpolitik search wikileaks
opendemocracy.org.za-feed
→ open democracy advice center
politicalfailblog.com-feed
→ political fail blog
pogo.org-feed
→ project on government oversight
twitter-PCaW-feed
→ public concern at work
savewikileaks.net-feed
→ save WikiLeaks
statelogs.owni.fr-feed
→ StateLogs
thenation.com-blogs-media-fix-feed
→ The Nation blogs media-fix
transleaks-Japanese-feed
→ transleaks Japanese
wewillnotbecensored.com-feed
→ we will not be censored
whistleblower-net.de-feed
→ whistleblower-net
whistleblowersblog.org-feed
→ whistleblowers protection blog
no whistleblowing.it-feed
→ whistleblowing Italia
facebook-page-WikiLeaks-Actu-Francophone-feed
→ WikiLeaks Actu Francophone
facebook-page-Wikileaks-Australian-Citizens-Alliance-feed
→ Wikileaks Australian Citizens Alliance
facebook-page-WikiLeaks-Brazil-feed
→ WikiLeaks Brazil
facebook-page-WikiLeaks-Deutschland-feed
→ WikiLeaks Deutschland
facebook-page-WikiLeaks-Italian-feed
→ WikiLeaks Italian
facebook-page-WikiLeaks-Portugal-feed
+ twitter-WikiLeaks-Portugal-feed
→ WikiLeaks Portugal
facebook-page-WikiLeaks-Serbia-feed
→ WikiLeaks Serbia
facebook-page-WikiLeaks-Türkiye-feed
→ WikiLeaks Türkiye
facebook-group-Un-Wikileaks-a-la-Valenciana-feed
→ WikiLeaks Valencia
wikileakswien.wordpress.com-feed
→ WikiLeaks Vienna
wlcentral.org-feed
→ wlcentral
feeds for other whistleblowing web-sites:
no transparency.aljazeera.net-feed
→ Al Jazeera transparency unit
no anonleaks.ch-feed
→ AnonLeaks
balkanleaks.eu-feed
→ BalkanLeaks
no bayernleaks.de-feed
→ BayernLeaks
deaddrops.com-feed
→ deaddrops
enviroleaks.org-feed
→ EnviroLeaks
no faceleaks.info-feed
→ FaceLeaks
twitter-FrenchLeaks-feed
→ FrenchLeaks
globaleaks.org-feed
→ GlobaLeaks
indoleaks.org-feed
→ IndoLeaks
twitter-IrishLeaks-feed
→ IrishLeaks
twitter-israelileaks-feed
→ IsraeliLeaks
facebook-page-KanariLeaks-feed
→ Kanari leaks
about.lob.by-feed
→ LocaLeaks
blog.openleaks.org-feed
→ OpenLeaks
facebook-page-PinoyLeaks-feed
→ PinoyLeaks
facebook-page-PirateLeaks-feed
→ PirateLeaks
Quebec-leaks-feed
→ Quebec leaks
sverigesradio.se-RadioLeaks-feed
→ RadioLeaks
rospil.info-feed
→ RoSpil
ruleaks.net-feed
→ RuLeaks
fas.org-secrecy-news-feed
→ secrecy news
novibeogradafera.blogspot.com-feed
→ Serbian WikiLeaks
twitter-TradeLeaks-feed
→ TradeLeaks
tunileaks.appspot.com-feed
→ TuniLeaks
vatileaks.com-feed
→ VatiLeaks
wikispooks.com-recent-changes-feed
+ wikispooks.org-blog-feed
→ WikiSpooks
feeds for wikileaks-wiki support pages:
facebook-group-wikileaks-wiki-feed
→ facebook group wikileaks-wiki
google-plus-community-wikileaks-wiki-feed
→ google plus community wikileaks-wiki
The facebook-about-wikileaks-feed merges the feeds for the facebook groups and the facebook pages listed above.
The google-plus-about-wikileaks-feed merges the feeds for the google plus communities and the google plus pages listed above.
The news-wikileaks-feed merges the feeds for news by the press and by news search queries::
bbc.co.uk-search-wikileaks-feed
→ BBC search wikileaks
democracynow.org-topic-WikiLeaks-feed
→ Democracy Now topic WikiLeaks
spiegel.de-Thema-WikiLeaks-feed
→ Der Spiegel Thema WikiLeaks
google-news-wikileaks-feed
zeit.de-leaks-blog-feed
→ Die Zeit leaks blog
telegraph.co.uk-news-wikileaks-feed
→ The Telegraph news wikileaks
yahoo-news-wikileaks-feed
about the latest modification
MattisManzel:
Resorted the news-wikileaks-feeds.
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Public meeting in support of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange - London, 07/02/2011
As WikiLeaks' editor-in-chief Julian Assange fights against legal attempts this week by the Swedish prosecutor to have him extradited to Sweden from where there is a very real fear by many that he will be illegally 'rendered' to the United States where there have been many open, public calls by politicians and pundits for him to be executed or even just murdered on the street without trial, there was a public meeting in support of Assange and WikiLeaks organised by the Stop The War Coalition.
In front of a packed audience of 300 enthusiastic supporters in London's Conway Hall, the speakers were peace activist Jemima Khan, convenor of Stop The War Lindsey German , president of Stop The War Tony Benn and veteran peace activist and historian Tariq Ali, all of whom had attended Assange's first trial day at Belmarsh Magistrate's Court. Assange's legal proceedings have been moved to Belmarsh specifically to make it much more difficult and inconvenient for his supporters to gather and protest.
All photos © 2011 Pete Riches"
Dec 3rd. Washington DC. Bradley Manning's attorney gave an exclusive presentation discussing the trial and the unlawful pretrial punishment of Bradley Manning. #freebrad
WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange's bail hearing, 14.12.2010
I know this is definitely old news as Assange is now out on bail and is holed up in the countryside on mansion-arrest with an electronic tag, but I still wanted to post my own personal record of the day, as a large, international Press scrum and a group of enthusiastic WikiLeaks supporters gathered outside Westminster Magistrates' Court whilst Assange's fate was decided inside.
As we know, he was granted bail, but was sent back to prison because the Crown Prosecution Service objected and lodged their intention to appeal this decision. Bizarrely, they seem to have told a bit of a huge fib to Mark Stephens - Assange's lawyer - by telling him that the Swedish Prosecutor was the party objecting to bail, when it turns out it was the CPP all along!
Two days later their objection was tossed out by a judge at the Crown Court.
In the meanwhile, the American Government continues to behave stereotypically, and is now trying to twist and contort US law to find a plausible excuse for demanding that the bootlicking British Government hand Assange over to them so they can show him first hand how right he was to expose their lies, corruption and iniquities to the public view.
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Shining Light on Secret TPP agreement & calling on Congress to
STOP Fast Track
For Immediate Release: Day before Wikileak of TPP Document - 13 Cities
Mobilized to Shine a Light on Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership "Trade"
Deal Telling Congress "Don't Fast Track a Train Wreck - FLUSH the
TPP!"
CONTACT: Bill Moyer 206-356-9980 | bill@backbonecampaign.org
| or Eric Ross 805-776-3882 | eric@backbonecampaign.org
| 805-776-3882 | VoteNoFastTrack.org
SEATTLE - On Tuesday evening citizens in Seattle and 12
other cities appeared on overpasses and roadsides to pull the
Trans-Pacific Partnership, aka TPP, out of the shadows and into the
light of public scrutiny. From Dallas to DC, San Diego to Seattle,
Tucson to Detroit, Baltimore to Bellingham, Spokane to Chicago
people took their messages to interstate overpasses, prominent
monuments, and busy city streets using coordinated daytime and
nighttime, high visibility tactics.
They deployed giant banners saying No New NAFTA, mobilized LED light
panels saying "(thumbs up) Democracy, STOP The TPP," and projected with
spotlights messages like "Don't Fast Track A Train Wreck." These
coordinated citizen's actions coincided with ongoing TPP negotiations
taking place in Salt Lake City, Utah from November 12-24
and today's anticipated release by Congressperson Rosa DeLauro and
George Miller detailing the growing opposition to "Fast Track" among
Congress, and preceded today's surprise release by Wikileaks of a leaked
chapter of the secretive "TPP" agreement. [Here
is Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch initial interpretations of the
chapter on intellectual property.]
The TPP has been called NAFTA on steroids, a "Corporate Coup," and
concerned citizens from across the nation are calling on Congress to
"Flush It!" and to oppose President Obama's request to renew "Fast
Track" authority to commit our country to this secretive agreement that
has less to do with trade, than it does with dismantling any domestic
policies that undermine future profits for transnational capital and
corporations.
Bill Moyer, Executive Director of the Backbone Campaign stated "Only a
bought a sold government would sign a treaty that sacrifices our
capacity as communities and country to pass laws for workers benefit,
and the protection of our communities and our natural resources."
The Trans-Pacific Partnership has been negotiated under secrecy for 3
years. Obama is now pushing to have it swiftly approved to much to the
dismay of members of Congress, most of whom haven't even been allowed to
see the text. While Congress is constitutionally required to negotiate
any international treaties, Fast Track or granting Obama Trade Promotion
Authority would forfeit the Congress' responsibility and the public's
right to weigh in on the TPP negotiations.
Perhaps in response to growing citizen outrage letters were release
today from both Democrats and Republicans challenging President Obama's
request for renewal of Fast Track authority. [From Today's Public
Citizen announcement: The
151-signature DeLauro-Miller letter, additional
letter from Democratic Ways & Means members, One
of two letters, this led by Representative Walter Jones (R-NC)]
One of the illuminated messages on Tuesday read "Corporate Tribunals
WTF?" This referred to how the TPP would give more power to corporate
interests including the ability for foreign companies to sue for
taxpayer compensation if any domestic law diminished the company's expected future profits.
Masked as a trade deal, the agreement has been negotiated under
supervision of 600 unelected corporate "trade advisors" while the text
has been hidden from members of Congress, the press, and the public.
What has been learned about the TPP has come through leaked texts, and
is alarming to members of Congress worried about sovereign powers being
negotiated away, public health officials, labor representatives,
environmental groups, and advocates of consumer issues.
"The TPP, the largest ever of it's kind, is a race to the bottom
international agreement on domestic and international policies of food
safety, internet freedom, medicine costs, financial regulation, and the
environment," says Kristen Beifus, executive director of Washington Fair
Trade Coalition."
Trade Justice organizations have declared December 3rd a "Global Day of
Action Against the TPP to resist toxic trade agreements." Citizens are
urged to take action in their own community, contact their
congressperson, and learn more about the TPP's dismantling of democracy
by visiting VoteNoFastTrack.org.
Citizens can find out where their congressperson stands and tweet them
Tuesday's coordinated actions were organized by the Backbone Campaign,
which specializes in "amplifying citizen engagement with creative
tactics and artful activism" in collaboration with Public Citizen's
Global Trade Watch, PopularResistance.org, Fair Trade Coalitions in
Washington and Oregon, and more.
The coordinated day of action follows on the heals of an action in
September when to the surprise of secret service, members and allies of
PopularResistance.org and the Backbone Campaign "redecorated"
the United States Trade Representatives office by scaling the building
and unfurling giant banners demanding a release of the TPP text. The
Backbone Campaign is grateful to Wikileaks for beginning that process.
View the growing collection of photos from the 11-12-13 actions HERE.
To speak with organizers of yesterday's day of action please contact
Bill Moyer at 206-356-9980 or Eric Ross at 805-776-3882.
Info and Collaborator Web Sites:
Thanks to our many awesome collaborators both mentioned and not!
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Backbone Campaign's mission is to provide creative strategies, artful
activism trainings, and creative action support to progressive
activists, organizers and organizations around the US and beyond in
order to invigorate and nurture a people-power, community-based, and
internationally-networked nonviolent social movement for human rights,
thriving communities, and ecological well being. Backbone Campaign's
vision is a world where human dignity, community resilience, and
ecological well being is built upon a foundation of democratic
economic and political systems and diverse, thriving culture where
human rights, the rights of communities and nature are truly
inalienable and honored.
After a speech and introduction by respected Australian journalist and film maker John Pilger, English rock musician Roger Waters, of Pink Floyd fame, performs outside the UK Home Office accompanied by Andy Fairweather Low at a rally against deportation of imprisoned Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange, who is currently detained at the high security Belmarsh prison following conviction for breach of bail.
Assange's supporters fear he will be deported to the U.S. and face life in prison for publishing information which includes incriminating evidence the U.S. and UK engaged in possible war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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