"I am Assange!" Daniel Ellsberg, Other Allies Demand US Prosecute Them, Too

from Newsweek, By Shaun Waterman On 12/15/22 at 6:00 AM EST

Julian Assange is having a Spartacus moment.

Veteran Pentagon whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and government transparency advocate John Young are challenging the U.S. Department of Justice to prosecute them alongside the Wikileaks founder, saying they broke the law just as he did, by publishing or possessing a trove of classified documents.

From Democracy Now! yesterday:  Daniel Ellsberg and Cryptome's John Young ask the Justice Department to prosecute them along with Julian Assange.  Ellsberg says that he was given a backup to ALL the files whose possession Julian Assange is now charged with and that he should also be charged with possession of them. Ellsberg also makes the case that any reader of the New York Times of their stories about the WikiLeaks files for which they received Pulitzer prizes is also guilty under the charges against Assange. 

https://www.democracynow.org/2022/12/14/daniel_ellsberg_john_young_assange_case

CANDLES for ASSANGE VIGIL 

Saturday, December 10, 6:45 PM

ZAO MKE Church at 2319 E. Kenwood Blvd (across from the UWM Student Union)

A New York City Vigil will be held on Dec 10, 2022, with Roger Waters, Assange Attorney and Author, Margaret Kunstler, Environmental activist Steve Donziger, Consortium News Editor- in-Chief Joe Lauria, Grayzone Editor Max Blumenthal, Nick Brana and others.)

By the way, you probably know that Elon Musk conducted a poll on Twitter asking whether Assange and Snowden should be pardoned.  (Julian has not been convicted so what he really needs is the charges dropped.)  After more than 3,300,000 votes, the answer was 80.5% of respondents said "YES" !  That result shows the enormous support for Julian around the world.

 Assange Defense MKE

I hope you will be able to join us!  If you are able to, please let Ann know at [email protected] or call her at 414-238-3903.

Julian Assange 4 justice

Truthdig presents BALi-kiD's original rap on Julian Assange, "Julian Assange 4 justice."

This is a unique opportunity to see Juan Passrrelli’s film, The War on Journalism,  live-streamed by Consortium News with commentary by Daniel Ellsberg and others afterwards.

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/09/16/watch-cn-live-the-war-on-journalism/

Outlets Urge U.S. to Drop Its Charges Against Assange

‘This is a war of propaganda’: John Pilger on Ukraine and Assange | Talking Post with Yonden Lhatoo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9pEotvlW-s

World-Wide Backing as Parliament Encircled for Assange