{"id":392528,"date":"2019-01-12T05:58:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T04:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/watch-the-12th-vigil-for-julian-assange-here-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2019-01-12T05:58:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T04:58:56","slug":"watch-the-12th-vigil-for-julian-assange-here-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/watch-the-12th-vigil-for-julian-assange-here-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the 12th Vigil for Julian Assange Here \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Consortium News<\/strong> broadcast the 12th Unity4J online vigil for WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange on Friday, hosted by Consortium News<\/strong> Editor Joe Lauria.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

J<\/span><\/strong>ulian Assange is a wanted man because he published classified information that revealed the crimes and corruption of government officials around the world, not just in the United States.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But it is the U.S., the supposed beacon of freedom and democracy (and press freedom) around the world that has indicted him and wants him extradited to the United States for the crime of publishing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s why Julian Assange has been a refugee in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for the past six years. He knows that the second he steps back onto British territory he will be arrested and sent to the U.S. where he is unlikely to receive a fair trial and would likely spend the rest of his life in prison.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Discussing the following headlines from the past week were former U.S. Senator Mike Gravel from Monterrey, California; journalist Cassandra Fairbanks in Washington; Greg Barns, a member of Assange\u2019s legal team speaking from Cape Town, South Africa and former Australian Broadcasting Corporation correspondent Andrew Fowler from Sydney:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1. Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire on Monday\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>nominated<\/a><\/span> JA for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2. Former Australian ambassador Tony Kevin has reiterated his support for Julian Assange. He tweeted on Dec. 31: \u201c<\/span><\/span>I have always called for <\/span><\/span>#Assange<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u2018<\/span><\/span>s release and his safely escorted return home to Australia in RAAF aircraft. This innocent man is being treated so badly by Ecuador, UK and US govts.\u201d<\/span><\/span>We hope to have Amb. Kevin join us later in the program. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

3. Cassandra Fairbanks, a frequent guest on these vigils, visited Julian Assange last Monday and reports that his Living Conditions are More Akin to a Dissident in Stasi-Era Germany Than an Award-Winning Publisher With Asylum<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

4. On Wednesday, <\/span><\/span>WikiLeaks issued official denial<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0of Trump election contacts, saying that\u00a0the organization never provided election information to Donald Trump\u00a0campaign adviser Roger Stone or to Jerome Corsi, a conservative author\u00a0and conspiracy advocate.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

5. Yanis Varoufakis\u2019 DiEM25 on Jan 4 launched a petition…<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Consortium News broadcast the 12th Unity4J online vigil for WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange on Friday, hosted by Consortium News Editor Joe Lauria. Julian Assange is a wanted man because he published classified information that revealed the crimes and corruption of government officials around the world, not just in the United States. But it is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-392528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}