Swedish Sex – the new eBook about Sweden and Assange. Protest next Wednesday. I am a bit stuck at the moment and are not yet 100% sure if I will be able to attend, but I am working on it ;) I still have: - 120 new leaflets, left over from last Saturday's anti-Acta Smith Square protest. (also about 115 of the ones I distributed on the 30th of May, also Miss A's ones)- 8 x A4 Placard posters with "FoWL is watching" and JA's picture made by Somerset Bean for UKFoWL- 10 x A4 Placard posters with "I am not afraid to make up my own mind" for our awareness campaign by Somerset Bean for UKFoWL- blue/white tac and sticky tape to secure some posters on railings like I did last time. if anyone else has some more resources pls bring them along.
We could distribute our new flyers within the enclosure as supporters and members of the media gather and do our support awareness campaign, taking photos etc. We don't know what the set up might be. We would still want to go inside if there is an opportunity. Let's keep in touch. :) The World Tomorrow: Occupy. Julian Assange's extradition stayed thanks to quick legal footwork | Joshua Rozenberg | Law.
It was all going so well. Lord Phillips, soon to retire as president of the supreme court, was explaining the judges' reasoning in clear English suitable for a world-wide live television audience. By a majority of five to two, the supreme court had agreed with the lower courts that the Swedish prosecutor qualified as a "judicial authority" and could therefore issue an European arrest warrant for Julian Assange. It looked as if he had lost his final appeal against extradition. Two burly security guards ensured that not a peep was heard from Assange's supporters in court.
The judges had been warned that Dinah Rose QC, his fearless counsel, wanted to address the court. But they were not prepared for what she had to say. That was largely their own fault. That was just enough time for Rose to work out that the court had based its reasoning on a point that had never been argued at the two-day hearing in February. This was the point raised by Phillips in paragraph 67 of the judgment. Unjust legal saga continues for Assange - The Drum Opinion. Find More Stories Unjust legal saga continues for Assange John Pilger On May 30, Britain's Supreme Court turned down the final appeal of Julian Assange against his extradition to Sweden.
In an unprecedented move, the court gave the defence team of the WikiLeaks editor permission to 're-apply' to the court in two weeks' time. On the eve of the judgement, Sweden's leading morning newspaper Dagens Nyheter, known as DN, interviewed investigative journalist John Pilger, who has closely followed the Assange case. The following is the complete text of the interview, of which only a fraction was published in Sweden.
Because the attempt to extradite Assange is unjust and political. Borgstrom was then in the middle of an election campaign. One of the most fundamental human rights - that of the presumption of innocence - has been been breached over and over again in Assange's case. This is what Britain's most distinguished and experienced human rights lawyer, Gareth Peirce, has written: Email Share x Digg. 2012-05-25 Stand up for Julian Assange before it's too late. On May 23, Julian Assange attended a screening of "Shadows of Liberty" wearing a kevlar Guy Fawkes mask. "This may be my last time in public, so I thought I should start with a situation where you won't be able to see me anymore. " The UK Supreme Court will decide whether or not Julian Assange is to be extradited to Sweden on May 30, at 9:15AM.
The proceedings will be open to the public and will also be live-streamed via the Sky website. The judgment is expected to last around 10 minutes. If the court rules to extradite Mr Assange, he will be sent to Sweden within 10 days. He can appeal further to the European Court of Human Rights, though this will not stop his extradition. Julian Assange has not been charged with any crime in any country, yet he will have spent 540 days detained—10 in solitary confinement, and 530 under house arrest—by the time the verdict is handed down.
If extradited to Sweden, Mr Assange will be immediately placed in prison, incommunicado. Donate Rally Build Community. Global action for #Assange: More locations! What about yours? One Bean. 2012-03-18 Worldwide Rallies after Assange Supreme Court Verdict. Assange: Using iPhone, gmail, Blackberry? You're screwed! Published time: December 01, 2011 18:03 Edited time: December 02, 2011 13:42 Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks at a press conference at City University London in central London on December 1, 2011 (AFP Photo / LEON NEAL) WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says that governments worldwide have been using electronic devices, such as smart-phones and computers, to monitor what people are saying, where they are going and what they are writing. The controversial journalist spoke at a panel of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism held at the City University in London on Monday.
The panel inaugurated WikiLeak’s new project: the Spyfiles. “Who here has a BlackBerry? The WikiLeaks founder went on to say that these international surveillance companies, based mostly in “more technologically sophisticated countries,” often sold their technology to less advanced countries: states that have often been despised by the West for their allegedly authoritarian political regimes. Assange continues fight against extradition. LONDON (AP) – Julian Assange is making what could be a last throw of the legal dice in his battle to avoid extradition to Sweden over sex crimes allegations. On Monday the WikiLeaks founder will ask judges to let him take his case to Britain's Supreme Court. If they say no, he could be on a plane to Stockholm within days. The 40-year-old Australian behind the secret-spilling website has spent almost a year on bail in Britain fighting extradition for questioning over claims of rape and molestation made by two Swedish women.
So far, two courts have ruled against him. For his case to be considered by Britain's Supreme Court, Assange's lawyers must persuade two High Court judges that it raises a question of "general public importance. " Lower courts have already considered and rejected both arguments. Assange's hearing on Monday will come on the same day as a parliamentary debate on Britain's extradition rules. If he is denied, his legal fight will move to Sweden. When you talk too much for Twitter. Julian Assange's options narrow as judges reject extradition appeal | Media. Short of cash and running out of legal arguments, the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, felt the net tighten around him on Wednesday as the high court dismissed his latest appeal against extradition to Sweden to face rape and sexual molestation claims.
The president of the Queen's Bench Division, Sir John Thomas, sitting with Mr Justice Ouseley, threw out Assange's four-point appeal against the Swedish prosecutor's European arrest warrant. Assange's lawyers, meanwhile, indicated that the 40-year-old Australian may not have the money to pay his opponents' costs. Unless he appeals to the supreme court, and that requires high court approval and yet more legal fees, he could be removed to a Swedish jail by the end of the month to be questioned over claims of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion by two women he met on a visit to Stockholm in August 2010.
"I have not been charged with any crime in any country," he said. The Spy Files: WikiLeaks releases surveillance docs. >Wikileaks - The Spy files. WikiLeaks: The Spy Files Mass interception of entire populations is not only a reality, it is a secret new industry spanning 25 countries It sounds like something out of Hollywood, but as of today, mass interception systems, built by Western intelligence contractors, including for ’political opponents’ are a reality. Today WikiLeaks began releasing a database of hundreds of documents from as many as 160 intelligence contractors in the mass surveillance industry. Working with Bugged Planet and Privacy International, as well as media organizations form six countries – ARD in Germany, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism in the UK, The Hindu in India, L’Espresso in Italy, OWNI in France and the Washington Post in the U.S.
International surveillance companies are based in the more technologically sophisticated countries, and they sell their technology on to every country of the world. Selling Surveillance to Dictators How Mass Surveillance Contractors Share Your Data with the State. DID YOU HAVE ANY IDEA? with Jonathan HOLMES. WikiLeaks wins major journalism award in Australia - Glenn Greenwald. Naomi Wolf slams feminists’ response to the Assange rape prosecution.
Author and activist Naomi Wolf, whose sarcastic and prescriptive criticisms of the rape allegations against and prosecution of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange caused quite a stir in the feminist community in the last year, continued to vociferously defend her statements about rape, consensual sex and the need to reform rape law in a confrontation with Salon reporter Irin Carmon Wednesday and in an exclusive interview with Raw Story Thursday afternoon. Wolf and Carmon were at a party hosted by Gawker Media founder Nick Denton when, according to several sources, Denton asked them, Jezebel editor-in-chief Jessica Coen and Hairpin editor Edith Zimmerman to pose for the picture above. During a conversation after the photograph was taken, Carmon recounted, “I told her, politely, that I was disturbed to see a self-described feminist mocking the accusers and calling the inquiry ‘dating police’ before we even knew what the substance of the allegations were.”
How the US Justice Department Legally Hacked my Twitter Account | Civil Liberties. November 13, 2011 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Before my Twitter case, in which the US Department of Justice has demanded that the social media site hands over personal informationabout my account which it deems necessary to its investigation of WikiLeaks, I didn't think much about what rights I would be signing off when accepting user agreement in my computer. The text is usually lengthy, in a legal language that most people don't understand. Very few people read the user agreements, and very few understand their legal implications if someone in the real world would try to use one against them.
Many of us who use the internet – be it to write emails, work or browse its growing landscape: mining for information, connecting with others or using it to organise ourselves in various groups of the like-minded – are not aware of that our behavior online is being monitored. This notion needs to change. Contact Your PM. LONG_Wikileaks_x-mas.mov. Moment of truth. 'It seems to many it is a question of where Assange will be imprisoned, not if.' Photo: Reuters Julian Assange will soon learn if he is to be extradited to Sweden, but the future for WikiLeaks and whistleblowers everywhere is far from resolved.
SOMETIME in the next two weeks, the team from Serco will come to Ellingham Hall, a stately home in Norfolk, and there adjust an electronic ankle bracelet attached to the leg of Julian Assange, founder and leader of WikiLeaks. Thus freed from the limits of the perimeter fence, Assange will travel to the faux-mediaeval Royal Courts of Justice to hear a verdict that may pitch him into less salubrious surroundings - he could be on his way to remand in Sweden, for further questioning about sexual assault allegations, in a country with no bail system, where prisoners accused of sex crimes are held incommunicado. A successful appeal could see him set free almost instantly but also oblige him to leave the UK at once, as his visa has expired.
Advertisement. Obama's DOJ Seeks to Weaken the FOIA. Assange: Financial blockade may close WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks _ whose spectacular publication of classified data shook world capitals and exposed the inner workings of international diplomacy _ may be weeks away from collapse, the organization's leader warned Monday. Although its attention-grabbing leaks spread outrage and embarrassment across military and diplomatic circles, WikiLeaks' inability to overturn the block on donations imposed by American financial companies may prove its undoing. "If WikiLeaks does not find a way to remove this blockade we will simply not be able to continue by the turn of the new year," founder Julian Assange told journalists at London's Frontline Club. "If we don't knock down the blockade we simply will not be able to continue. " As an emergency measure, Assange said his group would cease what he called "publication operations" to focus its energy on fundraising.
The video was just a foretaste. One after the other, MasterCard Inc., Visa Europe Ltd., Bank of America Corp. WikiLeaks' suspected source, U.S. I may be a chauvinist pig but I'm no rapist. "Paranoid" ... Julian Assange was worried about US agencies framing him at the time he met two women who would later accuse him of rape. I arrived in Sweden on August 11 last year. Just at that point, I received some news from one of our contacts in a Western intelligence agency, confirming what had already been hinted at by the Pentagon press office.
The word was that the US government acknowledged privately that I would be difficult to prosecute but were already talking about ''dealing with you illegally'', as my source put it. The source specified what that would mean: gaining evidence about what we had in the way of information; unearthing, by whatever means, some sort of link between Private Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks; and, if all else failed, deploying other illegal means, such as planting drugs on me, ''finding'' child pornography on my hardware, or seeking to embroil me in allegations of immoral conduct. Advertisement The thing with W-- was going nowhere, either. That is all. Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy; “To destroy this invisible government” (en Español) (auf Deutsch) (in het nederlands) “To radically shift regime behavior we must think clearly and boldly for if we have learned anything, it is that regimes do not want to be changed.
We must think beyond those who have gone before us, and discover technological changes that embolden us with ways to act in which our forebears could not. Firstly we must understand what aspect of government or neocorporatist behavior we wish to change or remove. The piece of writing (via) which that quote introduces is intellectually substantial, but not all that difficult to read, so you might as well take a look at it yourself. He begins by positing that conspiracy and authoritarianism go hand in hand, arguing that since authoritarianism produces resistance to itself — to the extent that its authoritarianism becomes generally known — it can only continue to exist and function by preventing its intentions (the authorship of its authority?)
How can we reduce the ability of a conspiracy to act? One Judge Who Is Leading the Charge Against Secret Orders - Digits.