Liberties
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Banned from looking at the neighbours: PSPOs Strike Again!
29 June 2018 — Manifesto Club Banned from looking at the neighbours; abortion clinic buffer zones; jailed for being homeless; victory for dog walker in court; Help us save the Campaign Against PSPOs!… Continue reading
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THE URGENCY OF BRINGING JULIAN ASSANGE HOME
This is an abridged version of an address by John Pilger to a rally in Sydney, Australia, to mark Julian Assange’s six years’ confinement in the Ecuadorean embassy in London. Continue reading
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Immigrant children tied down, hooded, beaten, stripped and drugged By Patrick Martin
Court documents made public in Virginia and Texas give a glimpse of the systematic brutality being meted out to immigrant children in both public and private jails. Children are strapped down, hooded and beaten, or drugged by force, as part of the everyday procedure in what can only be called the American Gulag. Continue reading
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Your favourite websites CENSORED!
URGENT: The European Union is just weeks from passing a law that would destroy the best things about the Internet as we know it. As a result of lobbying by big corporate publishers, the European Commission is proposing to force websites to pay a tax to link to news content and use censorship machines to… Continue reading
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Stand up against censoring copyright laws!
The message is clear: The Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive is a broken disastrous proposal. It contains a plan for licensing fees for sharing news links which would result in weakening the foundation of the Web, a loss of media diversity and harm acess to information across Europe. Continue reading
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Urge Ecuador to Protect WikiLeaks from Persecution by Team Trump
Please let Ecuador’s leaders know that you support their courageous stand in protecting press freedom, as well as their right to grant political asylum and resist United States/United Kingdom intimidation. Continue reading
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Conspiracy emerges to push Julian Assange into British and US hands By Mike Head
Moves are afoot to force Assange out of Ecuador’s London embassy, where he sought political asylum close to six years ago and has been forced to live as an effective prisoner. If he is taken into custody by British authorities, he faces being handed over to the US government, which has long sought to place… Continue reading
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Ecuador hints it may hand over Julian Assange to Britain and the US By James Cogan
Julian Assange is in immense danger. Remarks made this week by Ecuador’s foreign minister suggest that her government may be preparing to renege on the political asylum it granted to the WikiLeaks editor in 2012 and hand him over to British and then American authorities. Continue reading
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Jeremy Corbyn silent on persecution of Julian Assange By Laura Tiernan
Since he was elected leader in September 2015, Jeremy Corbyn has made no public statement in Assange’s defence. Corbyn has refused to condemn the May government’s preparations to arrest Assange should he leave the embassy and has offered no guarantee that a Labour government will block his extradition to the US. Continue reading
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Why has Ecuador silenced Julian Assange?
Ecuadorian authorities have blocked the WikiLeaks founder’s access to the Internet as well as all other means of communication from Quito’s embassy in London, where Assange has been confined for nearly six years. In addition, it is barring visitors from seeing him, leaving him with fewer rights than a prisoner behind bars. Continue reading
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THE ISOLATION OF JULIAN ASSANGE IS THE SILENCING OF US ALL
Citing his critical tweets about the recent detention of Catalan president Carles Puidgemont in Germany, and following pressure from the US, Spanish and UK governments, the Ecuadorian government has installed an electronic jammer to stop Assange communicating with the outside world via the internet and phone. Continue reading
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Behind the Facebook data scandal: The drive to censor the Internet
In a week full of major social and political developments, no single topic has occupied the US media outlets more than the scandal surrounding Facebook’s relationship with Cambridge Analytica, the election data company previously associated with former Trump campaign Chairman Steve Bannon. Continue reading
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Julian Assange loses initial bid to overturn British arrest warrant By Mike Head
A judge in London yesterday rejected an application by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to withdraw a British arrest warrant issued against him in 2012. In a judgment full of obvious contradictions, she ruled that way even though a Swedish-initiated European arrest warrant—the trigger for the British warrant—was cancelled in May 2017. Continue reading
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Facebook and Google outline unprecedented mass censorship at US Senate hearing By Andre Damon
Behind the backs of the US and world populations, social media companies have built up a massive censorship apparatus staffed by an army of “content reviewers” capable of seamlessly monitoring, tracking, and blocking millions of pieces of content. Continue reading
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Governments and corporations escalate Internet censorship and attacks on free speech
The year 2018 has opened with an international campaign to censor the Internet. Throughout the world, technology giants are responding to the political demands of governments by cracking down on freedom of speech, which is inscribed in the US Bill of Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights, and countless international agreements. Continue reading
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Manifesto Club newsletter – Man fined for being naked in own garden
The CPN is like an ‘on-the-spot’ Asbo, which can be issued by a council officer simply filling in a form. It is a criminal offence for a person not to comply with their order. Continue reading
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Judge Tells Jury: Informing Public May Be Criminal Conspiracy By Jim Naureckas
Reporting the news can be punished as criminal conspiracy, federal Judge Lynn Leibovitz told jurors at the so-called J20 trial in Washington, DC, where journalists and protesters alike are being prosecuted for property damage that they didn’t commit during the Donald Trump inauguration. Continue reading
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Google hiring 10,000 reviewers to censor YouTube content By Zaida Green
Google is escalating its campaign of internet censorship, announcing that it will expand its workforce of human censors to over 10,000, the internet giant announced on December 4. The censors’ primary focus will be videos and other content on YouTube, its video-sharing platform, but will work across Google to censor content and train its automated… Continue reading
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