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Assange on trial - Day 9
20 September, by siawi3 -
Kafka On Acid: The Trial Of Julian Assange
20 September, by siawi3Australian government silence has been broken by many citizen actions over a campaign stretching over ten years. Demonstrators have scaled Parliament House, organised weekly vigils outside Flinders Street Station and the Sydney Town Hall rain, hail or shine for the last two years, with arrests for occupation of the UK consulate leading to court hearings on 7 September this year. Voices supporting Assange from across the political spectrum, and among a broader chorus of civil society and media organisations, are getting louder. The tide is turning, but will it turn in time?
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USA: Ruth Bader Ginsburg : mort d’une icône féministe et LGBT
20 September, by siawi3Ruth Bader Ginsburg, doyenne de la Cour Suprême des États-Unis est décédée hier à l’âge de 87 ans. Surnommée « Notorious RBG », c’était l’une des plus grandes figures progressistes des États-Unis qui s’est battue pour l’égalité hommes/femmes et a joué un rôle majeur dans la décision historique d’ouvrir le mariage aux couples de même sexe aux Etats-Unis.
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UK: A new campaign is challenging UK complicity in Israeli apartheid, and it really means business
20 September, by siawi3As the demonstrators spent another night on the roof, Israel launched another bomb attack on Gaza.
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‘SCUSE ME WHILE I KISS THE SKY
20 September, by siawi3It is one of the defining moments in the story both of rock and of black expression. Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock 1969, finishing his set by deconstructing the Star Spangled Banner. A black man on stage, claiming the anthem as his own, stripping it of its reverence, and, against the backdrop of the Vietnam War – in the midst of the song Hendrix recreated the sound of gunfire and falling bombs – and of American cities burning in civil rights protests, infusing it with fury and pride. Hendrix, as Paul Gilroy has observed, was always defined by “transgressions of redundant musical and racial rules”.
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Jimi Hendrix, 50 ans après
20 septembre, par siawi3Voici donc, trois disques à écouter pour plonger dans les racines d’Hendrix, se souvenir de sa fougue sur scène et tenter de deviner ce qu’aurait pu être la suite de son œuvre.
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South Africa: The culture wars are a distraction
20 September, by siawi3Sincerely, there is no time for bullshit. The stakes are too high. The left re-emerging in South Africa must declare unapologetically: no war but class war.
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USA: Hold The Line: A Guide to Defending Democracy
20 September, by siawi3On June 1, 2020, President Trump ordered members of the military to repress nonviolent demonstrators in Washington, DC. Seeing this as a severe abuse of power—and an indication of the lengths Trump might go to try to stay in office—the four of us got together and produced this guide over the course of several months.
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UK : Malgré le Covid-19 et les problèmes techniques, la défense d’Assange avance ses pions
19 septembre, par siawi3L’accès aux débats a été refusé par la juge à une quarantaine d’observateurs, pourtant initialement accrédités. Parmi eux, des ONG comme Reporters sans frontières, Amnesty International et des parlementaires européens. Dans un communiqué publié jeudi, Amnesty s’est dite « inquiète » de ce « manque d’accès » à l’audience.
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News Media Who Ignore The Assange Trial Are Admitting They Don’t Care About Journalism
19 September, by siawi3The prosecution’s new line of argumentation should have drawn massive headlines from all the major news outlets who’ve been bloviating about the dangers posed by Trump’s war on the press with flamboyant preening and self-aggrandizement. Instead they are silent, because they do not care.
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