5 Jan, 2021 03:31 from RT, shared with thanksURL

Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters has demanded the immediate release of Julian Assange after a UK judge declined a US extradition request, telling RT the WikiLeaks founder’s battle is far from over as Washington eyes an appeal.

Roger Waters (R) and other supporters of WikiLeaks attend a protest against the extradition of Julian Assange outside the Australian High Commission in London, Britain. ©  Reuters / Peter Nicholls

“Let the man begin to live,” Waters said in an interview on Monday, insisting Assange must be freed from custody at London’s maximum security Belmarsh Prison without delay, hours after Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled against extradition for the anti-secrecy activist.

Continue reading “‘Bail him NOW!’ says Roger Waters after judge rejects extradition for Assange: ‘ruling a ‘delaying tactic’ as US preps appeal’”

Source – scheerpost.com “…What’s shocking to a lot of people is that this is now happening in the United States,” Donziger said. “I don’t mean murder, but death by a thousand cuts. Chevron does not want me to be a lawyer anymore, at a minimum. They don’t want me advocating even as a nonlawyer. They […]

CORPRO-FASCISM: How Corporate Tyranny Works – By Chris Hedges — RIELPOLITIK

December 31, 2020 by the ACG shared with thanks illustrations added

The ongoing Spycops hearing in the Royal Courts of Justice in London reveals the vile immensity of the crimes committed by the State and the Metropolitan Police, not least the mass deception of women involved in various radical movements.

In the course of forty years, the shady police unit, the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) has sent at least 139 undercover cops into a thousand (1,000) political parties, organisations, campaigns, defence committees and justice groups.

Thirty plus women were deceived by male police officers into intimate sexual relationships, having children with some of them, whilst three female undercover cops also deceived male members of various groups into intimate sexual relations.

Poster crew run #spycop takeover of London ad spaces

Continue reading “The Spycops Scandal: The State and Mass Organised Misogyny”

By Georgina Littlejohn January 3, 2021 https://uspire.life/ shared with thanks

Now here’s a man you’ve no danger of bumping into down at your local supermarket.

In fact, farmer Martin Crawford probably hasn’t brought any shop produce for quite a while because for the last couple of decades he’s been growing his own.

But we’re not talking about your average allotment, oh no. Think bigger – think, forest.

A forest that is modelled on natural woodland and is capable of producing tons of food with as little as a few hours’ work a month.

Forest gardening is a novel way of growing edible crops while nature does most of the work.

Continue reading “When is a vegetable garden sustainable?…When it’s a forest!”

from Freedom News, shared with thanks

Anti-prison campaigners from Community Action on Prison Expansion (CAPE) are targeting Kier Construction with “New Year, No Kier” campaign. Kier is being targeted as the company contracted to build the mega-prison HMP Five Wells in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, the most advanced of the new mega-prisons announced in the Prison Estate Transformation Programme in 2016. Kier Construction was awarded a staggering 253 million for the project.

On 5 January 2021, Corporate Watch UK is due to release a scathing report documenting the many failings of the inhumane Kier construction and their subsidiaries. Grassroots campaigners have launched “New Year, No Kier” coinciding with this release. They refuse to stop mobilizing until the shut-down of the already failing company.

Continue reading “Anti-prison activists to target Kier Construction in New Year campaign”

Julian Assange faces up to 175 years in a US jail over espionage and hacking charges, as activists decry threats to future of press freedom.

By Usaid Siddiqui3 Jan 2021

On Monday, a British judge will decide if WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be extradited to the United States to face espionage charges for publishing secret US military documents..

The 49-year-old Australian is accused of illegally hacking into US government websites and leaking documents containing logs on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and diplomatic cables in 2010. Keep ReadingJulian Assange: What you need to know about the WikiLeaks founderJulian Assange extradition verdict to be delivered on January 4Julian Assange supporters outnumber his critics. Who are they?Julian Assange case ‘politicised’, says whistleblower’s lawyer

WikiLeaks@wikileaks·12hMother of Julian Assange’s children says if a British court sends her fiancé to face life in a US jail, this country’s no longer a safe haven for free speech | #Assange

“I hope I am wrong,” the 92-year-old activist added, calling Assange’s incarceration – but power reigns”.

Continue reading “UK court to rule on WikiLeaks’ Assange’s US extradition to face 175 yrs for publishing the truth”