Friends of WikiLeaks – Los Angeles (formerly FoWL-Chicago)
Jeremy Hammond
UK High Court Predictably Approves Extradition of Julian Assange to US – Read the Ruling
Today, December 10 2021, the UK High Court issued its ruling in the Julian Assange extradition case, deciding to accept as credible the US Government’s “assurances” that they will not torture Assange – who the CIA and other elements of the US capitalist class and its Deep State had considered kidnapping and/or assassinating outright. The … Continue reading
FULL TEXT: Opening Defense Argument on Day One of Julian Assange Extradition Hearing
We’re very pleased to be able to offer to our readers what appears to be a complete text of the opening defense argument given on Day One of the Julian Assange extradition hearing held in London on 24 February 2020. We obtained this via “The Watchdog” (@WDNewsWire Twitter account). Thanks to them for publishing this! … Continue reading
Movie Review – CITIZENFOUR: “Speaking Truth to Power” is not What Needs to Be Done (* out of 5)
[Note: this review is being simultaneously published by the Independent Workers Party of Chicago and the Friends of WikiLeaks – Chicago on the respective websites of both groups.] CITIZENFOUR – a film by Laura Poitras https://citizenfourfilm.com/ We expected a lot from Laura Poitras’ new film CITIZENFOUR; we were massively disappointed. With ex- CIA/NSA contract worker … Continue reading
Update on Friends of WikiLeaks – Chicago’s Membership Numbers
It seems like just yesterday we were complaining about the vast sea of apathy that exists in the working class intellectual wasteland that exists here in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA. The utter lack of any serious working-class opposition to the continuing massive assaults on the trade union movement in Chicago continues unabated. The unionized … Continue reading
Transcript: Jeremy Hammond Defense Rally, New York City, 21 February, 2013
We’d like to thank the Independent Workers Party of Chicago for this transcript, produced by them. This is from the recusal hearing that was held last week, in which the judge in Jeremy Hammond’s case refused to recuse herself from the hearing – to remove herself from being the trial judge, that is, due to … Continue reading
New Jeremy Hammond Essay: “On Aaron Swartz and the Criminalization of Digital Dissent”
This is a new essay written by imprisoned US political activist Chicagoan Jeremy Hammond – outrageously thrown into solitary confinement by his jailers – who faces up to 30 years in prison for the non-crime of allegedly exposing the crimes of the US government and its hired flunkeys due to his alleged involvement in the … Continue reading
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