Free Speech: Use it or Lose it! From Joh Bjelke Petersen to Julian Assange: That was Then, This is Now
YOUTUBE (6 mins) 'Assange Subterranean Homesick Blues'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGb9pqcz3_Y
WHAT
"Free Speech: Use it or Lose it!
From Joh Bjelke Petersen to Julian Assange
That was Then, This is Now!"
In solidarity with Queenslander Julian Assange, seeking sanctuary in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London, and Bradley Manning in a U.S. military prison. Both looking at life in U.S. prison for exposing U.S. war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo!
Videos, speakers, music and discussion.
WHEN
Saturday July 7th.
Gather at 3pm for 3.30pm start
DIRECTIONS
http://turnstyle.org.au/node/12
FOOD AVAILABLE ON SITE!
ENTRY by donation (to cover costs of staging the event, anything else to Assange and Manning families to support their sons!)
PROGRAM
3pm-4pm STATIC DISPLAY "Resist the Powers that Be!"
Photos and t-shirts from 1977 to 2012
SPEAKERS
4pm
*Gary MacLennan, Brisbane based intellectual and activist, still going strong from the 1970's to 2012.
**Ciaron O'Reilly recently returned from London where he attended all of Julian Assange's court apperances, helping to provide security for the High Court and Supreme Court appearances.
*** A voice from London inside, or outside, the Ecuadoran Embassy.
PERFORMERS
* Muzzray (bass Amy Goodman voice over of WikiLeaks collateral murder footage)
* "The Wicked Wicca-Leaks of West End"
with Chris Maver and Chris Anderson
* Adrian Herd
* Mark Dalton/ Simon Wells (Irish trad)
* Tony Kneipp will be backed in his set by the "Fugitive Microbes" playing his composition, the Briz cult classis, "Pig City" . Only 4th. time this Briz hit has been performed publicly!
******"The Butchers" Hank Wymarra, Bob Weatherall
* "Jumping Fences" Lachlan Hurse, Sue Monk, Ross Gwyther
***Please RSVP if you can, helps the organisers organise!
Good to have sense of numbers for catering purposes etc etc.
More info: contact us
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