(2023-05-10). CovertAction Bulletin: Assange Writes Letter to King Charles Before £100 Million Coronation. covertactionmagazine.com To mark the occasion of the coronation of King Charles the III, Julian Assange wrote a scathing public letter to the new monarch from his cell at Belmarsh prison, where he's been held for over four years. The coronation cost £100 million of tax-payer funds, and many across the country have been outraged that public funds are being spent on such pomp and circumstance during a cost of living crisis…
(2023-05-10). Australian MPS Meet US Envoy Caroline Kennedy On Assange. popularresistance.org A cross party delegation of Australian legislators met on Tuesday morning in Canberra with Caroline Kennedy, the U.S. ambassador, to discuss the continued U.S. prosecution of imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. | U.S. President Joe Biden is due in Australia in two weeks as the pressure continues to mount on him from presidents, parliaments, the public and human rights and press freedom groups to free Assange. | The Sydney Morning Herald quoted Senator Andrew Wilkie, who took part in the meeting with Kennedy, as saying: | "This is an intensely important time with the US President about to visit. It woul…
(2023-05-10). Monopolies, Prosecution Of Assange Drive Drop In US Press Freedom Rank. popularresistance.org CODEPINK cofounder Medea Benjamin interrupted U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a Washington Post-sponsored World Press Freedom Day event on May 3, taking the stage where a Post journalist was interviewing Blinken. Benjamin demanded that the U.S. and United Kingdom free imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. | A group of men in suits, presumably Secret Service agents, immediately charged onto the stage and forcibly removed Benjamin and another activist who joined her. Blinken, however, failed to address either Assange's persecution or the U.S.'s continued decline in press freedom after the disruptio…
(2023-05-09). Australian Lawmakers Urge US to Drop Case Against Assange. news.antiwar.com A cross-party group of Australian members of parliament met with the US ambassador to Australia on Tuesday and called for Washington to drop the charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, an Australian citizen. The delegation of lawmakers, known as the Bring Julian Assange Home Parliamentary Group, told US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy that there was broad …
(2023-05-09). Media Monopolies and Prosecution of Assange Drive Drop in US Press Freedom Rank. scheerpost.com 
(2023-05-09). A Kingly Proposal: Letter From Julian Assange To King Charles III. orinocotribune.com By Julian Assange — May 5, 2023 | To His Majesty King Charles III, | On the coronation of my liege, I thought it only fitting to extend a heartfelt invitation to you to commemorate this momentous occasion by visiting your very own kingdom within a kingdom: His Majesty's Prison Belmarsh. | You will no doubt recall the wise words of a renowned playwright: "The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath." | Ah, but what would that bard know of mercy faced with the reckoning at the dawn of your historic reign? After all, one can truly know the measure of a…
(2023-05-09). NYPD Arrest Photojournalist Who Was Covering Their Response To 'Justice For Jordan Neely' Vigil. thedissenter.org 
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(2023-05-10). Atlanta Photojournalist Arrested While Covering 'Black Lives Matter' Protests Receives Settlement. thedissenter.org Atlanta photojournalist Sharif Hassan, who was arrested while covering "Black Lives Matter" protests in 2020, received a settlement of $105,000…
(2023-05-10). DeSantis Signs Bills That Restrict Chinese People From Buying Land in Florida. truthout.org On Monday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed into law a series of discriminatory bills that will restrict Chinese people from buying land in the state under the guise of protecting national security. DeSantis signed Senate Bills 264, 846 and 258 into law, parroting xenophobic claims that the bills will restrict Chinese residents in the state from engaging in espionage on American soil. |