By Debra Sweet
With people like you who don’t wait to be told what’s right, or wrong…
With people like you who act for justice, even when others hold back…
The world won’t have to wait any longer to hear a different message.
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World Can’t Wait has put a big part of our efforts in 2010 to promoting the revelations brought forth by wikileaks.ch (note url change) as a means of exposing the illegitimate US occupations of Iraq & Afghanistan. The latest "Cablegate" release is so important in understanding how the US uses diplomacy as a means of global domination, that the wrath of the US and all its allies has come down on Julian Assange & Wikileaks.
Developments today include that Assange has been taken into custody by British authorities under an arrest warrant from Interpol, sought by the Swedish authorities. I understand that US media such as NBC said that Assange was "found" after a "manhunt" to "face charges." He was not hiding, as his lawyers repeatedly stated, and until yesterday, there was no arrest warrant. There still are no charges, as he’s being sought only for questioning.
But, as Glenn Greenwald says today of the attack on Wikileaks: "Look what has happened to them. They have been removed from Internet… their funds have been frozen… media figures and politicians have called for their assassination and to be labeled a terrorist organization. What is really going on here is a war over control of the Internet, and whether or not the Internet can actually serve its ultimate purpose—which is to allow citizens to band together and democratize the checks on the world’s most powerful factions."
Our concern is that Sweden will win extradition, and the US will snatch Assange to carry out its mission, stated last week by Attorney General Holder, to change whatever laws need to be changed to stop Wikileaks’ exposure, and also that Assange may be killed, frankly. The very bad decision today from the US District Court in Washington D.C. on the ACLU/Center for Constitutional Rights challenge to the Obama administration’s use of extrajudicial targeted killing indicates it’s likely that the government will carry out such threats to Anwar al-Aulaqi and others.
SO:
• Friday December 10 is Human Rights Day, and often the date the Nobel Peace Prize is given. Perhaps on that day "We are ALL Wikileaks!" "I am Julian Assange" or "We support war crime leakers and war resisters" signs should pop up on the Internet and on the streets. Already, more than 600 "mirror sites" of Wikileaks.ch have been posted in response to Amazon.com denying Wikileaks service.
• World Can’t Wait is severing our ties with Paypal, on the basis of Paypal’s denial of service to Wikileaks over this past weekend. Please see our donate page for options.
• If you’re someone on this list who has not yet written for a DVD of Collateral Murder to share with your circles, I think THIS is the time to do so!
• Donating so that we can produce more is essential to breaking through the clampdown on the internet.
We’re intent on organizing resistance. We hope you like the new video and will share it immediately.