{"id":37277,"date":"2018-09-03T07:32:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T12:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37277"},"modified":"2018-09-03T07:32:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T12:32:43","slug":"an-online-vigil-in-defense-of-julian-assange-with-daniel-ellsberg-craig-murray-bill-binney-and-ray-mcgovern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37277","title":{"rendered":"An Online Vigil in Defense of Julian Assange With Daniel Ellsberg, Craig Murray, Bill Binney and Ray McGovern"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2018\/09\/01\/an-online-vigil-in-defense-of-julian-assange-with-daniel-ellsberg-craig-murray-bill-binney-and-ray-mcgovern\/\">An Online Vigil in Defense of Julian Assange With Daniel Ellsberg, Craig Murray, Bill Binney and Ray McGovern<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\">\n<div class=\"pinit-btn-div\">Joe Lauria, editor-in-chief of Consortium News, on Saturday helped moderate a daylong chain of interviews in defense of WikiLeaks and its publisher Julian Assange, including a discussion with Daniel Ellsberg.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/unity4j.com\/\">#Unity4J online vigil<\/a>\u00a0was held on Saturday to defend the WikiLeaks editor-in-chief, whose sanctuary at the Ecuadorian embassy in London has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/disobedientmedia.com\/2018\/04\/opinion-ecuadors-solitary-confinement-of-assange-is-torture\/\">turned into torturous solitary confinement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among the participants on Saturday were Craig Murray, a former U.K. ambassador; Nat Parry, son of Consortium New\u2019s founder and first editor, Robert Parry; Bill Binney, former technical director at the National Security Agency, and Ray McGovern, a former CIA officer. Joe Lauria interviewed Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers whistleblower and author of<em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Doomsday-Machine-Confessions-Nuclear-Planner-ebook\/dp\/B074HZMN71\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1535855722&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=daniel+ellsberg+doomsday+machine\"><span id=\"ebooksProductTitle\" class=\"a-size-extra-large\">The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The entire 11 hour and 45 minute event can be viewed here:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-video-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"rvw743086\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L_HYlIVumXw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/center>International media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/julian-assange-free-wikileaks-ecuador-embassy-evict-london-uk-a8460531.html\">have reported<\/a> that Ecuador may hand over Assange to United Kingdom authorities, with a fear that he then would be extradited to the United States. The U.K. and Ecuadorian sides are engaged in ongoing negotiations, but Jennifer Robinson, a lawyer for Assange and WikiLeaks since 2010, has acknowledged that Assange\u2019s legal team is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c4Bwr1C8QH8\">not part of those talks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The fate of Assange represents a threat to human rights, asylum rights, liberty and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/articles\/the-war-on-assange-is-a-war-on-press-freedom\/\">press freedoms<\/a>. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights already have found in <a href=\"https:\/\/couragefound.org\/\">Assange\u2019s favor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>#Unity4J originated from an unplanned but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=%23Unity4J\">timely response to injustice<\/a> when Assange\u2019s internet access and visitation rights were taken away. The action has grown into a series of high-profile monthly online vigils.<\/p>\n<p>A dynamic new format for the monthly online vigils was introduced on Saturday.\u00a0 Conceived by organizer Suzie Dawson, the concept is described as a \u201cdaisy-chain style digital relay\u201d\u2014which featured more than\u00a0 twenty guest appearances of 30 minutes duration each.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Online Vigil in Defense of Julian Assange With Daniel Ellsberg, Craig Murray, Bill Binney and Ray McGovern Joe Lauria, editor-in-chief of Consortium News, on Saturday helped moderate a daylong chain of interviews in defense of WikiLeaks and its publisher Julian Assange, including a discussion with Daniel Ellsberg. &nbsp; A\u00a0#Unity4J online vigil\u00a0was held on Saturday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21081,6963,14160,17430,12261,2001,7000,880],"class_list":["post-37277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-bill-binney","tag-consortium-news","tag-craig-murray","tag-daniel-ellsberg","tag-joe-lauria","tag-julian-assange","tag-ray-mcgovern","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37278,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37277\/revisions\/37278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}