Re: One very small piece of Assange activism that anyone can do .. Archived Message
Posted by margo on June 2, 2019, 10:45 am, in reply to "One very small piece of Assange activism that anyone can do .."
Thanks for this, don't think it a pathetic idea, at all, Shyaku. Given the sheer extent to which Assange has been smeared and dehumanised, it's essential for supporters to share his words, his lectures, interviews, essays and books. He's a very smart thinker who re-thought journalism for the 21st century. Australians should be proud of him: their silence and apathy around their citizen is shameful... as the UN rapporteur hinted. South Africans journalists who were smeared/detained during the apartheid era have great empathy for Assange's situation. Among actions they are undertaking is to bulk buy Assange's books and donate them to universities, schools and libraries. I'm currently reading Assange's excellent "When Google Met Wikileaks": it will be donated to local second-hand bookshops - along with ten other copies - next week. His "Unauthorised Autobiography", "Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet" and "Menaces sur nos libertes" (co-written with Jacob Appelbaum) are all worth supporting/buying/sharing/donating/keeping in circulation. Forget virtue-signalling, this is a matter of ensuring an important voice is not forever silenced. Assange held Gore Vidal's book, as he was seized in Hans Crescent. Great quote from that book: Vidal: "The people are not stupid, but they are totally misinformed."
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