Re: Guardian trying to make up for lost time, now they realise their complicity in hounding Assange? Archived Message
Posted by Shyaku on August 25, 2019, 12:22 am, in reply to "Guardian trying to make up for lost time, now they realise their complicity in hounding Assange?"
The sense I got, leafleting for assange today was one of noticable unvoiced sympathy. I was amazed nobody at all, out of, getting into the hundreds of people approached, was openly hostile at all or told me to f*** off, something I may have said to a rightwinger trying to leaflet me. The most common reaction was a tangible attentive look accompanied by, unvoiced 'you have 5 sec to make a succinct case'. People wanted to be approached and to hear someone say something that they could comfortably get behind, but mostly did not want to stick their necks above the parapet themselves until it was a majority opinion or at least an acceptable one. Ordinarly people seem to know what goes on and what is going on. Probably many have a friend or family member who has been screwed by the system. Largely, it seemed that they just don't see why they should bother, or be involved in this particular case. The best response was from someone who chatted to me about Assange, knew nothing, but then finally said 'well, tell him if he dies in there, but converts to Islam first, he will go to heaven'. Peoples' warmth in general was unexpected. I felt proud to do this for someone who genuinely deserves the effort. I also learned there may be a limit on the number of people who can demonstrate outside Belmarsh. The limit sounded pretty high though, like around 1000 people. We need to stay active somehow, and be organized, somehow. People will listen, but won't want to be the first to speak, or to devote much of their engergy to it. They will passively support you if they think you can win - Shyaku
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Message Thread:
- Guardian trying to make up for lost time, now they realise their complicity in hounding Assange? - margo August 23, 2019, 9:26 am
- Joint statement from Australian Mark Davis and Guardian's Nick Davies - margo August 23, 2019, 9:57 am
- Re: Guardian trying to make up for lost time, now they realise their complicity in hounding Assange? - margo August 23, 2019, 10:34 am
- The great human rights lawyer Gareth Pierce on Democracy Now - margo August 23, 2019, 11:08 am
- Stephania Maurizi speaks (video) - margo August 23, 2019, 4:43 pm
- Re: Guardian trying to make up for lost time, now they realise their complicity in hounding Assange? - margo August 23, 2019, 6:09 pm
- Eye-witness testimony from within court the day Assange was sentenced to a year in Belmarsh (video) - margo August 23, 2019, 6:51 pm
- Re: Guardian trying to make up for lost time, now they realise their complicity in hounding Assange? - Shyaku August 25, 2019, 12:22 am
- Good on you, Shyaku. nm - brooks August 25, 2019, 1:10 am
- Heartening, thanks! Raising awareness is a one-directional trajectory: once people 'see' ... - margo August 25, 2019, 8:22 am
- Good....nm - Keith-264 August 25, 2019, 7:14 pm
- I was amazed that people who are probably so burdened with basic survival ... - Shyaku August 26, 2019, 1:26 am
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