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Free Julian Assange Panel at CUNY Law Feb 15, 2020

A panel discussion among leading journalists, attorneys and human rights defenders as the extradition trial in London of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange begins later this month. If Assange is sent to the United States, he would face the first-ever charges under the Espionage Act of 1917 for the publication of truthful information in the public interest of US war crimes, torture, and human rights abuse. Speakers consider the legal and policy issues, and what we can do to protect the First Amendment. Moderator: Idalin Bobe, founder of TechActivist.org Speakers: Renata Avila - Guatemalan International human rights lawyer and digital rights expert, Executive Director, Ciudadania Inteligente, based in Chile and Brazil Glen Ford - Executive editor, Black Agenda Report James C. Goodale - Former chief counsel of The New York Times who led the legal team in the Pentagon Papers case Max Blumenthal - Award-winning journalist and author of several books, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Daily Beast, The Nation, the Huffington Post, the Independent Film Channel, Salon.com and other publications. In 2015 he founded thegrayzone.com Video Statements from: Jennifer Robinson, Daniel Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, and Alice Walker. Video camera and edit by Joe Friendly