The War On Terror is Put on Trial, The Belmarsh Tribunal: Free Julian Assange -Part One
Channel: Ed Mays
Date: 2021-11-04

On October 22nd, the Progressive International convened the first physical meeting of the Belmarsh Tribunal in London to put the US on trial for its war crimes — and to demand justice for Julian Assange.
Julian Assange is once again on trial in British court where he is fighting efforts to extradite him to the United States. The hearing considers a U.S. appeal of a January decision by a British court not to extradite Mr. Assange.
Successive US governments have shown that they will go to extraordinary lengths to punish Assange for revealing the crimes of US empire, going so far as to plot his assassination. 
The Tribunal, which took place in Westminster in a hall previously used for sittings of the United Kingdom Parliament and United Nations Security Council, heard powerful testimony from Ed Snowden, Stella Morris, Selay Ghaffar, Rafael Correa, Jeremy Corbyn and many others.  Democracy Now broadcast 25 minutes of the Tribunal on Free speech TV last week.  We are going to broadcast a more complete edited for TV version of this important testimony in two parts over the next two weeks.

Watch the full unedited 2hr 23mn on line: https://youtu.be/E_xxGWAxlGc

Part 1 Testifiers:
Moderator: Srećko Horvat Croatian philosopher, author, and political activist, co-founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement [DiEM25] and Council member of the Progressive International
Tariq Ali British political activist, writer, journalist, historian, filmmaker, original member of The Russell-Sartre International War Crimes Tribunal 1966
Yanis Varoufakis Former Greek Minister of Finance, prolific author, Member of Hellenic Parliament, Co-Founder of DiEM25 and The Progressive International with Bernie Sanders 
Eyal Weizman Director of Forensic Architecture and Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths University, author of Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation
Apsana Begum British Labour Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament for Poplar and Limehouse since 2019
Özlem Demirel German politician who is currently a serving representative of the The Left party as a Member of the European Parliament
John McDonnell Member of UK Parliament- Labour Party, served as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2015 to 2020, led the development of Labour’s economic strategy
Heike Hänsel Deputy Chairman of DIE LINKE [The Left party] in the German Parliament [Bundestag]
Richard Burgon British Labour Party Member of Parliament, served as Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and Shadow Lord Chancellor in the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn from 2016 to 2020
Scott Ludlam Writer, member of the Australian Greens, served in the Australian Senate from July 2008 to July 2017 and was deputy leader of the Greens

Ways you can help:
RSF Reporters Without Borders
Free Julian Assange Petition
https://rsf.org/en/free-assange
Free Julian Assange Call Team
https://www.facebook.com/FreeJulianAssangeCallTeam/

Ways to pitch in:
Julian Assange Legal Fund https://assangedefense.org
Crowd Justice https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/julianassange/
Julian Assange & WikiLeaks Public Defense Fund – GoFundMe

Thanks to Progressive International, Recorded 10/22/21

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