This is to forward on the announcement of an important conference at the State Library Auditorium on Sunday the 30th of April 2023. Its title is The Persecution of Truth.
See the full information below: The Persecution of Truth
The Brisbane Assange Campaign is holding a conference called The Persecution of Truth at the State Library of Queensland Auditorium 1 on Sunday April 30th and we ask all Julian’s supporters to attend.
We regularly bring Julian’s father, John Shipton, to Brisbane to meet with Julian’s supporters and to gather together to hear about the massive project of building a worldwide campaign to free his son that John Shipton is undertaking. John Shipton’s efforts on Julian’s behalf are extraordinary. He is currently touring the US with Julian’s brother Gabriel, showing the documentary Ithaka at 59 US venues. He has visited us in Brisbane on several occasions and he regularly tours Australia, Europe, the US and the UK. He will be the key speaker at the conference, and will be supported by Afghan War whistleblower, David McBride, Michael West of Michael West media and Greg Barns from Julian’s legal team. Like Julian, John Shipton deserves our support.
The aim of the seminar is to reacquaint Queenslanders with the extraordinary achievements of Julian Assange, and detail his equally extraordinary persecution, how he has been corralled and silenced, imprisoned in Belmarsh for four years without ever being convicted of a crime; and to encourage supporters to get behind the campaign to free this great Queenslander and truth-teller. Julian’s situation is desperate. After 13 years of increasing persecution, the last four in a maximum-security prison, he is being slowly, agonizingly crucified by the governments of the US, the UK and (shamefully!) his country of birth, Australia, the three countries that illegally invaded Iraq in 2003. Julian exposed their war crimes and helped end their war, but at extraordinary personal cost.
There is no doubt that previous Australian administrations abandoned Julian because of the entanglement and collusion of the warmongers of the Defense Department and Foreign Affairs with the Five Eyes and the other elements of the US and UK deep states who have led Julian’s persecution. These greedy warmakers are afraid a free Assange might expose their highly lucrative plans for ongoing wars, despite the suicidal threat to our species their schemes pose and the money they divert from the need to repair our planet. The Albanese government is a considerable improvement on previous administrations, but they are still overly cowed by the warmongers and the propaganda of their media supporters. We need to encourage them to be braver. The seminar gives us the opportunity to discuss our thoughts and plans for action.
The conference will celebrate the achievements of Julian Assange in journalism and examine the difference between corporate journalism and citizen journalism. Nearly every newspaper in Australia campaigned for the disastrous war in Iraq and they are now campaigning for a far more ruinous and mind-bogglingly expensive war with China. The media warmongers ignore the persecution of Assange for his courageous acts of journalism to hide their own historic deception, afraid consumers might question their daily propaganda. Our democracy has long been perverted by the monopoly control of our media by Rupert Murdoch and co. We need to build a movement that challenges them and will Bring Julian Home.
John Jiggens
10 April 2023