
Interviews with dedicated Julian Assange activists around the globe: in London, Emily Butlin, famous for coordinating embassy vigils and grassroots organizing since 2011, and Deepa Driver, a London union organizer, academic and lecturer who has brought together a diverse network of international experts and grassroots actors to campaign against the extradition of Julian Assange; in New York, Nathan Fuller, who leads the Courage Foundation’s efforts in the US to build a nationwide movement, and Chuck Zlatkin and Bernadette Evangelist, founding members of the Big Apple Coffee Party and NYC Free Assange who in 2019 began a weekly vigil to free Assange and continue in grass roots efforts in his behalf; and in New Zealand, Alex Hills, artist, musician and creator of “Candles for Assange” which grew into regular old fashioned street protests is 50 cities worldwide.

Tareq Haddad
Tareq Haddad has worked at the Hull Daily Mail, the International Business Times UK and Newsweek. He resigned from his role with Newsweek after his attempts to publish newsworthy revelations about a leaked letter from the U.N.-backed chemical weapons board, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, were suppressed by Newsweek editors.
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