By Davey Heller, May 15th 2019 On May 3rd, World Press Freedom Day, campaigners to Free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning visited the office of the Media union in Melbourne (MEAA) to present a letter signed by respected Australian and international journalists and media workers. The letter demanded that the MEAA do everything in its […]
Below is an edited transcript of the speech given by Davey Heller on May 3rd, World Press Freedom Day, outside the UK Consulate in Melbourne. The protest was part of a global call out of protests to Stand up for Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and all targetted whistleblowers and journalists. Hello my name is Davey […]
Online infrastructure is necessary for groups to able to organise protests in different countries to sustain the campaign to Free Julian Assange now that he is in prison in the U.K. One way of doing this is to form of specific Facebook Action groups for specific regions including: ‘Aus Action 4 Assange!’, ‘Canadian Action 4 […]
On April 14th 2019, three days after the arrest of Julian Assange in London, emergency protests were held at U.S. Embassies, U.K. Embassies and poiltical offices in the U.S. in Melbourne, Sydney, Wellington, Toronto, Dublin, Warsaw, Cancun and Taipei. The protests were held in response to a call out on this website. The next scheduled […]
Reprinted from World Press Freedom Day 2019 Website May 3rd is the U.N. World Press Freedom Day and recognized around the world as a day to defend journalists and media workers. Attacks on the media by governments have grown over the years as journalists are facing threats of imprisonment, torture, and even murder. This […]
by Davey Heller 16th April, 2019 World Press Freedom Day on May 3rd is an opportunity to highlight the plight of Australia’s most well know targeted journalist Julian Assange, but it is also a day to consider the plight of other journalists and whistleblowers in Australia. Classconscious.org published an article on the imprisonment of Iranian […]
by Davey Heller, April 8th 2019 World Press Freedom Day on May 3rd is an opportunity to highlight the plight of Australia’s most well known targeted journalist Julian Assange but it is also a day to consider the plight of other journalists and whistleblowers in Australia. Classconscious.org intends to publish a series of article on […]
This website has put the call out for Emergency mobilisations to occur globally outside U.S. Embassies and Consulates (USA actions will be at US Political Buildings/Offices.) on the following Sunday of an eviction of Julian Assange from the Ecuadorean Embassy. (Suggested time 12PM) If there are no US Embassies or Consulates in your city you […]
High profile progressive journalists, media workers, labor figures and whistleblowers have endorsed initiatives as part of a Day Of Action For Journalists and Whistleblowers -Stand Up For Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and others on May 3rd to mark U.N. World Press Freedom Day, a day recognised around the world as a day to defend journalists […]
Classconscious.org are working with U.S. researcher and writer jimmysllama to mobilise media workers and journalists internationally to come out and publicly pressure the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) to act and speak out in defence of Julian Assange. The MEAA is the Australian trade union representing media workers and journalists. We are supporting efforts […]