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JULIAN ASSANGE COUNTDOWN TO FREEDOM EPISODE 8



Part 8 of Live On The Fly's special 10 part series Julian Assange: Countdown To Freedom

Guests include Assange Attorneys Jennifer Robinson and Renata Avila, and Ex CIA analyist Ray McGovern

Jennifer Robinson

Jennifer Robinson is an Australian human rights lawyer. She is Director of Legal Advocacy for the Bertha Foundation in London and an Adjunct Lecturer in Law at the University of Sydney Law School.[1]

Robinson has acted in free speech and freedom of information cases before British and European courts.[2] She is best known for her role as a member of the legal team defending Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. She has also provided legal assistance to activists from West Papua for more than a decade.[3] In a 2012 profile in The Global Mail, journalist Eric Ellis called her "an eloquent activist for the world's downtrodden and disenfranchised".[

Renata Avila

Renata Avila is the Senior Digital Rights Advisor for the World Wide Web Foundation. She is a Guatemalan human rights lawyer and digital rights advocate. Specialising in Intellectual Property and Technology, she works in the intersection between human rights, information, technological change and the power disparities between the Global North and South. As a lawyer in Guatemala, she has represented indigenous victims of genocide and other human rights abuses, including the indigenous leader and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Rigoberta Menchu Tum, and was a fellow at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

Ray McGovern

Ray McGovern leads the “Speaking Truth to Power” section of Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington. A former co-director of the Servant Leadership School (1998-2004), he has been teaching there for more than 20 years. His current course is: “On the Morality of Whistleblowing.”

Ray came to Washington from his native Bronx in the early Sixties as an Army infantry/intelligence officer and then served as a CIA analyst for 27 years, from the administration of John F. Kennedy to that of George H. W. Bush. Ray’s duties included chairing National Intelligence Estimates and preparing the President’s Daily Brief, which he briefed one-on-one to President Ronald Reagan’s five most senior national security advisers from 1981 to 1985.

In January 2003, Ray co-created Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) to expose how intelligence was being falsified to “justify” war on Iraq. On the afternoon of the day (Feb. 5, 2003) Secretary of State Colin Powell misled the UN Security Council on Iraq, VIPS sent a blunt memorandum to President George W. Bush, in which VIPS gave Powell a C-minus. VIPS ended the memo with this:

“No one has a corner on the truth; nor do we harbor illusions that our analysis is irrefutable or undeniable [as Powell had claimed his was]. But after watching Secretary Powell today, we are convinced that you would be well served if you widened the discussion beyond … the circle of those advisers clearly bent on a war for which we see no compelling reason and from which we believe the unintended consequences are likely to be catastrophic.”

Jimmy Dore is a progressive poltical comedian and the host and producer of the Jimmy Dore Show on KPFA and You Tube ...

PRAISE FOR ASSANGE COUNTDOWN TO FREEDOM SERIES

'Randy Credico is an original. He raises issues that the so-called mainstream won't touch, and he does it thoughtfully and wittily. How many broadcasters could play a droning speech by the Director of the CIA, and cut it against 'If I Had A Brain' from the Wizard of Oz, AND get away with it? I laughed out loud. All power to you, Randy.' JOHN PILGER, award winning journalist, filmmaker and author www.johnpilger.com

"Dear Randy, I just want to confirm that I spent this afternoon listening your show on Julian Assange and your smart questions to John Pilger and Craig Murray: by addressing issues no mainstream media wants to address in the US, you are performing a valuable service. Important work: keep it up! Thank you"investigative journalist La Republica (ITALY)"It is absolutely vital, to me it's amazing what you guys do, manage to keep it going and finance it and get to an audience who otherwise would not get to learn about a lot of stuff you guys put out. I am in great admiration of your work."Activist, Author, Broadcaster, Whistleblower and EX UK Ambassaddor to Uzkekestan www.craigmurray.org.uk"Randy Credico has been the gifted “official comedian’’ of the Fred Dicker’s radio show, “Focus on the State Capitol,” on Albany radio for over a decade and it’s fair to say that he’s been a favorite humorist/satirist/political commentator for thousands of the show’s listeners. He brings a combination of intelligence, wit, insight, and historical perspective that both entertain and inform, a combination I dare say is sadly lacking from many commentators today. And let me note that he also brings a fierce independence that makes it difficult for anyone trying to write him off as a simple ideologue advocating for one or another pre-determined political viewpoint."host, “Focus on the State Capitol,’’ and former State Editor/State Columnist, New York Post."Paris has cafe tables. The Right has Fox News. Want to know what the sharpest minds on the American Left are thinking right now? There's only one place to go: Randy Credico's show on WBAI. Frank exchanges. Sharp dialogue. Funny bits. The most engaging gathering of Lefties anywhere.", author, columnist, CNN MSNBC political Commentator www.henican.com

"Randy Credico's program on WBAI is an eye- opening alternative to the dominant narrative put forth as serious analysis in the mainstream media. forth

In addition to his progressive stance, Credico gives voice to the libertarian perspective.

Randy Credico is a pursuer of truth, not a purveyor of the bland consensus.

And despite the serious content, he manages to maintain a lighthearted atmosphere wherein both humorous commentary and on-the-money political jabs abound.

Randy is a gracious and highly entertaining host, both to his guests and to his audience.:

ROBERT EISENBERG, author BOYCHICK IN THE HOOD

" I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your show and, in particular, your Tuesday #FreeAssange show. As we all know, Julian Assange/Wikileaks has played an integral role in how we view surveillance and politics. Yet, despite the fact that he has brought transparency and truth to the world he continues to be dogged by criminal charges and extradition. Your show and the informative, qualified quests that appear on it illuminate these criminal injustices Assange continues to face, the growing surveillance state, global politics, and the people who continue to fight for truth, transparency, and Assange's freedom.



Bottom line? Your show is incredibly insightful, entertaining and well done. I'm looking forward to the next one."



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