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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsProminent Americans urge Ecuador to accept Julian Assange's asylum request
Source: The Guardian
Ben Quinn
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 26 June 2012 01.14 BST
A letter signed by leading US figures in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's application for political asylum in Ecuador has been delivered to the country's London embassy.
Among those who signed the letter were Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky and Danny Glover.
Other signatories included the author Naomi Wolf, comedian Bill Maher and Daniel Ellsberg, the former US military analyst turned whistleblower, who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971 and has been a long-standing supporter of Assange.
Robert Naiman, policy director at the Just Foreign Policy campaign group, delivered the letter to the embassy on Monday, along with a petition signed by more than four thousand Americans urging President Rafael Correa to approve Assange's request for asylum.
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xchrom
(108,903 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)It's as if the world hangs in the balance for just these two men. Maybe it's about the world of the 1% this is about.
We've got more important things to do than chase after just two men.
TWO men.
When the fate of millions of Americans in terms of jobs, health care, housing and who know what is never discussed by media!
savannah43
(575 posts)Principles need to be defended as well as living beings.
The mainstream media is useless. Thus, Assange becomes even more important.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)We have untold people dying in our prison system right now. Yet we only get celebrity prisoners on media. I don't think I'm making my point clearly.
I want them released, both of them and the media to focus less on entertainment and more on all the nameless people being hurt. Even when these two men are released or not released, it won't change the system.
It won't get the focus on the whole thing, just manufactured cases like this. The entire system is doing more harm to us than these two show trials, but that's all the media will cover. They are being given the celebrity treatment on the news and those who are dying are not.
I don't believe that the fate of these two men is going to change that.