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Catholic Workers mark "Feast of Innocents" at police siege of WikiLeaks founder

LCW | 03.01.2013 10:45

VID (1 min) LONDON - Catholic Workers mark "Feast of Innocents" at police siege of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOJYKk_ZPU8

For radical Christians, the Christmas narrative can only be understood in the context of the "Feast of Innocents" that follows on Dec. 28th. The feast day exposes imperial power and its collaboraters, in this case King Herod, striking back when sensing the imperial arrangement threatened. The children slain by Herod are echoed today by those killed in U.S. and British drone strikes, the thousands who have died in the recent invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and those threatened by the continual preparations for nuclear and interventionary war.

There are also stories of heroic nonviolent resistance contained within the narrative. The Maji break Herod's injunction and refuse to return to him with targeting intel for his search and destroy mission against the Christ child. Today that resistance is echoed in the lives of Bradley Manning imprisoned in the U.S. facing military court martial and Julian Assange presently encircled by British police in the Ecuadoran embassy in downtown London. Bradley and Julian are being pursued by modern day Herods who would rather we were kept in the dark in relation to the nature of their murderous deeds
 http://collateralmurder.com/

Over this long decade of war, London Catholic Workers  http://londoncatholicworker.org/ have annually marked the Feast of Innocents by taking nonviolent resistance to Northwood HQ. This year they decided to stand in solidarity with Julian Assange.

A daily solidarity (2pm-5pm) vigil continues outside the Ecuadoran embassy, Hans Cres.
Take the Harrods exit from Knightsbridge tube station

Tues Jan 8th. 2pm Gather at the U.S. embassy in solidarity with Bradley Manning as he fronts court for a pre-trial hearing at Ft. Meade, USA
 http://tinyurl.com/atlrfdx

In the U.S. Catholic Workers were among those arrested on the "Feast of the Holy Innocents" at Davis Monthan AFB, the Pentagon and Offutt AFB.
Full reports here ..........
 http://tinyurl.com/afx9qmh

Catholic Worker Brian Terrell is presently serving 6 months imprisonment for opposition to drone warfare
 http://tinyurl.com/a4mbo57

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- Homepage: http://londoncatholicworker.org/

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  1. Defending Assange = Rape apologist — Assange has a case to answer
  2. Mind the trolls — peering under the bridge
  3. Before rushing off to join a state sponsored lynch mob, check out this vid..... — @
  4. somewhere in between the two views — Ether
  5. re: Ether — peering under the bridge
  6. I assume 'peering under the bridge' is also another..... — Barry Cade
  7. Justice Barry Cade presiding — peering under the bridge
  8. Anti-War activists mark Holy Innocents in Melbourne — Melbourne
  9. A Radical Reading of the Feast of the "Epiphany under Empire" — Epiphany
  10. re; peering under the bridge — Ether
  11. @ether — peering under the bridge
  12. Request to CW et al !!? — Santa Claus
  13. And your point is? — @