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
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
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
LCW
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Defending Assange = Rape apologist
03.01.2013 15:19
Because he refuses to answer the allegations of rape and sexual assault he is accused of commiting. This isn't some big consipracy to exradite him to the US because the laws of this country make it quite easy for the government to exradited people from the UK to the US.
These are serious allegations and by defending Assange you are defending rape and violence towards women
Assange has a case to answer
Mind the trolls
03.01.2013 15:32
which would be bullshit.
"The Swedish authorities have rejected an offer to interview WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in the embassy in London where he is seeking political asylum. ...
...Sources at the embassy told Press Association that an approach was made to the authorities in Sweden last Wednesday, offering them the chance to interview Assange about the allegations, but it had been turned down, without any reason being given."
" Assange has a case to answer " states: "This isn't some big consipracy to exradite him to the US because the laws of this country make it quite easy for the government to exradited people from the UK to the US."
So, why despite calls from Amnesty, won't Sweden give the assurance that they won't extradite Assange?
" Assange has a case to answer " states: "by defending Assange you are defending rape and violence towards women"
Yup cos he's been charged and found guilty, right?
peering under the bridge
Before rushing off to join a state sponsored lynch mob, check out this vid.....
03.01.2013 16:29
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somewhere in between the two views
03.01.2013 16:34
Does this automatically mean that the charges against him are false? No... infact his own defence lawyers have told events in such a way that assange would be guilty of rape under UK law. I don't think anyone should be defending assange as a person, even tho i would defend wikileaks itself to the hilt.
Ether
re: Ether
03.01.2013 16:59
Do you have a transcript.? Or a link which quotes them directly.
eg: "his lawyers argued:..... The offences Mr Assange faces - unlawful coercion and sexual molestation - are not criminal acts under British law;"
Because I think (as the above link suggests) that the argument was that the allegations would NOT amount to rape under UK law. Most defence lawyers would take care not to make an admission of guilt on their client's behalf - in the trial itself, or any other related hearing!
peering under the bridge
I assume 'peering under the bridge' is also another.....
03.01.2013 17:05
Barry Cade
Justice Barry Cade presiding
03.01.2013 17:14
I guess you're the kind of reactive banana they aim these propaganda exercises at.
peering under the bridge
Anti-War activists mark Holy Innocents in Melbourne
05.01.2013 11:13
REPORT....
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Melbourne
A Radical Reading of the Feast of the "Epiphany under Empire"
07.01.2013 12:10
by Ched Myers
The origins of the feast of the Epiphany are historically complicated and ecclesially disputed. We might think of it as a kind of peace offering from the Western to the Eastern church, given the latter’s date (surely older) of Jan. 6 for the feast of the Nativity. The 12 Days of Christmas, in turn, bridge the two traditions, straddling exactly our celebration of the New Year. Epiphany has a rich cultural history in the West, from Plough Monday in early England (a drinking day for the peasantry) to La Fiesta de los Reyes Magos, still celebrated among Hispanics. What caught my attention in researching such traditions, however, was an old German practice of ritually purifying the household on the 12th day, the eve of Epiphany. Herbs were burned and the letters C+M+B (representing the legendary names of the Magi) inscribed above the entry to the house and barn, followed by a prayer asking for protection in the coming year “from the ravages of fire and water.”
ARTICLE CONTINUED......
Epiphany
re; peering under the bridge
07.01.2013 13:20
"AA felt that Assange wanted to insert his penis into her vagina directly, which she did not want since he was not wearing a condom … She did not articulate this. Instead she therefore tried to turn her hips and squeeze her legs together in order to avoid a penetration … AA tried several times to reach for a condom, which Assange had stopped her from doing by holding her arms and bending her legs open and trying to penetrate her with his penis without using a condom. AA says that she felt about to cry since she was held down and could not reach a condom and felt this could end badly."
Not entirely sure how that could be argued to be informed consent.
Ether
@ether
07.01.2013 14:05
It may be a quote from the transcript - but it isn't THE transcript, and that you failed to provide a link is interesting.
The quote you provide appears to have originated in the Guardian (
"He (Emerson) then laid out their evidence against his client with relentless and clinical frankness.
Laying out the evidence against his client does not mean that his client accepts that version of events, nor even that they are accurate.
I have often heard the Prosecution laying out the defence case. It does not mean that the prosecution agrees with the defence case.
So, if you have a link to the full transcript we can all read then it would be welcome.
peering under the bridge
Request to CW et al !!?
08.01.2013 12:24
Santa Claus
And your point is?
08.01.2013 19:00
Of the millions who marched against these wars, the Catholic Worker and Veterans for Peace are some of the few groups that have not abandoned the anti-war resisters Manning and Assange who face a lifetime of imprisonment for exposing British wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The well resourced mainstream groups have left Manning and Assange hung out to dry. The Catholic Worker is recognised as one of the longest lasting anarchist movements in North America ,,, do some googling and reading.
Do something for Manning and Assange paying up for exposing the war or find another subcultural elitest hobby to pursue.
The wars continues, the anti-war movement collapsed quite quickly. Love or hate em the Catholic Worker keeps resisting, organising solidarity, feeding and sheltering people without state funding
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