SUMMARY:
Priti Patel can decide about Julian’s extradition at any day. Will she certify and sign the extradition order, or not? What could supporters \ human right organisations etc. do, in order to prevent this horrible approval? Write your ideas and I will add them to the list.
BRAINSTORMING
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Sending the brainstorming to human rights organizations & campaigns, to give them inspiration for future actions and also increase the chance that somebody could put it into reality. May? World Press Freedom Day? (Rick)
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Sending a a copy of the book: Nilz Melzer - Trial of Assange, including a letter with: In order to understand the whole case, please read and be on the right side in human history. On the side of truth, without corruption and war-crimes… Free Assange. (Rick)
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Hundreds of black or yellow lilies (most popular flower on funerals). The day they arrive having someone there to photo document so we can flood social media (DAO members can donate for it, we don’t need that much) (P.MA)
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A Wikileaks pencil with a letter: Dear Pretty Patel, write history and sign the freedom of Julian Assange. Real democracy needs honesty and a free press. (Rick)
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A Wikileaks cup with a letter: Dear Priti Patel, I suggest cup of truth. Just tastes the best. Free Assange and show the world that the UK appreciates Pressfreedom and America’s first Amendment.
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Getting xxxx postcards (in envelopes) with the highlights of London (incl. belmarsh prison), these postcards are already adressed to the office and some volunteers of the local grassroot groups spread them to tourists. These tourists write their message on it and just submit it at a post box. BONUS: Combining it with number 9.
Willkommen in London Julian Assange Postkarten + Umschläge (7 Stück) – WikiLeaks Shop EU
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Weekly \ daily protests at the office. But people don’t say anything and have just a UK \ US Sticker on the mouth, with julian shirts, watching the office like psychos. No talking. Just the action. ^^ (Rick)
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Having a marching band playing the funeral march everyday in the last 5 days before March 18th in front of Home Secretary Office (probably need to be hired but we can ask members to contribute?
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Having a protest march with anonymous masks and they all carry a banner with: Exposing war crimes is not a crime. War crimes are a crime. Free Assange (Rick)
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Asking the embassy cat (Artist: Ans) for making a small cartoon book \ postcards. On the last page the cat asks Preti Pratel why they want to send Julian to somebody that wanted to kidnapp and kill him… “Plz free my human…” - embassy cat BONUS: Combining it with the tourists idea Number 05
https://twitter.com/EmbassyCatComic/status/1512498233498558467?t=tb2_oSGKh2-L9KXvY1s6dg&s=19
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Organizing a celeb, playing a small live performance in front of the office. (Ratm? Lady gaga?..) (Rick)
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Asking Daniel Craig to stand in front of the office with a banner: just because I was at the secret service, doesn’t mean that I’m okay with war-crimes! Free Assange. (more of a joke… ^^) (Rick)
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Putting at night beamers again on the streets of london… One aims to the office with Assange’s head. Written: your fate is in your hands… (Or something like that. U get the idea) (Rick)
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Playing specific tracks (e.g. Schindler’s list theme, classical music etc.) and combine them with speeches regarding Julian… We can put these on important places in London and refer to the home-secretary s office that they can end this nightmare at any time. (Rick)
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Having some people dressed as judges, holding a banner: We ignored Evidence. We don’t like Press Freedom. We have good friends that want Julian 175 years in prison. We don’t care… and: We love our immunity! (Rick)
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Mobile billboards, where the trucks drive around the city and \ or park outside Priti’s office, if possible. https://www.mobile-billboards.co.uk/
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Making a car protest. Supporters put a banner or so on the car and stream an arranged audio file, honking at the same time. At the end of the tour, they stop briefly at the office and honk. Megaphone people support that concert. (Rick)
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Aerial advertising- plane banner. https://www.airads.co.uk/ (Grace)
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Tik Tok video calls to action - to reach younger audiences. Ex: call write Priti…short rundown of Assange plight. (Grace)
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Let’s make a campaign and enlist not just journalisric organizations, but companies & cooperations that support free speech and Assange. Maybe an additional reward \ sticker \ certificate? (Grace - idea, Rick - reward)
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Laying out flyers at universities, public places and giving people black and white flyers in the streets about what is happening to Julian, why, the big context such as the threat to press freedom. Add a QR code to current petitions and Nils Melzers Book for more information as well. Scanning a QR code is low effort for those you want to reach. Plus, adding freedom of press makes it a personal issue even if you don’t know anything about Julian. I can do a flyer design within 24 - 48 hours, that’s no problem. We’d just need people from different countries to translate it into their mother-tongue. If a flyer is black and white it doesn’t cost much and could even be printed at home, even if the quality of the paper is poor. (Rogue)
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If someone goes to a university/college/high school/knows people there: Ask to hold a presentation or to invite people there. That way a lot of people can be reached in a short amount of time. (Rogue)
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Ask local Amnesty International Groups to talk about Julian Assange and suggest one of the suggested actions on this page. They already have a structure to mobilize more people. (Rogue)
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Share art, cut videos of events, summarize his story how he has been tortured in videos. People tend to remember videos more than spoken words I think. That’s why collateral murder went viral. It’s easy to understand. Have a team with you to record stuff. Use that content for Instagram stories and feed posts. Try to use popular hashtags. (Rogue)
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For interactive stuff you can do anything. Sth that, imo is quite impressive, are beamer screenings on walls. If you want to do anything interactive where people can actually change what is seen on screen (e.g opening prison bars when they scream louder, stand on sth etc) you can user your laptops mic as an input or connect an arduino with a laptop. For running the visuals a live server can be used. Code for such stuff could be shared on git so you don’t even have to be a programmer to use it. You’d only have to install a live server and download the git project which can be done with help from youtube tutorials. (Rogue)
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Ask people to send videos that finnish a sentence you posted online. E.g ask them to finnish the sentence “Julian needs to be freed because…” and cut the scenes together to one video or post them every view hours or at least daily to feed the algorithm. A free but powerfull software to cut videos is Davinci Resolve. (Rogue)
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Art Contest. Let people apply with a design and do a public vote. Community engagement is important. The favourite design could be printed on a T-Shirt. (Rogue)
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It might be worth looking at the type of campaigns that AVAAZ.org does and start one. Also, if funding is available Looking at lobbyists who can help put pressure on the government also could be a try. There’s also media support organisations that have shown sympathy towards JA - such as https://cpj.org) - and again, funding them to run a more substantial campaign could have positive impacts. (Sam)
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If AssangeDao has the funds, an allocation can be made to Amnesty to run a campaign. They’d be able to generate the media and attention required, if they are properly resourced with funds. (Sam)
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Create a chain of people where everyone is wearing a prisoner outfit (orange jumpsuit or black/white striped outfit) and hold up signs that he has been locked up for exposing crimes. Passers-by are welcome to join the chain making it bigger and biiger. (Rogue)
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Get a huge sailcloth/canvas, write freedom of press in the middle and let people write on it why we need to save Julian. Hang it up somewhere. (Rogue)
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Get some removal crates, paint them black or brown and write. “Assanges extradition == Death of press freedom” on them and carry them through town. Wear black clothes if possible. Make it look like a funeral for press freedom. (Rogue)
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Do a “sit in” in front of government buildings near you. Read out chapters from Nils Melzers Book with a megaphone or hold speeches about what has been done to him. Hand out flowers with a little card on them that says: Don’t let press freedom die, don’t extradate Assange, let journalism blossom.
Bonus points if you have some copies of Nils Melzers book with you to give to people and, ideally, representatives. Send the books to them if they don’t react to your sit in. (Rogue) -
Many towns have public bookcases. Put Nils Melzers Book in there. Ask libraries and book stores if they have Nils Melzers book. If they don’t talk to them why it is important to have it visibly in store for everyone to see. (Rogue)
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Use the formal methods - all encapsulated here - Don’t Extradite Assange - Take Action (Rave)