This is the seventy-seventh weekly Julian Assange Town Hall Gathering! It has become a tradition for people from Sydney and nearby to gather here every Friday to raise awareness about the political persecution of the multi-award-winning Australian journalist, Julian Assange. Consistent with Julian’s belief in… Read More »Speech read by Matt, 14-May-2021
Speech by Adriana, 2nd April Well hello Sydneysiders. We are the Julian Assange Town Hall Gathering and we’re gathered here every Friday to let you know what’s going on with Julian Assange, Australian publisher, journalist, who is in prison in Belmarsh. This is a high security prison… Read More »Recent Speeches by Adriana
This is our seventy-sixth Julian Assange Town Hall Gathering. We stand here today painfully aware of the steady encroachment of tyranny and increasingly draconian measures being put in place to curb our freedoms! Ten years ago, the arbitrary detention of a journalist, Julian Assange, signalled… Read More »Speech read by Matt, 7-May-2021
Yesterday, Julian Assange’s partner Stella Moris shared a BBC interview with Azerbaijan’s President Aliyev. It shows him telling the interviewer that the BBC is in no position to lecture him on Press Freedom while the UK imprisons Julian Assange. Once the BBC and Australia’s ABC… Read More »Speech by Karyn 7th May 2021
This is the seventy-fifth week for the Julian Assange Sydney Town Hall Gathering! This coming Monday, the third of May, is World Press Freedom Day! This day was set up thirty years ago to remind governments to honour their professed commitment to press freedom! Well… Read More »Speech read by Matt, 30-Apr-2021
Thank you to everyone attending our seventy-fourth Julian Assange Sydney Town Hall Gathering, and thank you to all the people across the globe who are standing up for Julian Assange and for the rights of people everywhere to be truthfully informed about the lies and… Read More »Speech read by Tony, 23-Apr-2021
On Sunday April 25 Australians commemorated Anzac Day by remembering all the members of our armed services who served in wars including the catastrophic World War 1 and 2. By comparison, we note that there are those who do not serve honourably, such as cold-blooded… Read More »Assange exposed the USA trampling on Anzac war conventions
This Sunday will be ANZAC day. ANZAC day is not a celebration of a victory or glorification of war. We remember the defence personnel and the lives lost or changed forever by war. As a multigenerational Australian, I have family who fought for Australia at… Read More »Speech by Karyn 23rd April 2021
Today marks the seventy-third Julian Assange Sydney Town Hall Gathering. We are here because Julian Assange is in prison in the UK while being completely innocent, both legally and morally! He is a journalist who published great volumes of truth about war crimes in Iraq… Read More »Speech read by Tony, 16-Apr-2021
We would again like to thank the Australian politicians who have put their support behind Julian Assange. A few of the Sydney Assange supporters travelled down to Canberra, a few weeks ago. Among the speakers outside, Parliament House, Andrew Wilkie spoke. Speaking about Julian Assange,… Read More »Speech by Karyn 16th April 2021