[spectre] Hacking Justice / Leaks for Future: Join us to celebrate the freedom of Assange

[Tatiana Bazzichelli]

Dear Spectre List,

on the evening of July 8, join us at ACUD Kino in Berlin to celebrate 
the freedom of Julian Assange and to keep up the fight for freedom of 
the press and information.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is free. He was forced to plead guilty 
to avoid being in prison for life, and for charges he should never have 
received for carrying out a journalistic act. If WikiLeaks founder 
Julian Assange had been extradited to the US, he would have faced a 
sentence of up to 175 years in prison for publishing US war crimes, 
including torture, murder and other human rights violations.

The right to obtain and publish information received from a source 
should be protected. In fact, the Espionage Act in this case contradicts 
the First Amendment of the US Constitution, which is supposed to 
guarantee freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Julian Assange's 
freedom is certainly a victory, but there are still battles to be fought 
to prevent such cases from happening again and the Espionage Act from 
being used to target journalists and whistleblowers.

On July 8, which should have been the day before Julian Assange's appeal 
against extradition from the UK to the US, we will celebrate the freedom 
of Julian Assange and connect the fight for freedom of information 
through the work of Assange and WikiLeaks with the fight for climate 
justice.

We will discuss with Esteban Servat, climate activist and founder of 
EcoLeaks (a project inspired by WikiLeaks), following the screening of 
the documentary on the Assange case by director Clara López Rubio, who 
will be present for the talk. Janine, privacy researcher, investigative 
journalist and educator, will update about the current situation of 
Julian Assange. Tatiana Bazzichelli will moderate the discussion.

## SCHEDULE:

# 19:00-20:30: HACKING JUSTICE (Film Screening)

Directed by Clara López Rubio, Juan Pancorbo (Spain, Germany, 2017/2021, 
1h 29m, Language: English, OmU).

With a unique and independent access to a worldwide campaign and to the 
Ecuadorian embassy where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange found his 
refuge, the film witnesses the struggle for the control of information, 
the growing influence of intelligence services, the role of the mass 
media, and the difficult balance of individual rights and state security.

# 20:30-21:30: LEAKS FOR FUTURE (Talk)

In 2018 the Argentinian climate activist and biologist Esteban Servat 
went head-to-head with his government and the world’s most powerful 
energy companies. Servat published a secret Argentine government study 
on the environmental impact of fracking in the mountainous region of 
Mendoza, a report provided to him by a whistleblower within the 
government of President Mauricio Macri.

The event is introduced by Raja Stutz & Claudia Daseking (Assange 
Support Berlin).

When: Monday July 8, 2024, 19:00-21:30.
Where: ACUD Kino: Veteranenstraße 21, 10119 Berlin.

Get tickets: 
https://acudkino.de/Programm/hacking_justice_film_screening_talk_leaks_for_future/20070

Learn more: https://www.disruptionlab.org/event/hacking-justice

-- 
Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director
Disruption Network Lab
https://www.disruptionlab.org/
E-mail for personal messages: tbazz(at)disruptionlab.org
Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz
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