Dear Friends in the struggle to Free Assange!

We have a special appeal:

JADC is hoping to organise screenings across the UK for the documentary film about the Trial of Julian Assange which is called ‘Hacking Justice: Julian Assange’. The award-winning documentary has been made by the documentary filmmaker Clara Lopez Rubio. If you run an independent cinema or have contacts with your local independent cinema (particularly programmers) please let us know by contacting the JADC Committe at jadc@protonmail.ch. It would be particularly helpful to have the name of the programmer and the contact details for the cinema. Many thanks.

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Wednesday 23/03/22 1pm
Wedding Vigil
outside HMP Belmarsh

Join us on Wednesday 23/03/22 at 1pm for a special solidarity vigil outside HMP Belmarsh in celebration of Julian Assange’s marriage to the woman he loves, Stella Morris. We shall celebrate the victory of love above adversity! Join us and partake in their joy, wishing them well in the journey ahead.

There will be speeches, music, chanting and Joel’s wonderful vegan Wedding Cake.

Instructions on how to get to the
Solidarity Vigils on 19, 23 and 26 of March
outside HMP Belmarsh

How to get there: Get to Plumstead Rail Station or Woolwich Arsenal Rail Station and catch the 244/380 bus to HMP Belmarsh

How to get to Plumstead https://www.southeasternrailway.co.uk/travel-information/more-travel-help/station-information/stations/plumstead

How to get to Woolwich Arsenal
https://www.southeasternrailway.co.uk/travel-information/more-travel-help/station-information/stations/woolwich-arsenal

Bus 380 route: https://tfl.gov.uk/bus/route/380/
Bus 244 route: https://tfl.gov.uk/bus/route/244/

Location: HMP Belmarsh, Western Way, Thamesmead, London, SE28 0EB

Saturday 26/03/22 9:30 to 6pm
Media Democracy Festival
Information Desk at the Foyer

This is an event of great interest to WikiLeaks supporters and generaly those who are interested in Media Freedom and JADC will be there with a stall distributing flyers and other materials.

Keynote speaker is John McDonnell MP, who will open the Saturday event by discussing The Media We Need in a Culture of Political Lies, and our ending plenary session will be a Q&A with Rhian Graham of the Colston 4 on The Effects of Right-Wing Media Control.

Other speakers: Helen Belcher, Natalie Fenton, Des Freedman, Marcus Gilroy Ware, Debs Grayson, Rizwana Hamid, Dan Hind, Tom Mills, Eliz Mizon, James Muldoon, Caitlin Ostroff, Justin Schlosberg, Hanna Thomas Uose, Leo Watkins, Henna Zamurd-Butt, The Independent Media Association.

Sessions include:

Envisioning Good Tech, Not Big Tech (Panel)

Misinformation and Accountability (Panel)

Data Journalism 101 for Activists (Workshop)

Countering the ‘Culture Wars’ (Workshop)

Democratising Local Media (Workshop)

Manifesto for a People’s Media (Seminar)

Who Owns the UK Media? The Findings of the Media Influence Matrix Report (Seminar)

For your free tickets register here: the-media-democracy-festival-2022-tickets-277555946307

How to get there: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/maps