Oakland #HomeRun4Julian

Check out our #HomeRun4Julian Event! John and Gabriel Shipton, the father and brother of award-winning Australian journalist Julian Assange, as their nationwide tour stops in the Bay Area. They are raising awareness of the importance of protecting whistleblowers and journalists and calling on the U.S. government to drop its prosecution and finally let Julian come home. Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Alice Walker will be joining the Shiptons live. Daniel Ellsberg – Pentagon Papers defendant and whistleblower, Noam Chomsky – linguist and author, and Mamia Abu-Jamal – innocent political prisoner and journalist, will be joining via Zoom. Additional Speakers Include: Joe Lombardo, National Coordinator UNAC Cynthia Papermaster, CODEPINK Jeff Mackler, National Steering Committee, Dennis Bernstein, host of KPFA’s Flashpoints Nozomi Hayase, author, WikiLeaks, the Global Fourth Estate: History Is Happening and more…