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I’m speaking Saturday at the protest for <\/span>#Julian Assange<\/a><\/span> at the Justice Dept. in DC. As I wrote in USA Today<\/a> in 2018, <\/span>Assange deserves a Presidential Medal of Freedom, not persecution.\u00a0 They have a zesty line-up of speakers, including Antiwar.com’s Dave DeCamp, LP VP Spike Cohen, Green Party Senate candidate Matthew Hoh, John Kiriakou, Scott Ritter, and Chris Hedges.
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The event will be livestreamed on Youtube at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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