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In this episode, we look into the Palestinian political prisoner’s hunger strike, attack on South Africa’s Shack-dweller movement and solidarity messages by activists across the globe for Julian Assange.

As part of the protest, civil disobedience actions were organized in Germany and the United Kingdom.

We also look at the transformation Wikileaks brought to the idea of journalism across the world.

Workers at the London Overground went on a 48-hour strike, protesting the existing working conditions and low wages

On April 11, 2019 WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange was arrested from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.

Assange was arrested from the Ecuadorian embassy after the country withdrew the political asylum it had granted him in 2012. Assange, along with former US soldier and whistleblower Chelsea Elizabeth Manning, exposed American war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan