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Scott talks to Gabriel Shipton, the brother of Julian Assange, about the documentary he recently produced about his family’s fight for Assange’s freedom. Scott and Shipton discuss the film, what it portrays, who it features and why it’s called Ithaka. They then discuss some of the crimes Assange exposed, which would eventually land him in HMP Belmarsh as the world’s most famous political prisoner. 

Discussed on the show:

• Ithaka (IMDb)
• Ithaka, a poem read by Sean Connery
• “Alternative Facts: How the media failed Julian Assange” (Harper’s Magazine)
• The Trial of Julian Assange by Nils Melzer

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Transcript:

Hi y’all welcome to the show, The Scott Horton Show, I’m Scott Horton. Our first guest today is Cindy Corrie, she’s on the phone right now from Israel where she and her husband Craig are appealing to the Israeli Supreme Court over liability from the Israeli army for the death of their daughter Rachel in the Gaza strip in 2003.

SH: Welcome back to the show Cindy, how are you?

CC: I’m doing just fine thanks, thank you for having me.

SH: Great, great it’s great to talk to you again. I really appreciate you making time for us and I know especially it’s late there in Israel now. Can you please, well I guess first of all tell us about your daughter, and then tell us about what happened and then we can get into the court case and all this, if that’s okay?

CC: Sure, Rachel was our third child, she had a brother Chris and a sister Sarah. You know Rachel was like all of our kids, she was magical, very unique, and very creative. She loved art, she loved writing, she considered herself a poet at a very young age. I think people are fairly aware that we feel really blessed that because she was a writer we have a lot of her thoughts that we can turn to in that writing, and that’s been so helpful over the course of the last eleven years. I think it is part of the reason that her story has resonated with a lot of people because they have been able to turn to her directly, not just hear about her from us but to be able to hear what she was thinking and how she’d gone about things.

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