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Santacon Santacon
Santacon and Julian Assange And The War On Journalism
Free Leonard Peltier (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: David France, Jesse Short Bull)
Leonard Peltier, one of the surviving leaders of the American Indian Movement, has been in prison for 50 years following a contentious conviction. A new generation of Native activists is committed to winning his freedom before he dies.
Julian Assange And The War On Journalism (The Six Billion Dollar Man) (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Eugene Jarecki; Writer: Eugene Jarecki; Stars: Pamela Anderson, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Naomi Klein, Jeremy Scahill, Chris Hedges)
This film traces the saga of Julian Assange, a contemporary icon of the right to information, whose recent release from prison has reignited the global debate on press freedom.
Santacon (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Seth Porges; Stars: Chuck Palahniuk, Michael Moore)
The story behind the mass gathering of Santas which began in San Francisco in 1994 and went on to expand across the world.
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