Lowkey | Free Assange (Acoustic Version) | featuring Mai Khalil and The Grime Violinist #lowkey

Free Assange has been released on the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War, as part of States of Violence, a collaboration between a/political, WikiLeaks and the Wau Holland Foundation. States of Violence brings together artists, agitators and icons such as Ai Weiwei, Dread Scott and The Vivienne Foundation to unveil and oppose techniques of government oppression, from war and torture to police brutality and surveillance. The world’s most outspoken individuals turn the spotlight on global power structures, releasing material which lays bare the darkest truths of our contemporary reality. This is presented alongside “SECRET NOFORN” (2022), a body of work by the Institute for Dissent & Datalove, which comprises the highest classification of cables, SECRET and NOFORN (meaning no foreign nationals), from the 2010 WikiLeaks Cablegate publication of U.S. diplomatic cables. It is the largest-ever physical publication of top secret government cables, never before available in the UK in hardcopy. The video features a clip from ’Collateral Murder’ released by WikiLeaks on the 5th of April 2010. It shows a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded. States of Violence 24 March - 08 April, 2023 a/political, 6 Stannary Street, London SE11 4AA Tues - Sun, 10am - 6pm Follow us on Instagram | Subscribe to our newsletter | Subscribe to our channel | #julianassange #WikiLeaks #hiphop #contemporaryart #hiphopmusic