[Occupymendocino] Fwd: Highlights of Julian's Speech at Embassy 12/19/12

[Cecile Cutler]

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> From: Holly Tannen <htannen at mcn.org>
> Date: December 20, 2012 11:18:26 PM PST
> To: discussion at lists.mcn.org
> Cc: "htannen at mcn.org" <htannen at mcn.org>
> Subject: Highlights of Julian's Speech at the Ecuadoran Embassy 12/19/12
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> Six months ago – 185 days ago - I entered this building. It has become my home, my office and my refuge. Thanks to the principled stance of the Ecuadorian government and the support of its people I am safe in this Embassy and safe to speak from this Embassy.
> ... I came here in summer. It’s winter now...And every single day outside, people like you have watched over this embassy – [in] rain, hail and shine... 
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> ...when our media is corrupt...when our academics are timid, when our history is filled with half truths and lies, our civilization will never be just....Our beliefs about the world and each other have been created by same system that has lied us into repeated wars...The quality of our discourse is the limit of our civilization.
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> Wikileaks already has well over a million documents to release [next year], documents that affect every country in this world.
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> And in Australia an unelected Senator will be replaced by one that is elected.
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> ...Washington power brokers [call] for economic sanctions against Ecuador, simply for defending my rights... President Correa...said, "Ecuador’s principles are not for sale." 
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> The power of people speaking up and resisting together terrifies corrupt undemocratic power. So much so that ordinary people in the West are now the enemy of governments...to be watched, controlled and impoverished.
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> For once we, the people, stop speaking out, and stop dissenting, once we are distracted or pacified, once we turn away from each other, we are no longer free. For true democracy is the sum of our resistance.
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> If you don’t speak up, if you give up what is uniquely yours as a human being, you surrender your consciousness; your independence, even your sense of what is right and wrong. In other words, perhaps without knowing it, you become passive and controlled, unable to defend yourself and those you love.
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> People often ask, "What can I do?" the answer is not so difficult.
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> Learn how the world works. Challenge the statements, actions and intentions of those who seek to control us behind the facades of democracy and monarchy...
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> Learn, challenge, act. Now.
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