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freedoms, we can take them back, we don't have to abandon them to a powerful and
accountable institution.
Jimmy Dore
Alice, let me ask you, you've been an activist your entire life. Can you speak to how the current
period of protest is unique and what are the most alarming aspects that you're seeing today?
Alice Walker
Well, I'd actually rather continue talking about Assange, if you don't mind, because I'm really
concerned about him and his family and what is going to happen to them if we fail to free him. I
have lived long enough to witness so many assassinations, for instance, where the person is
killed or put in some dungeon and then the family is just left to, sink or swim, as it will.
And this is an area where I really think we should spend a lot more time really thinking about
what we are doing when we consign people to these dungeons, literally dungeons, and go on
about our lives as if they don't exist. I mean, the talent for forgetting is just amazing to me that
these are people who actually give us so much of their very substance. I mean, Julian didn't
have to do this, but he did because this is the kind of person that he is, he's made like that.
Some people are just made to stand and he is one of those people. And this is a good person.
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