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Alice Walker. And this next question is for you. If Julian Assange is successfully prosecuted,
what effect will this have on free speech and activists? And why should Americans care about
this extradition trial? Alice, could you un-mute yourself, please?
Alice Walker
Is that OK?
We need to know that we have people in our country and in the world who stand for something
and who stand up for the people who stand up for the planet. And if they are persecuted in the
way that Julian Assange is being persecuted, our children won't even know that there was
someone who said, hey, you should not shoot anyone from a helicopter and especially people
who are not bothering you, they won't know in the same way that we have lost so many
wonderful people.
I mean, how many people know anything about John Brown, for instance, you know, these great
abolitionists who died, fighting for black people, for our freedom. They hide these people from
us in this very way that they're doing with Julian Assange. They just lock them away. They kill
them.
And who are we to let this happen, who are we, who are we to let this happen really? So we
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