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It is never safe to speak and act for freedom in an unfree place.\u00a0 How many have learned that lesson?\u00a0 American revolutionaries.\u00a0 French.\u00a0 East Indian. American Indian.\u00a0 The South African blacks.\u00a0 The list could go on and on.\u00a0 Spartacus.\u00a0 Socrates.\u00a0 Even Jesus.\u00a0 It is never safe to be unfree.\u00a0 That’s the paradox, the motivator.<\/p>\n
And freedom will have its way.\u00a0 History, though I know the arguments against this position, is on the side of freedom.\u00a0 It is an ache in the human heart that never goes away until satisfied. Ask the African-Americans or undocumented folks in the USA today.\u00a0 Ask the Muslims in France or the Turks in Germany, the Romany especially in the Slavic countries.\u00a0 Ask the Jews of the diaspora anywhere.<\/p>\n
To stand on the side of freedom is to stand with the future and against the past.\u00a0 Each of us takes a position every day, with every purchase we make, every political decision we try or fail to try to influence, every value we pass on through our behaviors and our teaching.\u00a0 To live is to choose.\u00a0 Always.<\/p>\n
I spoke with a man today about the political environment for working against climate change, for healthy and sustainable forests, agriculture, cities.\u00a0 The political winds today blow against us.\u00a0 Is that a reason to sit down and wait them out?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 It is a time to stand up, to find the actions we can take that will move us toward a more just and verdant world<\/p>\n
One of those actions, always, is to work on the side of freedom.\u00a0 Ai Weiwei and others held in China today need and deserve our help.\u00a0 Not as an action against China, but as one for it.\u00a0 For a world where political speech and action has a place of honor, not a jail cell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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