Campaign Director Alan Clements was interviewed by Free Radio Santa Cruz about the Liberate Freedom Campaign and a variety of other topics including: propaganda, war, freedom, consciousness, republicans, torture, and more.
Download and Listen to the Interview (Running Time: 60 mins)
Earlier this week, Liberate Freedom co-founder and webmaster Ian MacKenzie was interviewed about the campaign by Open Democracy. Here’s an excerpt:
Basically, the idea of “freedom” has been hijacked by various political/corporate interests to further their own gain. We’re told that Islamic terrorists want to kill us for our freedom, and so we must “deliver” freedom unto them. And yet while these governments speak of the term, they secretly wiretap their citizens, hold people in prison without charge, and encourage a climate of fear and ignorance.
And so the campaign is calling for a reclaimation of freedom by asking people from all over the world to contribute a poem, a song, a reflection, a story, or a rant on what freedom means to them, and how the term can be liberated from fear, indoctrination and war. These entries are then collected and published online in the Living Archive and shared for others to comment, discuss, and hopefully, catalyze them into action.
“It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
~ Robert F. Kennedy South Africa, 1966