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“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.”

—John F. Kennedy

Yesterday, July 3, was Julian Assange’s fifty-second birthday and fifth year in Belmarsh. He faces the harrowing prospect of extradition to a supermax prison in the country whose war crimes he exposed—the America that is a traitorous facsimile of the nation it once was.

Assange may be sentenced to 175 years for fulfilling the spirit of these words from Thomas Jefferson:

“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people.… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”

I dedicated my poem “Ode to a Whistleblower” to Julian and his recently departed friend, the heroic whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, whose dying wish was to see his friend liberated:

• “Ode to a Whistleblower” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/ode-to-a-whistleblower)

In the spirit of Independence Day, let us raise our voices in the growing chorus to #FreeAssange. As I write in my poem:

“We will trill your truth.

We will warble your song.

We will whistle your secret

to the world, until there are

too many of us to silence.”

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Seats E1, E2, E3, E4. 6:30pm. July 3, 2023

Sound of Freedom

Wow. Wrecked in the first 10 minutes. Exposure the rest of the way.

This movie is but a small step in the right direction. We all know it’s going on. We all know it goes on in other countries. Third world countries.

When?

When will it be exposed on American soil?

When will the truth come out here?

How long O Lord must the children wait for the Sound of Freedom?

How long O Lord must we wait for justice?

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