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The Silence is Deafening
Where are this generation’s rebels and heroes?
Malcolm X stood up and spoke his truth, and the truth of his people, in spite of incredible danger and adversity.
Noam Chomsky risked his life and career to speak out against the massive atrocity that was the Vietnam War.
Jim Larkin fought for the rights of the Irish people against the might and power of the British empire.
Chris Hedges lost his job at the New York Times for calling out the invasion of Iraq as bogus and bullshit.
Julian Assange ended up incarcerated for several years for publishing articles that revealed the reality of what American arms manufacturers were really up to in the Middle East.
Edward Snowden had to go into hiding in Russia for exposing the NSA and the mass domestic surveillance regime in the United States.
The folks who started tearing down and dismantling the Berlin Wall faced an immediate death penalty, but put their lives on the line to correct a major wrong and change European history.
Witold Pilecki voluntarily became a prisoner at Auschwitz to show the world what was really happening there, and somehow was not listened to.
There are many more examples, but if I kept on going this would be a 100,000 word article.
