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Matt Damon's Anti-War Speech: "What We Need Is Civil Disobedience"
• http://www.trueactivist.com, by Sophie McAdam"I start from the supposition that the world is topsy turvy. That things are all wrong," begins actor and writer Matt Damon in this powerful speech calling on people to question authority.
"The wrong people are in jail, and the wrong people are out of jail," Damon goes on. "The wrong people are in power, and the wrong people are out of power. Wealth is distributed in such a way as to not just simply require small reform, but a drastic re-allocation. All we have to do is to look at the state of the world today, and you can see it's topsy-turvy. You might watch TV and think it's ok, but you just have to detach and come back, and you're horrified."
Damon then references the theme of the conference, which is 'civil disobedience'. "As soon as you say the topic is civil disobedience, you're saying our problem is civil disobedience," He says.