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realized that many of her colleagues had received the same treatment the atmosphere changed. it was becoming. and that letter may i have a copy. who wrote it michael. well me and felt it came with a few days ago they're right that they're very pro free speech and the rest of the letter is a defamation of frederick guess and. then our body there is been abuzz since early spring i think now the fellow finally opened it. for being a documentary there are a lot of copies being distributed so it has the potential to reach a wide audience. it's like a hollywood thriller with all the lawyers like philadelphia before but for some it's a brilliant fail. one
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week after the screening to parliament we opened in theaters all over sweden and the support is amazing we have no idea how do we react but this is really our moment and we are enjoying it. the most frequent text message sent here tonight says. congratulations keep on fighting one color car and asked if your film will be shown in the us the very thing that we don't know we do know that we will not allow dole to intimidate us what's the worst case scenario. i decided early on to not waste too much energy dwelling on the bad things that could happen or what i think that's exactly what they want it's better to show the film get out and meet all of you out on that will send
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a message from all of us what the hell are you doing. suddenly a lot of people would talk. about how the banana workers were treated and about freedom of speech. in supermarkets all over the country people started to tell the managers we don't want. in the supermarkets and sort of most sold and most profitable line. so the big supermarket chains crisis meeting they could feel the heat. if about that we keep up with the latest discussions with the bar and the debate reached a higher level due to the lawsuit in july. so europe to come and see us so we
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could tell them about the massive wave of public opinion in sweden and that we cannot tolerate legal action like this. finally the pressure was on gold not on me. and together with my new political friends we had invited the biggest supermarket chains in the country to meeting in the parliament. two hours before the meeting journalist started to call dole at withdrawn the lawsuit in the mail the rather surprisingly doll announced today that they will withdraw their lawsuit against frederick guaranty get a little to book it's fantastic news. even though we're a small company in sweden and dole is a us based multinational corporation and we have been able to stand up for what is right and you know there's a god obviously it's great if they withdraw the lawsuit but we haven't heard from
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our lawyers yet it's a press release we don't know what this means in court sahana and when we called joel this is what we heard. more. reactions and the strong concerns in sweden really moved us so it was important for us to to let people understand that we also respect freedom of speech and that's a way for us to show it. it's pretty inspiring to see the. support i mean i really doubt it would happen in canada it was heartening to see that happen from afar and frustrating to know that we can only make that happen here maybe something would change. much better to be a film director. that
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it was still blocked in the us. would. be for a different room. taking plea it meant they could sue us again. this threat meant that no insurance company would cover the us distribution. our only chance to get the film out in the us was to win over in court. and this morning. was a disappointment sensually continued hearing. until june twenty fourth what this really is accomplishing the objective. speech even
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a winning issue this case would not be over very very long. our legal system. today. recorded in june good counsel two and we have no been in this for more than a year. late august i received a new letter from my to conjure a dog asking us to drop a record. he's ready to come to sweden negotiate a settlement if i only make some cuts to the movie these guys never stop even if they know they're wrong they never stop. two months later i'm on my way to film festival. later today. in
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court in los angeles. this is the moment we've been waiting for. i was very excited i was i was i was very. exacting the way i wanted it. it was it was right on. everything a perfect way to face the. wants. or. let's face it they are human which. there are a couple of times in the hearing where it was kind of questionings. like what are you talking about anyway so i don't want. her.
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lawyers and media spin to suppress does story. stories like this one about poverty and injustice need to be told over and over again. when they say it was great i really liked it do you know why because this soon shows the truth and the truth will never be silenced. do you think your argument about turkey banged up for dangerous examples of muslim democracy that was able to separate the it's really into from its economy still can
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be applied to these day that's a fair point but i spoke about in the book was how ways doki head down from being a complete bostic. he said make it a go away with hyperinflation nvidia volleyed. so achieved so much economic success and i think that was great but the problem there is of course they do want to be needed they have his attitude has changed he now has become much more to talk to. any criticism and more bad annoyed. what you're dealing with here is that. there are children who will just be doing commerce on the internet media that that's the future if you don't have a safe environment. we're going to face big problems.
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giving up something that. was no way. clearly they were just at the wrong place at the wrong time. and sold to the u.s. or turned over to the u.s. for. the sole that could be buried alive. was saved with great effort. and they wanted to turn me into a terrorist so it is they wanted me to admit that i was a member of al qaeda and the taliban that i fought with them. not about time i didn't even know what al qaeda is nevertheless there are people all. brave enough to start a fight. or something is going to be done that's going to be done by me and i have a short amount of time to do it but it's going to impact me i'd be prosecuted but it's going to impact. the wife my daughter. the one time
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pakistan raises a lot of on america's drone campaign which has taken hundreds of innocent lives despite the u.s. claims that very few civilians come under fire. when the drone heat i was outside with my grandma everything became dark and i was scared a pakistani girl who survived a u.s. drone attack travels to washington to tell congress how her home was destroyed and her grandmother killed. the e.u. isn't satisfied with washington's explanation of n.s.a. surveillance allegations germany wants edward snowden himself to shed some light on reports of its chancellor's phone it being tapped. brazil germany higher. speed of course in the united states is going.
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