My name is Nuzomi Hayase. I'm a writer at World Beyond Borders and Wicked Accentral. I am one of those ordinary people whose life was changed by the Kurodoro mother video. This film shot Wicked X into public awareness and I think in a way it's release and bodies what the organization is very about. It was an invitation, a call to participate in the unhauling of history. I remember how I discovered rap news around the time with the creative effort to combat the US propaganda on Wicked X. I was struck by their statement. History is happening. I saw, yes, history is not just something to study at school. We can actively engage in its making. It's clear that Kurodoro mother helped to be built to the world, the true face of modern war. But I say the real significance of this video lies in the impulse behind putting it out into the world. It was like a small river of light shining through a blanket of darkness. We live in a corporate state and are implicitly told who to be and how to think. Our own views don't count. Justice and politics have become the territory of professionals. The corporate media have become the gatekeeper of power and privilege. Western society worships expert knowledge of lawyers, journalists and academia. While discrediting individual knowing based on one's own experience, Wicked X took up the shield of professionalism by repeating the false solitude of governance. This act flipped open the Bay of Secrecy. They reminded us of our own dignity and ability to take charge of our own lives. I'm sure I'm not the only one that has felt this way. The Kurodoro mother released was like an invitation. Like someone was asking, what do you think? I want your opinion. The message was that we really do matter. We are worthy of the old dialogue and making important decisions that affect the course of our lives. One could say the border actions of Wicked X revealed simple faith in ordinary people. I go further to say this is love, simple love for one's fellow human beings. I see this faith in people as the ending for Wicked X and since then, from the out of the spring to the occupied movement, people are awakening to their own significance. I believe the success of Wicked X has a lot to do with the kind of person who doesn't necessarily exist. Especially in his tenacity and commitment to justice. While most people grow up corporate and give up virtues such as compassion, creativity and conscience along the way, Asaj never compromised his courage and conviction that ordinary people are the source of all power. For many around the world, this made him a kind of hero. At the same time, he has been called an enemy over the state by the power. It seems that now an enemy over the corporate state is any person who strives to be free from an imposed identity from outside to freely speak and associate with others of like mind, especially if they appear to question the current structure of power. The US government's attacks on Asaj and Wicked X supporters are very unassault on all people's exercise of freedom, something that is fundamental for any deal of democracy. The extra edition of Asaj is a subversion of criminal process for disparate political aims. What is happening to Julian can happen to any one of us. First, they came for the Jews and I didn't speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communist and I didn't speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionist and I didn't speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me. If standing up for justice makes a person an enemy over the state, a traitor or a terrorist, I say, so be it. But I would not support a society that outlaws the very thing that makes us human. First, they came for Wicked X and anonymous stood up because Wicked X stood up for freedom of speech. Then they came for Bradley Manning and around the world people stood up because whistle-blowing is a heroic deed. Then they came for Julian Asaj and I am standing up because he stood up for all of us. Now it's time to stand up for one another. When people are truly united, there is no need for anyone else to stand up for us. We are all we need.