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Hello.

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This is Yanis Varoufakis[br]with an end of the year message

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on behalf of[br]everyone at DiEM25,

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our pan European[br]Democracy in Europe Movement,

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to all of you.

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This year's festivities[br]come in the midst

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of a genocide that[br]will stigmatise a

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whole generation.

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Yes.

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At this time of year,[br]like throughout

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the year, we must[br]look after our loved ones,

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celebrate their[br]achievements,

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take care of our nearest[br]and dearest who

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need our attention.

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But we can't celebrate[br]freely while thousands

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of children are being[br]slaughtered in the

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Holy Land with the[br]full complicity of

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our European Union.

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Our leaders from Von[br]der Leyen to Olaf Scholz

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and Manuel Macron, even[br]the European Party of the Left,

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are being[br]criminally complicit.

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And, by the way, so are[br]we by associatio,

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to the extent that[br]we let them.

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Ever since the seventh[br]of October, when Hamas

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broke out of the Gaza[br]prison camp, as every

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Palestinian has a duty[br]to, but with acts of

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atrocious violence that[br]can never be justified.

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Since then, the entire[br]European political class

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has behaved as[br]morally superior to

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both Palestinians[br]and Israelis,

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when in truth,

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it was Europe that[br]has been responsible

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for centuries long[br]antisemitism,

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for the holocaust.

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And since the 1920’s, the Nakba,

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the steady, systematic[br]ethnic cleansing of

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Palestinians, an ethnic[br]cleansing, which today

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unfolds as a fully[br]fledged genocide.

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By not intervening to stop the[br]slaughter in Gaza,

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in the West Bank, but also[br]in Yemen, in Ukraine,

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in Syria, in Kashmir,

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Europe is proving that[br]human rights are to us

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that which the Bible[br]was to the Spanish inquisition,

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a cover, a veneer of ethicality

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with which to cover up[br]our European settler

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imperialist society's[br]utter brutality.

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We, Europeans,[br]have lost sight of

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a terrible fact.

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Human rights are[br]precisely that which

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Europe and the United[br]States never intended

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to grant the oppressed.

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To those who needed them,

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in the Middle East, in Africa, in Asia,

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but also in our depressed[br]working class areas

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in Europe, in Britain,[br]in the United States,

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in the West.

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The whole Western litany[br]about human rights is a sham.

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It is only an excuse[br]to bomb, to shoot,

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and to violate[br]those who actually

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need human rights.

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And to do this to[br]them while pretending

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that we're somehow[br]morally superior.

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What is happening today[br]in Gaza, in Kashmir,

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in Yemen, in Syria, in[br]Nagorno Karabakh, will

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determine our capacity[br]as Europeans to live

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freely in our own[br]countries in Europe.

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To live without fear of[br]oppression or indignity

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here in Greece, in[br]Germany, in France,

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in Spain, in Portugal, in[br]Britain, in Ireland.

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As Julian Assange[br]continues to rot away

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in solitary in Britain's[br]Guantanamo for having

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dared to expose to[br]us the crimes of our

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governments committed[br]in our name against our

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interest, our right to[br]know has been shattered.

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While the European Union[br]continues to fund the

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few who have more money[br]than they know what to do with,

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while starving[br]the many and refusing

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to fund the green[br]transition without which

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there will be no future.

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Our own societies[br]are being poisoned

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spiritually, and our[br]species' survival

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becomes less likely.

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With the toxification[br]of our politics and

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our planet proceeding[br]so swiftly, it is

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easy to lose hope,[br]to give up, no longer

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to look up, but this[br]is not inevitable.

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DiEM25 proves,[br]by our very

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existence, our activism[br]that a democratic,

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compassionate, and[br]radically progressive

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Europe is not just[br]possible, but that it

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is here in DiEM25, in[br]our political parties, MERA25,

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here in Greece,[br]in Germany, in Italy,

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soon in other countries.

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Next June, Europe is[br]going to be staging

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another sham European[br]parliament election.

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We, DiEM25 and MERA25,[br]our political parties,

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are going to be running,[br]not because the European Parliament

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can change[br]anything in itself,

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but because your voice must[br]resonate in its chamber.

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It must be amplified[br]in there so that it can

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be heard loud and clear[br]out there across Europe.

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So that our voices,[br]your voices, can expose

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our rulers' lies and[br]hypocrisy.

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To resonate in there as a first[br]step towards liberating

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your voices so that[br]they can together become

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a surge of reason and[br]humanism, a surge that

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reclaims our continent,[br]our countries, our

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cities, our villages,[br]our neighborhoods.

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From whom?

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From the oligarchy, who[br]feast on humanity and

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nature in the interest[br]of profit and, of course,

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from exporting[br]arms, weapons to

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their former colonies.

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In this struggle to[br]raise hell in the

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European Parliament[br]on behalf of heaven

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and, therefore, to[br]save our souls, our

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species, our planet.

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We need your help.

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Your support has been[br]central, essential

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in keeping DiEM25[br]alive in terms of our

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operations, the spirit[br]of our democracy,

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our mission, our campaign.

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DiEM25 has been, for[br]years now, fueled

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by uncommon people[br]like your good self,

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people who demand a[br]different peace loving Europe.

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A Europe whose[br]prosperity is common

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and divorced from[br]the logic of profit.

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For that, our resolve[br]and our commitment

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must walk hand in hand.

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Only so will we turn[br]this bogus sham of

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an election for the[br]European Parliament

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into a useful campaign.

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Our political parties,[br]MERA25, are geared

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to do exactly that.

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So on this holiday[br]season, we ask you to

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stand with us again.

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Your contribution can[br]make all the difference.

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Together, we can bring[br]DiEM25's message, voice,

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to the floor of the[br]European Parliament.

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That won't change Europe[br]by itself, but it will

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give Europeans a chance,[br]a shot at reclaiming

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the right to know and to[br]be heard, an important

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opportunity to empower[br]the many, not the few.

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In the process, and[br]since this is the

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festive season, let me[br]add that as DiEM25

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has proven in[br]all our get togethers,

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we can do this.

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We can do what is[br]right by Europeans

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and by the world and[br]by the planet while

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having fun as well.

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So a happy holiday[br]season for everyone.

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Carpe diem.