Julian Assange: Why the World Needs WikiLeaks

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Mi Minör--A New Play by Meltem Arikan

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Meltem Arikan, Memet Ali Alabora, Pinar Ogun - "We want the audience to see that the decisions they make are more effective than they assume.  We call upon them to realize that there are no rescuers, and it is time for each one of us to take our own responsibility."

Theatre will never be the same! Mi Minor is both a theatre production and a global role-playing game, which is conducted while the play is being presented. Anyone in the world can participate with us on Twitter using #MiMinor.  Parts of the production are live streamed, to assist you in knowing what's happening.

Next productions are:

December 1, 2012 -- Istanbul time 9:00 p.m.; U.S. time 2:00 p.m. EST

December 2, 2012 -- Istanbul time 8:00 p.m.; U.S. time 1:00 p.m. EST

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Opens December 1, 2012 in Istanbul

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How a Turkish Playwright and an American Executive Influenced Election 2012

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We have a story to tell about The Big Lie, social networking, and influencing society at an unconscious level.  Dr. Carl G. Jung is largely credited with developing the psychological concept of the Collective Unconscious.  By definition, when an idea springs out of the Collective Unconscious it is coming from something that is deep in the psyche of everyone, even though only a few may consciously express its significance.  Somewhere between the Collective Unconscious and the Personal Unconscious is the Societal Unconscious.  These are unconscious ideas of a country or group which are broader than the Personal Psyche, but not so broad that they relate to every human being, as the Collective Unconscious does.  

Our influence fell somewhere along the continuum between the Collective Unconscious and the Societal Unconscious.  Here is our story, so you can decide for yourself:

Meltem Arikan is a Turkish novelist and playwright, who’s innovative new play Mi Minor opens in Istanbul on December 1, 2012.  Meltem knows something about censorship and The Big Lie.  Her 4^th novel, Stop Hurting My Flesh, was banned by Turkish censors in 2004, because they denied that incest occurs in Turkey.  After taking the matter to court, Meltem’s novel was published and won the Free Expression of Thought Prize of the Turkish Publishers’ Association.

In the summer of 2011, Meltem became incensed by the revelations about the Turkish government, and the interactions between the American and Turkish governments, which were revealed by Wikileaks, the controversial outlet of Julian Assange.  

She was upset about the plight of Private Bradley Manning, who allegedly provided hundreds of thousands of military documents to Wikileaks.  Primary among her concerns was that Private Manning was exposing alleged war crimes, which was his duty as defined in the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials of 1945-46.  These alleged war crimes were partially exposed in the documentary film “Collateral Murder”.  

These events inspired Meltem to write her article “Confronting the Big Lie”, which she published at the Wikileaks Movie web site on October 15, 2011, and on Archetype in Action on October 17, 2011.  

Skip Conover is an American executive, who has been studying Jungian Psychology since 1987, and is the Founder of the Archetype in Action™ Organization.  One of the focuses of this work has been how one can use the Societal Unconscious and archetypal ideas to influence political views.

During the summer of 2011, I was becoming more and more conscious of the fact that many of the claims of Republican candidates were simply untrue. I was trying to find a way to get my mind around what they were doing from a political psychology point of view.  If I had ever heard of the concept of “The Big Lie,” it certainly was never consciously in the context of Adolph Hitler’s Mein Kampf.  

When Meltem Arikan’s “Confronting the Big Lie” came to my attention, I knew that she had highlighted something that must finally reach the societal consciousness, so that no people, anywhere in the world, will ever be subjugated by “The Big Lie” again.  Once I had Meltem’s article, I wrote “The Big Lie in American Politics” and published it on October 25, 2011.  

The next step was to promote our articles through Twitter, focusing the attention of the mainstream media through hash tags, which yielded over 16,800 hits on the two articles.  By February 2012, we do know that the mainstream media was talking about political lying nearly constantly, and by the end of the campaign it was difficult to hear a political advertisement without a mention of lying.  

We leave it to the reader to decide how effective we were.  Obviously, we know that the terms lie, liar, and lying became ubiquitous and stuck to the Republican campaigns like Velcro™.   The lies of Mitt Romney’s campaign were highlights of Election Night coverage on all of the major networks.  

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What Kind of MAN are you?

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There have been a lot of heated words in this election season, so there is just one question I want to ask my fellow men, who still plan to vote for Republican candidates.  What kind of MAN are you?  

Let’s peel away all of the other issues, which have been thrown around in this election campaign, and talk about the one that truly puts YOUR MANHOOD on the line.  That is the one where certain Republican candidates have suggested that RAPE should be redefined.  

That attitude is one that will invite men to RAPE women, believing they can get away with it.  What about you?  Do you want your high school age son to think that he can pull down a girl classmate and rape her?  If you are the Father of daughters, would you want men to think it is OK to rape, or that they can get away with it?

If your Mother, Wife, or Daughter is raped, but there are inadequate laws to prosecute the rapist, even though you know who the rapist is, what will you do?  What will you do when you see that man on the street?  How will you behave when that man comes to your door and wants visitation rights with the child he has fathered in the rape of your daughter?  

Christian values have been used in many ways in this election season, but I want to know:  Do you believe that EVIL exists in the world?  Would you see the face of the DEVIL in the face of your Wife’s rapist?  Would you stand up for this rapists paternity visitation rights if he impregnated your wife?  What would you do?

Nothing much is going to change in the United States after this election campaign.  Come what may, we will have a deadlocked Senate, regardless of which party has a majority, so neither party is going to be able to move hugely ideological pieces of legislation, because they will be stopped.  Only compromise will win the day in Congress.  

But legitimizing the idea that RAPE is OK in our society is very dangerous.  If you believe the positions of these extreme Republican candidates is OK, how do you claim that you are conservative?

Leaving all other issues aside, it seems to me that all men of moral virtue must draw a line in the sand on this one.  As you raise your sons and daughters, how will you educate them about their moral responsibility?  Are you the kind of man that thinks it’s OK for your son to drag a young woman under the bleachers and rape her?  If that’s the case, you might want to re-evaluate why you are wasting your time going to church on Sunday.  

Five years from now, or forty years from now, when you look yourself in the mirror after a woman in your life has been raped, how will you feel about your vote this year?  Will you be OK with the idea that you allowed the firewall against rape to be eviscerated?  Will you be proud of your vote for Todd Akin, Richard Mourdock, Joe Walsh, and Paul Ryan?  If so, WHAT KIND OF A MAN ARE YOU?

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