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Changed words in [brackets], three dots '...' for left out words.
Edits by,
Lins/Lind (They/them/theirs)
Otherwise directly transcribed from: Star Wars Andor, Season One.
Intended to frame the shows presumed intended messaging in my opinon (off interviews and surrounding context) more directly to the present world, to help others hear that message if rewatching the show.

(*Please* actually watch it yourself first!)


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Andor; A Rephrasing

Part 1
One Way Out

"...We [the people] are, at this moment, in control of [the country]...
...How long we hang on, and how far we get, how many of us [survive] is now, up to us...

Wherever you are. Right now. Get up. Stop the work. Get out of your cells. Take CHARGE.
And start climbing [and fighting]. They dont have enough guards [and police] and they know it. If we wait until they figure that out, it'll be too late. We will never have a better chance then this, and I'd rather die trying to take them down then give them what they want.
We know that they are making up our sentences [and wages] as they go along..

And we know that when they say we are being released, we are being transferred to some other prison, [retirement facility, hospital, suburban sprawl..]
To go and die. And that ends today.
There is one way out.
Right now. The [country] is ours.
Need to run, climb, kill [if absolutely neccesary]!

We need to help eachother..
If you see someone whos confused, someone whos lost. You get them moving and you keep them moving until we Put. This. Place. Behind us.

There are [millions] of us. And if we fight *half as hard* as weve been working. Well be [happy] in no time.

One way out. One way out.
One. Way. Out.
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Part 2
Manifesto
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There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. [We] know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy.

Remember this.
Freedom, is a *pure* idea.
It occurs spontaneously, and without instruction.
Random acts of insurrection are occuring constantly throughout the [world]. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea theyve already enlisted in the cause.
Remember that the frontier of the rebellion is everywhere.
And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

And then remember this. The [u.s] imperial need for control is so desperate because its so unnatural. Tyrrany requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle.
Oppression is the mask of fear.
Remember that.

And know this; the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the [american] empires authority and ther will be one, too, many.
One single thing will break the siege.
Remember this.
Try.

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Part 3
I'd wake up early

I've always wanted to be lifted. I was always waiting, always eager to be inspired.
I remember.. time[s] it happened... time[s] the dead, lifted me. With their truth.
And [I was] dead [too].
And now I yearn to lift you.
Not because I want to shine, or, even be remembered.
Its because I want you to go on. I want [my homes] to continue. In my [worst] hours, thats what comforts me most.
But I fear for you.
We've been sleeping.
I've been sleeping!
We've had eachother and [our homes].
Our work, our days.
We've had eachother and [ceos, debtors, billionaires, fascists, police..] left us alone.
We've [kept working] and they've left us alone.
We took their money and ignored them.
We kept [capitalism] churning and the moment they [let us leave] we forgot them.

Because we had eachother.
We had home.
But we were sleeping.
I've been sleeping.
And I've been turning away from the truth I wanted not to face.
There is a wound that won't heal; at the center of the [world].
There is a darkness reaching like rust, into everything.
Into everything.
Around us.
We let it grow and now its here.
Its here and its not visting anymore.
It wants to stay.
The [American] Empire is a disease that *thrives* in darkness, it is never more alive then when we sleep.
Its easy for the dead to tell you to fight.
And maybe its true.. maybe fightings useless..
Perhaps its too late
..
But I'll tell you this.
If I could do it again.
I'd wake up *early*.
And be fighting.
These. Bastards!
From the start!

FIGHT THE EMPIRE!


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Comments:

As per the book 'American Empire' , america (as in the united states, though arguably canada and most of europe too) is an empire. It has bases of control in the hundreds throughout the world.
In addition, the u.s was explicitly the empire in the original star wars, which as per George Lucas was meant largly as an allegory for the vietnam war- the rebels were in part the vietcong.

The 'one way out speech' as transcribed is meant to appeal to 'free' citizens, but it should be noted it and that part of the series holds even more significance to the existing prison industrial complex-
Particularly that no one outside of it can truly know what happens inside it.
In some ways, the prison in Andor is *better* then existing ones- its food is at least consistent, and its cells clean.

Nemiks manifesto hardly needs any rephrasing at all, save of locations. Its quite apt.

The eulogy is perhaps a bit calous to rephrase for this purpose, but I feel its message too important to leave out.
And besides, I have in a sense died even scientifically many times depending on interpretation of plurality..
Ive often morned past selves.

Finally of course, many of the behind the scenes interviews reinforce this framing heavily.