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+{{cquote|During the 80's, I worked with a Guatemalan family in sanctuary in Vermont.  The family had come to Vermont through the support of the sanctuary movement, set up to help refugees fleeing the horrors of paramilitary murders in places like Guatemala and El Salvador. Mariano's crime was trying to teach his fellow villagers Spanish, the dominant language of Guatemala. So powerful was the perceived threat to the status quo posed by this simple act of education, paramilitary squads came searching for Mariano, and hacked to death his mother-in-law when she would not reveal his whereabouts. With his wife and young child, Mariano was forced to flee Guatemala.
+Knowledge has too long been the province of hegemonic power. When it comes to access to knowledge, the poor have always had to work against the odds, where they haven't been completely disenfranchised.  Systems of power that commodify knowledge and secure its benefits for only those who can pay appear more innocuous than those systems of power that made Mariano a refugee.  But they are hardly less brutal. The mission of Wikipedia to provide an alternative to such systems is nothing short of revolutionary.  It is, perhaps, the one and only true revolution that remains.}}
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 {{cquote|I am really addicted to Wikipedia, I found that thans to this web portal my knowledge about world is better and better. I really appreciate that so many volunteers are involved in creating contents of Wikipedia. I think that it helps many creators and researchers on the world to find audience. Personally Wikipedia makes me some troubles because everyday I come back home later after reading some new artcles or old stories I found here.
 But there are many other benefits. I am great fan of open source world. Wikipedia helps me to find many open source projects and to explore there. Sharing knowledge and experience (Wikipedia cocreators and people connected with open source are very similar in this matter) caused me to be more friendly car driver and be less egoistic. I hope some day I will be told better man and when it happens I will be know that Wikipedia was involved.