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If you're near a computer, be sure to tune in to watch the live-streaming video of President and Laura Bush unveiling the Freedom Collection for the GWB Institute today at 7pm Eastern Standard Time (4pm on the West Coast). Please watch it if you can, they'll probably repost the video later though.

Click on this link to watch the video:

Freedom Collection launch live stream video

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Here's a good in-depth article that explains more about the Freedom Collection:

Former President George W. Bush to officially launch his institute's 'Freedom Collection'

By Tom Benning / Reporter (Dallas Morning News)

8:45 AM on Wed., Mar. 28, 2012

One of the first goals of George W. Bush's post-presidency will come to fruition Wednesday night, as Bush formally launches the Freedom Collection, an online video archive that highlights the thoughts and words of dissidents and freedom activists from across the world.

Bush, his wife, Laura, and other dignitaries will unveil the collection - and some of the key figures that inspired it - at an invitation-only ceremony at Dallas' Winspear Opera House. But the archive, featuring nearly 60 in-depth interviews, is already live at freedomcollection.org.

And organizers, including the former president himself, are hopeful that the collection will serve both as a reminder to Americans about ongoing struggles across the world and as a guidebook for activists who continue to combat oppression and tyranny.

"We have asked men and women who have inspired others to describe what inspired them," Bush says in an introductory video to the collection. "What ignited the fuse of their outrage and resistance? Why did they accept the difficult calling of a dissident's life?"