<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Holly Tannen <<a href="mailto:htannen@mcn.org">htannen@mcn.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">December 20, 2012 11:18:26 PM PST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:discussion@lists.mcn.org">discussion@lists.mcn.org</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"<a href="mailto:htannen@mcn.org">htannen@mcn.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:htannen@mcn.org">htannen@mcn.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Highlights of Julian's Speech at the Ecuadoran Embassy 12/19/12</b><br></span></div><br><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 21px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 21px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Six months ago – 185 days ago - I entered this building. It has become my home, my office and my refuge. Thanks to the principled stance of the Ecuadorian government and the support of its people I am safe in this Embassy and safe to speak from this Embassy.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">... I came here in summer. It’s winter now...And every single day outside, people like you have watched over this embassy – [in] rain, hail and shine... </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">...when our media is corrupt...when our academics are timid, when our history is filled with half truths and lies, our civilization will never be just....Our beliefs about the world and each other have been created by same system that has lied us into repeated wars...The quality of our discourse is the limit of our civilization.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Wikileaks already has well over a million documents to release [next year], documents that affect every country in this world.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">And in Australia an unelected Senator will be replaced by one that is elected.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">...Washington power brokers [call] for economic sanctions against Ecuador, simply for defending my rights... President Correa...said, "Ecuador’s principles are not for sale." </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">The power of people speaking up and resisting together terrifies corrupt undemocratic power. So much so that ordinary people in the West are now the enemy of governments...to be watched, controlled and impoverished.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">For once we, the people, stop speaking out, and stop dissenting, once we are distracted or pacified, once we turn away from each other, we are no longer free. For true democracy is the sum of our resistance.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">If you don’t speak up, if you give up what is uniquely yours as a human being, you surrender your consciousness; your independence, even your sense of what is right and wrong. In other words, perhaps without knowing it, you become passive and controlled, unable to defend yourself and those you love.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">People often ask, "What can I do?" the answer is not so difficult.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Learn how the world works. Challenge the statements, actions and intentions of those who seek to control us behind the facades of democracy and monarchy...</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Learn, challenge, act. Now.</span></p><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
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