 Our next speaker is the American human rights attorney, Stephen Donziger, who was part of a team that won a historic $9.5 billion judgment against Chevron Corporation for polluting the Ecuadorian Amazon. In 2019, he was targeted in New York with the first corporate prosecution in the history of the United States. Overall, he would serve 993 days under house arrest and in prison for a charge where the maximum sentence under law was 180 days. Stephen Donziger. Thank you, Amy and Shereco, and this wonderful panel. Half the battle when you sort of deal with the attacks, and I don't mean to compare in any way my situation to the cruelty that Julian is enduring right now, but half the battle is this. It's the solidarity. There's so many people here when I was in this long period of detention that I never could have imagined would happen in this country, because maybe I was a little naive. So many people came through for me and my family, just like people are here today for Julian, and I cannot tell you how completely uplifting that was. Part of the challenge when truth tellers speak truth to these entrenched pools of power is how to turn the attacks into opportunities. And as I sort of watch the trajectory of Julian's case, and I really haven't dug into it very deeply until the last year or two, by the way, when I read a book by Nils Meltzer, I don't know if you folks know the book, former UN special rapporteur in torture, who is completely and meticulously documented that the US government narrative about Julian is a complete fraud. It is a complete fraud from A to Z. And Nils is not someone who comes at this from a movement perspective, like he's a serious clinical lawyer. And I would recommend, by the way, to all the journalists out there watching this, that if you have doubts about Julian, and if you have doubts about the case, and if you've been sort of maybe a little bit taken with like, well, I don't know about that guy that you read Nils's book, because I can tell you, as someone who represented indigenous peoples in Ecuador for many, many years against Chevron, and for those who don't know, there's a bunch of stuff online. But Chevron, over a period of years, through Texaco deliberately dumped billions of gallons of cancer-causing waste into the Amazon. And I went down there as a young lawyer in 1993, just like Julian started WikiLeaks. You start thinking, hey, man, we can do these big things and make a big difference in the world. And when you're a little too effective, at what you do, suddenly these entrenched interests of power, whether they be in the national security apparatus or the fossil fuel industry, they figure out ways to just forget the rule of law. The rule of law is normally understood to be applied. And I get the fact in this country, we've had a lot of problems through history of not applying the rule of law, not just recently. But as normally understood, the rule of law is not being applied to Julian's case. It was not applied to my case. I am the first person in US history, the first lawyer, ever to be detained pretrial on a misdemeanor charge. And my misdemeanor charge was that Chevron had figured out a way to get a judge to order me to turn over my computer to their lawyers in the middle of the case with all this confidential information. And when I appealed that order to a higher court, the judge charged me with criminal contempt of court. He took his charges to the federal prosecutor in New York who refused to prosecute me. And then the judge appointed a private corporate law firm to prosecute me in the name of the US government without disclosing the fact that that corporate law firm had Chevron as a client. I was prosecuted in the name of the US government by a corporation. And when I sort of go through the experience, and I'm so happy to be through that piece of it, although I'm still dealing with a lot from Chevron, but I don't have my ankle bracelet, and I look at what Julian is dealing with, all I can say is it is absolutely vital that we understand the importance of Julian feeling all of our love and energy and that we continue to spread the word. It is critical, and I will say as I look at Julian, I met Julian one time, by the way, a few years ago in the Ecuadorian embassy when he was there, but there is something big happening whether he realizes it or not through the process of fighting for his freedom. It is a process of consciousness raising around the world. It can be seen as an opportunity to strengthen our freedoms, to strengthen freedom of the press as is happening. And I just wanna point out before closing that there is an increasing corporatization of these types of attacks happening in this country. Just this week, just this week in the United States, we had the first police killing of a climate activist in Atlanta. I don't know if folks know about this Cop City project, and there are now 15 people by my count peaceful climate activists who have been charged with domestic terrorism in the United States of America. We see in line three, the protests in Minnesota, the pipeline company pouring millions of dollars into public police to arrest protesters. So whether it's the national security state, the fossil fuel industry, or other elements of the corporate class, we have a serious problem with our government in this country, essentially being co-opted by elements that could give a damn about the freedom for the rest of us. And a few blocks from here at the Supreme Court, which by the way is meeting today to discuss whether they're gonna take my appeal of my misdemeanor contempt conviction. But that court, if you really think about it, has six justices now, four of whom were appointed by presidents who did not win their elections. They're unelected, and they're making decisions about almost every critical issue related to the freedom for 330 million people, including what happens by the way in Julian's case, ultimately. So we need to fight harder, and I don't mean to be sort of leave a message that might demoralize people, because whenever I'm asked to talk about my experience like to law students, I'm like, no, no, no, you can really do this work, must be done, and it must be done. And as we see this increasing oppression, we must continue to organize, fight, spread the word, and really try to turn the resistance they're giving us into opportunities to advance the cause of justice. So I call on President Biden to step up. Come on, this is ridiculous. Drop the charges and free Julian Assange. Thank you very much.