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February 4, 2013

WikiLeaks Founder Assange Awarded Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts 
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Wiki Leaks founder Julian Assange was honored in New York this weekend
with the Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts. Assange remains
holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London fighting extradition to
Sweden. In a ceremony at the Museum of Modern Art, artist and activist
Yoko Ono paid tribute to Assange in absentia.

Yoko Ono: "This 2013 Courage Award for the Arts is presented to Julian
Assange. With your courage, the truth was revealed to us. Thank you.
It gave us wisdom and power to heal the world. On behalf of the
suffering world, I thank you, Yoko Ono Lennon. Thank you."

Yoko Ono turns 80 on February 18th.

 

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