René Pérez Joglar (aka "Residente") of the socially outspoken/activist  Latin music group Calle 13 confirmed via twitter, that he met with Julian Assange June 12 at the Ecuadorian embassy in London - where the famed WikiLeaks founder has been confined for the last year after being granted asylum. Sharing the same stance against censorship and the concealment of information, Residente traveled to London to extend a personal invitation of creative collaboration to Assange.

On June 8th, Residente began directly engaging Calle 13's Five Million Twitter followers with a call to collectively write a new song - relaying that he would take the ideas of their united voices into a planned meeting with a special guest in the coming days.  Yesterday, June 13, Residente and Julian Assange united again for a collaborative songwriting session, with real-time public participation via Twitter. The "pie forza'o" creative exercise focused on the subjects of disinformation and media manipulation, with Perez and Assange offering a first verse as a guide to build on, with public response, followed by further manipulation from Perez & Assange. Followers also received a 'click'/short music segment as a reference for song tempo.

"We support Assange because he is a victim of media manipulation. He is accused of releasing information to which we should have had access, because we deserve to be well informed. He brought out in the open a lot of people and he's being blamed for that, when it is not Assange who is killing people. Assange just revealed information about what governments are doing. Those who do not support him are attacking their own human rights, fundamental rights" - Residente of Calle13

Stay tuned over the coming weeks for updated information on the results of this new song project and developing plans for Calle13's highly anticipated fifth album, planned for release this fall.