From: Douglas Grandt answerthecall@me.

com
Subject: Stop resisting the inevitable
Date: June 15, 2017 at 5:18 PM
To: Darren W. Woods Darren.W.Woods@ExxonMobil.com
Cc: Jeffrey J. Woodbury jeff.j.woodburv@exxonmobil.com, William (Bill) M. Colton William.M.Colton@ExxonMobil.com,
Suzanne M. McCarron Suzanne.M.McCarron@ExxonMobil.com, Max Schulz max.schulz@exxonmobil.com, Susan K. Avery, PhD
savery@whoi.edu

Dear Darren,

Yesterdays shooting of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and four other Republican
Congressmen by disgruntled Illinois gunman James T. Hodgkinson, triggered a recurring
thought that average" thoughtful people are becoming more and more frustrated by the
political and sociopathic climate of our society and government.

I have written you before, warning that people may soon "storm the castleincluding
specifically ExxonMobil, given the allegations of misconduct in funding organizations to
suppress or misrepresent knowledge of climate change.

Yesterdays shootings remind us that we have no control over the way people react, and
that at any place and time, violence may be perpetrated out of frustration and rage.

A freind wrote an unsolicited note on her facebook page, which I feel compelled to share
with you and other Management at Las Colinas Boulevard. I hope you will read what
Cathy wrote (below) and understand that I am sharing it to validate and affirm my own
personal peaceful, loving and nonviolent intentions when I visit ExxonMobil's Irving TX
headquarters.

I fear that others harboring frustration, anger and hatred may demonstrate and protest
ExxonMobils facilities or annual shareholders meeting, which may result in a backlash
and resistance by ExxonMobil security, Irving Police and Homeland Security.

I hope it does not come to a militarized climate on Las Colinas Boulevard.

I hope to meet and discuss my solutions with you, Bill, Suzanne, Jeff and other
Management peacefully and constructively.

Perhaps these circumstances will finally elicit a response. Now is the time, dont
procrastinate. Stop resisting the inevitable. Become the global leaderwind down oil.

Please have coffee with me and lets talk about a responsible and moral end-game for oil
and gas.

Sincerely yours,

Doug Grandt

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Since the shooting of the Republican Congressman yesterday, I have seen a few people
calling for more violence. They claim it's the only way to make change.
It's possible these are just trolls created to make our movement look bad, but just in case
there are some people out there who really think this, I wanted to respond.
I totally understand why people are angry. Neither political party has been answerable to
real people in recent years, and studies show we are living in an oligarchy in which what
billionaires and corporations want matters way more than what everyday Americans want.
Worse, the current administration is the most corrupt in history, with a cabinet installed
specifically to rip up what little social contract we have left and plunder the working and
middle classes as well as our animals and environment to enrich themselves.
It's hard to call this country a democracy any longer.
But violence is not the answer. The only thing that shooting more politicians will
accomplish is giving Trump an excuse to use our militarized police to declare martial law,
and our surveillance state to round up and jail anyone who disagrees.
In a country that spends more than half of its considerable income on the military, no one
is going to out-violence the state. Why even try? Not only will it not work, but it will just
make all the considerable problems we have even worse.
The ONLY answer to such a state of affairs is non-violence. Direct action and civil
disobedience are fine so long as they remain non-violent. This is what we have seen
throughout history of people taking back their country against all odds.
Think about Gandhi's salt march to the sea that eventually overturned the British Empire,
then the most powerful institution on earth. Or the civil rights movement led by Martin
Luther King - it didn't get rid of racism, but it got laws passed making racial discrimination
a lot harder.
There's even a current-day example you can look to at Standing Rock. One reason I loved
that movement so much is that no matter what the militarized police did to water
protectors, they were absolutely committed to non-violence. No guns, drugs, or alcohol
were allowed in camp - period. Everything remained peaceful and prayerful at all times.
That is why the water protector camps became known and gained sympathy all over the
world. Can you imagine what would have happened if a water protector had shot one of
the police? Not only would they have lost world sympathy, but the police would have used
that as an excuse to round up everyone and take away the rights of 10,000 people.
The Standing Rock Sioux and other native tribes know what they are doing. Here are
people who have literally been dealing with a government trying to obliterate them as a
people, a culture, a civilization for the last 500 years. Talk about facing long odds for
survival - yet they have survived.
They knew they could not out-violence the militarized police. So they out-maneuvered
them instead. They put their story out to the world, and the world responded. That is what
we must do too.
Bernie is right that the only real way to make change is millions of people standing up and
demanding it. But the movement to do that has only been active for about 6 months. The
Women's March was January 21, and people have been resisting ever since.
That's not long enough to know the outcome, but we do have some victories such as
making Congress withdraw the first health care bill that would have thrown 23 million
people off insurance. Another bill is now pending, and we must defeat it too. If you haven't
called your Senator, do it today.
Meanwhile many lawsuits are working their way through the courts, but that takes time. In
the case of Standing Rock, a judge found yesterday that the environmental impact review
of the Dakota Access Pipeline was stopped illegally. Next week will be hearings on
whether to stop the flow of oil.
These things take time, and we are not going to solve the very serious problems that this
country faces in a matter of months. These problems have been building for decades.
But violence will only set our process back. We have to keep moving forward, by creating
a positive vision for the country such as universal health care, free college, a $15
minimum wage, and a climate mobilization to a clean energy economy.
We won't get there tomorrow. It's going to take time. But we have to keep going. Others
have faced similar situations before us, and they pushed their way through. We will too.
Winston Churchill said, "When you are in hell, keep going." Nelson Mandela said, "It
seems impossible until it is done."
Look to the leaders of history and to the people making change today. Follow them, and
do your part. We are all water protectors, all protectors of society and civilization, and of
what is good and right in the world. Let's act like it.