Defend Dissent
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2024 Book and Journalism Awards Virtual Ceremony
Register now for the virtual celebration, where we’ll reveal this year’s winners. The ceremony will premiere at 12 p.m. EDT and will re-air at 3 p.m. EDT.
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Address at the New York City Columbus Day Dinner
An America piled high with gold, and clothed in impenetrable armor, yet living among desperate and poor nations in a chaotic world, could neither guarantee its own security nor pursue the dream of a civilization devoted to the fulfillment of man.
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Doan Viet Hoat
Biography: Doan Viet Hoat is known as the Sakharov of Vietnam for his intellectual range and outspoken role as leader of the democratic movement, even from the prison cell. Hoat protested the South Vietnamese government’s suppression of Buddhists in the 1960s while still a student. He went to study in the US and got a…
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Paul Rusesabagina’s Homecoming
Tags Share We were honored to celebrate Paul’s homecoming with the Rusesabagina family yesterday. Thank you to everyone who supported the #FreeRusesabagina campaign!
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Cost of racism dominates Robert F. Kennedy Annual Book and Journalism Awards
Tags Share Two years after America’s great racial reckoning, the societal cost of racism and the decline of democracy continued to dominate the themes of winning entries of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ annual Book and Journalism Awards. “We are living in a time that would in many ways make Robert F. Kennedy shudder,” emcee…
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Announces 2022 Book and Journalism Awards Winners
Tags Share NEW YORK, MAY 24, 2022 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights today announced the winners of its 2022 RFK Book and Journalism Awards during a virtual ceremony emceed by Michael Beschloss with remarks by Kerry Kennedy and featuring special guest presenters Kimberly Adams, Dan Blackburn, Doug Brinkley, Margaret Engel, Annette Gordon-Reed, John Harwood,…
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#FreeRusesabagina calls on the Rwandan government to release Hotel Rwanda star from arbitrary detention
Tags Share It has been close to 600 days since Anaise Kanimba hugged her father, Paul Rusesabagina. Close to 600 days since she’s even been able to look him in the eye. Rusesabagina, the Hotel Rwanda hero who’s been arbitrarily detained by the Rwandan government he has spoken out against, remains in prison without access…
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Panel discussion to support real-life hero of Hotel Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina
Don Cheadle, Kerry Kennedy, and Terry George invite you to an exclusive panel to support Paul Rusesabagina, the real-life hero of Hotel Rwanda on April 13, 2022. Register today!
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Address at Vanderbilt University
Tags Share When we are told to forego all dissent and division, we must ask: Who is it that is truly dividing the country? It is not those who call for change; it is those who make present policy who divide our country; those who bear the responsibility for our present course; those who have…
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