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Bill Clinton helps fight AIDS
Over 90 percent of HIV carriers are unaware they are infected, so raising AIDS awareness is a fundamental priority, Clinton said.
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Anwar el-Sadat
It could not have been more improbable or unexpected. It was as if a messenger from Allah had descended to the Promised Land on a magic carpet.
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Rabindranath Tagore
Although Tagore is a superb representative of his country - India - the man who wrote its national anthem - his life and works go far beyond his country.
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Philip Berrigan
I die with the conviction, held since 1968 and Catonsville, that nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth…
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Man's four years of protest continues on London street
Moved by the plight of children suffering under UN economic sanctions on Iraq, Haw swapped his family life for a few blankets and the constant buzz of traffic around Parliament Square.
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Gerson Andrés Flóres Pérez, a powerful, young peacemaker from Colombia
Pérez has been very successful in his outstanding and humble efforts in fighting against antipersonal landmines, which are a continuing threat to the residents of Colombia.
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Foundations Of Gandhian Philosophy
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen
Owen was diagnosed as suffering from shell shock and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh for treatment.
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Martin Luther King final speech "I’ve Been to the Mountaintop"
I’m delighted to see each of you here tonight in spite of a storm warning. You reveal that you are determined to go on anyhow. Something is happening in Memphis, something is happening in our world.
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Richard Gere on a Peace Mission
He is a celebrity who believes celebrities have the power to bring about positive change and he's contributing to that by encouraging other celebrities to do good for the world,
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Will Generation Next Will Shape A More Tolerant World?
Generation Next showed themselves to be the most tolerant of any generation on social issues such as immigration, race and homosexuality.
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The Death Of Ingmar Bergman Is The End Of Great Cinema
Bergman belonged to a time when artistry was still respected in cinema and the blockbuster mentality of bucks above all had not yet infected every aspect of filmmaking.
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Rigoberta Mench
Rigoberta Menchú had to go into hiding in Guatemala, and then flee to Mexico...
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Shoshone Activist Mary Dann Dies In Accident But Her Cause Lives On
For more than a quarter century, Dann and her sister Carrie were at the forefront of efforts to reclaim a vast tract of land spreading across four states. They claimed it was their aboriginal land, which was seized by the United States under the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley. Contending the treaty allowed white settlers to cross Shoshone territory but did not give the U.S. title to or authority over the land, the sisters ran livestock on the open range, ignoring federal regulations and refusing to pay grazing fees.
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Host Amy Goodman Is Making Her Voice Heard on Iraq
In two decades of reporting for Pacifica, she’s been beaten bloody by Indonesian soldiers...
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Two Year Old Georgia Brown Stuns Experts With Her Towering Intellect
Brilliant 2 year old, Georgia Brown, amazes everyone with her intellectual capabilities. Her parents are trying to give her a "normal" life.
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Gordana Igric Devotes Her Life To Writing About Injustice In The Balkans
In 1997 Igric won an Overseas Press Club award for the CBS News piece "In Plain Sight" that documented how Serbian war criminals, indicted for the systematic rape of women and girls, were living in the open without fear of arrest.
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Wolfgang Puck Serves Up A More Humane Menu
Banning any food, especially luxury ingredients, has been a thorny issue for chefs, who generally defend their right to use whatever they want.
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Was Muhammad Ali The First Rap Superstar?
Not only was Ali's influence felt in the world of sports, his memorable way with words also sowed the seeds of hip-hop.
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Jimmy Carter Speaks His Mind And His Heart
Regardless of the costs, there are determined efforts by top U.S. leaders to exert American imperial dominance throughout the world.
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Going Deeper Into The Mind Of the Chimpanzee
Goodall's research documented tool use, emotions and war in chimpanzee groups , and her books and TV specials about her work sparked the world's curiosity about apes.
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Mukhtar Mai is Woman of the Year
In June 2002, 30-year-old Mukhtar Mai was gang-raped on the orders of a council of tribal elders from her village of Meerwala, Pakistan.
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Brilliant Parrot Alex Dies With Loving Last Words
Alex the parrot was a great communicator. He taught us about the possibilities of interspecies communication
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Radiohead Breaks The Rules And Rocks Record Business
The band Radiohead has always been innovative and once again they are doing things their own unique way. This time, though, it's business.
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Aung San Suu Kyi Of Burma
In one town as she was walking down the street with her associates, soldiers lined up in front of her...
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Martin Sheen Uses His Fame To Call Attention To Many Causes
Over the past twenty years, Sheen has repeatedly protested political repression in Central America… July 2003 Issue
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Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf becomes Africa's first elected woman head of state
Johnson-Sirleaf has pledged she will use her technocratic skills to rebuild Liberia and reconcile its people after the devastating civil war that killed a quarter of a million people and left its infrastructure in tatters.
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American Activist Marla Ruzicka
"A number is important not only to quantify the cost of the war, but to me each number is also a story of someone whose hopes, dreams and potential will never be realized, and who left behind a family," Ruzicka wrote.
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Nelson Mandela is South Africa's Highest-Profile Ambassador
Mr Mandela has become South Africa's highest-profile ambassador, campaigning against HIV/Aids and securing his country's right to host the 2010 football World Cup.
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More About Activist Gore
The film is starting to build a big buzz both for its subject and, of course, for Gore. The film might put a new light on Gore and make him seem more like a movie star than a politician--a good thing if you want to get noticed in this celebrity obsessed culture.
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Can Music Change the World?
Musicians have served as the most public of social activists, oftentimes in the most personal of songs.
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The Dalai Lama
Some people think that causing pain to others may lead to their own happiness...
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George Clooney Is Proud To Be Reviled By The Right
Clooney, who has weathered attacks since opposing the 2003 Iraq invasion, said at one point that it was "frustrating" to be listed as a "traitor" on a set of playing cards, but he also accepted people's right to free speech.
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Hon. Prof. Wangari Maathai, MP
Wangari Muta Maathai was born in Nyeri, Kenya (Africa) in 1940. The first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree, Prof. Maathai obtained a degree in Biological Sciences...
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Female Delegate Malalai Joya Is A Brave Voice In "Democratic" Afghanistan
All of 25, Joya, a social worker from Farah Province in the southwest, had crossed several lines at once. She had spoken her mind as few Afghan women dare to do. More important, as many interpreted her words, she had spoken against the mujahedeen, or holy warriors, who fought and humbled the Soviet Union. They are a sacrosanct constituency in this country, and a powerful political force in this assembly.
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Indonesian rights campaigners mourn thirty-eight-year-old activist Munir Said Thalib
Indonesian rights campaigners have had their worst fears confirmed with news that the country's best-known activist was apparently a victim of arsenic poisoning.
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Sister Dorothy Stang
The Life and Brutal Death of Sister Dorothy, a Rainforest Martyr On the Lawless Fringe of Brazil's Amazon Jungle - Where Illegal Loggers Have Devastated the Rainforest - the American Nun Dorothy Stang Defended the Poor,Then the Gunmen Came for Her
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Gandhi Today
Gandhiji was a highly evolved and spiritual human being. Politics came as a byproduct of spirituality and he considered it as his duty to help his countrymen and fellow beings.
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Final Message Of Love From Slain Peace Activist Tom Fox
As soon as I rob a fellow human being of his or her humanity by sticking a dehumanizing label on them, I begin the process that can have, as an end result, torture, injury and death.
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Rosa Parks - US Civil Rights Icon Dies at Age 92
Rosa Parks, a seamstress from Montgomery, Alabama, who would not give up her bus seat to a white man in 1955, died Monday at the age of 92
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Activist, Actress Dana Reeve Dies Of Lung Cancer At 44
Dana will always be remembered for her passion, strength and ceaseless courage that became her hallmark. Along with her husband Christopher, she faced adversity with grace and determination, bringing hope to millions around the world.
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Mairead Corrigan Maguire
We reject the way the world is at the moment and we don’t accept nuclear weapons, we don’t accept the fact that we train men and women to kill each other...
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The Passing Of A Freedom Rider: William Sloane Coffin Dies At 81
William Sloane Coffin died on April 12th at the age of 81. He fought passionately for civil rights, justice and peace all of his life.
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Audrey Hepburn's Remarkable Journeys
Politics has nothing to do with one's helping a dying child.
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Nobel Prize Winner Mairead Corrigan Maguire Calls For No Nukes
Governments are elected to take care of their citizens. But governments have not only a responsibility to nurture their own people; they have a responsibility to all of humanity.
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Malalai Joya, Afghanistan's Outspoken Parliamentary Delegate, Risks Death For Truth
After the constitutional assembly, she returned to Farah province to a hero's welcome. "Some people were sending death threats to my door, while others, especially women, would quietly approach me and from under their burqas whisper, 'I support you, Malalai, you are my voice.' "
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Writer Hero: Ken Saro Wiwa
I have no doubt at all about the ultimate success of my cause, no matter the trials and tribulations... Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941-1995)
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Mary MacMakin: PARSA Beginnings
Mary MacMakin decided to work with widows in Kabul after experiencing a month and a half of their desperate search for food...
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Jane Goodall Has Hope for Humanity
I want to show that, although I do know how terrible war really is, and the senseless invasion of Iraq has taken place, that there is still hope."
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Man With No Memory Tells His Strange Tale
Victims may lose all memory of themselves, family or friends, but otherwise seem to function normally and can perform routine tasks.
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William Sloane Coffin
" We're prosperous. ... And now, of course, fear has taken hold, and in life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions. Now we have an administration which sponsors fear -- of immigrants, homosexuals, crime, terrorists particularly."
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A Palestinian Visionary
Our conflict will be settled as well, and our children and grandchildren will together re-write that history...
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Bono Brings Passion to Issues and Music
"Rock stars are good at making noise," Bono said, explaining his talent for publicizing issues important to him.
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Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei - The Nobel Peace Prize for 2005
UN nuclear agency director and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei has said the award will give him and his organisation a "shot in the arm".
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Elizabeth Cristina de Oliveira Maia Sacrifice
Elizabeth Cristina de Oliveira Maia was shot in the head repeatedly by a hooded gunman...
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Craig Kielburger Biography
At the age of 14, Craig went to the slums, sweatshops, and back alleys of South Asia to find those enslaved children...
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Activist Jeremy Gilley Fights For Peace One Day
After a campaign by Jeremy Gilley and the Peace One Day organisation, the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 55/282 on September 7 2001, which decided that, starting in 2002, the International Day of Peace would be celebrated on September 21 each year, and that it would become a cease-fire day.
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Margaret Hassan
Freelance journalist Felicity Arbuthnot, a long-time friend of kidnapped aid worker Margaret Hassan, describes the charity boss's heroic endeavours to help the people of Iraq.
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Sister Dorothy Stang Believed In Justice For All
Sister Dorothy Stang lived among those who wanted her dead. When they finally came for her she read passages from the Bible to her killers. They listened for a moment, then fired. Her body was found face down in the mud, blood staining the back of her white blouse.
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Maysa Baransi-Siniora and Shimon Malka Run Middle East Radio Staion For Peace
The point is to help Israelis and Palestinians know each other. "We're not doing this work for people who are with us,'' said Baransi-Siniora, 28. "We want to reach the people who don't know where they stand.''
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Emmanuel Jal, From child soldier to rap star
Jal, the son of a former police officer who fled the north to join the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), said he willingly joined up to fight with the rebels at the age of eight.
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Oscar the Cat Is An Angel of Death
A cat named Oscar, who lives in a nursing home, has some kind of sixth sense that lets him know when a patient is about to die.
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Soldier Took His Own Life: His Mother Fights To Help Others With PTSD
Grieving Mother, Dorothy Screws, fights to make the Army improve its treatment of soldiers who suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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Yitzhak Rabin's legacy, from warrior to peacemaker
In the final words of his final public speech, a call for peace was on the lips of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
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Ginetta Sagan
She knows what difference one hour can make when a captor is intent on torturing his prisoner...
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