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"In
a world
where there is a common lament that there are no more heroes,
too often cynicism and despair are perceived as evidence
of the death of moral courage. That perception is wrong.
People of great valor and heart, committed to noble purpose,
with long records of personal sacrifice, walk among us in
every country of the world."
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DECEMBER 2008
SPEAK TRUTH IN MEXICO CITY December 6, 2008 -January 2009
Sponsored by Emilio Alvarez Icaza Longoria,
Mexico City's Human Rights Commissioner, with the opening led by Mexico City's Ombudsman, Emilio Alvarez Icaza Longoria, Mexico City's Head of Government, Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon, and local Congressmen, we will launch in Mexico City an immense exhibition of 50 giant-sized (1.80 x 1.20 meters) portraits of the Speak Truth defenders along Mexico City's Main Plaza or Zócalo, with the participation of Mexico City's Congress, Government, Human Rights Commission and private sponsors. The exhibition will be inaugurated within the framework of the X Anniversary of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders adopted by the UN next December 6, 2008.
SPEAK TRUTH IN PARIS, FRANCE
As the centerpiece of the official program of the Nobel Peace Prize summit meeting, hosted at the Hotel de Ville by the Mayor of Paris, the Speak Truth exhibition will make its French debut. The Summit is dedicated to the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration, and Kerry Kennedy will speak on the 11th in the afternoon on the issue of Women and Leadership in the same panel with Ingrid Betancourt, Shirin Ebadi, Mary Corrigan Maguire and Betty Williams. Other Nobels attending include Mohammed Yunus, Dalai Lama, Oscar Arias Sanchez, Lech Walesa, and presidents of other countries as part of the European Union Summit.
UPCOMING IN 2009
February/March at Michigan State University
February/March 2009 at five universities in Pittsburgh, including Carlow College, Carnegie Mellon, and University of Pittsburgh,
February 22-25 ACCU conference in Washington, DC for their 650-person multicultural conference
April-May at St. Mary’s College, Calgary
September-October in Derry, New Hampshire
SOUTH AFRICA 2008 into 2009
Speak Truth To Power, launched under the auspices of 17 partner organizations including Constitution Hill (site of South Africa’s Supreme Court), the Mandela Foundation, Friends of the South African Court, the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation, the Institute for Transitional Justice, the Universities of Witwatersrand and University of Cape Town was a huge success. Held August 11 and 13 in Cape Town and Johannesburg respectively, major support came from the Ford and Mott Foundations, the Wendy Appelbaum Foundation, the Vincent and Anne Mai Foundation, Philanthropic Collaborative, Irish AID, and the Foundation for Human Rights, South Africa. Defenders Guillaume Ngefa Atondoko, Samuel Kofi Woods, Koigi Wa Wamwere, along with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, joined panelists Denis Goldberg, Dean Hugh Corder, Vice chancellor Dr. Max Price in Cape Town. At Wits University, hosted by Dean Angelo Pantazis, the defenders and Kerry Kennedy were joined by Tamsanqa Sitole, Dr. Jackie Dugard, and Professor Marius Pieterse. The book is available in a new small-format quality paperback edition though New Africa Books (David Philip Publishers imprint). Ten thousand copies of the education curriculum are available through Constitution Hill, The Mandela Foundation, the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, The Red Museum for People’s Struggle, and the other partner organizations. The photography exhibition now resides permanently at Constitution Hill and we are hoping it will subsequently travel to Durban, Port Elizabeth and, funding permitting, elsewhere in South Africa.
The year 2009 will focus on further outreach of the project to enable us to reprint the education curriculum and tour the exhibition. Witwatersrand Faculty of Law will now perform the play and teach the education curriculum to all incoming law classes, and Street Law will use it in their programs to 2,000 (including in prisons) in Johannesburg, and up to 5,000 in other cities. READ will use the curriculum in their programs as well, and SAHISA is partnering to evaluate the curriculum for expanded use in private schools.
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