Posted by Tex Dworkin in Building Positive Alternatives, Donor Profiles, Featured, For Our Members, Global Exchange Community, Global Exchange News & Events, Peace, Democracy and Human Rights, People Power, Not Corporate Power, Reality Tours on 15th May, 2013 | 1 Comment
Global Exchange celebrated its 11th annual Human Rights Awards on May 9, 2013. Check out photos from the event, and in terms of highlights…it’s hard to deliver highlights from the night because there were so many! Ok, but if I HAD to pick one…
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Posted by Carleen Pickard in Featured, Global Exchange Community, Global Exchange News & Events, Human Rights, Peace, Democracy and Human Rights, Stop Funding War, World News & Events on 14th May, 2013 | 3 Comments
We celebrated the 2013 Human Rights Awards on Thursday May 9th in San Francisco. This year’s Honorees are People’s Choice Awardee Julian Assange and Wikileaks, Grassroots Awardee Crystal Lameman, and Human Rights Awardee Noam Chomsky. If you missed this special night here is Julian Assange’s acceptance speech, along with Kiki Kapany’s introduction.
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Posted by Medea Benjamin in Featured, Global Exchange Community, Global Exchange News & Events, Peace, Democracy and Human Rights, World News & Events on 8th May, 2013 | 1 Comment
Global Exchange Co-founder Medea Benjamin had the opportunity to interview Wikileaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has been granted political asylum since June 2012.
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Posted by Tex Dworkin in Featured, Global Exchange Community, Global Exchange News & Events on 30th April, 2013 | No Comments
The 11th Annual Human Rights Awards gala is happening next week in San Francisco, and I’m excited to share with you who the latest addition to our stellar lineup of special guests is. The global alternative sounds of…
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Posted by Tex Dworkin in Featured, Global Exchange Community, Global Exchange News & Events on 16th April, 2013 | No Comments
Questions have been rolling in about our upcoming Human Rights Awards Gala happening on May 9, 2013 in San Francisco. So we came up with this Top Five list to help:
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Posted by Tex Dworkin in Featured, Global Exchange Community, Global Exchange News & Events, Peace, Democracy and Human Rights, World News & Events on 9th April, 2013 | No Comments
With thousands of votes cast, the people have chosen Julian Assange and Wikileaks as the 2013 People’s Choice Award winner. Global Exchange is proud to honor Julian Assange and Wikileaks, and we hope you’ll take a moment to read more about this year’s winner.
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Posted by Medea Benjamin in Featured, World News & Events on 15th December, 2010 | No Comments
Julian Assange, the man behind Wikileaks and responsible for bringing government secrets into the public domain, easily won Readers’ Choice for TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year. Gathering 382,020 votes, Assange was the peoples’ clear choice. Hands down. But today, TIME’s editors revealed that they preferred to go with the safer choice: Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg. The loser in this contest is TIME Magazine. Hands down.
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