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SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER presents inspiring heroes from more than thirty-five countries, including Baltasar Garzon, Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, Asma Jahangir, and Wangari Maathai. In searing and uplifting interviews, veteran human rights defender Kerry Kennedy Cuomo examines the quality of courage with women and men who are dramatically changing the course of events in their communities and countries. Imprisoned, tortured, and threatened with death, they speak with compelling eloquence on subjects to which they have devoted their lives and for which they have been willing to sacrifice, from free expression to the rule of law, from women's rights to religious liberty, from environmental defense to the eradication of slavery, from access to capital to the right to due process. The remarkable and highly-lauded SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER project, directed by Ms. Cuomo and Nan Richardson, includes an exhibition of photographs, traveling in 2003 to Aspen, Salt Lake City, Mexico City, Madrid, and Rome, a play, "Speak Truth to Power: Voices From Beyond the Dark, " written by distinguished author and playwright Ariel Dorfman, as well as an education curriculum and an award-winning website, www.SpeakTruthtoPower.org. A PBS documentary film of the project's launch debut was hosted by President William Jefferson Clinton at the Kennedy Center, and starred John Malkovich, Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Alec Baldwin, among other major actors. ACCOMPANIES A TRAVELING INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION
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First time in paperback! In this series of intense and moving interviews, human rights activist Kerry Kennedy Cuomo talks with these often-unsung heroes as they eloquently discuss their motivations, work, and lives. "Speak Truth to Power presents inspiring heroes from more than thirty-five countries, including Baltasar Garzon, Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, Asma Jahangir, and Wangari Maathai. In searing and uplifting interviews, veteran human rights defender Kerry Kennedy Cuomo examines the quality of courage with women and men who are dramatically changing the course of events in their communities and countries. "Speak Truth to Power takes the reader to the front lines and explores the issues that compel these human rights defenders: from free expression to religious self-determination, from minority rights to environmental activism, from child soldiers to sexual slavery. Accompanying the interviews is a powerfully moving series of portraits by world-renowned photographer Eddie Adams.
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Through photographs by Eddie Adams and interviews by human rights activist Kerry Kennedy, gripping stories are revealed of 51 men and women around the globe who put their lives on the line, surviving imprisonment, torture, and death threats, because of hope for and dedication to a future where equality is common and oppression rare.
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A tribute to the capacity of one person of courage to triumph over tremendous evil.