In The News

2006 RECIPIENT Amy Goodman
American reporter Amy Goodman, founder and host of the syndicated radio and television program "Democracy Now!" wins the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the alternative Nobel. Learn more...

2004 RECIPIENT Barbara Ehrenreich
The bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed is out with a new book, This Land is Their Land. The Los Angeles Times called it "a crescendoing howl against American injustice early in the second millennium. Learn more...

2005 RECIPIENT Jonathan Kozol
Kozol was recently cited in a New York Times blog about bilingual education arguing that "racial segregation in American public schools is currently at levels that rival the pre-civil rights South." Learn more...

Selected Articles

2002 RECIPIENT Dolores Huerta
The co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union was interviewed by the Women's International Perspective on undocumented immigrants and the Democratic contenders for the U.S. presidency. Learn more...

2007 RECIPIENT Michael Ratner
Ratner mourns Philip Agee, the CIA whistleblower who exposed the agency's subversion of power in his book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary. Learn more...

2004 RECIPIENT Barbara Ehrenreich
Writing on The Huffington Post, Ehrenreich talks about the 160th anniversary of The Communist Manifesto and reflects on the passing of capitalism. Learn more...