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2008 PUFFIN/NATION PRIZE AWARDED TO VAN JONES
Van Jones is the founding president of Green For All and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Green Collar Economy, which was praised by Nancy Pelosi, Tom Daschle and Al Gore. Green For All is a U.S. organization that promotes green-collar jobs and opportunities for the disadvantaged. Its mission is to invent and invest a way out of the pollution-based grey economy and into an environmentally sustainable future. Mr. Jones will be honored as a tireless advocate, committed to creating "green pathways out of poverty" and greatly expanding the coalition fighting global warming. LEARN MORE HERE...
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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
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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
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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
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Selected Articles
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.
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
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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
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