10th Annual Human Rights Awards
May 10, 2012 (6PM – 8:30PM)! The Green Room!
Veterans Building, 401 Van Ness Ave,San Francisco
Join us as we hear inspiring stories, enjoy wine and appetizers, and celebrate!
After ten great years of the Human Rights Awards, we’ve decided it’s time for a change. So for this year’s ceremony, we’re evolving: a more intimate setting, more mixing and mingling, and new ways to participate. Enjoy wine, hors d’oeuvres, and the company of Global Exchange board, staff, and fellow supporters. Tickets are just $90. Doors open & cocktails at 6:00pm, program begins at 7:00pm, and we will be having an on-site silent auction at 6:00-8:00pm. We hope to see you there!
The 2012 Human Rights Awards Honorees:
2012 Human Rights Awards Honoree Annie Leonard captivates and compels millions to action through her creative films that call to our attention the high costs of our consumerism, the global impact of our throw-away technology, the corruption of our economic system, the pervasive use of toxic chemicals in our everyday products, and much more. With more than two decades of experience investigating and organizing around environmental health and justice issues, Annie has made it her life’s calling to blow the whistle on important issues plaguing our world today. She is currently the Co-Director of the Story of Stuff Project, which she founded in 2008 after she created the 2007 The Story of Stuff webfilm.
2012 People’s Choice Honoree PFC Bradley Manning: We are proud to announce PFC Bradley Manning as the 2012 People’s Choice Honoree. It takes great courage to stand for what you know is right. Bradley Manning, a 24-year-old Army intelligence analyst, is accused of leaking a video showing the killing of civilians, including two Reuters journalists, by a US Apache helicopter crew in Iraq. He is also charged with sharing the documents known as the Afghan War Diary, the Iraq War Logs, and embarrassing US diplomatic cables with the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. Although Bradley has not yet been tried, he was held in solitary confinement for the first 10 months of his incarceration. In one week in April 2011, over a half million people signed a petition to end his illegal treatment. His supporters have grown to include over 300 top legal scholars, military personnel and civilians around the world.
Daniel Ellsberg, open government advocate and prominent whistleblower, will accept the People’s Choice Award on behalf of Bradley Manning.
About the Human Rights Awards
Global Exchange’s Human Rights Awards are grounded in our commitment to ensuring that the rights outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are respected and upheld by our world’s governments and private institutions. Since our founding in 1988, we have partnered with individuals and organizations throughout the world to educate people about threats to political, economic, social and environmental justice and to activate individuals and communities to confront these problems effectively. With these annual awards, Global Exchange recognizes the contributions of individuals and organizations defending human rights in their own countries and around the world.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Host Committee
- Andrea Buffa- Communications Activist
- Rajasvini Bhansali – International Development Exchange (IDEX)
- Michael Brune – Sierra Club
- Dr Henry Clark – West County Toxics Coalition
- Kevin Danaher – SF Department of the Environment
- Gopal Dayaneni – Movement Generation
- Ruben Garcia – SEIU-UHW
- Zakiya Harris – Earthseed Consulting and G4G Mobile
- Nunu Kidane – Priority Africa Network
- Melinda Kramer – Women’s Earth Alliance
- Laura Livoti- Justice in Nigeria Now
- Jason Mark – Earth Island Journal
- Michael O’Heaney – Story of Stuff
- Mary Rick – The Hoop Fund
- Leila Salazar-Lopez – Amazon Watch
- Pandora Thomas- Earthseed Consulting
Affiliations for Identification purposes only
